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Altered CD Necklace
Time to Stamp Designer Challenge

By Jennifer Willis
Off Road Inksters
Intermediate Scramping Team Designer

Supplies:
Leo's Art Stamps (Time to Stamp)
Black StazOn (Tsukineko)
Tim Holtz Vineyard Alcohol Inks Collection(Ranger)
Gold Gildenglitz (US Artquest)
Wonder Tape ¼” (Suze Weinberg)
Copper Wire (Artistic Wire, LTD.)
Focal Bead (Found Item)
Embellishment and Beads Assortment (Club Scrap)
Fibers 36” long (Unknown)
Clear CD Spacer Disc (that comes on the top of a spool) (Staples)
Scissors (EK Success Titanium Cutterbees)
Rounded Pliers (Memory Makers)
Hobby Knife (X-Acto)
Wire Cutters (Craftsman)
Crop-a-dile (We-r-Memory Keepers)
Oven Mitts
Tongs
Boiling Pan
Water

Instructions:

1.      Score the CD into quarters with the hobby knife on both sides. Drop into a pan of boiling water and allow it to heat up. While wearing the oven mitts, remove CD from the boiling water with the tongs. Working quickly, hold the CD in both hands with score line in the middle and snap the score line. Repeat once more so that you have a quarter of a CD to work with.

2.      Splatter, drizzle and drop each of the alcohol inks onto one side of the shard.

3.      Flip the shard over and stamp the image on the center of the piece with black Staz On.

4.      Run Wonder Tape around the shard along the edges.

5.      Gold leaf the edges, where the Wonder Tape was applied, with the Golden Glitz.

6.      Using the Crop-a-dile, cut two holes on the top of the shard in each corner and two on the bottom about one fourth of the way in from the edges.

7.      To create the drop pendant, cut a piece of copper wire 12" long, fold in half and run a small seed bead down to the fold. Thread both ends of the wire into the focal bead and pull it down until it is snug against the starter bead. Twist and loop the wire around the round pliers tip, add beads, twist and loop once more. Repeat this step on the other wire strand, alternating between strands using the same beads to keeping the sides even. Once finished with the beading create loops on each wire running each into the holes on the bottom of the shard.

8.      Create the chain by pulling the fibers into the front of the piece tying one end off on the back side of the shard. Next, knot the fibers about an inch above the top of the shard, string beads onto the strands and knot to taste. Size the necklace to fit by positioning the shard where you would like it to lay, wrap the fiber chain behind your head and around to the front pulling the ends through the top hole and knotting off. Trim excess fibers.

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