Design Create Innovate
December 2010
Chinese New Year Good Luck Coin Necklace
Designed by Deborah Anton
Products used:
Amate Studios Design Designer's Collection Medium Round Pendant
Blue Moon Beads Dragon
Blue Moon Beads Asian designs
Blue Moon Beads jumprings/spring rings
Jewelry Shoppe Chinese Coins
Jewelry Shoppe Chain
Red Rat tail ribbon
Dazzle Tac Glue
Dremel or other metal cutting device
Crop-a-dile or other other metal punch
1. Using your Dremel or other metal cutting device, cut the loop off of the Amate Studios Designer's Collection Pendant and smooth out using a buffer. (Follow all safety directions when doing this task.)
2. Place the large coin from the set of beads and mark where you will punch out the center of the Amate Studios Designer's Collection Pendant component to match the coin; punch.
3. Glue the coin into the Amate Studios Designer's Collection pendant.
4. Tie together the large coin pendant and smaller coins using the red rat tail ribbon. Add a jumpring to the back by sliding it under a tied section.
5. Run your chain through the jumpring and knot it together.
6. Add your dragon beads by running the chain through it. For an added look, if you have large holed black beads, add those first to “cap” the dragon beads.
7. Finish off the necklace by adding your closure.
Chinese New Year Dragon Bracelet
Designed by Deborah Anton
Products used:
Amate Studios Base Elements Oval Linked Bracelet
Lisa Pavelka Magic Glos (R)
Photo of Chinese Dragon
EK Success oval jewelry punch
Dazzle Tac
UV Lamp (available from Amate Studios)
1. Choose the part(s) of the photo you would like on your Amate Studios Base Elements bracelet that would replicate the dragon and punch out using the jewelry punch.
2. Glue your pieces to the Amate Studios Base Elements bracelet components.
3. Add Magic Glos to the components and place under the UV light. (You may have to do 2-3 links at a time to allow for an even cure and not having the possibility of accidentally spilling out one or more components.)
4. Once cured, enjoy!
Chinese New Year Card
Designed By Renee’ Morris-Dezember
Materials Used:
Amate Studios Silver Rectangle Pendent (SO60600169)
American Crafts Card Stock
Piggy Tales: The Ballard of Mulan Collection: Rub-ons, Barndoors, Pattern Paper
Tulle
Heidi Swapp: Bling
Instructions:
· Cut white cardstock and fold.
· Cut your pattern paper and adhere to card front.
· Place Bling between both pieces of pattern paper.
· Rub-on the “Chinese New Year” on white cardstock and double mat it onto black. Adhere to card front.
· Round the bottom corners of your card.
· Cut piece of white cardstock to fit inside the Amate Studios pendent and round corners. Rub-on the rub-ons and adhere inside pendent. Tie a bow of tulle to the pendent. Using Ranger Glossy Accents adhere to card front.
Year of the Rabbit Designed by Tatiana Allen Supplies: Amate Studios Pendant Bezel #S060600169 Sculpey III White Hero Arts Slanted Tree Stamp Lisa Pavelka Poly Bonder Green and Pink Seed Beads Laser Copy of Chinese New Year Placemat Translucent Liquid Sculpey Sharpie Paint Pens Ranger Glossy Accents Instructions: 1. Condition about ¼ of the white Sculpey clay package. 2. Roll it out to the same thickness as the depth of the Amate Studios Pendant bezel. 3. Spray tree stamp with Armor All and press it firmly into clay. 4. Place bezel face down onto clay and press down. 5. Remove bezel and use craft knife to cut out its shape from clay. 6. Sparingly apply Poly Bonder to inside of pendant bezel. 7. Quickly place clay cut out onto the Poly adhesive. 8. Push pink seed beads into the clay flower impressions. 9. Line bottom of tree image with green seed beads. 10. Bake pendant with clay inside at 275 F for 20 minutes. 11. When finished remove from oven and set aside. 12. Get a Laser (toner not ink jet) photo copy of placemat. 13. Cut out rabbit and writing underneath the image. 14. According to Liquid Sculpey instructions make image transfers. 15. Once image transfers are done paint back of the rabbit white. 16. Use paint pens to color in tree branches and leaves. 17. Cover entire pendant with Glossy Accents. 18. Place a little of the Glossy Accents on the back of rabbit and words. 19. Quickly push words and rabbit into the covered pendant. 
