Chic Steampunk Brooch

By: Samantha Star

Do you love steampunk crafts? If the answer is yes, then you will love this Chic Steampunk Brooch from Samatha Star. If you've never heard of steampunk, fear not! This is a great jewelry craft for everyone.

Materials:

Thin aluminum
Scissors capable of cutting through the aluminum
Pencil
Hot glue
Rhinestone
Alcohol ink
Alcohol ink applicator
Metal findings (old watch parts)

Directions:

Trace a flower onto thin aluminum.
Cut around pattern with scissors.
Cut out a teardrop shape to use as a leaf.
Apply alcohol ink to the applicator and ink your flower and leaf.
Using pliers, roll up the edges of the flower. This will reveal the backside of the metal which is not inked. Ink if desired.
Apply hot glue to the leaf and glue it onto the flower. Use your pliers to roll up the edge of the leaf.
Glue a rhinestone to the center of the flower with hot glue. Apply hot glue to the leaf and glue on metal findings.

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cristichick

May 11, 2013

Awesome! Do you have to do anything to the edges of aluminum? Ie. are they sharp?

Fen

Jul 07, 2012

WHAT is steampunk?

arlomom 2684824

Jul 07, 2013

From the (online) Urban Dictionary: Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." For further explanations, go forth and Google. Besides fiction, the concept has been applied to design. In the case of this brooch, though, I don't think it succeeded. For an excellent example of steampunk, rent Will Smith's movie "Wild, Wild West."