DIY Button/Brad Jewelry...
make a lovely piece of jewelry this afternoon!
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| Who'd - a - thought? Use fancy buttons to create beautiful jewelry... |
That's right, you can use buttons, fancy or plain, to re-create your own jewelry.
You can find buttons just about anywhere, craft stores, fabric stores, online
or from your family's very own button collection. You can also use those
scrapbooking brads as long as they have openings to add jumprings to.
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| Just about any button will do, just add jumprings! |
Once you've added jumprings to the sides of your buttons or brags,
attach them to beaded chains. They can be rosary beads, pieces of a
broken beaded necklace, etc. Experiment with bead colors and sizes.
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| Broken pieces of beaded chains are re-born when small pieces are added to buttons or brads to make a new piece |
buttons to re-create a new bracelet. Add a toggle closure to ends.
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| Five small fancy buttons were used, plus ten 3/4" beaded chain pieces to create this beautiful bracelet |
Don't limit buttons and brads to just bracelets. Use the same technique for
creating necklaces, anklets, charms and pendants too!
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