DIY photo locket

TaDa! I found a super cool, super easy, super fun to do neck piece today - a photo locket - I always wanted to make this one. It hardly took anytime to make. All materials to make this one was readily available. Just had to cut, assort and glue!

Photoframe felt fabric locket 

Materials required:

• Chain
• Eye pin
• Felt fabric
• Scissors
• Photo of your choice
• glue

How to make it:

• Cut two rectangular shaped pieces from the felt fabric.
• Take one of the rectangular piece and cut a smaller square shaped window.
• Optional: cut a square piece of transparent plastic sheet to cover the photo and glue on to the inner part of the square.
• Glue the eye pin on the other rectangular piece.
• Now stick the photo on the eye pin glued rectangular felt fabric.
• And finally stick the outer fabric on to the inner fabric with the photo rightly placed on the window.
• Attach the chain to the diy locket... :)

Photo fabric locket is ready to be worn!

Heart pendant - junk diy jewellery

There are lot of junk at home that can be re-purposed to beautiful items. All we need is a little imagination. Today my 7 year old daughter surprised me with such a craft - a junk jewelry made with plastic sweet wrappers. It came out beautiful and I seriously liked her creativity. 

sweet wrapper pendant

Things needed are: 
Plastic sweet wrappers
Card paper
Colorful bead
Ribbon
Scissors
Glue

How to make Heart pendant:
Draw a heart shape on card paper and cut it.
Flatten the sweet wrappers and cut them into square pieces.
Glue the squares of sweet wrappers onto the heart shaped card, making a pretty check pattern.
Fold the overlapping sweet wrap at the edge of the paper card and stick them on the back.
Glue the ribbon at the back of the card paper to hang it around the neck.
Cut another same sized heart shape from the card paper and stick it to behind to cover the folded the sweet wrappers and the ribbon ends.
Finish the craft by sticking the colorful beads or by decorating the pendant as you wish!

Super duper junk pendant is ready to be worn.

I love this craft and will be always be one of my favorites as this is done by my daughter, Aadya. Love!

DIY Easy Denim jewelry

     Denim is a special material for we craftspeople love to make most of the fabric stuff. It can be used in various crafts. The gradation of denim color is soft and very appealing. And the ultimate effect of any denim craft is very appealing.

     

     An old idea but still trending is the fabric jewels - especially denim jewelry.  These are light weight earrings, fun to make and definitely liked by everyone.  Denim jewels are classically elegant and can be worn with any daily wears.

Materials required making denim jewelry:

Scrap denim fabric

Jewelry making tools

Embellishment of your choice to make it more elegant

How to make:

Cut any shape of the choice from the denim fabric.

Put a hole on the top of the fabric.

Attach the fish hooks to the jump ring.

Thread the jump rings into the hole of the fabric.

Ta da! Denim fabric ear ring is ready. This is the simplest version.

The variations of fabric ear rings are endless. The size of the fabric is our choice. Gradation of denim colors can be used in one ear ring. Any add-ons can be used – Chains, rhinestone, embroidery, colored tassels, beads or any thing you feels goes with the fabric can be used.

More variations are as below. Please let me know if you need help in making any of these. Happy crafting!