I post sewing and crafting tutorials here at the Mermaid’s Den. I love making things and sharing them with you, so you can make them, too.
This post contains all of my free tutorials for jewelry and small accessories. My tutorial on creating earrings from aluminum cans has been one of my most popular posts, but I have a lot of other cool jewelry tutorials as well, involving more aluminum cans, Altoids tins, polymer clay, resin, and more! Check them out and let me know which ones you’ve made or that you’re planning to make.
In this post, I'll show you how to make some cute and sparkly Art Nouveau themed sewing kits out of old Altoids tins, paper, washi tape, felt, and metal stampings. You can use these to store small sewing and embroidery projects or just as trinket boxes. I've included a free pdf pattern in the body of the post with templates for the top, bottom, and inside of the Altoids tin.
In this post, I'll show you how to make earrings out of vintage tins from a thrift shop. Vintage tins have all sorts of fun patterns and designs, so they're perfect to use for jewelry-making, and they're much cheaper than buying patterned or enameled sheet metal.
In this post, I'll show you how to make an intricate filigree pendant from recycled aluminum soda cans. This pendant has a fun, Art Nouveau-y feel to it. The filigree piece is made using a die-cutting machine and the pendant is finished with micro bolts and a glue-on bail, so you don't need to solder anything.
In this post, I'll show you how to make felt flowers and attach them to hair ties with a sew-on rhinestone in the middle. This is a quick and easy project. Make them in a rainbow of colors, so you can wear them with everything!
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make felt flowers and attach them to shoe clips, so you have different options to go with a felt hat. Mix and match to go with your outfit, or just to change up the look of your hat. You could also attach these to a headband, scarf, or your shoes.
My earlier series of posts on making jewelry from aluminum cans has proven quite popular, so I'm expanding it. See my earlier posts on how to break apart your cans and how to make embossed earrings. In this post, I'll show you how to cut out some cute flowers from aluminum cans or lightweight craft metal, and then turn them into earrings. This is a great DIY project to recycle or upcycle some cans!
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the process of creating beautiful foiled, alcohol ink tiles to add to a wooden box.
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the process of creating stencils to use with polymer clay. These polymer clay stencils are quick and easy to make.
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the process of creating a ripple blade cane with polymer clay, foil, paints, and pigment powders.
In this free tutorial, I'll walk you through the process of using Star Wars ice cube molds and resin to create a Han Solo in Carbonite bracelet.
In this post, I'll show how to use aluminum cans for jewelry. We'll go over how to punch out discs for jewelry, emboss them, and turn them into earrings.
In this post, I'll show you how to use aluminum cans to make jewelry. I'll go over how to break the cans apart in order to have metal sheets to work with.