Lucky Coin Bracelet
by Sam Katz
Supplies Needed:
•Amate Studios Designer Collection Deep Welled Cuff Bracelet Blank #80600302 in copper
•A small sheet of origami paper-bright contrasting colors work best.
•Either a clay dedicated pasta machine or acrylic roller
•3small imitation oriental coins
•Any cyanoacrylate glue
•Lisa Pavelka’s Magic Glos (& sunshine or a UV lamp available from Amate Studios)
Instructions:
1. Trim your origami paper to fit inside the pendant blank & glue in place with your cyanoacrylate glue.
2. Place one of your coins in the upper left of the bezel & glue in place.
3. Add a layer of Magic Glos that covers your first coin (air bubbles encouraged for this project-it gives it an "art glass" look) & follow the curing directions in sunlight. (be sure your bracelet sits flat while curing, by either holding it (or using some putty or uncured polymer clay as a base to hold it).
4. Offset a second coin, glue in place & repeat the Magic Glos application & curing.
5. Repeat step 4, filling Magic Glos to top of bezel & curing.
Chinese New Year
Designed by Sam Katz
Supplies Needed:
•Amate Studios Designer Collection Pendant Blank #SO60600169 in silver
•A small sheet of origami paper-bright contrasting colors work best.
•Either a clay dedicated pasta machine or acrylic roller
•About a 16th of a block each of ecru & white Premo! polymer clay.
•Premo! Fashion Art Mini Metal cutters (we will use the circle cutter)
•3small imitation oriental coins
•A tissue or clay blade (or an X-Acto knife will do)
•Any cyanoacrylate glue
•A black permanent ink stamp pad & small letter stamps (I used metal stamps)
•Lisa Pavelka’s Magic Glos (either sunshine or a UV nail lamp available from Amate Studios)
•1 small smooth ceramic tile to use as a work surface
(these are actually smooth white bathroom or kitchen tiles & can be found inexpensively at places like Home Depot).
Instructions:
1. Condition your clay.(If you are not familiar with conditioning polymer clay, you can go to:
http://www.artjewelrymag.com/art/Default.aspx?c=a&id=755 for a short video. (You will need to create a free account, but it is fast & easy)
2. Using your pasta machine or Acrylic roller, roll out a flat piece of ecru clay, about 1mm thick.
With your Premo! mini circle cutter, cut out a circle, fold it gently & loosely in half & then bend it into a “fortune cookie” shape. (Don’t close it tightly yet, you will need to insert your “fortune paper” strip of clay first.
3. Next, roll out a flat piece of white clay, about .5mm thick & using your tissue blade or X-Acto
knife, cut a strip approximately 4mm x 4cm for your “fortune paper”.
4. Ink each letter stamp prior to stamping & stamp out “Happy New Year” one letter at a time (I recommend practicing on a piece of scrap clay first)
5. Gently insert the “paper” into the “fortune cookie”
6. Place bracelet on a ceramic tile, piece of cardboard or a cookie sheet & bake, at the temperature recommended by the manufacturer, for 20-30 minutes. Let cool.
7. While you are cooking the fortune cookie, trim your origami paper to fit inside the pendant blank & glue in place with your cyanoacrylate glue.
8. Find a pleasing placement for your coins (I cut an edge off 1 with a heavy duty cutter, so it could go right up to the edge of the pendant. This isn’t necessary, but fun) & glue them in place. When your clay cookie is cooked & cooled, also glue it in place.
9. Fill the pendant with Magic Glos (air bubbles encouraged for this project-it gives it an "art glass" look) & follow the curing directions using either a UV light or sunlight.(be sure your pendant sits flat while curing, by either hanging the bail over the edge of the lamp bed or sitting it on a stack of paying cards or something similar)
