Monday, July 4, 2011

Resin Bracelets & Bottle Top Buttons

Resin bracelet
Bottle top buttons
  

A few years ago, I bought some resin with the intention of making ice cube tray bracelets, but I had too many other things going on and forgot about it.  While I was cleaning out my apartment, preparing for a move at the beginning of August, I found the resin.  I couldn't decide what images to use as backgrounds, but my beau inadvertently came to the rescue when he gave me a Marimekko catalogue filled with perfectly sized pictures of the company's colorful fabrics.  I made two bracelets using cutouts from the catalogue, one for me and one for a friend.  I also made around 50 bottle top buttons for my friend's bar in Sapporo using 1" circular hole punch cutouts from the Marimekko catalogue and some Japanese fashion magazines.  Here are the results:

Bracelet for my friend
Bracelet for me
First batch of buttons with pins

Second batch before I glued on the pins