lot's collection : DIY : making a cabochon necklace with picture

hi ,

Today I do my first DIY.
I decided to show how to make a cabochon necklace with any picture you want. For this tutorial you don't have to be good at making jewels and all that stuff, you just have to be good with glue. the picture below show you with material I used for making the necklace.

Here you have a list of all the material :
- cabochon setting ( round , oval ...,)
- cabochon cab or cabochon glass ( oval are 18 mm at 25 mm) ( round are 15 mm)
- necklace ( same color as your cabochon setting)
- glue ( I used nexus glue from bison ) , but you can use any superglue.
- picture ( you can buy standard pictures online , but you can make them by yourself.
- circles ( to put the cabochon setting and the necklace together)

let's start !

step 1
You take one cabochon setting ( I used the oval one ) and a picture in the same format as the inside space of the setting. You can buy the pictures online , but you can make them to. If you want to make them at home you just need some photo paper and a scissor. You chose your picture and print it out ( be sure that you picture is small enough to fit in the setting. then you take the cabochon glass and put it above the picture . after all that you cut the picture in the format of the glass. This is what the result has to look like.

step 2 :
You put the picture in the setting

step 3 :
you take the cabochon setting with picture and glue it together. ( You put the glue on the picture and then you place the glass above it. Wait a few minutes to be sure that it's dry. If you have some glue residues, you can remove them with nail varnish remover.

step 4 :
When your setting is dry and clean you take a necklace and put a circle on it. ( you can do that with pliers). If you don't have a professional one , just borrow one of your dad's tool box.

If you did all those things the result has to look like this :