Good morning - welcome to Day Two with Guest Designer Holly Simoni. Today Holly has a stunning Silhouette Bracelet to share with us. Be sure to check out Holly's blog - Wild Wyoming Art Cafe' -for more mixed media inspiration.
Here's Holly:
Today I have created a Silhouette Bracelet to share with you. It turned into one of my favorite projects. I've used the fabulous JustRite Stamps Graceful Monogram set for this project. The silhouette stamp fits perfectly inside the Spellbinders hobnail circles bezel.
I decided I wanted to give the silhouette stamp a deep glossy black finish. So I stamped the silhouette with Versamark ink and poured black fine detail embossing powder over the ink, then heat embossed. The glossy embossed silhouette is stunning! I then used my Spellbinders Artisan Explorer die cutting machine to cut out image. I used the circles one die template that perfectly matches the hobnail circle bezel. Using a little piece of tape to secure the die template, helps to keep it in the perfect place around the stamped image. I also used a permanent solvent ink to stamp the beautiful swirls onto the blue ribbon.
The stamped ribbon was adhered with double sided permanent tape and a few rhinestones were added. I adhered the silhouette image to the bezel with glossy accents and applied a thin coat of matte finish glossy accents to the stamped image. I layered rhinestone chain inside the bezel, and around the silhouette. Then allowed the glossy accents to dry. I mixed Ice Resin according to manufacturer instructions and poured it into the bezel. The ice resin takes about 6hrs to complete cure. Then I adhered the finished bezel to the center of the bracelet with E6000 adhesive.
I just love how this turned out and am thinking of making an entire jewelry line to match it! Think how fun a pendant, ring and even earrings would be. I hope you enjoyed this project!
