Jenn Mason has done it again with her new book- Altered Paper Jewelry

Altered Paper Jewelry
Artful Adornments from Beautiful Papers
By
Jenn Mason

Paper is a wonderful medium for creating jewelry: It’s lightweight, easy to work with, and comes in a dazzling array of styles, patterns, weights, and designs. By mixing relatively simple jewelry-making methods with standard paper arts techniques, Altered Paper Jewelry offers paper crafters, altered art aficionados, and jewelry makers creative new ideas for creating stylish and contemporary jewelry from gorgeous paper.

In this book, bracelets, necklaces, earrings and other jewelry will be decorated and constructed with found paper, photos and beautiful scrapbook papers. Beads will be fashioned from rolled paper, covered with decoupage, and molded with paper craft accessories. Paper-like materials such as vellum, transparencies, shrink plastic, and printable fabric paper will be punched, cut, shrunk, and rolled into mini wearable masterpieces. Paper will be folded into lockets, embedded into belt buckles, and glued into unique shapes, all in the pursuit of personal adornment. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and templates are included.

Jenn Mason is a fine artist, writer, teacher, product designer, and industry consultant. She is author of Pockets, Pullouts, and Hiding Places, The Art of the Family Tree and co-author of two books, with co-authors Jennifer Francis Bitto and Linda Blinn: Paper Art Workshop: Handmade Gifts and Paper Art Workshop: Celebrating Baby.

Click on image to enlarge and read the great directions on how to make this pretty pendant!

So off to the stash and here's what I came up with:

I did mine just a tad different. I printed out a standard photo off my inkjet printer on photo paper.

Then I adhered it to the back of the crystal with a dry adhesive.

I then trimmed off the excess paper. I didn't like the white edge of the paper so I colored it with a blue Sharpie.

I really liked the multi strand look of the necklace in Altered Paper Jewelry so I doubled up a thin necklace and looped it through the large jump ring on the crystal photo pendant.

And I just had to share a close-up of the photo I used. This is my grandmother on my mom's side and I think it is a total crack-up that she is holding a skull and cross bones flag in summer. This photo is most likely in Connecticut and clearly the summer so who knows what's up. I just love the expression on her face. That's why this was the perfect photo to make a necklace with.

If you love this project you will love others from Altered Paper Jewelry. I will surely be making more of them! Be sure to pop back here to see what else I make with the help of Altered Paper Jewelry. And if you like Jenn's style click on her name below to check out more of her designs and books!

They rock! (or should I say, "they paper!")

Comments

[Tina]

Echo...this rocks! (saying 'this papers' just doesn't ring right, lol) Love this. Ever used Pinata Alcohol inks on the chandeliers? Great effect since they are glass paints, but translucent so could probably used with the transfer as well.

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