Follow the simple step-by-step jewelry-making instructions below to learn how to make a fingerprint flower necklace charm or keychain pendant.
Use this easy flower necklace jewelry-making tutorial to make one-of-a-kind fingerprint flower keychains and flower necklace pendants your family and friends will treasure. A fingerprint flower charm is a lovely keepsake craft for Mother’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, May Day, a birthday, your BFF, or your child’s favorite teacher. Fingerprint flower necklaces or keychains also make excellent DIY favors for a birthday party or wedding.
These creative flower crafts are easy for kids and adults of all ages. Scroll down to watch the fingerprint flower necklace (and keychain) craft video tutorial and written step-by-step how-to instructions. Watching the short DIY video tutorial makes it easier to understand the written directions. First published on May 1, 2018, this fingerprint flower jewelry-making craft tutorial is regularly updated and republished to improve the content and stay current. You might also enjoy making fingerprint flower magnets.
DIY Fingerprint Flower Necklace or Keychain Pendant Jewelry-Making Craft Tutorial:
This craft project tutorial shares a delightful way to preserve cherished memories and create unique, personalized accessories with fingerprint flowers. Making fingerprint flower jewelry and backpack charms offers a creative outlet and serves as meaningful keepsakes and thoughtful gifts.
Creating fingerprint flower necklace pendants and backpack charms for family, friends, extended relatives, or your favorite teacher lets you infuse your personal touch into every creation. Whether crafting for yourself or a loved one, fingerprints add a special connection, making each piece unique.
By incorporating your, your children’s, or your students’ fingerprints, each pendant or charm becomes a one-of-a-kind piece, capturing the essence of those dear to us. Please visit this felt flower lei necklace tutorial for another creative flower jewelry-making project.
Personalized Fingerprint Flower Jewelry, Accessories, and DIY Gifts:
Handcrafted fingerprint flower necklaces and keychains are not just accessories. These sweet flower accessories and keepsakes provide a tangible way to cherish memories and celebrate relationships. Whether it’s a parent-child bond, friendship, or romantic connection, the fingerprints symbolize the enduring connection between individuals.
This makes them thoughtful gifts for various occasions. Whether you’re commemorating milestones like birthdays, anniversaries, or graduations or expressing appreciation to Mom or Grandma on Mother’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, or her birthday, these personalized creations carry a unique sentimental value that will make your gift stand out. The resulting necklace pendants can be worn as everyday accessories, adding a creative, customized touch to any outfit.
Likewise, the backpack charms serve as decorative accents, personalizing your belongings with a handmade charm. Gather the fingerprint flower necklace and keychain pendant jewelry-making supplies that you would like to use below and follow the easy step-by-step directions to make fingerprint necklaces and keychains for parents, grandparents, teachers, relatives, co-workers, teammates, or your BFF. You might also enjoy making this hand-beaded DIY Mother-Daughter Necklace Set. Make one for you, your Mom, Grandma, or even your best friend.
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Fingerprint Flower Necklace and Keychain Pendant Craft Supplies:
Please watch the video tutorial and read through the step-by-step instructions below before you choose the type of necklaces and key rings you want to use for your fingerprint flower necklaces and keychain charms. Doing so will help you make a more informed choice about the craft and jewelry-making supplies you wish to use to make fingerprint flower pendants.
- Fingerprint ink pads or acrylic paint and a paintbrush
- Bright white cardstock
- Mod Podge (clear drying white glue), Diamond Glaze Adhesive, or B-6000 Jewelry Glue
- Oval pendant trays and oval glass cabochons
- Alternatively, you can purchase the oval bezel pendant trays and glass dome cabochons in a set with chains–> HERE. (You will not need the necklace options below if you choose this option.)
- Necklace options for fingerprint flower pendants:
- Sterling silver snake chain necklace
- Silver-plated snake chain necklaces
- Multi-colored satin silk necklaces
- Imitation leather cord necklaces
- Or make a beaded necklace for your DIY fingerprint flower necklaces
- Keyrings with snap hooks for fingerprint flower keychain pendants:
- Metal Swivel lanyard snap hook with keyring
Related: DIY Photo Necklace Pendants and Photo Keychain Ornaments
Fingerprint Flower Necklace and Fingerprint Flower Keychain Video Tutorial
The video below shows how to make fingerprint art necklaces, keychains, and backpack charms with fingerprint flowers. It also shows my daughter demonstrating how to make gorgeous fingerprint butterflies with fingerprints and gel pens. You can also use the same technique to spruce up fingerprint flowers.
If you want to see the video that shows how to make a fingerprint flower, click the link to watch the fingerprint flower glass magnet video. (The post has a link to help you return to these how-to instructions.) Scroll down for the step-by-step written instructions for making a fingerprint flower necklace.
Or make Thumbprint Heart Necklaces and Thumbprint Heart Keychains!
How to Make a Fingerprint Flower Necklace and Keychain Pendant Step-By-Step DIY Tutorial:
Fingerprints can be used to make flowers for a necklace charm or keychain pendant. Use the easy directions below to create a fingerprint flower necklace or keychain—or make a few of each.
