Today I’m showcasing my favorite DIY decor tutorial that I’ve done all year. It’s a broken jewelry letter craft that I made for Charming Charlie (an accessory store).
This was really the coolest opportunity as I’m a huge fan of Charming Charlie. For me, they are the go-to-place for inexpensive accessories. Since I have all boys, the only person I have to dress up is myself! {{sad but true}} Since the Charming Charlie store organizes their accessories by color – it’s the easiest place for me to buy my accessories.
Watch my video for all the details on how to use broken jewelry to embellish this wood letter.
As featured on CharmingCharlie.com – This DIY decor project gives you an opportunity to use your outdated jewelry, non-functional jewelry, sentimental jewelry, jewelry you received as a gift (but would not wear), and other jewelry odds and ends.
Craft ~ Broken Jewelry Letter
For the complete tutorial on how to make this gorgeous blinged out monogram you can watch my video or head on over to the Charming Charlie blog with all the specifics.
You’ll need a letter of any size, a lot of jewelry, tin snips, and a hot glue gun. It took me 5 hours to make the first one (silver) but only 2 hours to make the second one (gold). Once you get all the jewelry cut up and figure out the design, it’s incredibly easy and zero crafting skills are required. {{wink}} Simply cut up the jewelry with the tin snips and hot glue onto the letter. That’s it!
You can hang it directly onto any wall or frame it like I did with the silver one. You can also go as elaborate or as simple as you’d like and use any size letter. This would make a gorgeous homemade gift idea. Keep it in mind for birthday presents this next year.
Love the idea of patching a hole with a random stone or pearl from another piece! If I won an A, it would look great in my bathroom, which is lilac and dark pewter, or even better in my 16-year-old daughter’s room, which we just redid to black and white damask with hot pink, in a Paris Fashion theme. Her initial is also A, so she’d eventually steal it when I wasn’t looking!
How very beautiful!!! I would love a “B”. My husband and I both have names that start with the letter B, Barbara and Bobby and that would be beautiful over the bed in the master bedroom. We have been married for 31 years and it would be like a really great 32nd anniversary gift on Feb. 11, 2011.
Thank you so much for the ideas and the opportunity!
Barbara
My daughter will be 21 on Jan. 2 so I would like a ‘J’ for Jacqueline to give to her to hang in her room in college. You have great ideas and beautiful designs – thank you for everything!! Happy New Year to all!
Margot
What a fabulous idea!! I love learning how to do creative things thank you so much for sharing your ideas I just may have to do this for gifts next year. I would love an “A” for our last name and would hang it in the living room or entrance to our home.
Thank you for a chance to win!
Georgie
I would love to hang my new initial inside a home I hope to have sometime after the first of the year. I am a newly divorced mother of 2 beautiful kids and we have been living with my parents for 1 year now. Im almost ready to be on my own but I have been trying to save money and do it the smart way. This would be a great new piece for a new home and new start for myself and my kids. The initial we would like if we win is a “G” for our last name.