Spring Finch Egg Shimmer Mica Jewelry Set

Materials needed

3-Finch Eggs     24” Necklace Chain     2-Ear Wires     Styrofoam square  

3 Swivel up-eye Caps     6” 1mm Faceted Chain     1 small jump rings

90-9ss Swarovski flatback rhinestones     Eggstra Special 5-Min Epoxy

Terri Sproul's Shimmer Mica Color Set (Purple Pearl)     527 Glue

Embellie Gellie     Toothpicks      Small glue bottle     Mixing pad of paper

The finch eggs are delicate, so take care in epoxying the toothpicks into one end of the finch egg for a handle.  5 Minute epoxy is easy to work with, just remember you have only 5 minutes before the two parts become rock hard AND the epoxy has to be mixed in EQUAL amounts.

Once the toothpicks are glued into place, stick them in the Styrofoam for 5 minutes, until dry.

Pick your color of choice from the package of

Terri Sproul's Shimmer Mica Color Set To order set click here

 Discount of 20% till 3-31-2013...code "Shimmer03"

 

I am using Purple Shimmer. 

Of each bottle of epoxy make equal 1/2" lines on your paper pad.

Use a toothpick to mix the two lines together and with the wet toothpick dip into the jar of shimmer powder.

Mix the powder into the epoxy mixture and do this two or three times to get the shade you want.

 

Use the mixing toothpick to carefully cover the entire finch egg.  Do not put pressure on the egg, coat with the shimmer epoxy and then turn egg upside down to let excess drip off.  Once excess has dripped off, turn egg upside right and it will self-level all around the egg.  You may need to turn egg upside down again if epoxy puddles near the toothpick connection to the egg.

 

Remember you have 5 minutes from the start of mixing till the epoxy is rock hard.  Do each egg separately and set into Styrofoam to cure....do all three.

Once all three are finished, start with the first one completed and cut off the toothpick close to the egg.

Mix a very small amount of epoxy together and epoxy the swivel up-eye over the area where the toothpick was cut away from the finch egg.  The egg is no longer fragile and you can handle the egg with out  worry of breakage.  The swivel up-eyes allow the eggs to freely turn when wearing so to see all areas of the finished jewelry.

I use 527 glue into a small glue bottle with a 9mm tip to get fine control for applying jewelry findings and flatback stones to the eggs.  For each egg eyeball the egg in half and glue on the 1mm gold plated ball chain to divide the egg in half.  Do this to all three.

Cut off the tip of a toothpick so it is flat on one end.  Apply a bit of Embellie Gellie to the end of the toothpick.  This is a wonderful product to pick up small items like rhinestones, beads, findings and place onto the glue.  Apply 527 to one side of the 1mm ball chain and glue down 15 9ss Swarovski flatback rhinestones to each side of 1mm ball chain.  Do this to all eggs.

Apply the ear wires to two of the eggs and on one attach the jump ring and apply to the 24" necklace chain.

 

The finch egg necklace and earring set, glues, Embellie Gellie, supplies or kits are available from Eggstra Special

or email Virgi Bondi Email

 

The Fleur Debris! Hurricane Art

Hello, I am Tanya and a newbie blogger here. I love crystal lacquer and use it with almost everything. For my first project I had planned something very special, but I got an unexpected visit from someone that disrupted my plans.



I live at the second stop in the Hurricane Isaac Stateside Tour.

Hurricane Isaac came ashore last week and living in south Louisiana you get accustom to this kind of thing. What you dont get accustomed to is the heat and the boredom when you are out of power. This time I preassembled some craft items I could use when the boredom set in. The heat is another matter. I cranked the air down while I still had air conditioning and it managed to stay cool through the first night without power.

During the eye of the storm the raining stops and this storm was so slow we were several hours in the eye. At that time I decided to rummage around outside and see what damage had been done. My neighbor had shingles missing and all over the yard...so I picked up some. I saw leaves and branches and even rocks and nuts and bolts. I gathered all these things and brought them inside....hmmm, what to make... AH, a fleur debris! Yes, I know, I make a lot of things with fleur de lis' in them. It is our state symbol, after all! (And the Saint's emblem).









Supplies I used:
3d Crystal Lacquer
Terri Sproul Mixers- gold
Twine
House Shingle
Storm Findings
Watch Parts
Hoard of items from Hubby's work room

I mounted the shingle to a piece of mat board. The drew out the shape of a fat fleur de lis with 3d Crystal Lacquer and let it set a bit. It was too liquidy to hold the twine down, so I let set up some and then pressed the twine in it.

Now I start adding the twigs, leave and other debris inside the twine outlined shape. My original idea was to make the shape out of twigs but I couldn't replicate the curve very well so I went with some twine in my hubby's workroom.

I added a washer from the street and used some watch hands that I already had on hand (ha ha, pun intended).

I use the 3d Crystal Lacquer as glue and then fill in the spaces with a coat. Then I begin to drop in some watch parts as a filler. Wherever a see too much shingle, I drop a watch part or a spare screw.

 

 

 

I then mix up some Terri Sproul Mixers with some lacquer and use my finger to wipe some gold accents on the twigs and rocks.

 

 



 

You can see the gold highlights here.

 

This is what it looked like after the lacquer had dried overnight.

Made up from debris from Hurricane Isaac 2012

The Fleur Debris!

 

 

Tanya Ruffin

 

Trinket Box - Love

Hello, I'm Jamie and I'm new to the design team but definitely not new to 

Sakura's 3D Crystal Lacquer!

I was given it a few month ago and immediately in love and now learning how to use the Terri Sproul Mixers along with it!

For my first project, I decided to go with a small trinket box. 

I'm still trying to get a hang of the Mixers. Not that they are hard to use. It's just me trying not to go too crazy with the 3D Lacquer with them. LOL.

I used their Sakura Hobby Crafts products as well as an embellishment word from a set sent in with my design team package from Want2Scrap!

Here is my project:

Everything was dry except the excess I put between the letters.

I love the shine!

Ingredients and Instructions:

Mini Trinket Box ($1 at Michaels)

Want2Scrap Chipboard Sentiments - Words of Love

3D Crystal Lacquer

Terri Sproul Mixer - Color Enhance Effect

Terri Sproul Mixer - Jewel Effects Shimmer Powder (Shimmer Violet)

Terri Sproul Mixer - Jewel Effects Pearl Powder (Citrine Pearl)

1. Sanded the box down.

2. Mixed small amount of the 3D Crystal Lacquer with a very small amount of Citrine Pearl, then used a sponge brush and dabbed it onto the word "Love."

3. Then took the Shimmer Violet and added with the lacquer and some color enhance effect and just kept adding here and there until I ended up with my desired color.

4.Then I put a coat of it on the trinket box. Decided on only one coat, I liked the way the stain of the wood came through from the opaque like coat.

5. Adhered the word "Love" on with the lacquer then covered the word with it and in between the letters.

6. Added 4 baubles to the corners and it was finished off.

Hope you enjoyed,

Jamie