It’s unlike me to walk out of Scrapbook Expo without a handful of craft supplies, glue dots, paper stock and maybe even a new hobby. After a ‘Make & Take’ sesh with Craft Fantastic, I left with a bag of goodies to make these beautiful pendants. I see these charming, vintage style pieces in many boutique stores and always wondered how I could make my own. Well, now that I’ve got the supplies and couple sheets of decorative art paper, I’m looking forward to getting crafty and making these to go with a couple of gifts I’ve set aside for some friends.

My starter kit includes an assortment of pendant trays with matching chains, glass cabochons, ephemera paper and Glaze & Glue (aka acrylic goop). It’s super easy to make. You take a glass cab and put a few drops of Glaze & Glue to cover the surface. Then you select an image from your paper stock and press the glass cab over the image. Use a cotton swab to remove the excess glue. Once it is dried, you can use scissors to cut the image down to size to match the shape of the glass cab. Once that’s done, adhere the image and glass cab into the pendant tray and you are done. Put a chain around it to turn it into a necklace or string it to a card or album as a scrapbook embellishment and you’ve got yourself a custom and unique piece. Print your own photos of your family or pet and you’ve got a commemorative piece. It’s that simple!

Here is a butterfly pendant I made for a friend’s daughter. On the back, I customized it with her initial.

If you want to make your own, you can visit Craft Fantastic’s site and get your own starter kit where you can select your own pendant trays, chains and paper stock. They even have supplies to make bracelets and earrings.