Jewelry Making Challenge: The Pokemon Project
My last big project idea was to use all of my beads. When I was forced to accept that I hoard beading supplies like a dragon, I went back to doing whatever I wanted with whatever I had. Then I got my next big idea.
On Etsy, I saw a bunch of small My Little Pony toys glued to ring bases. I thought it would be a much better idea if they had taken the pony and just used the colors, then sold the result. Then I asked myself why I didn't do that.
Since I prefer video games to TV, I wasn't going to do My Little Pony. Instead, I decided I was going to make jewelry inspired by the original 151 Pokémon, and see if it went beyond that. My brother says I won't make it, but I'm going to try anyway. If any readers want to try, I'll give a full explanation.
The goal of the challenge:
To learn how to make complete sets of jewelry instead of throwing things together and seeing if there's any coordination later.
The rules for the challenge:
1. Each evolution line will be a jewelry set. Single-stage Pokémon can be anything, evolution stages from later games will count as part of the set.
2. When shopping for beads, you can only buy for the next evolution family. This is to keep myself from buying the whole bead aisle. Non-Pokémon projects are naturally excluded.
3. You can use beads from your stash for the projects.
4. Don't use their actual images.
5. Keep each shopping trip under $30. Clearance aisles are friends.
6. If you complete and restart the challenge, make some new pieces with the same colors.
I will keep you updated on how my challenge is going whenever I finish a set.
On Etsy, I saw a bunch of small My Little Pony toys glued to ring bases. I thought it would be a much better idea if they had taken the pony and just used the colors, then sold the result. Then I asked myself why I didn't do that.
Since I prefer video games to TV, I wasn't going to do My Little Pony. Instead, I decided I was going to make jewelry inspired by the original 151 Pokémon, and see if it went beyond that. My brother says I won't make it, but I'm going to try anyway. If any readers want to try, I'll give a full explanation.
The goal of the challenge:
To learn how to make complete sets of jewelry instead of throwing things together and seeing if there's any coordination later.
The rules for the challenge:
1. Each evolution line will be a jewelry set. Single-stage Pokémon can be anything, evolution stages from later games will count as part of the set.
2. When shopping for beads, you can only buy for the next evolution family. This is to keep myself from buying the whole bead aisle. Non-Pokémon projects are naturally excluded.
3. You can use beads from your stash for the projects.
4. Don't use their actual images.
5. Keep each shopping trip under $30. Clearance aisles are friends.
6. If you complete and restart the challenge, make some new pieces with the same colors.
I will keep you updated on how my challenge is going whenever I finish a set.
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