If you’ve been keeping up with this blog, you’ll know that I spend a good deal of time on the Internet. Mainly I just look at blogs, searching for ideas, inspiration, and of course, new craft ideas. I happened to stumble upon Antigirl, a blog and brand created by Tiphanie Brooke. Antigirl features Brooke’s body of work, including her latest project titled “hearts” which involves mixed media panels, installation pieces and murals. Brooke also posts her daily, smaller scale craft projects, one of which caught my eye. The project I’m talking about is a wooden pendant, created using small pieces of wood and scraps of paper. I decided to take this idea and put my own spin on it, creating the perfect wooden pendant.
For this pendant, I purchased a package of square wood pieces at Michaels, as well as a thin piece of leather to place the pendant on once it was ready for wearing. The original design for this pendant used scraps of paper, such as magazines and newspaper to cover the pieces of wood, but instead, I found tissue paper tape (which is essentially just a really thin tape with cool pictures, words, etc. on it) at a paper store in Mesa called Mystic Paper. This type of tape worked wonderfully, as I did not need to use any glue to paste the “tissues paper” to the wood. However, I did use Mod Podge as a sealer and to give the wooden squares a glossy finish
I chose to cover four out of the five wooden pieces with the tape. Once they were coated and dry, I used a hot glue gun to glue each wooden piece together, stacking one piece of wood on top of the next in a succession.
To attach the pendant to a necklace, Brooke used a drill and drilled two holes at the top of her pendant and slid it right on to a piece of leather cord. I did not have a drill so instead I used a small circular piece of metal (a washer would work for this) that I super glued to the back of the pendant. Either of these methods is a great choice, although I would recommend using a drill (it’s at the top of my list of crafty things to purchase!). If you go along with my method, once your pendant is completely dry, it is ready to be strung on your necklace piece of choice (mine was a black piece of leather cord), and last but not least, ready to wear.
