Winter seasonal kits are back! Create a keepsake ornament, chainmaille snowflake & more

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The air is cooler, the leaves are turning and that can only mean one thing – the holidays are just around the corner!  It’s time to get busy making your DIY gifts and we have a few kits that might be just perfect for some lucky recipients.  Each of these kits and tutorials can be found in our Projects section and, while they are all are considered “intermediate”, we find that they they are quite a approachable for all levels.

Try one or all of them and make sure to share what you create on our page on Facebook – that is of course, if it won’t ruin anyone’s surprise! *wink*

Holiday Ornament (Christmas Tree)

One of our top-selling kits, this project is the perfect size for a festive pendant, brooch or tree ornament.  We also love using them as special gift tags.  Choose your favorite color anodized aluminum for the “ornaments” or go with Multi Mix (shown left), our favorite look.

HOLIDAY ORNAMENT KIT & INSTRUCTIONS

Snowflake – NEW! Tutorial

This project was featured on the cover of Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry magazine back in December 2010 and for 2012, we’ve brought it back now will a new Blue Buddha Boutique tutorial to go with it.  These sweet snowflakes look lovely in all one metal but can also be customized with colored rings to compliment your holiday decor.  We think the smaller silver and “medium” base metal kits are so cute as pendants and use the large base metal kits to create tree ornaments and gift decorations.

CHAINMAILLE SNOWFLAKE KIT & INSTRUCTIONS

Wrapped Ornament

Want to give plain glass ball ornaments a new lease on their holiday lives?  Try this tutorial to create a chainmaille wrapping for an everyday Christmas ball ornament.  Customize this piece with color to compliment your tree’s theme or create it out of base metal for a sleek, modern look in silver and gold metallic hues.

WRAPPED CHAINMAILLE ORNAMENT INSTRUCTIONS & SUPPLIES

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Connie
11 years 5 months ago

Hi, While searching on the web. I found the directions for a wreath made out of chainmaille. The problem is, I have having trouble figuring out the ring sizes I need, so I can buy the rings from Blue Budda. Do you have a chart show how you ring sizes match up to how other companies give their ring sizes?
Thanks

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Jenna
11 years 5 months ago

Hi Connie! Sounds like a cute project! We actually just saw a similar one in “Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry” magazine that we’ll be testing soon – fun! To answer your question, we do list the inner diameter of our rings in both inches and millimeters as well as the measurements of our wire gauges on our Stats & Uses pages:

Base Metal: http://www.bluebuddhaboutique.com/b3/supplies/base-metal/Ring-Stats/
Precious Metal: http://www.bluebuddhaboutique.com/supplies/sterlingsilver/silverstats.php

This information should help you determine what rings sizes you need for the project. That said, there is not really a standard for how people measure and state ring sizes and there are a lot of variables to consider including whether they are listing inner diameter or outer diamter, AWG vs. SWG wire gauges, springback of the different metal alloys and whether they are listing the size of the mandrel used to coil the rings or the actual measurements of the rings themselves. Oy! Confusing, we know.

All that said, if you get stuck trying to figure out what rings to use and are able to send us a link to the project, we can do our best to guide you. We also have some awesome interns that love testing projects so if you wanted us to test the project in our rings before you bought them, we could do that as well. Sorry there’s not really a short answer to this question. We hope this helps!!

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Melanie
11 years 5 months ago

Love the Christmas tree kit. To obtain the colors as seen, do I have to order additional colors or does the kit come with varied colors??

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Jenna
11 years 5 months ago

Hi Melanie! To give your tree multi-colored “ornaments”, just select the “multi mix” from the dropdown when you are customizing your kit :) Happy Weaving!

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Lisa Pritts of Dangling Lovelies
11 years 6 months ago

I love that you are selling kits for these pieces! One question I have that I don’t see on the description page for the Snowflakes kit is how many medium snowflakes does the kit provide for – is it just one?

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Jenna
11 years 5 months ago

Hi Lisa – Good question! The kit actually contains enough supplies for 2 pendants. Now that you mention it, we need to indicate that on the kit page! Thanks for bringing it to our attention :) Happy Weaving!

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