Easy DIY Miniatur Book Necklace

About Easy DIY Miniatur Book Necklace Android App

Tiny and charming, this DIY project: miniature book necklace is a stylishly hip piece of wearable art. Bind up your favorite lyrics, memories, love notes, book quotes, or anything you’d like in this sweet little tome.

You’ll need to have a basic Precious Metal Clay setup to do the metal parts of this project. If you don’t want to bother with the metal accents on the book, you can still use this tutorial to create a soft, elegant leather book necklace.

From a piece of scrap paper, cut out a little rectangle that is about the size of the book you want to make. I cut out a few pieces, held them up to my neck, trimmed them and such, and ended up with this one. This little rectangle is going to be the size that I cut my metal cover accent to be. The paper is just slightly smaller on all sides than I want the finished book to be, so this will make a great cutting template for my metal accent piece in

Take a black-bean-size amount of PMC3 from the bag (make sure to tightly wrap up the extra – it dries out fast!) and flatten it onto a piece of parchment/baking paper. You can fold the parchment paper over the top of the ball and squish downward, sandwiching it – that will prevent fingerprints in the malleable clay.

Once you have an interesting texture, place your tiny scrap paper rectangle on the textured clay, and trim around the edges using a sharp blade. You can then accent the corners with tiny balls of clay, if you wish. I took little clay balls the size of poppy seed and pressed them into corners with a thin metal pick (you could use a toothpick if you had one on hand).

Using a ruler to measure straight edges, cut out the book cover from your leather swatch. You can see how I have left not only a small line of blue around my paper template, but also about ¼ inch of extra leather on one side. That extra length of leather is important later, because when we insert the inner pages, we’ll need that extra length to accommodate them.

You can see on the left side of the photo for Step 6, that I folded all of the little rectangle sheets in half and slipped them inside one another in sets of 2. Then on the right side of the photo, you can see that you’ll want to stack all of those little pairs on top of each other to create the book pages.

Almost done! Once the Diamond Glaze is dry, it’s time to turn this little book into a pendant. Using the curved leather needle, punch a hole through the top-back-corner of the book. Slip in a jump ring, attach to the center of a long necklace chain, and…you’re done! Wear, enjoy, and treasure – you’ve put a lot of work into this fun craft project!