Mother's Day Salt Dough Necklaces

I posted about my mother's day sneak peek the other day, my sister, hubs, and I headed to the store and bought paint beads, ribbon, and jump rings! We, well... I accidentally got Folk Art's enamel paint in gold and silver. The back of the bottle said to bake at 350 for 30 minutes so I tried just one heart to make sure it would mess up the salt dough and it didn't. It made the metallic more...pronounced maybe. It came out of the oven a tad darker, smoother, the paint more "melty" looking instead of splotchy from me dabbing it on.

Anywho, I first seen this on Pinterest, of course =)

To make the salt dough we used 1 c. of flour, 1/2 c. of salt, and cold water. You use enough cold water until you get the consistency of play dough. I had trouble with the consistency. I got it too wet, then it seemed too dry. When rolling out with a rolling pin though, make sure you flour the surface! I don't think of these things until afterwards because I so do not bake, lol. That's my sister's department but she forgot her rolling pin so we used an old glass milk carafe. It worked =)

Here are the final products! The gold heart has both mine and my sisters fingerprint's in it. That one's for my mom.

This lil silver baby heart is also for my dear mommy but it has my little girls fingerprint.

This one is for me =) My mother's day present to myself.

The trio I made. I also made another tiny gold circle with Kenna's fingerprint for my granny.

I had fun making these. I hope they like them =)

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