How to Turn a Target String Light into a Valentine Pendant - #LoveArt

You will love this jewelry making project to use Target string lights to create a sweet Valentine pendant.  These metal heart shapes are sturdy and easy to disassemble from the lights and then reuse the lights!  Wear the pendant with just a chain or cord or add pearls, beads or other parts to embellish the pendant.  Hope you enjoy.

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Materials
Target String Light Heart Shape
Beads/Pearls - 6 ea
Bead - 2 ea, 8/0
Jump Rings - 6a, 6mm
Head Pins - 7ea  2-3"
Chain or Cord - 30" or desired length
Glue


Tools
Wire Cutter
Needle Nose Pliers
Round Nose Pliers



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SWD Polymer Clay Tutorial - Get Your Swirl On!! - St. Patrick's Day Pendant

St. Patrick’s Day is March 17, just a few weeks away.  Learn to make a polymer clay swirl pendant or charm with shamrocks to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  We’ll use the colors of the Irish flag – white, orange and green to make a swirl bead and then embellish it with three shamrocks.  I hope you enjoy this polymer clay tutorial.  It’s the third in my “Get Your Swirl On” series.   See the tools and materials list after the video link.

Thanks for joining me in my studio.  If you enjoyed this tutorial, give me a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel and leave me a comment.  I love hearing from you.  Thanks again for watching.

Tools

Acrylic block and roller

Extruder with 19 hole disk – optional, you can roll thin snakes of clay by hand

Cutter – 3/16” hear shape – optional you can cut the hearts by hand with a craft knife

Hand drill or Dremel with size of drill bit to accommodate jump ring or bail

Materials

Clay – 1” ball of white, small amounts of orange and green

Jump ring for bail or other bail

Necklace finding

GET YOUR SWIRL ON SERIES

See my YouTube playlist for the series

Polymer Clay Faux Knit Mitten Earring Tutorial

Let’s knit with polymer clay!  Join me in my studio as we make a polymer clay knitted “fabric” that we can use to make these cute mitten earrings.  You could also resize the mitten template to make a necklace, bracelet or zipper pull.  

You can find some free, downloadable Christmas templates here.  Copy the mitten template and resize in word processing or image processing software.  You can use any size that works for your project.  I re-sized the mitten template to 1” by .88” which is a good size for earrings.

I hope you enjoy this video tutorial.  If you enjoyed this video, subscribe, give me a thumbs up and leave a comment.  Thanks for joining me in my studio.  See the materials/tools list below the video link.

Materials

Polymer clay colors of your choice.  I’m using red and white Premo!

Paper mitten template

Eye pins – 2 ea

Ear wires – 2 ea

Jump ring – 6mm – 2 ea

Sandpaper – optional

Tools

Pasta Machine

Oven

Extruder with multi-hole disk (disk with 19 holes usually include in the basic set with Makins extruder)

Craft knife

Jewelry pliers – chain nose