The great thing about these pins is that you can totally change the look and feeling of each one you make by changing the images you use.

Sources for images that will make fabulous jewelry include new and vintage magazines. Use new ones for their bright colorful, contemporary images -- think of flowers from a gardening magazine, accessories from a fashion magazine, and so on.

Even an eye or a smile cut from a face can make a cute pin. Don't forget words and letters, too. Images from an old magazine, with their intricate detail and subtle colors, will impart a heirloom feeling to your creations.

Here's another time when the color copier can come to your aid. You can make one of a kind brooches from old family photographs. Utilize the copier's reduction and enlargement features to make your pictures just the right size. If you're having a family reunion this summer, make everyone a pin with an ancestor's photo in it. For the men in your family, use the same techniques described below, but instead of a pin back, attach a heavy duty magnet to the back of the glass.

What You Need

Large (about 1.5 inch to 2 inches) glass craft stones that are roundish and flat on one side. Find them in the floral or mosaic section of the craft store or at a stained glass supply store. Choose plain clear ones or for variety, light clear colors to use with black and white images.

1 inch pin backs

2 inch wide aluminum tape from the hardware or home improvement store

What To Do

Choose an image for your pin. Rough cut it slightly larger than the glass "glob" that will cover it. Hold the image in position under the glass and cut it to the same size as the bottom of the glob. Set aside.

Rough cut a piece of aluminum tape about 2 inches by 2 inches. Place the tape sticky side up on your work surface. Place the paper image, face up, on the tape. Place the glob atop the image and cut the silver tape the same size as the bottom of the glob. Set aside.

Cut a strip of the aluminum tape about 1/4 inch wide and slightly longer than the diameter of the glob. Holding the tape covered image in place under the glob. Lightly press the strip in place all around the glob so that the long edges of the tape stick out beyond both the top and bottom of the glob.

Press the tape down on the bottom of the glob carefully. Use the back of a spoon or a bone folder to smooth the tape out.

Turn the glob over, and press the tape edges down smoothly around the top edge of the glob, as above.

Turn glob over. Cut a small piece of aluminum tape slightly less wide than the back of your pin back and, with the pin back open for easy access, tape the pin back to the back of the glob, smoothing tape as above. Position the pinback somewhat to the top of the glob, so that it won't "flop" when you wear it. Also, make sure it is straight in line with the image you have used.