Casting Silver Acorns

I was walking the dogs and found the cutest little acorns and thought I had to make something with them! 20130906_103638As I have never cast anything and have been collecting my scrap silver, I thought I would cast them! I made tiny silver acorns and have a You Tube link below showing the whole casting process I used.

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After casting these sweet acorns I thought they would look lovely as a pendant, unfortunately you can’t cast acorns on a twig with this basic casting method, so I made a twig using wire and milled and filed it to look similar to a twig.

See my final pendant below:

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About lovelydeer

My name is Gemma Phillips and I am a designer and illustrator of a range of home ware called Lovely Deer. https://lovelydeer.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/lovely.deer.5?fref=ts
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16 Responses to Casting Silver Acorns

  1. swanlaine says:

    Beautiful! I love this idea.

  2. Dustytoes says:

    How very interesting. I love that end product.

  3. littlekoo says:

    What a lovely pendant! Well done!

  4. Colette says:

    These silver acorns came out perfect!!! Love the pendant 🙂

  5. drawandshoot says:

    Beautiful! What a lovely idea.

  6. These are really exquisite. In fact, everything you make is beautiful – you’re very talented. Thanks for liking my blog, as it pointed me to yours!

  7. I love this! So pretty and simple.

  8. oc15 says:

    brilliant!

  9. I’m so impressed! They are beautiful.

  10. Della says:

    I just learned of sand casting and found this as I searched far and wide for information to devour, lol. Those acorns are absolutely adorable and the pendant is just beautiful!! I am so excited to get my supplies and start casting. Did you use fine silver or sterling?

    thanks
    Della

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