This is #3 of the 5 ways to re-purpose your jeans! Last week I showed you how to make a cute “Jeans Bunting” and a pretty “Denim Apron”. Today I will show you how to make lovely flower jewelry from your old jeans.
Textural flowers and smooth pearls make this necklace beautiful and stately! These flowers could easily be used on headbands, bracelets, earrings, shoes and anywhere else you could use a flower accessory.
Jeans Jewelry
What you will need:
jeans
a few beads with large holes
3/8 inch satin ribbon
mod podge
hot glue
large needle for ribbon and beads.
wooden skewer
Directions:
First cut out a wide strip of denim from some jeans. Brush a layer of mod podge about an inch long on fabric. Take the skewer and start rolling the denim around it.
Put more Mod Podge on as you roll. Keep rolling until it is about 2 layers thick. Then cut off that edge.
Put another layer of Mod Podge on to seal the edge. Let dry for at least 30 minutes. After it is dry start cutting the tube into 1/4 inch pieces.
When you have all the pieces cut.. cut a small circle out of the denim. Place a glob of hot glue in the middle then place your bead inside. Next place the denim pieces around that to form a flower.
Once you have 3 flowers made glue it onto a piece of ribbon (large enough to be tied with a bow around your neck). I secured the flowers with a strip of denim on the back. Last string the beads onto the ribbon.
Now tie your pretty necklace around your neck! Looks so beautiful!
Happy Creating!!!
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what a creative idea! Love it and thanks for sharing!
Love this series and this is a really cute idea! We can wear jeans to work (yay!) so I might just need a few of these. Thanks for sharing!
Keri
Really creative, I love the way it looks !
YUM! This is fantastic, I love it!
It would be awesome if you'd add this to my fabric flowers link party
Clever! I think its too cute!
what a great idea! i love this!
This is so adorable! Love your blog! Thank you for stopping by and following mine
This is too cute! I think I'll have to go try this! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! This is adorable! I would love for you to link up to my Ten Buck Tuesday link parties!
And I'm your newest follower
Woah, what a cool idea! Never seen anything like this before. looks so cute!
This is beautiful! I came over to thank you for following my blog and to wish you luck on the give-away, and now I'm your newest follower! Can't wait to see what other beautiful things you have shared! ~Lori
fantastic job Rachel! I love pearls and blue jeans! This is super creative!
THIS one is TOTALLY my favorite so far… You have me wanting to jump off my couch to copy your necklace RIGHT NOW!
Thank you SO much for the inspiration!
xxoo,
Liberty
So cute!! I popped over from Liberty Originals – she linked to you today. I love it! Newest follower
That is adorable!!!
Thats fantastic! I love Your blog!
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Great totorial! This is so unique! ~Val
I have a few maternity jeans left in my closet! lol
No more babies for this mama so maybe I'll have to make me a necklace!
This is so unique, I love it! I think it is great to create from what we have on hand. Thanks so much for sharing and stopping by my site!
I love this series… especially since I wear my jeans down until they are thread bare and you can't really give them away. I hate tossing old jeans! thanks!
Super cute! I feel pretty special to be your 300th follower!
Great ideas!
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