Treasures and Trinkets Tuesday. . .Jewelry Hearts

 

 

Hello my friends,

with Christmas over many of us are starting to think Valentines.

 

  Although I am not ready to start pulling out the Valentines décor, I am ready to do a bit of creating.

 

It's been quite a while since I did

 a 'Treasures and Trinkets Tuesday' post.

 

I thought this project fit the bill.

 

 

 

You might remember that last year I was helping with the estate of my friends late Aunt.

 

We held 8 estate sales total and still haven't emptied the house.  We will probably pick it back up this spring.

 

While sorting through all of her treasures we saved some of the jewelry and tossed it into a large tin.

 

This photo was actually taken after we had created three hearts.  We were so busy having fun that I forgot to take photos.  :)

 

 

Julie and Dolly rode up last Thursday and spent the night.  We thought we would create hearts with all of that treasured jewelry

 

I actually took photos earlier today, when the lighting was good.  I realized that my SD card was not in all the way and none of them took.  So here's my second go around.  They are not as good, and I didn't do as many.

 

We used frames that we already had.  I chose a smaller one because I have a lot of large framed things I use for Valentines.

 

We removed the back and sprayed it with Elmer's spray glue.  Then we laid it on a piece of drop cloth I had left over from a project.  We did not cut the piece to fit perfectly, because I wanted to lie them onto my cutting mat and make a nice clean cut with

 my rotary cutter.

 

 

Fold a piece of paper in half and draw half of a heart.  Cut out with scissors.

 

 

Center it on your backing.  We measured to make sure we had it exact.  Then trace around it lightly with pencil.

 

Now the fun begins!

 

We started laying out jewelry pieces.  Julie and Dolly laid out their entire heart before gluing any of it down.  Me, not being the patient one; laid out 5-6 pieces and then cut the backs off and glued them down.  We just used hot glue. 

 

Either way works.  They did say that when they went to glue they did not get it to fit exactly as they had it laid out.

 

Be creative and have fun playing with those gorgeous jewels!

 

I wanted quite a bit of aqua in mine.  Notice we added small pearls to fill in some of the gaps.

 

 

So many pretties!  We used wire cutters to cut off the backs so that they would lay flat.  Some of them were easy, while others were a bit difficult.

 

I didn't mind the void space behind this pretty flower pin.  In fact, I laid a few pearls inside and decided that it took away from it.

 

I cut one end off a watch and used the other to frame the top of the heart on one side.

 

I really did center my heart on my background.  But I used a piece on the bottom that hung down quite a ways.  It didn't bother me, in fact I loved the look!  Notice the space on the side of the aqua pin?  You only see it from the side, but I've decided that I will tuck more pearls in there.

 

Now, here's another look at the finished project. . .

 

 

This is my sister Julie's.  Love how she framed the top of her heart with bling!

 

and my friend, Dolly's.  So many fun pieces of jewelry!  The chippy frame is one that I had made with a crackle product years ago.  Both Julie and I painted our frames with white chalk paint and sanded them.

 

They turned out so pretty that I think I will hang mine in my sewing room after Valentines.

 

What do you think?  Is this something you would try making?

 

 

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