Making Gourd Jewelry For Unique Holiday Gifts
66Save your gourd scraps
Whenever you have a gourd that you cut apart to make a bowl or a vase or a lamp you invariably end up with pieces of gourd left over. Most people just toss these out without another thought. But save all your scraps because you can make interesting jewelry out of them. If you have the skinny neck of a dipper gourd, you can cut it into slices and string it as a gourd necklace. If you have a bottle gourd just the right diameter, use can saw it in slices and make bracelets. Gourds are super light so the jewelry is also light and easy to wear.
Or you can buy mini jewelry gourds. Pick out two that are about the same shape and size and you can make earrings.
For decorating gourds you can use spray paint, acrylics, leather dyes, inks, or oil paints. Or you can glue yarn or beads to them. Or if you are good at the peyote stitch, you'll find out why it's also called the gourd stitch, as it works really well on gourds.
Art Doll Pin made from gourd pieces and wire.
Jewelry Gourds
More About Gourd Crafts
- American Gourd Society
Meet other gourd artists and learn about gourd shows and contests. - Gourdmania
My gourd art gallery.
My Gourd Blog.
- Faery House Gourd
I got to work on my faery house gourd today. I used the wood burner to add ferns, mushrooms, lady bugs, a butterfly, some acorns and some oak leaves to my house. I need to make a chimney next.
- Two Gourd Fairy Houses Work in Progress
Last Sunday I took gourds to the archery meeting and started working on 2 gourd fairy houses. It was supposed to be just the one, but the first gourd I cut open had no seeds in it. Zip, zilch, nada. So I had to cut the second one open because I wanted to glue the gourd seeds like tiles around the windows I had cut into the gourd. Then yesterday the plan was to continue on the fairy houses with the wood burning tool, only yesterday was a mess and I never got to it. So today if the rain is done I'll try again. I want to work in front of the garage but it's a bit chilly out so we'll see. Some gourds have a pretty silvery interior like this one. This gourd had no seeds so I had to steal them from the one above.
- My Friend's Garden
My friend Jessica in Santa Ana is growing gourds this year.
gourd crafts
 | Amazon Price: $1.99 |
 | Amazon Price: $1.99 |
Gourd Crafts
|
Birdhouse Gourd, Hand Painted Candle & Poinsettia's
Current Bid: $12.00
|
|
*TINY*MINI*Dwarf* WORLDS SMALLEST GOURDS *7 seeds*Jewelry*E-Z GROW* RAREST*#1132
Current Bid: $1.64
|
MeadowEmpress 5 years ago
Gourd earrings would be a great gift idea. Jewelry gourds would make cute earrings. I like the mix of metal and gourds because it is a contrast of rough and smooth. Nice article.