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Twilight Bracelet Kit

Designed by Design Team Member Teri Calia.

Introductory sale price

All the components you need (and printed instructions) for making a Twilight-themed charm bracelet. Or a gift for a crafty, vampire-obsessed teenager you might know. Here’s what you’ll receive:

Brass Heart Charm:
A brass heart for the central charm. Options are suggested for different ways of decorating/finishing the heart. If you’d like to follow Teri’s lead, she used a Texture Hammer and 1/8″ Metal Alphabet Stamps.

Charms:
Silver-plated wolf and chess queen charms; gold-plated lion bead; red enameled, gold-plated apple charm. All four are antiqued, cast, lead-free pewter.

Crystal Heart Bead:
A Swarovski AB crystal heart bead (side drilled). (Aurora Borealis (AB) coating is a half-coat metallic finish that adds a prismatic effect to the surface of the bead.)

Findings:
All of the following are silver-plated: etched chain, wire, headpins and jump rings.

Glass Beads:
Garnet red, Czech glass teardrop beads.

Additional pieces of most of the components are linked from the kit page. If you don’t have jewelry-making tools, all the techniques you’ll need for this bracelet can be accomplished with a pair of Rosary Pliers and a pair of Chain-Nose Pliers (or the Round-Nose and Chain-Nose Pliers that come in the Travel Plier Set.

Another option for the center heart would be one of the Red Jasper Heart Beads:
Dyed jasper. Slightly puffy (3D). Approx. 17mm x 17mm x 5mm. Drilled top to bottom.

While we’re talking about new quartz beads, there are new:
4mm Dark Red Jasper Round Beads,
4mm Unakite Round Beads and
12mm Jasper Round Beads

New Metal Tags Page

Just a few highlights here:
Vintage Brass Tag Set
Vintage patinaed brass, set of 8 pieces in 3 sizes/shapes.

Blank Tiny Tags
Raw brass tags in a tiny size (5 x 20mm, including the loop). Used with 1.5mm Metal Alphabet & Numeral Stamps, a Bench Block and a Chasing Hammer on the ‘DRINK ME’ tag (for an Alice in Wonderland project). I used a StazOn Reinker to add color to the impressions.

Round and Rectangular Word Charms
Brass tags in a small size stamped with text (“create,” “imagine” or “dream”). Available in 3 finishes.

Elongated Heart Charms
Antiqued gold-, copper-, or silver-plated cast pewter charms.

A Few Cats

The Cat’s Pajamas Die-Cut Storybook
The Cats’ Pajamas is a delightful tale of a fashion conscious cat and her two kittens. After receiving brand new stylish pajamas, the small kittens promptly ruin them with reckless play, but, as they discover, a mother’s love surpasses even beautiful pajamas.

Antique Copper Sitting Cat Charm

Antiqued, copper-plated, lead-free pewter. 3D (note: he has a face on both sides). Made in the USA. 10 x 22mm.

Resin Cat Cameos
Classic cameo shell-pink but cast in resin. 22x19mm.

The following three items are not new, but are on sale:

The Dog Did It Rubber Stamp
What a mischievous little face! 2″ x 2″. Licensed from the fabulous Teri Calia.

Pewter Cat Head Beads
Antiqued cast pewter beads. Approx. 1cm wide (about 7/16″). The hole runs horizontally (just below his ears). The cat face is on both sides.

Copper Cat & the Fiddle Charms
From the Mother Goose rhyme. Approx. 7/8″ tall.

Miscellaneous

Notebook Set: Gypsy/Gypsy Queen
Set of 2 beautifully designed notebooks. Buy a set and give one to a friend… or not. My staff are buying multiples. Each notebooks is 3-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ and has 60 blank, cream-colored pages. They also have inside pockets (on both front and back covers) and the spine is stitched, for even more of a vintage look.

Cloissone Bronze Flowers
Bendable, laquer-style flowers with bronze (metallic paint) and crystal accents. Approximately 1-3/4″ diameter; 6 pieces in each package.

Paris & Roma Printed Book Covers
Beautiful, heavy chipboard covers with printing (that looks like vintage leather books… the embossing is only printed but looks real). The “Paris” design is shown in the larger photo. Punch holes for binding or use “as is” for an accordion-folded book. Approx. 3-1/2″ x 5-3/4″.

Larger Size: Brass Sunflower Charms
Approx. 1-1/4″ wide; 4 holes (1 hole at the top & 3 on different petals at the bottom). Shown with the small and medium sunflowers charms for scale.

Miniature Key Sets
Antique brass, antique silver or black. 3/16 x 13/16″ (tiny). 3 designs (3 of each design per package; 9 keys total).

New on Sale!

Buckle My Shoe Rubber Stamp
I’ve seen a few variants of this rhyme (mostly changing in the last half), but here’s the version from the vintage book that inspired this stamp:

One, two, buckle my shoe;
Three, four, shut the door;
Five, six, pick up sticks;
Seven, eight, lay them straight;
Nine, ten, a good fat hen;
Eleven, twelve, who will delve;
Thirteen, fourteen, maid’s a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen, maids a-kissing;
Seventeen, eighteen, maids a-waiting;
Nineteen, twenty, my stomach’s empty.

Stickles Glitter Glue — Brighter Colors
ALL the brighter colors: Copper, Lime Green, Christmas Red, Champagne, Silver, Magenta, Orange Peel, Dark Blue, Mermaid, Grape, Black Diamond

4-Petal “Linkie” Connector
Linkies are used to attach strands of beads, clasps, other linkies… kind of like a hub. Pretty enough to be a flower charm all by itself. Sterling silver plated.

Jasmine Floral Twill Tape
Natural color with black & red printing. 1/2″ wide cotton twill.

Posted by Leslie, June 26th, 2010

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