New Jewelry A Day: Shoe Lace Charms

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Make a Necklace from Shoe Lace Charms

Before: Shoe charms

My daughter saw these shoe lace charms and said they remind her of the "foot prints of love." Today is project seven of our V-Day series and we decided to make a simple necklace using shoe lace charms and our imitation leather.

Tomorrow is the big day. Valentine's Day in our house is all about crafts and chocolate. We reject the commercial aspects of the holiday, but love a theme for making stuff. And, of course, we love chocolate. And ice cream.

When my kids were little, I loved working with them to make Valentine's Day cards for each of the kids in the class and all their teachers ... today its all about wearing our hand crafted jewelry and eating chocolate...and reminding each other (and our friends) how much we love and appreciate one another.

Materials
2 shoe charms
2mm leather, imitation leather, satin or other stringing material
Findings (end caps and clasp)
Glue (optional)

After: Footprints of love by GeltDesigns.com

Step 1
Select the charms.

Step 2
Feed the charms on the stringing material and attach findings.

You can glue the charms to hold them in a particular position or allow the charms to dangle and clang.

Related Tutorials
Make Earrings from Shoe Charms
Make Heart Earrings from Copper Staples
Make a Beer Bottle into a Heart Pin
Make "Kiss Me" Heart Earrings
Make a Valentine's Day Pendant from a Scrabble® Tile
Make a "True Love" Bracelet from Scrabble® Tiles
Make a Valentine's Day Pendant from a Copper Washer
GeltDesigns Tutorials by Topic
NJAD Index (Days 1 to 60) by Type of Jewelry
NJAD Index (Days 1 to 60) by Type of Found Object

Further Reading
"500 Plastic Jewelry Designs: A Groundbreaking Survey of A Modern Material (500 Series)"; Lark; 2009.
"500 Pendants & Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments (500 Series)"; Lark; 2008.
"500 Necklaces: Contemporary Interpretations of a Timeless Form (500 Series)"; Lark; 2006.

Day 85 Month 4. Jewelry from Found Objects. $ spent to date: 0
Found materials: shoe lace charms
New Jewelry a Day.

Have a great week!

Before: Scrap Wire & Shoe Charms

Upon finding these colorful shoe charms, the youngest member of our design team decided that they would make excellent earrings. After adding in some colored wire to make "S" links and a brass fishhook finding, we had all the materials needed for this fast, simple project.

Materials
18-gauge red Artistic wire
Two shoe charms
Two fishhook ear wire findings

Repurposed Shoe Charm Earring by GeltDesigns

Tools
Round nose pliers or 3-Step wire looping pliers
Chain nose or bent nose pliers
Wire rounder or needle file
Wire side cutters or flush cutters

Step One

Acquire all materials. We used two colorful foot charms, two brass fishhook findings and some colored wire.

Step Two
Make two" S" links out of the colored wire.

Step Three

Attach each "S" link to one of the two foot charms so that one foot charm is attached to one S link and the same goes for the other "S" link and charm.

Step Four