"Hope" - painted and blinged

Following on from my painted baubles post a few days ago........ a while before getting the baubles, I bought this from a Craft Fair.

It is about 8" long, so quite a decent size.

So it came just raw, cut playwood.

I gave it a few coats of Decoart acrylic paint in 'Pink Lemonade'.

Then started to bling!   At the time the self-adhesive gemstones were on 3 for 2 at Hobbycraft, so I bought a few different packs.

 I blinged, and blinged and blinged.  Until all the space was used up  :)

Now all that is left to do is to add some double sided sticky pads to the back so it can be stuck on her bedroom door.

Pink and blingy, just perfect for a Princess  ;)

Sparkly Wooden Baubles

I found a page over on Facebook called Jamie's Wood Craft.   They were offering up these fabulous bauble shapes with names inside.  Perfect for personalised Christmas gifts, I thought.  So I ordered a few  :)

I set to work with some DecoArt acrylic paint, which gave a lovely coverage.  I did three coats to give me a lovely smooth finish.

I bought the paint in pale pink, pale blue, Christmas green & Christmas red.

I painted them according to what colour I thought the recipient would like most   :)

Then stuck some self-adhesive  gemstones on them  :)   

I used tweezers to pick the stones up, and a darning needle to usher them into place, but I used my finger to make sure they were well pushed on - it was quite sore by the end.  Do you see the dent?  Crafting injury that  :)

On Hope's bauble I gem-stoned her name as well as the bauble edge.  I had to do this on her big brother, Harvey's bauble too, as you have to keep them the same you know  :)

But all the others I just did the edges as I thought leaving the names plain maybe made them easier to read.

Finished  :)

I have to say I am chuffed with how these worked out.

Of course I have to give them out before Christmas day so they can be hung on the Christmas trees.  All recipients seem pleased with them so far   :)

Jasper Cluster Pendant

I made most of this a little while ago, but as is quite usual, never got it finished :)

I started with a cable chain which I chopped up into identical sized pieces, I then took some wire, and threaded some Cat's Eye & Stardust beads on, before looping the ends and using them to link two pieces of chain together.

For the pendant part I took a lovely chunk of Purple Jasper, I pinned it through the centre hole and attached cable chain so it draped down the front of the stone and connected to the underneath of the Jasper, before being allowed to dangle down.

To this I then added some little beaded charm using pins and any bead I could lay my hand on that was in the purple and silver colour range.

Another Unfinished Object - finished ! :)