Handmade Charms

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Charms can be made from recycled and repurposed items such as game pieces, bottlecaps, keys, buttons or any other small objects. Charms can be made from supplies such as shrink plastic, microscope slides, polymer clay, and much more. There is no limit to the variety of charms that can be created.

Charm bracelets made from charms received in swaps:


October 2007

The charms on these two bracelets were received in a swap I participated in at nervousness.org (site has now closed).

handmade charm bracelet
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Charms were made by (left to right) chaosatlanta (myself), pequad, misslippi, pequad, misslippi, silverfishstudio, misslippi, Coyotl_latrans, arrow, pequad, Misti_Ko.

handmade charm bracelet
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Charms were made by (left to right) Akua, Brookearoo, amzi, monarch, Misti_Ko, misslippi, TayLynn, chaosatlanta (myself), The Jazzy Artist, Penster, callavisage.

September 2007

handmade charm bracelet
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The charms on this bracelet were received in a swap I participated in at ATCards.com.

Charms were made by (left to right) Bubblebee, kysunflower, lynn101, Artcards, Topacelot, chaosatlanta (myself), Seraphic, Adriayna, Byronicwoman, Mitchm, and Swan.


Links:

Bottlecap Charm Tutorial
Here is my little tutorial on making bottle cap charms.

International Charm Exchange
If you want to see handmade charms, this is the place to visit!

The following sites feature a variety of art swaps:
  ATCsForAll.com
  Swap-Bot