5 New DIYs: Altered Sea Glass, Flying Pigs, Mini Bottle Amulets, Wired Love!

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Well, we’ve been having a lot of fun with our supplies again!

1. Sea Glass View Finder Pebbles.  This technique has some great jewelry possibilities as well as gift applications! Check it out!

How to: Anne added two layers of 3D Crystal Lacquer (let dry between layers) to the top side of our sea glass pebbles. Keep the bubbles if they form for an underwater effect.

Pop the bubbles if they form by dragging the end of a headpin or safety pin, even a chopstick through the glaze.

For the focal image, she sealed a printout (in this case, an ocean scene) to the bottom with 3D Crystal Lacquer. It forms a beautiful porthole or see-thru window.

2. Sea Glass Message Pebbles/Pendants
Kim has been experimenting with her old faithful HP LaserJet 1200. It is a toner (not ink jet) printer which produces heat-set black toner images.

This technique also has some great jewelry possibilities – both on our sea glass pebbles and our craft glass tiles. Detailed instructions available on our eCraftyBlog1 or eCraftyBlog2.

Make it a pendant! For either of these transfer/altered techniques – by adding a bail to the back with e6000, you’ve got an incredibly interesting pendant possibility.


What do you think? How can you use this technique in your jewelry and crafting? Let us know – We’d love to hear your ideas!

3. When Pigs Fly! Embellished Necklace  Kim created this little gem in under a minute from our 633NECK finished Flying Pig Necklace by adding just a little 4mm pink crystal bicone dangle on a headpin. You can also get JUST the flying pig charms 633 here.

4. Wired Love Wow! Look what our friend and away at college co-worker Hannah made with wire (2 gauges) and our 4mm glass pearls 446MIX200 (200pc 4mm glass pearls ~ a customer favorite).

More photos available on our eCraftyBlog1 or eCraftyBlog2.. Are you inspired yet?

Thank you for sharing these great creations Hannah! We’re so inspired that we might have to stop everything and go try these! :-)

5. Mini Bottle Amulets Anne & Kim have been playing with the mini bottles, again!

We got some dramatic results by hanging a very small charm from our Charm Mega Mix 100 Pack, (in this case, baby angel wing or shell or key or seahorse) from the underside of our mini bottles 1200V-10PACK or 1200J-10PACK the cork with just a headpin. Left to dangle this makes for some simply beautiful jewelry pieces.

You can built on any of these with beaded dangles, word charms, wire wrapping, mini-notes, you name it!

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As always, have FUN, and happy creating! Hope to “see” you soon at eCrafty.com!

 

DIY Shadowbox Pendants, Sea Glass Imagery from eCrafty.com!

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We have been playing with the possibilities of our 201F Shadow Box Pendants and our Sea Glass Pebbles Kits. Here’s our exciting (ongoing) results so far!

Here’s 3 gorgeous themed shadowbox pendants ~ each using our 201F floating charms/shadowbox charms and a few themed charm and 3mm or under (for box interior) bead embellishments from our site.

First off – wow! Look what Cheryl made! In order, they are Mermaid  Dreams (above),  Spring Time  and TeaTime/ What’s Cookin?

She added a variety of themed charms from our charms and pendants section, a few beaded dangles made of crystals or millefiori glass, and embellished the interiors of the charms with 3mm thick beads (our silver spacer beads 3mm, or our seed bead mixtures, along with our flat-profiled charms.

You can also use these shadowboxes charms to hold favorite photos of course! The beauty of these is that in addition to a photo, you have the chance to add a snippet of word, a word charm, a little piece of fabric (maybe old baby blanket?)….You get the idea!

Sea Glass Images:

Anne has been experimenting with image transfer onto our sea glass pebbles kits .  Here’s the exciting results ~ click image to enlarge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sea Glass Imaging Techniques: Anne applied 3D Crystal Lacquer directly onto our Sea Glass Pebbles to get an instant contrasting textural pattern (glossy/matte stripes or dots). She also drew directly onto the pebbles with a fine point sharpie (seahorse). She glued a lacy fern front directly onto the glass with 3D Crystal Lacquer. Lastly, she tried an image transfer with a laser or ink jet print. We are still working on the image transfer idea and will keep you updated on our results.

