Necklaces

First I started out by cutting out objects with my cricut or pictures from paper then after assembling the parts I covered them in Mod Podge Dimensional magic.  The people at Jo-anns where awesome in helping me get the correct Mod Podge, they know their stuff!

I then put a layer ontop of the paper objects, I chose to set them on bottle caps just in case they dripped.  Good thing I did because this was my first try and I put a little to much and it dripped (all over!) I suggest putting wax paper down first if you don't have bottle caps.

The next step is to be patient and let them dry for about 2 hours or so.  The mod podge said 24 hours but after 2 hours I took a small hole punch to them.  You don't want to wait to long because if you do it will crack the mod podge. 

Once they dried for another couple of hours I flipped them over and mod podged the back side of each necklace.  The reason I did this was I thought they were just to flimsy because they are all made of a couple of layers of card stock.  Next time I may back them with something more.

After the back side dried for another 2 hours or so I folded them in wax paper and put a hole punch on top.  I did this because they curled a little and I wanted them to flatten out a bit.

once dried I put rings in them and put them on chains and now the final products!

These 2 I just cut the pictures out of a paper pack I had to see how one section of paper (un layered) would do with the mod podge.  The power up necklace I colored with gel pens to test if the colors would run once the mod podge was put on. 

And now for my cricut necklaces (which I'm very proud of!)

The face shape was cut from heritage cartrage and the background was cut with sophisticated (which is becoming a favorite of mine!) I used the CDS software to design both of these necklaces then cut small sections of card stock on my cricut expression. 

This necklace was made with only the sophisticated cartridge I did hide some of the cuts to make the white section a little more solid, it was such a small cut for such detail at 1.3/4 inches.  I used a new mat for all the cuts and they tore a little and it took me 2 tries to get the pressure right using CDS I had to set my blade to 6 in order to cut the card stock.  

I'm quite happy with them and will be doing more, hope you like it!