Make beautiful ‘Moon Glow’ alcohol ink pendants using kitchen tin foil.
Alcohol ink pendants are my latest arty happening!
After seeing someone online doing crafty things with ordinary tin foil, I thought it would be fun to try and make some jewellery using that technique.
My previous post was also about using alcohol inks – you can find it by clicking here.
I have been making bottle cap necklaces for years and so I was inspired to use the bottle caps I have in my stash of resources to create some alcohol ink pendants.
To help you create your own alcohol ink pendants, I have made a YouTube video.
There is another video here showing another selection of alcohol ink pendants I made.
To create the alcohol ink pendants
I have designed, you will need:
- Ordinary heavy duty kitchen foil
- Alcohol inks in several colours
- Alcohol Blending Solution
- Craft bottle caps
- A tool to punch a hole in the bottle cap
- One 9 mm split ring per pendant
- Some stringing material
(I used an 18 inch curb chain) - Some Diamond Glaze
- Some tacky glue
So easy to make
and perfect for
giving or selling.
Below are the alcohol inks I used to tint the foil for the pendants.
I ordered them online from www.keeponcrafting.co.uk.
Update 2024 – Keep On Crafting is now, sadly, closed.
Keep on Crafting had a brilliant range of colours in stock but unfortunately the owner had to close down.
I also used the alcohol blending solution and the Diamond Glaze from Keep On Crafting. I have been using Diamond Glaze to attach the glass overlays to my bottle cap pendants for years.
After trying many other glues, I found Diamond Glaze is the one that works the best for me.
The EuroPunch Pliers (from Amazon) will
easily punch a 1.8mm hole in your bottle caps.
I have had mine for a couple of years and have still
not had to replace the punch pin, even though I
have pierced hundreds of bottle caps.
Black bottle caps (on Amazon) often come with
sticky resin domes.
Resin is fine but I prefer the weight of glass domes rather
than resin.
Glass domes are available online.
A one inch circle punch (search online for one)
makes cutting out your foil circles
really easy.
You can of course cut them with
scissors – however, I found that too
fiddly and inaccurate.
Have you used alcohol inks? We at funcraftstodoathome.com would love to know how you use yours so leave a comment and let us know if you made any alcohol ink pendants.