Any of these techniques have great possibilities and add a ton of dimension to our Sea Glass Pebbles Pendant Kit. Get a batch today and start playing! Combine them with our other sea glass beads and themed charms and glass pearls – Send us your results and we’ll publish them here!

What’s NEW? Here’s a listing of our latest arrivals!

New Rainbow Resin Beads!

Wow. That’s all we can say! Brand new and TOO much fun in one bag of beads! About 75 resin beads. 10mm or about 0.4 inches each.  Two patterns: Tie Dye or Crazy Quilt.

Buy Now: $3.99

1″ Silver Plated Tags Stamping Blanks are Here!

We are excited to be adding gorgeous 1″ all-brass stamping blanks to our new items! Make great personalized hand-stamped charms and pendants. 10pc packs, .5mm or 22 gauge ~ time to go play! 

Buy Now: $4.99

eCrafty’s Metal Charm Mega Mix is Here!

WOW! Look what our friend and customer Jennifer Marlowe from Harmony NC made with our Charms Mega Mix! (our SKU 1151) Really lovely and so affordable! Check out Jennifer’s designs, support a local artist & budding talent! 
Buy Now: $12.99

NEW (Old Favorites) Mini Message Bottles 28mm Return!

Our 28mm mini glass bottles are back!  Add an eye screw to make a charming pendant + our 18″ silver plated ball chain necklace. Perfect little message in a bottle charm or memento, memory keeper necklace. Roll up your favorite art snippet, photo, wrapping paper, postcard, magazine clipping, laser-printed messages or other paper items – insert into bottle for instant 3-D art.

Buy Now $7.99

Lots of Love Charms
While we’re on the subject, you can see all of our LOVE charms here, and heart-themed items here!

Just a reminder – save 20% on your entire order by using cart checkout coupon SAVE20 at the bottom of your shopping cart page before you click through to payment. This code is good through FEB 28th, 2013.

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1 Minute Jewelry DIYS: Recycled Garden Catalog Pendants + Free Printable from eCrafty.com!

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1 Minute Pendants made from1. upcycled garden catalog and 2. our FREE Vintage Flowers Seed Packets download printable sheet.

1 Minute Jewelry DIYS: Recycled Garden Catalog Pendants 
I don’t know about you, but right now I have a great assortment of garden catalogs filled with way more pictures of lovely flowers than I can absorb!

Why not repurpose them as wearable art? I’ve used our 1-minute pendant kits and our instant pendant kits to do just that – it’s as easy as peel, stick, trim and insert.

The top loops/bails are large enough to work with any of our organza neck cords, ball chains, leather cords or rubber cords. Once your supplies are laid out and your scissors are close at hand, this project will take 1 minute or less! Watch out, it can be habit forming!

Consider the two minute version and add a little snippet of type or words on top of your image before you stick your epoxy dome dome. Consider the five minute version and make a little custom dangle out of our headpins, crystals, glass pearls or lampwork beads. Easy, fun, and full of springtime! Enjoy!

Use this FREE printable download sheet Vintage Flowers Seed Packets to inspire you! Happy creating from eCrafty.com!

Free Printable! Vintage Seed Packets from eCrafty.com!

If you don’t have a flower catalog handy, enjoy this  FREE printable Vintage Seed Packets from eCrafty.com! Original file size is 300dpi – this will be very LARGE on your screen but will result in a very crisp 8 1/2 x 11 printed sheet for collage, decoupage, our 1 minute pendant kits, bamboo domino tiles, unfinished wood blanks, more! Enjoy!

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DIY Jewelry: Solar System Planets Bracelet from eCrafty.com!

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How cute is this? Becky was inspired by our new Rainbow Resin beads in Crazy Quilt and Tie Dye Swirl patterns (our SKUs 1307A, 1307B) to make a bracelet based on the solar system. She used our 1508E Sun Charms for… the sun!  She used the pnuemonic “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles” to correctly order Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune ~ each with their own beady personality! (Pluto is no longer considered a planet but we still are going to give it a shout out.)  If you look VERY closely, right next to Earth, you will see Becky even included the moon – a 4mm 1/6″ e-bead from our eBead mixes.

