We start with Stella showing off the silver key necklace that we made in the last doll jewelry post. Stella is wearing the Liberty Jane "Tokyo Libby: Blossom" outfit from the Fall 2010 Line. It is our favorite LJ outfit ever made. Such a unique style and we love the colors.
So the next necklace we made was with the ship's wheel charm. The nice thing about the key and the wheel charms is that they can really be used for historical jewelry as well.
Warning: Lots of photos ahead, and again - we are just amateurs at this, haha. We wanted to put the charm on the wire and glass bead chain pictured below.
As you can see the necklace comes complete already so to make it doll-size we have to open the chain and divide it in half. It helps to have those delicate pliers and some tweezers on hand to unwind this type of wire and open it.
Now that we have a long strand we can measure it against the key necklace to make a proper length.
We added a silver link from our long shiny chain supply onto the magnetic clasp to connect it to the chain. Then added it to the chain by closing the link and closing the wire around it.
Then we did that to the other side and voila, the chain is complete.
Luckily when we divided the chain in half we had the proper length for two necklaces, so we can make the ship's wheel one and something else down the road.
We got the idea of this necklace from one we got from Liberty Jane, pictured below with ours in progress. And we also included a pic of the clasps on each so you can see how she makes hers.
And then we added on the ship's wheel charm to finish our work.
Stay tuned for the next doll jewelry post to see pics of Jocelyn wearing the necklace. We will also be de-constructing a keychain to use its parts for dolly necklaces. Aren't our experiments exciting? Haha.
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4 comments:
Love the tutorials .. you have some awesome ideas .. thanks for sharing them with us ..
Taryn
OMJ!!! LOVE the necklace! The blue beads make it seem more "nautical." :D
~Miranda
Wow I love that necklace so cute!! Thanks for the tutorial!! I love that dress btw!
I know next to nothing about jewelry making, so I didn't think this post was too long at all. Magnetic closures are a great idea for little girls' fumbling fingers. And I agree about the blue in the beads being great with the ship's wheel. I'm intrigued to see what you'll be doing next.
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