After graduating from fashion school, and honing her skills through internships at Rodarte and Nike, Aimee landed her dream job and is now a working designer in Los Angeles. Constantly DIY’ing in her spare time, she created SwellMayde as a home for her readers to embrace their creativity. It is all about finding inspiration and teaching others how to bring it to reality with easy to follow steps.
DIY | STATEMENT BIB NECKLACE
I loved the concept of M&J Trimming’s Blogger Challenge, and was absolutely on board when they approached me to participate. They sent me a mystery box of supplies to utilize in a DIY. The day the box came to my door, I quickly opened it and so many ideas came rushing into my head. I couldn’t wait to get creative with this challenge. The one idea that stuck out the most was to make a statement bib necklace, inspired by the amazing tutorial Drew of Dylanex created with Geneva of A Pair and Spare. I just couldn’t get over how utterly beautiful all of Drew’s handmade pieces are!! Check out my version, using her tutorial below.
Materials:
- 5 or 6 necklaces that you are willing to break up, hit your local flea market to find bulk deals
- Pliers
- Scissors
- Jump Rings
- Stringing Wire (Metal or Rope)
- Ribbon from the M&J Trimming Mystery Box
Steps:
1. Find the steps to the Drew’s DIY Necklace Tutorial (here). I followed her steps to create my own.
2.Then, to incorporate a feminine and colorful touch, I used ribbon from the mystery box to use as the closure of the necklace. You can simply cut 2 pieces of ribbon, about 8 to 10 inches long.
3. Tie one end of the ribbon to one end of the necklace. Repeat for the 2nd piece of ribbon. Then, tie onto your neck.
So gorgeous!
waoo! stunning!
Beautiful necklace, but disappointing use of the materials provided. Only using the ribbon, which isn’t even visible, seems like is defeats the purpose of this challenge.
Seriously stunning!!! so fashionable!!
These are so fun!!