Let's Make Jewelry with ATC-Sized Stencil and Mask Prints!

Newly Released: a brand-new collection of 18 images -- mostly stencils, with several bonus masks included -- all sized for creating Artist Trading Cards!  

ATC Mixup Swatton # 1 (9" x 12")

ATC Mixup Swatton #2 (9" x 12")

One of the fun aspects of ATC-sized images is that parts of them can so easily be cut down to ultra-small sizes for making jewelry.

Bracelet and pendant "blanks" are available to make the process easy; some ideas are here.  

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And for a wider choice of style check here.

My just-released stencils (and masks) ATC Mixup Swatton #1 and ATC Mixup Swatton #2 (each 9" x 12" and each containing 9 images) give lots of opportunity to make prints, then hunt for small detailed areas that can shine, literally, as crowns on pieces of jewelry.

Diagonal Mania, from ATC Mixup Swatton #1, used in creating the greeting card cover below, is just one example that offers areas of intricate design.  

  

Altho not pictured in this post, one way to make the jewelry pop is to start with a black glossy cardstock background, then make the stencil or mask prints with intereference or "metallic" acrylic paints, both of which glow because of tiny chips of mica embedded into the paint.

Below is a print made with Ornamental Iron Curls, another of the images included in my new 9" x 12" stencil ATC Mixup Swatton #2.  In this art sample, I used gold foil background paper -- which would be yet another good basis for developing papers to use in making jewelry. 
  

For making jewelry, the ATC Ornamental Iron Curls design would work equally well as the original 6" x 6" mask Ornamental Iron Curls -- both yield areas of intricate details. 

To cut out your stencil-print in the small size needed for jewelry, there is a new-to-me product that may be just right for this kind of delicate cutting.  It's a ceramic bladed knife "pen." (But be warned -- this pen knife takes FOREVER to arrive!  If you're in any kind of hurry, don't bother ordering it.)

 ATC Mixup Swatton #2 includes an image titled Sprigs; a sample print is shown below.  For making jewelry, the ATC Sprigs design would work equally well as the original 6" x 6" mask Sprigs.  Both give you areas of intricate details. 

Have fun making your own unique jewelry!

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