Archive for June, 2010

It’s Getting Steamy in Here

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Steampunk is a really popular style currently. I love the idea of combining Victorian looks with scifi and technology. If you’re not familiar think W. G. Wells, Jules Vern, lots of gears, dirigibles, googles, steam power, etc. Here’s a wiki definition too.

I wanted to try my hand at some steam punk so I made some tiny mixed media collages for soldered pendants. I used a great top hat stamp, vintage photo copies, some metal gears and vintage watch parts that I combined with pages from a vintage shop mathematic book to make my jewelry. I think they turned out pretty cool.

Steampunk Gal front:
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So Charming

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Here’s a couple of new charm necklaces I’ve made recently. I’m enjoying mixing altered and soldered game pieces and charms together.

The first one is sort of a pun, it’s a skeleton key necklace. A large metal key with a skull charm and a soldered domino charm with dancing skeletons.

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This one is all Alice, a tiny glass bottle filled with blue beads and three soldered game charms, a domino with Alice on a blue background, an “A” scrabble tile with vintage “Alice” text and a vintage bingo tile with vintage “drink me” text.

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These are both currently available in my Etsy shop, click here to visit.

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Spread Your Wings

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

It’s been awhile since I’ve made any collages on canvas so I got out a few canvas boards last week and made a couple.

Awhile ago I made an all white washed collage with a bird cage theme and was really happy how it turned out so I got out the gesso again to do some more white washing. I used a sponge brush and a light coating of gesso over some vintage music sheet and vintage book papers, then covered my 5 x 7 canvas board with music sheet using gel medium to adhere it. Then a traced a chipboard butterfly onto the back of the book paper, cut it out and adhered that. I had a lovely copy of a Victorian photo I bought from a dealer in the UK that I scanned and printed onto watercolor paper and I matted it with black cardstock that I cut with deckle edge scissors giving it that edge you see on alot of old photos. I then adhered the photo, popped up the butterfly with lots of foam tape and added layers of buttons on the butterfly and the corner of the photo along with a crocheted flower. Lastly I cut the words “spread your wings” from a vintage book and adhered that to the bottom of the collage.

I love the black and white contrast of this one alot.

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