This could be made on stretch cord for classes or youth groups. Becky used tiger tail (coated steel wire), some simple crimp beads (squish to hold your bead in place), and a few assorted bead mixtures of ours listed below.

Solar System Bracelet Recipe: Supplies from www.eCrafty.com: Rainbow Resin beads 1307A, 1307B; Watercolor Splash Beads in Black/White 1600E, Confetti Foil Swirl Beads 1370G, Sun Charms 1506E, our 1722, 1723, of 1724 stretch cord finished with a square knot, or tiger tail & crimps. Use 1501QJump rings to attach your sun charms to your finished bracelet. See closeups of our new rainbow resin beads below ~ have FUN and happy creating!

Rainbow Resin beads from eCrafty.com

New Rainbow Resin Swirl beads make GREAT little planets!

Rainbow Resin beads in Crazy Quilt from eCrafty.com

These beads make great lightweight jewelry – as shown here – part of our Solar System bracelet

Wearable Art, From the Heart! 5 New DIYs (Jewelry & Home Crafts) for Valentines

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Love is in the air! Here’s some wearable Valentines you can make with supplies from eCrafty.com! Click on any picture for a closeup. We’ve included links to the products we used in each litte treasure. Happy creating!

1. Key to My Heart Encased in Glass Shown above, Anne used our new WIDER 1200V-10pack 1″ jug-shaped glass mini bottles to encase our key charm & millefiori heart in glass.

2. Key to My Heart Mini Bottle Necklace  Anne created this little gem from our 1200L-10pack-KIT mini bottle eye screw kit, a trimmed key charm 1611B, and a little millefiori red heart dangle ~ our 1626 hung on a 1505z headpin and looped at the top. Attached with our jump rings 1501Q to our customer favorites ~ one of our 1240W silver-plated brass snake chains. .

3. Graffiti Love Pendant! Anne made this glass heart pendant with a printout of her favorite

valentine, our 302H glass heart cabochons, a little 3D Crystal Lacquer, e6000 for the bail on the back, and one of our 1240z ball chain necklaces. She finished the glass cab with our transparent glass markers SKU 700. You could also use any opaque paint pen made for ceramic and glass.

4. Lace Hearts Doily/Doilie Glass Pendants and Magnets This is one of those sleeper ideas that really surprised me! Pendant: Anne just took a paper doily,


glued/applied it to the back of our 302H-10pc glass heart cabochons with 3D Crystal Lacquer, trimmed the edges and added a bail (806A-10pack).

Lace Hearts Fridge Magnets: Same process but add our magnets rather than a bail for cute fridge magnet set.

5. Scrabble Tile Pendants 123!
We put together a step-by-step tutorial for simple scrabble tiles, over atour blog - this is always a fun starter project – glue a bail (806A-10pc) to the back of a scrabble tile, add an epoxy cover if you want, embellish with a simple dangle or even add a photo.

 

Free Altered Peacock Printable + DIY Scrabble Tile Tutorial

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Click here for our Free Printable! Altered Peacock Instant Collage Sheet and Scrabble Tile DIY! 

Happy Crafty New Years! Here’s some instant inspiration for you ~ our free printable Altered Peacock 1 Instant Download Collage Sheet and a simple Scrabble Tile DIY technique to inspire you to go play!

Click here for our quick Scrabble tile tutorial. This technique works equally well on our bamboo domino tiles, or on glass tiles too. You can also use this free printable as artwork for our tray pendants with either our glass or instant epoxy dome covers.

Our 30% off everything promotion runs through tonight, JAN 1 midnight PST - just use SAVE30 in your coupons box at the bottom of your cart page for 30% off everything in your cart!

Wishing you a relaxing day of fun and inspiration. Time to go play! Happy Crafty New Years from all of us at eCrafty.com!

Just GLUE IT! 3 Easy Bracelets made with Buttons, Scrabble Tiles, Metal Stampings Bracelets

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We’re bringing you three fun and different ideas for our glue-on bracelet blanks. These samples were all made with our craft-quality bracelet blanks SKU 1450

1. Steampunk Dreams Anne made this cool mixed metals steampunk style bracelet from our 1450 basic craft bracelet base and our 1152 or 1159 Fearless Crafter’s Metal Stampings Mix with just a little dab of e6000 on the base and between the metal charm layers. Click photo for a closeup. This mix has so many fun options – lots of shapes and raw mixed metals to play with!

