Sunday, July 29, 2012

DIY: Singin' the Blues

I'm really terrible with DIY and craft projects.  I love making things, but I have a bad habit of starting projects and then abandoning them partway through and starting something else.  I've got a few projects on the go and a lot of ideas for more projects.  To my credit, I've finally finished one!

I've seen a lot of beautiful neon necklaces all over the internet and I was hit by a serious longing for one, particularly Tom Binn's beautiful painted rhinestone necklaces.  There's been a lot of DIYs of painted rhinestone necklaces too, and I've been meaning to try my hand at whipping up something for myself.  I've been accumulating cheap jewelry for a while, and pulled this one out to practice on.  I was originally planning on making it multicoloured, but then I remembered a sky blue necklace at Forever 21 that I sadly left behind when I purchased it's fuchsia twin.  So I decided I had to have a sky blue necklace RIGHT NOW and that was basically the thought process behind this project.




There's not a whole lot to say about the process.  I started with a silver rhinestone necklace that I picked up for cheap and a bottle of blue nail polish that was on sale at H&M.  I started out carefully painting the rhinestones, but then decided that everything was going to be blue and just went at it.  The only reason I chose to do this in nail polish rather than real paint is because that's what I had on hand.  I think that if I was to do this properly, I'd use spray paint on a necklace like this that has a lot of nooks and crannies to get an even coat.  It's passable as it is right now, but definitely not perfect!


I apologize for the wildly varying graphic design-- I'm trying to figure out a good look and will hopefully settle down once I find a good, honest typeface.

I actually painted in the rhinestones I left white and painted the back of that strand blue as well as I wanted a more matte and graphic look.  However, I did this after I took photos!

Here's the necklace in action:


Necklace - $2 - Ardene's
Nail polish - $2 - H&M

Total cost of project = $4

See what I mean about the random silver strand?  I thought it would be cute, but I think it just looked odd, so it's now also blue.

What do you think?  Overall an improvement?


8 comments:

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    1. Thank you! Now I just have to finish all my other projects, haha. xD

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  2. Wow, I love it! Total improvement. I love the new blue color and how you left some unpainted. It looks amazing.

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    1. Thank you! I'm super glad that it looks better than it used to and not the other way around. xD

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    1. Thanks! It was super easy to boot! I was actually so happy with how it turned out, I painted a few more necklaces I had lying around. xD

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  4. love the blue...love that your a crafty girl too...means your creative...love that.
    cant wait to see what else you have coming!!!

    Rosalyn
    www.just2fancy.com

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    1. Thank you! Heh, I've been feeling the crafty-ness lately, so I've got some other projects I hope to post about soon!

      <3

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