My Holiday in a Ocean Pendant

Today, I present to you my Instructable on the topic of WATER.

I'm used to making jewelry of all kinds, but this time I wanted to participate in this competition despite the difficulty of mixing textile jewelry embroidered with soutache with Water.

However, I love challenges and that's how I got the crazy idea of keeping a piece of my seaside vacation this summer in a pendant to wear everywhere with you.
I collected many shells of all shapes on the beach and in the water, which very quickly inspired me to create this very original Jewel. I played on the water filling and the air bubble in order to imitate the effect of the sea and the sky as well as possible.

So I decided to reform a dream seabed, as we would always like to discover it: very clear blue Water, rich in shells, fine sand, underwater flowers and reflections of light.

The part "making the seabed" is up to everyone. As long as you have a lot of patience and thoroughness.
Make room for your imagination to create your most Beautiful Ocean !!!! And turn it into a real Unique Jewel.

Materials used for the "little ocean":
- 25 mm transparent round hollow cabochon
- 1 thin transparent plexiglass
- Water
- Powder blue dye https://amzn.to/3eM0BT1
- 1 Syringe https://amzn.to/3x1NHGT
- Small crystals (beige, blue) https://amzn.to/3rtFvhE
- Blue glitter 2 Shells https://amzn.to/3eMKyok
- 1 Flower pattern stick https://amzn.to/3BAekGw
- Glue Attack https://amzn.to/3kOUvFq
- Multipurpose glue https://amzn.to/3zt6NHB
- Scissors https://amzn.to/3ePRlxi

Materials used to turn it into a jewel:
- Soutache cords in nylon 3mm (blue, turquoise & light blue) https://amzn.to/3zzxdrn
- Nylon to sew the fibers 0,10 https://amzn.to/3rD89Nh
- Pearl sewing needles, Nb 10/13. https://amzn.to/3y48P0q
- 1 Choker https://amzn.to/3BA8GnP
- 2 Junction rings https://amzn.to/3iN8CZs
- 7 Faceted crystal beads (yellow, turquoise & white) https://amzn.to/2WeOyYd
- Small seed beads (blue & pink) https://amzn.to/3BzARDb
- 1 Faceted crystal drop (blue) https://amzn.to/3kPGRSv

You have to gather all the material in 2 parts:

- 1 part to create the seabed with the Water.

- 1 part which is all the ornament around this one.

Draw the shape of the lid with a pen on the sheet of plexyglass, then cut.

Place a drop of Attack glue at the bottom of the lid to deposit the beige-colored grains (to imitate sand).

Then do the same with the blue grains to mimic the surface of the Water.

Place 2 drops of glue to put the 2 shells. Cut a flower from the stick to secure it in the center.
Put some blue glitter in the background, to imitate the reflections of light in the Water.

Put Water in a glass.

Add a little powder blue diy in the water, until you get an intense and luminous blue.
Aspirate a little water with the syringe. Then place some in the cabochon. Do not fill to the top in order to leave an air bubble imitating the sky.

Dry the edges of the cabochon to put the liquid glue. Then glue over the round of plexyglass. Wait a few minutes and check that the Water does not flow out.

Take the materials needed to decorate the Water cabochon.
Have a precise idea of the shape to give to the jewel. It is best to make a sketch before you start to embroider.

Take the 3 blue colors of soutache strings. Sew them together around the cabochon with the needle and nylon thread. Then unify them.

Add the 3 rows with the faceted beads in this order: turquoise, yellow and blue.

For the back part of the jewel, place a drop of liquid glue on the soutache string before cutting it. This prevents to slip away.

Sew 2 long beads on each side. Then sew the seed beads all around in series of 3 beads: 1 blue, 1 pink and 1 blue.

Sew down the crystal bead in the shape of a drop of Water.

Thread a small connecting ring in the central bead. Then put a larger ring on it using the pliers and thread the necklace there.

You have now recreated a seabed in a small water bubble. You can carry the souvenir of your beach vacation with you everywhere in a very original way.

This is a pretty Necklace with an Ocean Pendant.

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Hope you liked this Instructable with the WATER !!! See you soon and Good Holidays !!!!