I’m getting ready for Valentine’s Day by making some collage jewelry.

The first piece is a couple in love with paper hearts falling all around them that were punched from an old French dictionary, one says Amour (French for “love”), background is sanded pink cardstock. I used scalloped tape to solder around the edges.

The other is also a sweet couple in love this time of a piece of vintage music sheet and the words, cut from an old book say “Music of My Heart”

Here’s a couple of bird related soldered pendants. I love that birds are such a popular theme right now. I added vintage music paper to the backgrounds.

Here’s a few more of the pendants I took to the Damselfly shop:

“Come Sail with Me”:

“Little Miss Sunshine”:

“Dance”:

On my recent shopping spree at my local stained glass store I also picked up some tiny squares of beveled glass, they are flat on one side and beveled on the other and come in all different shapes sizes. I got some 3/4″ x 3/4″ squares and made myself a monogram necklace with them. I used the letter “H” from an old children’s book of nursery rhymes on one side and a piece of vintage music sheet on the other. FYI: If you decide to give these a try yourself you will probably need wider copper tape than you do for microscope slides as the glass on these is much thicker.

I’ve started to cut my pieces of glass for my collage jewelry into smaller pieces and stringing two tiny collages onto one chain. I really like the look and the challenge of making teeny tiny collages is alot of fun!

This first piece features a very unhappy looking young man in a big pink party hat along with another charm that says “laugh”. I used my new scalloped edge tape on the charm with the boy. The words and background are all vintage papers.

This next one is two tiny 1″x1″ collages of fairy sisters with vintage French paper backgrounds and words that say “Flutter” and “Fly”. I added a string of pretty purple and blue beads to the top of one of the charms so when they hang you’ll be able to see both fairies.

I’ve mentioned this before but recently I’ve gotten alot of questions about where I get my vintage papers. I get almost all my vintage papers at used book shops, luckily my local area has some really nice ones. You can find music sheets, old children’s books, foreign language books and lots more with just a little bit of hunting. If you have a used book store go check them out, you’ll be amazed at all the cool stuff you’ll find! And maybe pick up a good old novel to read while you’re there:)

I found this adorable owl in a very old vintage children’s book of Nursery Rhymes. I cut him out along with some of the words from the book and soldered around him. I’ve mentioned before how much I love owls and I think he’s such a special one, perfect for fall!

I recently got some way cool copper foil tape for soldering that has a scalloped edge. It’s really fun to use and gives a very unique look to soldered pieces. Here are the first two things I’ve done with it.

The first features a gold finch bird from an old firld guide in a crown I free hand cut from some gold metallic paper, he’s on a piece of vintage music sheet and I added the word “fly” cut from an old book.

The next is an adorable image of a little girl with her arms crossed and a very grumpy look on her face. I added some wings to her and the words “What Attitude?”, I think she turned out so cute and funny.

Here are some more of the soldered Christmas ornaments I’ve been working on. The first is the little brother of the girl in the Santa hat, don’t they make a cute pair?

 This next one is made using a microscope slide, but I turned it on it’s side. I used an image of a little girl and free hand cut some large paper wings for her from a vintage book. She’s on distressed blue cardstock and has gold stars around her and the word “Joy”.

 The last one is an image of a pretty woman wrapped up for winter in her coat with a beautiful big bow on her head. The words says “Merry and Bright” and there is a snowflake charm hanging below, I added Stickels to it to make it glittery.