Soldered Pendants, Oh Deer!

My best friend and I made these pendants while I was teaching her how to solder. A lot of fun, and she was a quick learner!

Little Deer Soldered Pendant

Part of my mother's birthday present, she loves little woodland creatures.


The reverse side:

Craftiness as a Procrastination Device

I should be laboring over my NaNoWriMo adventure, but procrastination has taken hold and I am instead perfecting my soldering techniques. These soldered scrabble pendants were fairly easy to make, and went quickly once I really got into it.

Fruity Stamp Soldered Pendant

This is a reversible soldered pendant; one side has a guava stamp, and on the other side, a papaya stamp.

More Soldered Pendants

Here are a few I've made for various swaps I've been in.

Follow Your Bliss Pendant, made for the Make-A-Friend Swap:


A pair made for the Silly Santa Swap:



This one I made for no other reason than the fact that I love the tree, Blues Explosion

My Tiniest Soldered Pendant

A little J scrabble charm I made for my best friend. Very difficult to solder, burned myself a few times, but happy with it. I'll probably go about making more once my craft room cools down!

Soldered Pendants

Soldering pendants is one of my go-to crafts. I picked up a soldering iron just over a year ago and although I've singed hair, burned finger tips, and ruined favorite pairs of jeans that I got on sale and will never find a pair as cute so long as I live, I have come out of it with some wonderful pieces of jewelry.

Here is one I finished his weekend (I'm a HUGE Costello fan!):


A mini-collection of some of my first pieces. You can see how poorly done the edges appear. My results have started to look much better since I discovered the importance of flux when it comes to soldering:


Bird pendant:


I found these fab Loteria cards while thrift shopping and decided they'd make an awesome reversible pendant:


A scrabble pendant with flower rub-ons:


Here's a great tutorials for soldering with slides: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=39105.0;topicseen