Design Guide & It s The Pits Host: Judi Watanabe 008 TVWeekly, Inc.
Eat your fruit! Sometimes the most creative crafting ideas pop into our head when we least expect it. Judi was having lunch with a bunch of girlfriends being good girls, they ate their fruit for good nutrition when one of them held up a fruit pit and said, Wonder what this would look like as earrings Judi got right to work and the rest, as they say, is history! FEATURED PRODUCTS JudiKins Amazing Glaze Embossing Powders Pastel Metallic Bronze Egyptian Gold Embossing Ink Tools: Hand Drill Embossing Heat Tool Small Block of Wood Wood Skewer Tiny Hand Drill or Small Nail & Hammer Needle Nose Pliers, pair Wire Cutters Clipboard Supplies: Dishwasher Detergent, about tsp. Fruit Pits Plum, about 8 4 gauge jewelry wire, about 6" ½" Wide Brown Organza Ribbon, 4" /6" Wide Brown Dotted Ribbon, 4" 7½" Sterling Silver Bracelet Chain Toggle Clasps for Closure Clear E Beads FROM PLUMS TO PEARLS Bijou Beadery Eat Fruit enjoy save the pits! Here s the proof that crafting is good for your health! Clean the pits. Place about teaspoon of DISHWASHER detergent in a bowl of warm water. Stir to dissolve and add the fruit pits Judi is working with plum pits, cherimoya pits and cherry pits in this episode use what you have on hand. Also, depending on the season, you ll have different fruits available. Drill holes in plum pits. Place plum pits, one at a time, on a scrap block of wood. Use a tiny hand drill (or small nail and hammer) to make a divet near the top of the plum pit the pointed end. Hold the plum pit with jewelry pliers. Use a small hand drill or electric drill (/ drill bit) to make the hole to string onto a bracelet or necklace later. Continue to drill all of the fruit pits Judi used plum pits now that s a lot of fiber to make this bracelet.
Pick up the plum pit with a wooden skewer. Apply Clear Embossing Ink from JudiKins to the plum pit. Dip directly into jar of Amazing Glaze from JudiKins. This is a thick embossing powder that will fill in any ridges on the plum pit for a smooth finish. Heat with embossing heat tool to melt Amazing Glaze. If necessary, repeat. Immediately dip directly into jar of JudiKins Pastel embossing powder. Again heat with embossing heat tool to melt powder. Continue with each plum pit until you have enough for your bracelet. Using the pearl embossing powder gives the pit a fresh water pearl look. Other embossing powders will give different looks, like JudiKins Rustique powders in Azure or Jade will make a Lychee seed look like turquoise. The possibilities are endless. Make the bracelet. Start with a 7½" sterling silver chain and add a toggle clasp to the ends. 4 Cut eleven " pieces of 4 gauge wire. Thread one end of a wire through the hole in the plum pit. Hold one end of the wire with round nose pliers and wrap the other end of the wire around the end you are holding very close to the plum pit. Wrap several times. Snip off the excess wire with wire cutters. 5 Thread a length of 4 gauge wire through the hole in the embossed pit so that about / wire is on one side. Wire wrap this short end several times around the longer wire. Snip off excess wire. Thread a clear E bead onto the long remaining wire. Thread the wire through a link in the bracelet chain. Use jewelry pliers to make a loop around the chain link and wire wrap towards the E bead. Snip off excess wire. Continue adding embossed plum pits to the bracelet until it is full.
GOLDEN PIT NECKLACE This time drill a /8" hole at each end of the plum pit. Pick up the pit with a wooden skewer. Apply clear embossing ink to the pit and emboss with Amazing Glaze as before. Immediately dip the hot pit directly into the jar of Metallic Bronze Embossing Powder from JudiKins. Heat with an embossing heat tool to melt the embossing powder. Immediately dip half of the Bronze Embossed plum pit into the jar of Egyptian Gold Embossing Powder, also from JudiKins. This is translucent gold powder with sparkles in it, for an extra glimmer. Heat with embossing heat tool Tie the brown organza and brown dotted ribbon together about " from the ends of the ribbon with an overhand knot. Place this knot under the clip end of the clipboard to hold in place. Fold about a " piece of florist wire in half and place the untied end of the organza ribbon in the wire twist together to secure. This will serve as the needle to thread the ribbon through the pits more easily. Repeat this step with the open end of /6" wide brown polka-dot ribbon. String the double-embossed pits onto the ribbons. Start with the wire needle on the organza ribbon. Bring it from the back of the pit through the top hole and to the back of the pit from the bottom hole. With the wire needle on the brown polka-dot ribbon, bring it from the front of the pit to the back of the top hole and from the back to the back of the bottom hole.
4 & Position the double-embossed pit about 6" from the end of the ribbons clipped to the clipboard. Tie an overhand knot about ½ from the pit that is strung onto the ribbons. By stringing the double-embossed pits this way, they will lay flat on the ribbons. Move down the ribbons about ½" and continue adding doubleembossed pits until all th pits are strung on the ribbons. Decide on a length that is good for you and trim the ends as necessary. Add a ribbon end to finish of the ends of the ribbon and then add a toggle clasp to close the necklace. Rockin Red Cherries Mango Madness Yes, this gorgeous piece is made from a mango pit. After cleaning the pit cover the entire thing with embossing ink, just like the smaller plum pit. Coat with one or two coats of Amazing Glaze, followed by Rustique Patina Azure embossing powder. Add the sparkle with a final coat or two of Extreme Peacock embossing powder. The bezel that encloses this beautiful piece is sterling silver wire. Cherry pits are tiny, so be careful when drilling holes in them. These holes are drilled through the entire pit from top to bottom. Emboss with Rocking Red Embossing Powder from JudiKins. Thread an embossed pit onto a head pin and wire wrap with a loop to attach to a jump ring. Repeat two more times. Attach all to a jump ring. Thread a narrow red velvet ribbon through the jump ring for a dramatic necklace. Congratulations! You ve just completed your Jewlery, but the fun doesn t stop there! Be sure to stop back by Plum & Verdigris every week for more exciting new twists on jewlery making! JudiKins www.judikins.com Amazing Glaze Embossing Ink Embossing Powders 4