Baking Marbles To Make Jewelry

Lets bake some marbles.

Baking marbles to make jewelry.

If you take some time to look on pinterest you can find many projects to make with the baked marbles technique but today i am going to talk to you about turning them into a beautiful pair of custom earrings. Baked marble jewelry is a project that you could make with your kids and teach them a little about science in the process. Opaque marbles will crackle but you won t be able to see the results. You can use flat marbles and other decorative glass pieces as well but they have a higher chance of breaking.

Then as soon as you take them out of the oven put. Opaque marbles won t look any different when cracked and two tone marbles will just crack in half. Use the kind you would fill vases with. Some marbles will break apart but you can glue bead caps with wire loops on the survivors to make pendants.

Pour ice cubes and water into a bowl. So when i came across the idea of baking mar. If you have leftover marbles place them in a clear glass jar or vase. Add water and your favorite seasonal blooms.

Pre heat your oven to 500 degrees. The marbles aren t actually fried in oil but baked in a really hot oven and then rapidly cooled in iced water. Place the marbles on a cookie sheet or cake pan don t use fully colored toy marbles you can t see the cracks. This is probably how crackle beads are made.

X research source you may want to start with five or six marbles to make sure you like the effect. I wasn t about to take photos featuring my much loved ugly looking cookie sheets. Now marbles have no holes so here are other ways to incorporate them into jewelry. Sun catchers and glass orbs line my window sills and fill little dishes.

Use clear marbles only. I want you to know that i bought a brand new cookie sheet for this project. Arrange marbles on baking sheet and place in oven for 20 minutes. Open your bag of marbles and lay them out on a baking sheet.

Add tip ask question comment download. Glue a wire bail to the bead if you don t want to use a bead cap. Transfer freshly baked marbles from the oven into the bowl of ice water to create cracking. For clearer pictures berry crafty foxi have an endless fascination with anything that sparkles and glitters in the sunlight.

By hclar1 in craft jewelry.