DIY Heart-Shaped Brooch from Recycled Jewelry
A DIY Heart-Shaped Brooch is a great way to recycle old jewelry and buttons. It’s a sweet Mother’s Day gift or Valentine’s Day gift. Mom will love pinning it to her jacket or sweater.
Servings: 1 DIY Heart-Shaped Brooch
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Tweezers Tweezers are helpful in placing jewelry pieces
Ingredients
- wooden heart in the size you’d like for your pin
- Latch pins
- Recycled jewelry Gather jewelry and buttons or purchase buttons and gemstones if you don't have enough of your own
- gold trim to glue to the edge the heart
- Glue- E-6000, hot glue, or tacky glue
- Tweezers are helpful in placing jewelry
- White acrylic craft paint and a brush
Instructions
- Lay out paper on your work surface and use the white acrylic craft paint to paint the wooden heart white. Let it dry and then turn it over and paint the other side. Be sure to paint the edges of the wooden heart as well.
- Lay out the jewelry on the wooden heart in an arrangement that works well. Do this before you start gluing so that you can move things around until they are in an arrangement that you like.Take a reference photo and then take the jewelry and items off the heart.
- Lay out the jewelry on the wooden heart in an arrangement that works well. Do this before you start gluing so that you can move things around until they are in an arrangement that you like.Take a reference photo and then take the jewelry and items off the heart.
Video
Notes
There are pictures, tips and variations for this craft on the website post.