Lisa Storms

wine cork pendants

I know a lot of us save wine corks with the intention of some day crafting with them. Here's a fun project I created for Fiskars to put them to use in a fun way making pendants!

You can view the full tutorial here.

I will warn you that these are addictive =). Have a great weekend!

clay pendant tutorial

My daughter had a winter wonderland themed 10th birthday party recently ... or a "brrr"thday as we called it.  While I hope to eventually share her party here on the blog, I wanted to stop and share the necklaces we made now because I thought they could be useful for last-minute DIY gifts for the holidays.

We used Sculpey oven bake clay.  The girls picked from an assortment colors and broke off half of one of the scored bricks...

Next condition the clay and roll it into a ball.

Then flatten into a disk.  I found an easy way for the girls to get theirs even by pressing down on the ball with a paper cup.  The rim on the bottom of the cup was very short, so the edges stopped the pressure evenly.  This wouldn't work with any paper cup.  These particular cups I happened to have had a very shallow rim.  I assume this varies by cup brand.  You can just flatten with anything you can find around that won't stain.

Stamp your design into your clay disk.  Be sure to leave room for a hole for hanging. We used toothpicks to widen a hole for hanging.  Be sure the hole goes all the way through.  After baking, we noticed a couple of the girls had holes that didn't reach the back.  Luckily I had my handy craft drill, which you could opt to use after baking instead of the toothpick method.

We used a snowflake from the Winter Wishes stamp set by Fiskars.  This is the set that has the "warm winter wishes" stamp I've been using constantly.  

Bake according to manufacturer's instructions and allow to cool.  Paint inside snowflake with white acrylic paint and wipe away excess with a paper towel.  Use a large jump ring to attach to a necklace to complete.

These were inspired by my clay jewelry dishes I created a while back which can be viewed here.  I've become quite addicted to making things with oven bake clay ... it's just so easy =).

felt leaves necklace for fall

And just like that ... school starts, summer's unofficially over, and fall is peeking around the corner.  So in honor of National Sewing Month, I created these fall necklaces for Fiskars.

I may have mentioned a time or a hundred that I am a lazy sewer and love working with felt so I don't need to worry about fraying, etc.  And it comes in such beautiful colors these days.  

My daughter is obsessed with jewelry (she comes by it honestly) so I plan on making several more pieces for her fall "collection" and will be sure to share the easy directions here.  

For full photos and tutorial on these, check out my article at Fiskars.  Happy sewing this month =).