First up was a die. The article in question (by Candie Cooper) was for a pair of earrings made from altered dice with charms and beads. I decided on just one die for a pendant, strung on a headpin rather than suspended between two brackets. The first step was drilling a hole through the plastic die, which was quite easy after I spent over two hours slowly drilling through sea glass and seashells for another project:
The next step was to color the die. Cooper used alcohol inks to achieve a pretty, mottled effect, but I didn't have any and I wasn't inclined to buy some just for this. Acrylic paints seemed too thick and likely to chip, so I headed to the internet, assuming there would be tons of inspiration and ideas for altered dice. Only there wasn't any; surprising, given all the altered dominoes out there, not to mention other game piece jewelry. Instead I found ideas on gaming boards, where people were looking to customize their D&D dice. One woman said she had luck using Easter egg dye, and I just happened to have exactly that. About 24 hours of sitting in pink dye resulted in this:
Now it was time to embellish each side. Rhinestones:
A paper flower:
A bit of dictionary page with a touch of gold solid oil paint:
Gold paint on the remaining uncovered pips:
I sprayed it with fixative, and then strung it on a headpin with a few pretty beads:
My ideas for the rest of the necklace:
*An altered domino (a mini one so it doesn't overwhelm the rest)
*A scrabble tile with a metal bracket finding thingie, like the rings in the magazine
*Monopoly charms, especially the iron and thimble, from an old game set I found in the basement
*Clue charms, if I can get some
*Various arcade tokens
*metal jacks
