DIY in 5: Bling Bling Two-Finger Ring (from Scrapbooking Embellishments)

May 4, 2011 | DIY

Since it’s Rings Week here at Chic Steals, I wanted to share with you a quick n easy way to add a bit of pizazz to a store-bought 2-finger ring (with a flat top) and some scrapbooking embellishments.  It’s DIY in 5 – minutes, that is. The easiest, quickest ways to take a piece from blah to fab and update it to current trends.

Lucky Magazine posted a photo of this gorgeous Zoe Chicco knuckle ring waaaaay back in 2008? or so, and I kept the clipping on my inspiration board.  As usual, they were way ahead of the trend, since it’s only been since 2009/2010 that we’ve been seeing 2- and 3-fingered rings adorning the fingers of fashionable girls the world over. At $495, I found this beautiful ring beyond my budget back in 2008, and it’s sadly unavailable now besides.  [BTW if you’re wanting this style but don’t want to DIY, Soixante Neuf sells a veeeery similar bejeweled ring so if you feel like spending $216 then the same style can be yours!] You can also probably find this double-finger ring covered in jewels from some lower-priced trendy retailer like Forever 21 or elsewhere if you look hard enough.  But of course, I wanted to make my own – similar to the original!

It wasn’t until recently (around the holidays last year) that Jolee’s Jewels dimensional scrapbooking stickers came out with a new line of colored stick-on jewels in their settings…something that’s pretty hard to source for jewelry or embellishment projects, sticky-back or no.  (Ever found set acrylic jewels (i.e., jewels in a silver or gold pronged or rim setting) in Jo-Ann’s or Michael’s?  No?  I found a small selection in M&J Trimming last time I was there, but it was very limited, and though yes, the BeDazzler will “set” gemstones onto fabric, the settings are really cheap-looking and the gemstones have to be super-small to fit into the Bedazzler nozzles.  So anyway, large set gemstones as embellishments have been near-impossible to find – until NOW!)

You Need:

*Jolee’s Jewels “All that Bling” Vintage Gems dimensional stickers (I used gems from the Royal and Light Blue and the Baby Blue and Silver packs); or other set jewels

*flat-top 2-finger connector ring (the one in the photo above is the Hearts Two Finger Ring from Payless)

*jewelry glue/glue for metals (my fave is GS Hypo Cement)

How-To:

1. If using the scrapbooking stickers, you may want to pull the sticky back off first and figure out how you want to place your jewels.  I found it was easy to position my jewels on the ring top while they were sticky – but super-difficult to pull them off one by one and add the glue.  Your choice!

2. Once you’ve decided on the placement, just spread some glue onto your ring base, and position the jewels on top.  Allow to dry for 24+ hours before wearing.

And that’s…amazingly…it!

Here are some picks for base rings if you’re looking to buy online…though you could probably find good bases at Claire’s (which is where the ring I actually used is from), Forever 21, or other retail brick-and-mortar stores that cater to the young and trendy crowd.  Here are some more picks from online:

Or alternatively, you could glue the jewels onto a piece of metal (like an old piece of jewelry; a sheet of embossing metal; or a metal jewelry blank from Michael’s newly-added hammering and embossing section)…and then glue TWO separate flat-pad ring shanks onto the back of the embellished metal, right next to each other, to create the two-fingered ring.

Happy DIY’ing!

xoxox
Carly

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