DIY Stamped Necklaces Tutorial. These washer necklaces are perfect for gifts and easy to customized!
I have the blessing to be part of a great organization inside of the church I belong to; called Young Women.
The theme for the girls {age 12 to 17} this year is “believe”. I’ve been thinking a lot during the last six months about such a simple word and what it means to me. However it was during this weekend that I found myself thinking more deeply about it while working on these little necklaces that I was making for our girls.
So please forgive me if you came visiting looking for a craft or just a cool tutorial because I am afraid that today you are also going to be getting a piece of my heart.
Materials
These are the tools I used to make the necklaces:
1/8″ Steel Stamping Set – Find it HERE
Your choice size washers.
Hammer {the poor thing has seen better days}
Sharpie and a cleaning rag.
Sharpie and a cleaning rag.
Chain and Embellishments – I found both of mine at WalMart.
The first thing I did was stamp the washers. For this I used the 1/8″ steel stamps and a hammer. I learned that it works better if you do it on a solid surface like concrete. Just hammer the stamps pretty hard three o four times to engrave the letters on the washer. Watch OUT for your fingers!
After I had stamped the washers they looked like this.
Next step was give them some character. All I used to do this was a Sharpie.
And after I just cleaned the excess with a damp cloth.
This is how they looked at this point.
Last thing was to assemble the necklace. Love them!
I have learned during my life that unfortunately there is not a tutorial for believing.
There are not specific tools, materials or steps that make us believe.
However there is a magic in doing so, when we believe in ourselves, in others, in a better world in a Father above.
When we believe in love, friendship and tender mercies, when we believe in people, in human kindness, in doing good, when we believe in the better part, something happens:
As these stamps engraved the letters in these washers hope, joy, faith and true happiness gets engraved in our hearts.
When we believe the impossible cease to exist and the world around us becomes a better one, not because it has change but because we have.
I want my girls to know that I BELIEVE!
Here are some other gift ideas that I love!
25 Handmade Gifts Under $5 – Click HERE
Click HERE for tutorial!
Handmade Gift Tutorials for Men – Click HERE
These ideas are perfect for birthdays and Father’s Day!
Thank you so much for stopping by!
XO
Desirée
Thanks for making me cry on a Saturday morning!! So sweet and so true!
Blessings to you!!
Awww Shelly, you are so sweet!
Very beautiful! What type of washers and what sizes did you use?
Absolutely beautiful creation and a beautiful spirit to match. You are amazing!
Thank you so much Wanda for your sweet comment!
I love the Believe necklace and your love of life. Thanks for sharing your heart with us!
Aww Jill, Thank you so much for the visit!
What a GREAT project!!! I am so going to do this for my daughter and her friends!!! I don’t know what I liked more about this post…the project or the after thought… what a beautiful message!!! Thank You!!!
You are so sweet! Thank you for visiting with me 🙂
Loved this idea! Made my daughter a stamped bracelet with this tutorial. Thanks so much!
http://betweenthetoys.blogspot.com/2013/09/first-day-of-school-bracelet.html
Kate
Thank you so much for posting this. I have been wanting a necklace like this but the ones I found were really expensive. Now I can make my own, as well as gifts for my family and friends: )
I love this – my husband has pancreatic cancer and we have used “Believe” as our opening page on caring bridge and as our screen saver on the home computer. Coincidentally the color of the pancreatic cancer ribbon happens to be purple and that he was diagnosed in 2011.
Marcia, I wish you both the best during this time. Thank you so much for your comment and for stopping by. God bless!
I really like your tutorial, it is just what I was looking for. The end of the tutorial was great also.
Thank you!! It is 1:59am. I have been just sitting here in the dark thinking about a conversation that I had with my husband earlier tonight. Thumbing through Pinterest on my iPad trying to get past it when I saw your Believe necklaces. My family has had a very trying year. My mother-in-law passed away in Sept. and my husband has lost 2 uncles since then…one just a couple of nights ago. It has again reopened the wound of losing my mother-in-law. One of the most important words to my mother-in-law was BELIEVE. I have spent lots of nights thinking about what that word really meant. I believe tonight I found exactly what I have been searching for these past several months. As I write this to you, I have so many tears that it is difficult to even see to type. You will never know how much this has touched my heart and help me deal with this grief. If it would be okay, I would like to take your definition of Believe and pass it on to our children. My husband and I have 9, ranging from 5-27. I know that they are all searching to understand just as much as I have been. I truly want to thank you for this!! I completely believe that this was for me. I always say that God works in mysterious ways and God’s timing is always perfect. Tonight I will be thanking Him for this as well!
Shannon,
I was reading through comments today and I came across yours. First of all I want to thank you for taking the time to share such beautiful feelings with me. I know by experience that loosing a love one can be extremely difficult. As I was reading your words I felt a deep gratitude for the way God knows us, through my words He touched your heart and through you He has touched mine. Thank you so much for sharing a piece of your heart with me, your words brought tears to my eyes.
I pray that as you and your family go through this hard times you can feel comfort in the love and the memories of those you have lost. May God bless you and your family my dear.
Tons of love.
Desiree