May 6th, 2012
I found a lovely princess image in one of my vintage children’s books recently and thought she looked like Marie Antoinette so I made a mixed media charm necklace with it around that theme. I soldered the illustration in glass and added two other soldered game pieces, a domino I colored blue and stamped a crown on and a round wooden game piece that I added vintage “eat cake” text too, there is also a silver charm of a hand holding a heart.
This necklace is currently available in my Etsy shop, click here.
-Heather
Tags: , altered art, blue, charms, crown, domino, eat cake, french, hand, heart, jewelry, Marie Antoinette, mixed media, necklace, solder, soldered
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April 25th, 2012
It felt so good to stamp today! After spending 6 long weeks recovering from surgery it felt so good to sit down and be creative!
I needed to make a couple of birthday cards and the one I made for my mother in law (who loves the sea and anything nautical) fit perfectly with the latest Lawnscaping challenge Stamp a Scene . All the stamps are from Lawn Fawn’s Critters of the Sea set and all the pattern papers are from My Mind’s Eye.
Tags: beach, birthday, card, challenge, dolphin, fish, lawn fawn, lawnscaping, ocean, sea, seahorse, stamped, stamping, stamps, whale
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April 9th, 2012
Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, I had surgery a few weeks ago and have been recovering.
It’s time for a little spring cleaning in my Etsy shop so I’ve marked down a bunch of soldered pendants to only $7! (regularly they were $12 and $16).
Click here to visit the sale section of my shop, hurry at these price they probably won’t last long!
-Heather
Tags: buy, etsy, jewelry, on sale, pendants, sale, shop, solder, soldered, store
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February 28th, 2012
I’ve been seeing lots of cool ideas popping up everywhere using chalkboard paint and I thought “I’d like to make something with that stuff”. So the idea popped into my head to add it to something I already make, soldered jewelry. So today I made a chalkboard necklace, it turned out just like I had envisioned, don’t you love when that happens?
Draw or write something new every day, aren’t they fun?
These are now available here in my Etsy shop.
Tags: altered, ball chain, black, blackboard, chalk board, chalkboard, doodle, draw, etsy, jewelry, library, necklace, pendant, solder, soldered, student, teacher, wood, wooden, write
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February 16th, 2012
Here’s my latest collage piece inspired by Tim Gunn’s famous Project Runway quote: “Make it Work!”. The painted wooden tag in the middle has a paper dress with a tiny vintage button that’s hanging on a little wire hanger with a paper tag. I used a lot of vintage sewing items to embellish it like part of a tape measure, spool and wooden clothes pin. The background paper is vintage music sheet.
Tags: 3D, altered, art, assemblage, brown, canvas, clothes pin, collage, dress, hanger, mixed media, project runway, quote, seamstress, sewing, spool, tan, tim gunn, vintage, wood, wooden
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February 10th, 2012
Here’s a card I made recently for my mom for her birthday, she loves fairies as much as I do and she loves bees and gardening so I thought she’d love this little pixie and bee from Sweet November stamps. The sentiment is from MFT and the pattern paper is from Echo Park.
-Heather
Tags: bee, card, cards, crafts, echo park, fairies, fairy, floral, flower, greeting, MFT, paper, pixie, stamped, stamping, sweet November, yellow
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February 3rd, 2012
Awhile ago at an antique shop I picked up a stack of vintage Jello mould tins and have been staring at them trying to figure out what to make. Here’s my first idea, I turned them on their sides and put captured fairies in them with a ribbon loop at the top to hang them from. I added some vintage paper at the back and some faux grass at their feet. I think they turned out pretty sweet.
Tags: 3D, altered, art, assemblage, blue, captured, caught, collage, fairies, fairy, jello, mixed media, mould, ornament, tin, trapped, vintage, yellow
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February 1st, 2012
Here’s a few Art Cards I made with a cool new bird cage stamp. In the first two I used a template and patterned paper and cut out the bodice of a dress and added it to the top of the cage so it would look like a vintage “cage” dress form. I added a bird inside the cage and a tiny wire hanger to hang it from.
This card uses a quote from William Blake and I added a blue bird and some tiny black alphabet beads.
-Heather
Tags: ACEO, art, art card, artist trading cards, ATC, bird, blue, cage, caged, collage, dress, etsy, fly, form, mannequin, mixed media, quote, red, soar, william blake, yellow
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January 25th, 2012
It seems strange to be making a winter card right now, this has got to be one of the mildest winters in Ky I can ever remember! But the challenge this time over at Lawnscaping is Winter Wonderland so I broke out my Making Frosty Friends and Critters in the Forest sets. This cute little snowy owl is sporting earmuffs and sitting on a tree stump that’s covered in liquid applique snow and glitter. The background paper is from Close To My Heart and I thought it went perfectly with the stamped images.
Tags: , bird, blue, card, cards, close to my heart, greeting, lawn fawn, lawnscaping challenge, owl, snow, snowflake, snowy, stamped, stamping, white, winter
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January 11th, 2012
Here’s another collage inspired by Emily Dickinson. This one is on a chunky canvas and I tried something new for the background, I stitched organza fabric onto of the vintage music paper. I think it adds a nice soft romantic touch. The focal point is a stained wooden tag with vintage book paper, a silhouette on canvas, the quote and a bird charm. I also added a muslin flower with a vintage button and wrapped some lace around the canvas too.
Tags: 3D, art, assemblage, bird, canvas, collage, emily dickinson, fabric, flower, lace, mixed media, organza, painted, paper, quote, tag, vintage, wood, wooden
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