I’ve been a busy bee planning my daughters 11th Rock Star Glam Birthday Party. Her party isn’t until October 22, but I will be gone camping Sept 30 – 2, then I have a shopping weekend with the girls Oct 9 – 11, and I leave to visit a very good friend in NC on Oct 13! The very next weekend is the party, so I have lots to do in the next two weeks before everything gets crazy! For part of the favors I decided that I wanted to make a fun Guitar Pick Necklace, but it couldn’t just be any plain old guitar pick! I wanted it custom, so today I’m going to share how I made mine.
Mod Podge
Paint Brush
Scrapbook paper or other design to customize guitar pick
Xacto Knife or Scissors
Drill & Drill Bit
Elastic or other Necklace Material
In a Word Processing or design program, set up your design making sure that the dimensions of your design, in my case “Girls Rock”, fits within the dimensions of your pick. You can do anything you want – a name, initials, or even just use plain scrapbook paper. I printed my sheet off on a laserjet printer.
Place your pick over the design and trace around it.
Using an Xacto knife cut along your line.
Using a paint brush, add a thin layer of Mod Podge to your pick.
Place the custom design cut out onto the pick and press down, flattening out any air bubbles. Fold over the sides and set aside to dry.
Once dry sand off the overhanging edges.
Drill a small hole in the center top of the pick*. I found that it was best to do this from the front of the pick and just go in until you break through the back and then pull the pick off the drill, don’t reverse. If you do, it pulls the paper back through (and then I tried to sand it down and it left it messy looking). If any of the paper pulls back through just use a pencil and push it back.
Add a couple layers of Mod Podge over the front/sides of the pick.
Using necklace elastic, run it through the front of the pick. Tie off or add a clasp and you are done.
Super easy and super cute!
Love this! My 12 year old saw it…guess what I’ll be making!!?? Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this – I bookmarked this and can’t wait to make some.
This is so great! My son is learning how to play guitar, and he is always jealous of jewelry I make for myself and his sister. I gonna make a boy version for him! He will love it! 🙂
This is an adorable craft that is sure to be a hit at your daughter’s party. It also would be a fun craft for me to make with my niece.
That’s awesome!! 🙂 Have you seen the guitar pic punch? It’s a heavy duty punch that, you guessed it, punches a guitar pic out of most anything… Ideas are endless!! Thanks for sharing this!! It’s a great alternative to buying the punch!! 🙂
You are a genius! What an adorable idea for a party favor.
I would love for you to post this on my Fall In Love linky party today.
What a great idea! Stopping by from Someday Crafts link party
What a great idea!! These are super cute 🙂 my husband is a musician and my daughter loves all things music…she would LOVE this!
I would love it if you would link up to my new fashion linky party 🙂 It’s called DIY Diva Thursdays. Hope to see you!
Kara
http://www.mineforthemaking.com
I wanted to let you know that I featured this on my “What I Bookmarked This Week” post – stop by and see! Thanks for the inspiration.
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts today! You can see it here
http://funfamilycrafts.com/guitar-pick-necklace/
If you have other kid friendly crafts, I’d love it if you would submit them 🙂 If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.