Mother’s Day is a great holiday for homemade gifts. But at 32, finger painted pictures just aren’t going to cut it. Luckily, Pinterest has provided me with endless project ideas! I went out and bought out the jewellery section at Michaels. I got a plier set, 2 sets of necklace blanks and charms, a metal stamping kit and a black enamel marker.
My MIL has 2 grandkids and my Mom has 3 so the challenge was finding charms with the right number of blanks.
I loved the pink charms for my mom so much that I bought some extra blanks to add on. Luckily they had the same shapes in the same metal finish.
I found it incredible helpful to have 2 pairs of pliers to open the jump rings.
I tried out my metal stamp on an extra blank to see how hard I had to hammer. Very hard, as it turns out. The ruled stickers are also invaluable to centre the letters and hold the blank in place.
The blank enamel isn’t necessary but it does give it a professional touch.
Once I had all 3 blanks stamped, I coloured over the letters with the enamel marker and wiped off the excess.
Then I strung the blanks onto one single jump ring and the chain.
So the necklaces were done but I needed packaging. I thought about when you buy jewellery at the store, it often has something to organize the chain and beads so it doesn’t get tangled in transit. So I went onto my Cricut and designed a square with heart cutouts. To make it a little sweeter, I added a quote at the bottom.
They turned out beautiful! I boxed them up in the boxes from the godmother gifts I made a few months earlier.
Planet Plan-it! 