"PRETTY WOMAN"

Do you remember in the movie "PRETTY WOMAN"  when Richard Gere holds open the jewelry case for Julia Robert's  character to inspect the necklace within ? When she goes to touch it, Richard  SNAPS  closed the case almost on her fingers!!!  Julia's reaction was  unrehearsed as the director, Gary Marshal, had told Richard to do it without her knowledge, just to see how  Julia would respond.  That surprised texas laugh was GENUINE and so it was included in the final edit and wouldn't you know, THAT  is the scene that most of us think of when that movie is mentioned.  So it was, that not long ago, while cruising the sales at Michael's, I chanced upon a bag of necklace clasps that instantly reminded me of jewelry cases a la' Pretty Woman;  Here is what I did with them.....

This is a piece of scrap foam that used to house 2 lip  glosses.  I gave the  cosmetics to my daughter Sam,( she does make-up tutorials on YOU TUBE as 'Samantha Slinn').  I kept the packaging because it was a dense foam with a velvety layer on top that I decided to filet off into smaller sections.

Now I am imprinting the slice of foam by pressing it into the  clasp.

This is the outline of the clasp, I had tried cutting off the foam over-hang, but it was much  easier to cut it this way and then fine tune it later.

Okay, everybody knows by now that I use this glue, Quick Grip, a lot.  This glue is almost like a rubber cement.  It gets very stringy and sets up super fast which is a good thing mostly.  But here it was used to secure the foam into the metal case.  One thing I like about this product is that the glue can be picked off with a pair of tweezers if it 'over -shoots' the runway. 

Adding the glue

The fun begins!  These are nail embellishments that Janine (Minworks) gave me.  She  purchased them from the dollar store and there was a pack of 6 or 8, different appliques', all in little glass bottles!  The bottles are the perfect scale for canisters or mason jars.  I will save that project for another day, but for now the tiny florets are what I will use for the jewels of the necklace.

I tried gluing the pink flowers on with Quick Grip  with mixed results.  The glue was too stringy for what I needed to do and I had to pick it off over and over because I was not getting the accuracy that I needed.  I had to come up with a PLAN B....

These are some of the No Hole Beads that are in my collection.  Martha Stewart 's collection is great because the colors are pastel and look like candy.  The Reflections series is more metallic and for the necklace project I used the Reflections 

Here is the finished project.  I found that if I combined the nail art with the no hole beads I could get something that looked like a necklace.  To get the beads in the right place was my challenge.  PLAN B:  I decided to try Aleen's Tacky Glue, and used my fine ball stylus tool to draw the glue onto the velvet and then push the beads into the glue and into place.  This worked quite well. 

Here is the ball stylus and ALEENS  TACKY GLUE. 

This clasp still has the place for the necklace chain to be attached.  I don't need it so off it came.  Now you see it....

And now you don't!  I used my snipers to clip the metal off and then smoothed it  with a  metal file

Nail art of the Peel and Press on kind.  I layered  the same pattern over top of itself  until I got a combination that I liked.  With the bits of left overs I fashioned a pair of earrings.

This is a floral relief sheet of nail art and so is the following...

The small asterisks are used on the necklace below. 

This Art Nouveau piece has flowers taken from the 3rd photo above.  I glued the flowers down with the tacky glue and then drew on the bead ornamentation using the ball stylus and adding the Reflections copper no hole beads.  I think it turned out pretty good, wouldn't you say?  

And here is the collection of jewelry cases with necklaces to adorn the necks of some  mini Pretty Women

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"Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold"

elizabeth