Altered Art Charms – A Growing Fashion Trend
Bracelet by HA! Designs - Artbyheather
A popular trend in jewelry making is to repurpose small vintage objects into one-of-a-kind charms to accent any accessory. These creations have been given the name "Altered Art" or "Repurposed Jewelry" to describe the genre. It just takes a little imagination to fashion unique jewelry charms tailored to the wearer's interests out of personal items or miniatures. And it's fun to make versatile low cost jewelry that can be attached to bracelets, neck chains, handbags, or any wearable item.
Good sources of inspiration are old miniature playing cards, broken china and flatware, old beaded jewelry, watch and clock parts, old photographs, buttons, and old typewriter keys. Flea market finds have never been more appealing to crafters seeking to create unique vintage jewelry charms. These discarded items can be pieced together into personalized trinkets. There is no right or wrong when working in this form of art and creating wearable jewelry out of old relics is considered a "green" activity as it reduces the amount of junk headed for landfills and gives new life to discarded items.
Check back tomorrow to find out some of the techniques used in creating altered art charms.
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Wanda Fitzgerald is a Florida native and an vintage charm collector who loves to share her adventures in an e-commerce jewelry business with anyone who is interested.Subscribe
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Cute! Reminds me of some of the Altered Book Art that I’ve seen, this time in a wearable version.
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This is really neat! I had no idea that people were doing this! You could do different themes – 70′s, 80′s, etc. I can’t wait to read more!
I made a charm bracelet from a number of reverse carved and painted glass cabachons. They are such pretty wee things – flowers mostly – and look good combined with a gold bracelet so I have something unique and yet it didn’t cost much.
Wanda, thanks for featuring my bracelet on your blog! Looks like I found a new fun place to visit!
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Hi, I was just doing a search to see how easy it was to find my site and found you. It is great to see people are talking about repurposed vintage jewelry. Getting the word out. It helps all us who create. Thanks Shelly aka ilikeitiloveit
I just love the altered art charm bracelets, Especially when you make one from artifacts and little toys from your childhood.
THis one here reminds me a bit of monopoly the game, I don’t know why but it was the first thought that came into my mind. Maybe its the dice.