Tutorial: a ghostly pale wrist corsage.

Hi, kids!  Today I made these bracelets, featuring mod, kitschy, semi-transparent flowers.

Does anyone recognize the flowers?  It's something I bought at a home improvement store.  Look!

It's a rubber sink mat, a really pretty one.  It's designed so you can cut away a few flowers to make a hole for your drain.  Bah!  I would rather make jewelry.  So I snipped off some individual flowers.

I can think of a jillion ways to use these!  I'm still experimenting, Mad Scientist style. For the moment, how about a flower bracelet tutorial?


I'm going to show two versions - one using jewelry findings, and one using sewing supplies (in case you're not a jewelry making type, or don't have the findings handy.)

First, the jewelry-maker's version.  I used two ghost flowers, a watchband, one headpin, and some beads and spacers.

1. Poke a hole in the watchband with a sharp poky thing.

2.  Stack the bits and pieces.  The key is to sandwich the watchband and flowers between two flat items.  This creates a solid base.

3. Add cute beads of your choice, and fold the headpin down against them.  4.  Use round-nose pliers to make a swirly to finish it off.  Be sure to really cinch that swirly down tight.

Here's how it looks from underneath:

Done!

Now let's do the sewn version.


1. Poke two holes in the watchband.  2. Thread skinny ribbon through the two holes, then through the flowers and buttons.

Here's the underneath:

3. Just tie your ribbon off at the top, and voila!

Your ghostly pale, sink mat flower bracelets are ready to go.  Where are they going?  That's up to you.  They remind me of wrist corsages, a little.

A supernatural prom?