Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Brand New Bangle

I made a quick dash into a thrift store a week ago and came out with this:
That's a plastic bracelet covered in bright yellow dots. Very 1986. Cost me $1.25 (they must have considered it retro!). Anyway, I've been wanting a bangle bracelet so I took this one, found a scrap of fabric in my craft drawer, covered it using Modge Podge, and finished it off with a quick spray of Poly. From start to finish, it took me 1 hour.  Here's the final results:


I think it turned out pretty nice. The inside where the fabric overlaps isn't super tidy but who's going to know besides me?? Wouldn't this also make a cute napkin ring? It wouldn't be difficult to find 6 plastic bracelets and then cover them in a pretty fabric for Easter dinner...just an idea! And here's another tip -- if you want designer fabric for small projects like this, look on Etsy under "supplies" and "fabric scrap pack." I bought a bag of scraps  for $10 and received some decent pieces. You just have to accept that it's a grab bag so you may not like everything you get.

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4 comments:

Jen said...

Great transfortmation!

~ Jen @ http://pinstripestopearls.blogspot.com/

kristy.lynn @ kristy.makes said...

very cute... i keep eyeing bangles wondering what i would put on them... i don't have a fabric stash.. maybe i'll have to check out etsy :)

thanks for sharing!

the cape on the corner said...

looks great! and good tip about etsy, too.

Frau Mondstrahl said...

looks great and I think that you can work the inside simply over by cutting a stripe that fits in the lenght and wide and the glue it- maybe something black- have seen that when shopping and bracelate were sold.