Sunday, September 26

DIY: Instant Antique

Yesterday I decided to take up a little mini do-it-yourself project by Kelly from The Glamourai.  With some shiny rhinestone whatnots from the old jewelry box, some sharpies, and some Q-tips, you can easily turn your bling bling into something a little more wearable.
  
Some things I did differently:
- Instead of just using brown and black sharpies (which ended up being a little too pink for my taste), I also used a mustard yellow sharpie to get that antique brown I was going for. 
- I also lined all of the sides of the bracelet and prongs with a black sharpie to darken the overall look. I think this was key since the original piece was such a bright silver.
   
Before: 

Here I've added the yellow up to where the bracelet splits off into the center piece. You can see how the center is more pinky than the rest:

Here you can see where I've colored in the sides of the bracelet with a black sharpie:

And the finished product:

7 comments:

  1. Amazing!! What a gorgeous DIT, thanks for sharing Natalie.

    ps; so sad I missed ya'll at the blogger meetup on Sunday!

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  2. Did you happen to notice the spelling mistake, word misplacement, and font size mishap? No more blogging late at night for me...

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  3. This is fabulous! I have a bracelet just like that in my jewelry box that could stand a little sharpie attention.

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  4. AMAZING!!!! I LOVE it soooooooooo muchhhhh!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo, j

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  5. looks great, can't wait to try it!

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