Fused Float Glass Glow Ghost Jewelry

Float (window) glass is excellent for making jewelry, it’s readily available and is a blank canvas for whatever amazing project you have in mind.  Today we are going to GLOW bright and make some cute ghost jewelry.

Materials Required:

Float Glass – 1/8″ or 3mm

Glow Goop

Jewelry Findings: Neck Wire, Earrings, Jump Rings

20 Gauge Nichrome Loops, or 20 Gauge Nichrome Wire

Ghost Pattern – (See Below)

Step 1:

Trace Ghost Patterns on to float glass and cut out

Step 2:

Add glow goop to one layer of the ghosts, leaving the eyes unpainted.  Use even layers of goop and allow to dry completely.

Step 3:

Add nichrome loops to the unpainted ghosts, and add the painted layer over the wire to sandwich the wire between layers.  Fire to a full fuse.

Step 4:  Assemble the jewelry.

Carefully twist open the earwire

Add one tiny ghost and twist the earwire closed.

Carefully twist open a jump ring

Add larger ghost and twist jump ring closed.

Slip neckwire through the jump ring.

Finished!

Ghost Pattern:

Click and save – print when you need it.

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