2. Button UP! Kim made this antique off-white mixed button bracelet with our same 1450 craft bracelet base and our Vintage Buttons Mix in white. She chose a trio of buttons from small to large for each landing pad and then attached them with e6000 adhesive. We also have a nice Vintage Buttons Mix in warm neutrals which would work great too. This is an great idea for kids to make for Mother’s Day.


3. Say Anything 6-Tile Scrabble Bracelet   Got 6 letters? Make some wearable art! Kim used our 1410 Vintage Scrabble tile mix and our 1450 craft bracelet base along with a dab of e6000 adhesive for a nearly instant scrabble tile bracelet. Stuck for a word? Check out this link ~ tons of common 6-letter words you can use to create with! How we didn’t think of CRAFTY I just don’t know! :-) Blame it on the Holidaze!

New Year’s Resolution Embellished Bottle Pendants
Fun and quick – using our 1200L-10pack mini bottles and our eye pins, thread our bali spacer beads 1155 on either side of our glass pearls ~ top it off with a crystal bicone to make these New Year’s Resolution Keeper Bottle or embellished Message in a Bottle pendants. If you’d like, fill with a personal message (New Year’s resolution ~ “Stay Calm” “Have Fun” “Craft More” “Lose 10 Pounds” on a fortune cookie sized paper. Tie with twine. Optional fill with favorite beach sand or glitter …. just do it!  Hang from our cords and chains (many styles – snake chain or organzas are especially pretty combined with these) with a simple jump ring ~ These are EASY, cute and original little treasures!

DIY Beaded Eye Glass Leashes in Under 5 Minutes!
Hard to find but we’ve found it! Glass beads hand strung and linked on sturdy silver plated brass chain for beading, decorating, jewelry makingand near-instant eye glass leashes.

Sold by the yard, split in 2, makes (2) near instant eye glass leashes or 18″ necklace.

You will need a few of our simple findings (eye glass connectorsjump rings, possibly lobster clasps) to finish.

You can also deconstruct this chain very easily to create indivual dangles or glass charms. Want to add a pendant or some charms? Basic chain fits bail and jump ring openings of 4mm and larger. Sold by the continuous yard – if you order (2) yards, we will send you a complete 72″ inches of chain. Way too fun – you are just going to have to take our word on this one!

Freebie Printable Holiday 1″ Circles and Nearly Instant Gifts!

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Here’s some last minute tips for last minute gifts! You’ve still got time! We’re shipping all website orders $25 or more by Priority Mail if you place your order by WED Dec 19th.

Here’s a very quick use of ou 400A-10pack 1″ pendant bases and our 802N epoxy domes. Add a printout from our Free printables sheet (FREEBIE below!). Use 2X tape or e6000 to the base. You are done!

Free Printable Holiday Cheer 1″ Circles from eCrafty.com!

Happy holidays! Here’s a cheerful FREEBIE just for you! Click here, then right click to save this printable to your computer files. It is 300dpi, the file on screen will be big, the printout will be perfect, crisp 8.5 x11 letter size. You can vary the size of the circles by setting the reduction or enlargement percentage on your print page.

Use for all of our 1″ magnets, bottle caps, glass tiles, epoxy domes, glass cabochons, fillable domes, pendant bases and ornaments, even gift tags or stickers for your snail mail!

Festive Believe Message Glass Dome Necklace w/Bicone Crystals
Anne’s festive “Believe” necklace is shown here, made with ourBelieve domes SKU 413B-WORD10pc., our 20mm charm bases 1236-10pack, a few crystal bicones looped on headpins and trimmed with nail nippers, and a little e6000 to glue the word dome to the charm base. Hang from our ball chain necklacessnake chains, or festive organza colored neck cords to finish.

Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser Necklace by Andrew ~ Read on!

