Something I haven't tried before

I saw, about a year or two back, someone made a similar necklace but with sterling sliver and a yellow colored stone. I thought the design was neat and wanted to give it a go. I used wire I got at Tuesday Morning. At 99 cents a spool I didn't feel bad about using so much of it. Unlike sterling, which would have killed a tiny bit of me with every cut of the wire.

The LOST necklace, that was a monster to make.

Ideas hit me at the strangest times, and in the worst place possible.

During work one day (former job), our dispatcher was drinking an energy drink. I had never seen this brand before and the graphics on the can caught my eye. I wanted to make something out of the can but I just didn't know what. I asked the dispatcher to save me about 8 to 10 of these cans. They came in 3 different colors/graphics.

So, I sat and looked at the cans for a couple of days. Little did I know what kind of a monster I would create.

I rinsed all of the cans out. Cut the top and bottom off and mounted the can on fun foam with spray adhesive. I knew I was going to use my trusty Sizzix machine to cut out the graphics I needed. I read somewhere that mounting the can on fun foam would elminate the sharp edges of the metal when making jewelry out of soda cans.

I used the Sizzix mini tags die for the "charms". I blinged them out with mini nail gems that are usually used for manicures. Mini rhinestones and some plastic beads that I saved out of a kids dress up kit.

Then I needed a chain, which I did not have. So I made my own.

I don't like it at all, but someone in the Netherlands did. A very nice lady traded me a BUNCH of Dutch licorice for it.

I sent pictures of the necklace to the company that makes the energy drink, but I never heard back from them.

Oh well.

It was fun making it though!