I’ve fallen head over heels with ribbon necklaces! Had I known how easy they were to make, I’d have been making them a long time ago.
. Wide Decorative Ribbon
. Narrow Ribbon (I used Baker’s Twine)
. Polymer Clay
. Jewelry Clasps
. Jewelry 2″ Eye Pins
The polymer clays I choose were so simple. I pulled off small chunks and rolled them into balls with my hands. Here is the basic layout I decided upon.
My clay required the oven at 275F for thirty minutes. Be sure before you bake your beads that you have “pre-holed” them. That’s my technical term for make sure you’ve added a hole to eventually hang your beads with.
After the beads had cooled, I pushed the 2″ eye pins through and using jewelry pliers made a very small loop at the bottom to keep the beads from falling off.
Once all you beads are on the 2″ eye pins, you can add the ribbons! I tied one end of my decorative ribbon and my baker’s twine to the jewelry clasps. This creates the necklace shape.
I just love the ribbon look in the back.
Well, I’m ready to start cranking these beauties out in every color now! What’s your favorite color combination?
This is beautiful, who knew it was so easy to do! Thank you for sharing.
Your necklace looks beautiful !!
You even made the beads?! That is awesome! Way easier then I thought…. thanks for sharing!
This is such a cute necklace! Love your diy! Theresa @DearCreatives
this is super cute, i especially love the turquoise amy! if you’ve seen my necklaces they’re turquoise!
hey thanks for sharing this over at The DIY’ers! huggies♥
rea
What a great way to make a statement necklace Amy! Love it!
Love the colors and the stripy ribbon!
So cute!! Is there anything you can’t do???? 😉
Thanks for sharing at Project Inspire{d}!!
This is Beautiful! It looks pretty simple too. Thanks for linking up. 😀 http://timeforseason.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-favorite-things-saturdays-315.html
Super cute! Still haven’t done any clay projects. Need to get on that. And, yes, the ribbon tie in the back is perfect with your haircut.
So cute and pretty! Thanks for sharing at Fridays Unfolded!
Alison
Nancherrow
love it! I need to find the time to try this!
Very pretty necklace! Great work.
Super cute!
How fun! I love the pretty little beads. Your tutorial made this seem pretty quick and easy to do, too.
Thank you for sharing this at Brag About It Link Party on VMG206.
~ Megin of VMG206
It was remarkably quick to make, definitely should give it a try!
I love the way the beads hang, and the colours you chose. I’m thinking about what old beads are in my bead tub now (never knowingly throw something potentially useful away!) I would probably go for something really bright, like pink and orange, or a bright neon with a really natural colour (I seem to be really into bright and grey or beige at the moment)
Oh, how fun! I love neon colors, too. Great choices, Julia!
This is gorgeous! And yet another reason why I need to learn how to work with polymer clay. So chic! Consider it pinned.
Thanks for the pin, Lauren!
What a cool necklace!
Gorgeous necklace and the colors are great! Thanks for sharing this!
Have a wonderful day and week!
Hugs from Portugal,
Ana Love Craft
http://www.lovecraft2012.blogspot.com
It was so hard to pick my colors, there are just so many fun options!
How gorgeous! I love your necklace!
Thanks, I appreciate you stopping by!
This is really cute!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Lynette!
So cute!!!!!!!
Aw, thanks Mandy!