The Secret

by Joan Williams
(Springfield, MO)

One of my friends saved a handful of small round keyhole plates for me and I discovered they fit perfectly on top of an 18mm bezel, so I decided to try out a ring design.

I cut the eye image out of an old lithograph and trimmed it to fit the bezel, and because I planned to cover it with resin, I sealed it before gluing it to the bezel. (Because resin sometimes causes paper images to darken or blur, always seal first with gel medium, Mod Podge or even Elmer's Glue!)

After gluing the bezel to the ring blank I stamped a pattern on the keyhole plate with Staz-On ink, and filled the bezel with resin before carefully placing the plate on top.

I carefully propped the ring upright in a dish of seed beads so that
the resin would cure evenly and left it overnight. The next day I glued the flat-back crystal and tiny key to the top.

Joan Williams
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