Some Mother's day ideas...

This week my daughter was in town and she wanted to make this necklace for my Mother's day gift. So we figured out what we needed and went to an antique store to find some vintage jewelry.   We then went to Jo Ann's to buy some cording and clasps.  When we got back home we realized we needed a bigger flower for the necklace.  I had some Sculpey clay and decided it would be easier to make a flower than to go and find the exact one we would need. I made several little round balls and flattened them out to make the petals and just layered them until I had something that resembled a flower.

I then added an antique button to make the impression before I baked it.

I took the button out while it baked in a 275 degree oven for about 35 minutes.

We used 18 inches of drapery cord for the neck lace part and then added some clasps that  wrapped around the cording and bent them with needle nosed pliers. (you have to be careful that the cording does not unravel while doing this, I added a little piece of clear tape to wrap the ends.)

After the flower that was baking cooled I sprayed the flower with ivory Krylon spray paint. Then I used

9001 adhesive to attach the antique button.  I also attache the antique earrings that we found with the same adhesive and let it dry.

After the adhesive has dried , I found that the necklace did not stay in place so I added some felt to the back of the embellishments glued it to the felt and then trimmed the felt so you can't see it. This made all the difference in how straight your necklace will lay.

This one had too much of a space between the earrings so I added another set in between the two.

I will show you that a little later. I also had a silver rope chain and some more earrings that I had bought because of the pretty jewels that were on them

I took apart the earrings and added them to the rope chain.

I used the same adhesive, it is really strong when it dries. 

Didn't it turn out cute!

It was my birthday this week and my daughter made this necklace for me out of beads and black cording. This picture is kind of blurry, Sorry, I will try and get a better view.

She also made this cute shrug from fabric and added the some kind of beads to the center of the flower.

And earrings to match! I wore them today and I felt like the birthday girl!

A close up of the flower.

Here is the full length pic. Thanks for the birthday gift, I love it!

Here is the cording necklace with the added jewelry to the gaps around the larger flower.

Here is the silver cord necklace with "sparklies" on it!

They both turned out so cute and we made one for each other for Mother's day.

They are quite easy to do the longest part in making the necklace is finding the jewels to put on them but I love to go to antique shops so that pretty much was the fun part!

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