Book Lovers Necklaces

Love poetry? A good mystery? The Bible? No matter what your literary love, it can easily be turned into a lovely necklace, and one that you design yourself. Dont worry if youre not a jewelry designer; anyone can make a literary necklace from pages out of their favorite books - or even from a newspaper. You wont ruin your book and you have lots of choices for making your necklace a one-of-a-kind jewelry piece, which will definitely get noticed.One way to turn written words into a necklace is to first scan a page or, cut a page from an old, worn-out book. Other paper choices include a travel brochure, a hymnal, a magazine, or even a map. When you scan a page you can change the background color and even the font and word color. Glue the page - or pages - to a piece of thin cardboard, a piece of foam board, or even a thin, wooden circle from a craft store. Each choice gives you a slightly different appearance to the finished charm.Use a quarter, a penny, or another object, to draw the circles you want on the book pages. Seek out particular words or phrases that can be captured on each charm. Cut out the circles and create a hole in each one. For the book pages that are glued onto cardboard or foam board, you can just poke a hole, near the edge, with a nail. For a wooden circle disk youll need to drill the hole, or hammer a nail through it.The book lovers necklace is a lot of fun to make because you can design it in any manner you want. Use just one chain, and hang just one large charm, or connect two chains and hang different sizes of book page charms. Hang one chain lower than the other and you can create a fun necklace that displays several book page charms in a staggered manner.Finish the charms using your choice of techniques. You can burn the edges of charms that are attached to cardboard. For thick foam board-based charms, you can glue a metal ring around each one, or apply glue around the edges, and roll the charms in tiny seed beads. You can even give the charms a look of glass by applying an enameling resin to them.Use a jump ring to hang each charm onto a regular link chain. If you want, hang a bead on each jump ring. The bead will dangle even more if you put it on its own jump ring, and then hang it on the charms jump ring.The book lovers necklace is a cute way to show off your literary love. Make one for yourself and one for someone else you know who loves reading. You, as well as that other person, will enjoy the attention the interesting necklace draws when you wear it.