Good morning! Today I want to share a project that I did a while back. I had seen a couple of really good tutorials on gold animal necklaces (this one’s my fave) and I thought it would be fun to use gold, as well as other paints on my little animals. This is by no means an original diy project, and quite honestly, mine ended up being a bit of a diy fail. But that’s how you’ve gotta learn, I guess. :)

Here’s the process:

First get your supplies together: spray paint, gold chain(z), small screw eyes, necklace clasps, jump rings,m small toy animals (mine were from Michael’s and Joann), a ruler or measuring tape, and jewelry tools! I just bought a cheap kit from the craft store.

Measure out your chain and cut it with your wire cutters. Then attach the jump rings and clasps with your jewelry tweezer. I wish that I could elaborate on this part more, but I got some help from my jewelry-savvy friend, Devin (pictured below).

Next, drill a hole in the top of each toy animal and screw in the screw eyes. You can also do this after painting, because you might want to keep the screw eye gold.

After that, give your animals a few coats of spray paint, allowing them to try between each coat. Okay, this is where I had trouble. I absolutely love how the gold looked. However, it never dried. Ever. It was (and still is) super sticky. The other colors were fine, but the gold…man! I hear there is a wonderful line of Krylon spray paint that bonds to plastic really well. My point is, research your spray paint before buying it. :)

I love how the gold bunny turned out! I just need to repaint it with a less sticky gold.

Enjoy your new necklace!