Please read through the step-by-step instructions below before making these fingerprint flower crafts so you know the steps involved and what to expect. The directions include instructions for slightly different ways to make them, so reading through them beforehand makes it easier to decide how to make fingerprint flower keychains and necklaces.
1. Make a fingerprint flower (or several fingerprint flowers) onto a sheet of cardstock or pre-cut shapes:
- Press one fingertip into a fingerprint ink pad or use a paintbrush to lightly brush acrylic paint onto it.
- As shown in the video below, the fingerprint flower crafts in the photographs were made with a finger ink pad, but acrylic paint also works well when used sparingly.
- Press the same fingertip with ink or paint onto a bright white sheet of cardstock.
- Alternatively, you can use a pencil to trace the glass cabochon gems onto cardstock and cut them out before making fingerprint flower crafts. (If you choose this option, you can skip step three below.)
- Select another complementary or contrasting ink or acrylic paint color.
- Then, press a different fingertip into the finger ink pad or brush the paint on lightly with a paintbrush.
- To make a fingerprint flower, create four to seven petals around the first fingerprint, as shown in the fingerprint flower craft video tutorial below.
- Have a damp washcloth or pack of wipes nearby to clean ink or paint from your fingertips.
- Repeat the steps above to make as many fingerprint flowers as you like, but please leave an inch or two of space between each one if you are making them on a single sheet of paper instead of pre-cut shapes.
- Wash hands and allow fingerprint ink to dry completely before moving to the next step. Otherwise, the ink or paint can smear or cause the fingerprint flower jewelry to look cloudy, which is not ideal.
2. Glue the fingerprint flower art to the flat side of the glass cabochon:
- Place a small drop of clear-drying glue, diamond glaze adhesive, or jewelry glue on the flat side or back of the glass cabochon, as shown in the video below.
- Through trial and error, we have learned that adhesive or jewelry glue often works and looks better over time than other lower-quality glues.
- I don’t recommend using hot glue to make these fingerprint flower crafts, as it does not adhere well to the glass gems and can become yellow over time.
- A little bit goes a long way. Please don’t use too much glue or adhesive; it can make the fingerprint flower crafts smear or appear cloudy.
- Place the cabochon on the fingerprint flower, glue side down, and press down firmly to spread the glue evenly and remove air bubbles.
- Use a towel or wipe to clean any excess glue.
- Allow the glue or adhesive to dry.
3. Cut away the remaining paper:
- Use precision detail craft scissors to trim and cut away the excess paper around the glass cabochon.
- You can skip this step by tracing the cabocon gems onto cardstock and cutting the paper shapes before step one.
4. Glue the glass cabochon with the fingerprint flower into a jewelry pendant tray:
- Apply adhesive or jewelry glue to the inside of a pendant tray.
- Place the glass cabochon with the fingerprint flower adhered to it into the pendant tray, press to remove air bubbles, and spread the glue evenly, as shown in the video tutorial below.
- Hold it firmly for 30 to 60 seconds.
- Wipe edges clean of any excess glue with a damp cloth or wipe.
- Allow the fingerprint necklace pendant to dry; overnight is best.
5. Place the fingerprint pendant onto a necklace or key ring:
- Thread a necklace through the loop of the fingerprint flower pendant or attach it to a key ring to finish your fingerprint flower keychain or necklace. Choose one of the necklace or keychain options below:
- Necklace options:
- Sterling silver snake chain necklace
- Silver-plated snake chain necklaces
- Multi-colored satin silk necklaces
- Imitation leather cord necklaces
- You can also make a hand-beaded necklace for the fingerprint flower charm or pendant.
- If you bead a necklace, place the fingerprint flower pendant onto it when it is halfway finished; otherwise, it may not fit over the beads to hang down in the middle.)
- Keychain:
- Metal swivel lanyard snap hook with keyring
- Necklace options:
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More DIY ideas for keychain charms and pendant necklaces:
There are many fun and easy ways to use pendants to make necklaces and keychain charms. Click on the links for all the DIY details!
- DIY photo necklaces and/or photo keychains
- fingerprint art necklaces and/or fingerprint art keychains and backpack charms
- thumbprint heart necklaces and/or thumbprint heart keychains
Fingerprint Flower Necklace or Fingerprint Flower Keychain Pendant Gift Idea:
Invite your child to use their fingers to create a unique, one-of-a-kind fingerprint flower necklace and keychain keepsake gifts that friends and family will treasure for years.
Fingerprint flower necklaces and keychain pendants make easy DIY gifts for Mother’s Day, May Day, Christmas, a birthday, or an end-of-the-year gift for your child’s favorite teacher. For more ideas, look at Best Gifts for Mom.
Personalized homemade keepsakes like these gorgeous fingerprint art flower gifts are always a favorite with friends and family. Fingerprint art, thumbprint hearts, and fingerprint flower glass magnets also make wonderful gifts that kids can make.
DIY photo necklaces, personalized picture keychains, and heart candle holders are a few more fantastic gift ideas you can make.
You might also enjoy looking at the other beautiful gift ideas kids can make or this list of DIY and ready-made gift ideas for the whole family!
Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author, photographer, and creator of this original fingerprint flower keychain and necklace craft, and Rhythms of Play HERE!
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