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Faux Hammered Gold Beads - Memory Necklace

Jennifer Willis
Off Road Inksters       
Intermediate Scramping Team Designer

Supply List:
Faces #4 Stamp Set (Vickie Enkoff/Creative Chaos)
Births Stamp Set (Vickie Enkoff/Creative Chaos)
Glass Slides (Richard Allan Scientific)
Gold Gildenglitz (US Artquest)
Wonder Tape ¼” (Suze Weinberg)
Wonder Tape 1” (Suze Weinberg)
Madonna and Child Glossy Collage Sheet (Vickie Enkoff/Creative Chaos)
White Cardstock
Terra Cotta Walnut Ink (Tsukineko)
Olive Green Staz-On (Tsukineko)
Copper Wire (Artistic Wire, LTD.)
6 Wooden Beads approximately ¼” to ½” in length (Found Items)
6 teal colored glass beads about 3/8“ long (Club Scrap)
Teal, red and brown fibers 36” long (Club Scrap)
Scissors (EK Success Titanium Cutterbee)
Hobby Knife (X-Acto)
Sandpaper (3M)
3 - 1” square photos

Instructions:

1.      Using a piece of sandpaper, knock off any glaze, paint or dirt on the wooden beads. Cut strips of 1” Wonder Tape and cover outside of the beads, allowing the tape to overlap and slightly wrinkle in places. Peel off the backing and dip into the Gildenglitz to completely cover, buffing with your finger to create a smooth texture and remove any excess flakes. Using the hobby knife, reopen the bead’s hole, if necessary, and set aside.

2.      Cut three strips of the white cardstock to cover the glass slides. Spray with the walnut ink and allow to dry.

3.      Cut 3 pieces of 1” Wonder Tape and attach to one side of each of the glass slides. Peel the backing off the tape and attach the strips of inked cardstock face up. Align the long edges of the slides, adjacent to each other, to create a rectangular “solid” piece.

4.      Ink your face and birth certificate stamps with Olive Green Staz-On ink and randomly stamp the paper covered slides.

5.      Using Wonder Tape, attach the collage element to the center slide at an angle, allowing it to overlap onto the outer slides.

6.      Fold the outer slides upward to create a crease and cut the slides apart with the hobby knife.

7.      Distress the edges of the photos with Olive Green Staz-On and attach them with the ¼” Wonder Tape, one per slide, randomly.

8.      Using the ¼” Wonder Tape, cut a piece 1½ times the width of the slide, remove the backing and crinkled it together lengthwise, attach to the slide, on the left hand side, at an angle, cutting the excess off and attaching it to the opposite outer slide.

9.      Attach ¼” Wonder Tape along the edges of the slide allowing for half the tape to show on the front and fold the remainder to the back to create a frame. Remove the backing from the tape and dip into the Gildenglitz, rubbing the gold into the tape to cover completely. Repeat this step for the remaining two slides.

10.  Cut three pieces of copper wire about 12” each and wrap each slide, adding beads as you go, and creating a loop at the top of each one to string onto the necklace.

11.  Knot the fibers off about 6” from the one end and again 4” from the first knot. Slide the first wooden bead onto the chain and knot once more about 1” from the previous knot. Repeat, alternating glass and wooden beads three times.

12.  Add the first slide, knot, add one glass and wooden bead and knot. Repeat this step once more, ending with the final remaining slide.

13.  Again, knot and bead the chain, alternating between the gold and glass beads until all the beads have been added.

14.  Remove the initial knot from the beginning of the chain and tie off both ends of the chain together to create the necklace.

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