Jewelry: {DIY Ampersand + Cloudy Necklace}

Spring is making its way to the PNW; we’ve had some sunny days. For a brief instance, we had a hot and glorious day, and I was inspired to design a necklace for a summer outfit. Do you have a favorite charm necklace? I have two necklaces I find myself always wearing, one is a heart lock, a gift from my husband and the other is an arrow necklace. I love dainty small charms and delicate chains. The necklaces I’m sharing with you are designed to be interchangeable among various chains. I used beautiful white leather graciously given to me by Darby Smart, a few silver charms and jewelry supplies. Please take a below for more details and tutorial ;)

Materials

• EK Tools Circle Cutter
• Martha Stewart Screw Punch
• 2 jump rings (in silver 9mm)
• 1 lobster clasp
• White leather (very thin)
• Ampersand charm or charm of your choice

Tutorial

1. Start with a piece of white leather and cut two circles 2″1/6 inches in diameter. I used a nifty circle cutter from EK Tools. The cutter is primarily designed to cut perfect circles out of paper. However, this tool also worked well with thin leather! The smallest circle I was able to cut was 2 1/6″ in diameter. Anything smaller than that and the blade will not run very smoothly.
2. Use glue (crafting glue or Stitch glue) and stick both circles together. Gather the rest of materials, a screw punch, 2 silver jump rings and 1 lobster clasp.
3. Use the medium blade in the screw punch and poke a hole like shown on picture 3.
4. Insert a jump ring through the leather and close it.
5. Attach charm to the other jump ring using pliers.
6. Attach lobster clasp to the charm’s jump ring.
7. Finally, attach the charm to the leather circle.
8. Voila, the charm leather circle with lobster clasp, is ready to be attached to any chain.

I used a bigger lobster clasp for this chain. The standard lobster clasp showed at top of the post, works well with dainty chains or a more substantial chain. However, a chunky chain like this one needed a bigger lobster clasp ;)

I am in love with my new Cloudy necklace! I drew a cloud on the back of the leather and very slowly cut the leather. I cut two clouds and glued them together. Then I followed the same steps as the ampersand necklace.

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