Our talented customer Andrew made these pendants in a flash for an upcoming Hurricane Sandy fundraiser – he made his first pendants almost instantly after receiving his package of 400A-10PACK pendant bases and our 802N epoxy domes. If you are interested he & his wife’s fundraising efforts, or you would like one to purchase one of these finished pendants, find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ABArtProductions

Lights Fantastic!
Get festive and have FUN with these blinking holiday lights necklaces with 2 extra batteries and three display/flash/light modes! There are others but these are the BEST! No extra charge for priority shipping on orders $25 or more ~ through WED DEC 19th.

Our gift to you ~ 20% savings on EVERYTHING in your cart with code DEC2012. Redeem this code by typing it in the coupon box at the BOTTOM of your shopping cart. Everything in your cart will be discounted immediately before checkout.

If you ever have questions, you can use the comments section of your shopping cart page, or just e-mail our fantastic customer service at info@ecrafty.com. Please give as much important info as you can in the subject line of your e-mail so we can help you ASAP.

Thanks always, best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday time. From all the busy elves at eCrafty.com!

5 Quick DIY Gifts: Instant Photo Keychains, Glass Dome Pendants, Fillable Keepsake Ornaments, 1 Minute Cable Bracelets

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We’re bringing you five different gift ideas to make in UNDER 5 minutes – how’s THAT for a good thing? No one will ever guess how little time they took ~ all are sure to be welcomed, personalized gifts!

1. “Believe” Glass Dome Necklace with Bicone Dangles

http://d3d71ba2asa5oz.cloudfront.net/53000610/images/amhsxmasbelieveredgreen2.jpgAnne’s festive “Believe” necklace is shown here, made with our Believe domes SKU 413B-WORD10pc., our 20mm charm bases 1236-10pack, a few crystal bicones looped on headpins and trimmed with nail nippers, and a little e6000 to glue the word dome to the charm base. Hang from our ball chain necklaces,snake chains, or festive organza colored neck cordsto finish.

2. Try our Fillable Domes as Seasonal Ornaments or Keepsake Time Capsules!
We are constantly finding new uses for our fillable domes. 

Anne made this cool deconstructed wreath with assorted berries and evergreen pieces from her yard.

Our domes SKU 299 can be hung from ribbons on and displayed on your wall, hung from the tree, added toppers for gift boxes, gift holders for money or checks.

Our fillable domes can also work very well as photo ornaments. Punch out a 1″ or 2″ photo, place in the middle, close it up. Make it 2 sided in a snap. Super quick. You might consider copying some old family photos and using them as inserts – a simple and welcomed family gift!

We also noticed this darling idea on Pinterest that I just had to share – a time capsule Santa list ~ Kids’ Christmas list in an ornament with the year. It would be so cool to go back and see what the children asked for years ago. So cute!

Anne found that can string these end to end, garland style, by aligning the domes head to toe so that each side has a linkable top hole. Very cool!

3. Make an Instant Photo Key Chain!
Out of time? We have some nearly instant  ways to help you make a perfect custom photo keychain – from the easy peel n stick frame kits (shown above), to our slide in fancy frames (below)  to our use our metal bases with glass dome tops. You can even use last year’s photo greeting cards for extra family photos in a hurry!  These same epoxy covers can be used in our 1″ charm and pendant bases for instant and and photo pendant jewelry.

See all of our Key Chains here! 

4. Try our Cable Bracelets for Quick Gifts!
Anne put this bracelet together in under a minute using our cable bracelet base, our large holed millefiori beads, and our bali style pewter spacers. The ends of our cable bracelets screw off, making them easy to thread beads on and use for a variety of designs!

5. Make a Custom Heart Shaped Glass Tile Pendant (or Fridge Magnet)
Use 3D Crystal Lacquer for print outs, or e6000 for real photos, apply a small amount of glue on back side of our heart glass dome. Press down firmly, wipe excess glue from edge. Trim carefully and let dry fully. Brush same sealer on back side of your glass dome and let dry fully again.

Add a glue on bail with e6000 and let dry fully again. Or, add a magnet for a really cute fridge magnet.

The “let dry” part of this project is the time consuming part. You might want to speed things along with a quick trip in a low-temp (250 degree) oven. (Not the microwave).

DIY Scrabble Tile Pendants 1 Minute Tutorial from eCrafty.com

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Yes, this is a Scrabble tile! Learn how to make your Scrabble tile jewelry do double duty with this quick video tutorial.

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