This month at the Yahoo! group The Latest Trends in Mixed Media Arts the “Not Just Charms” challenge is to make charms out of game pieces.  Last month focused on buttons.  December was actual charms.

I have struggled with this idea.  I have set aside wooden dominoes to make charms out of.  I wonder if these are too large, although they are not as large as normal dominoes.  They are not shiny either – being black and white.

I then thought about poker chips.  The biggest problem with this was I only could scrounge up one poker chip that my boys would let me near.  This was one I had received in an collage bag swap.

Not only did it have writing on it, there was only one.  Now the rules do not say that each charm must be the same but they do state that the charm must be made from a game piece.

I started working on the domino charm in my mind.  I have a small stamp of a champagne flute I wanted to stamp on the all black side of the domino.  I wanted to stamp and then emboss in gold.  Then edge the sides in gold also.  So far I do not have any charm hooks (I am sure that is not the correct terminology) but here is a look see.

Now I just have to finish edging and manage to get a hook on it on it.