Goth Mothers Day

Happy Goth Mothers Day! 

Moms across the world are celebrated on May 8th with jewelry, cakes, wine, and other fun items! I am speaking to the Goth Women who likes to wear scary, creepy, and horror types of jewelry. 
I wanted to let all of you know I have some kick ass jewelry for all you scary chicks out there! 

Go to Christin3Creats on Etsy and see all the awesome jewelry I have for you, your awesome mom, or your friends.

~xoxo~ Christine 

You don't need Wire.

I was looking all over the web for new ideas on how to make new products or to take an already awesome idea and make it my own. As I have said in a previous post I want to open my own shop online. Well in order to do that I need buy-able items to put in my store.
Don't get me wrong I have tons of great products to put in my shop, however if they are not buy-able products than people will not buy.

I found this awesome video that was nicely shot of a 5 strand braid wire wrapping on how to make a Celtic braid. I thought "that's too hard" and " I'll never be able to do that"
Thankfully she was an amazing teacher. I was able to learn it super fast and in my excitement and still watching this woman doing this amazing braid with wire I realized... I don't have wire to accomplish this amazing look. I don't have the little jewels she has in order to make it look like hers.
I also realized WAIT I am NOT HER.

This got me thinking... Humm what DO I have in order to accomplish this amazing new to me technique?

A few months ago my boyfriend and I went to a bead shop here where we live and see I have always been intimidated to work with wire seeing that I have always thought that it was supper hard to manipulate. Well with our visit to the shop we ended up buying seed beads for me and black elastic cording for him ( he has his own projects he works on)
The exact kind he bought is called Elasticity .039 in - 1.0 mm. 82 Feet 25 M. by Beadalon.

I decided to grab it and try it out. I did exactly how she did it on her video and even though mine came out a little smashed up and way different looking because I decided to use a different type of material than wire, I was really pleased with the out come of it!
It has that Gothic vibe I like most if not all of my jewelry to have. The seed beads I put in it are #6 SB SL Sapphire AB.

I am supper happy to now know a new to me technique that I can use on not only with wire (and I will be doing this on wire!) but on elastic as well.

We never stop learning and as a new OR old shop owner we need to always try and learn NEW techniques even if we think its scary. We can do it!
I proved to myself that I can over come a silly little fear with not having the items I thought I needed and with having different type of material made my item a lot different than the original.

Thank you! I will be making more post like this soon!
In the mean time check out my tiwtter I have have photos of the bracelet I made there!! @christin3creats
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How to make bangle bracelets...

 If you have just a few simple things in your laying around you can make bangle bracelets out of them!

1) You'll need a large plastic cup. This you can get from any fast food place you had a drink from.
I got my cup from a fast food place.
2) Scissors. Any scissors will do as long as they are able to cut threw plastic.
3) Tape. Any kind of tape will do. I so happen to have masking tape and that works just fine too.

Now what you do is simple. You snip off the tip of the plastic cup just like I did on the photo on top.
Then you tape it to however big (or small if you don't want a loose bangle) you loose you like your bangle to be. Just be aware that you need to be able to slide it off and on your wrist.

Now that you have it the size you want it you just tape it up. After you tape it is the best part (lets face it WE do NOT want to just wear a plastic lid on our wrists... RIGHT?!)

Now with this bangle guide will be great for wires, polymer clay colors, air dry clay or just anything you know that would be perfect for your new handmade bangle!

Remember this plastic lid is JUST a guide for you to use while you make your real bangle. Unless you like to wearing cut up plastic lids. =)

Stay tuned for photos on how mine turned out using the guide!
If you are more visual and would like to see a video on how I did this than just leave me a comment and I will post one up! Thank you!


P.S.  THIS IS JUST A GUIDE! Remember to take the polymer clay off the guide before baking. The lid is plastic and will melt.