{"id":358,"date":"2016-05-04T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2020-11-07T23:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T05:34:45","slug":"sterling-silver-overlay-cross-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Silver Overlay Cross Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of Kathy&#8217;s crafts is working with paper, creating greeting cards, albums, etc., and sometimes uses stamps by a maker named &#8220;Maymay Made It&#8221; in her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She loved one of the Cross stamps that came in one of Maymay&#8217;s sets, and wanted me to make a domed pendant with that style of cross on it, so what could be easier than using that very stamp on the pattern I use to pierce out the overlay piece?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-collage.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-collage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-collage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-collage-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-collage-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sterling silver domed <strong>overlay Cross pendant<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the stamp has a &#8220;stitching&#8221; pattern on the interior, I drilled my starter hole between the stitching and outer lines. Then, after sawing out the cross, I cleaned it up along the stitch-lines and used that piece on the underside of the dome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oxidation turned out beautifully on this piece.  Although it might not look like it in this photo, the patina from the liver of sulfur used in the overlay has a nice, consistent, dark gun metal gray from edge to edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-front-751x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-front-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-front-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-front-768x1047.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-front.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Sterling silver domed <strong>overlay Cross pendant<\/strong>, front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above is frontal shot of the domed overlay Cross pendant in sterling silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And below is a shot of the back of the domed overlay Cross pendant showing the piece that was cut out of the overlay layer, domed, then soldered onto the back. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-back-713x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-back-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-back-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-back-768x1102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pendant-overlay_cross-back.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption>Sterling silver domed <strong>overlay Cross pendant<\/strong>, back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Kathy&#8217;s crafts is working with paper, creating greeting cards, albums, etc., and sometimes uses stamps by a maker named &#8220;Maymay Made It&#8221; in her work. She loved one of the Cross stamps that came in one of Maymay&#8217;s sets, and wanted me to make a domed pendant with that style of cross on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sterling Silver Overlay Cross Pendant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pendants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}