July 3rd, 2010
I’m so excited and honored to be in the latest issue of Altered Hearts digital zine! One of the contributors Edeena Cross contacted me recently asking to include some of my art work in their July issue, after I said “yes, of course”, she decided to feature alot of my work and also asked me questions about my background, working process, inspirations, etc and now there is two whole pages devoted to little ol’ me in their zine, how cool is that!?
The online magazine can be found at Scrap Artists. Click here for a direct link to the July issue, it’s only $3 and totally worth the few bucks, it’s chocked full of great interviews and art work from some really terrific collage artists.
Here’s the magazine cover, you’ll have to buy it to see my article and the rest;)
Tags: altered hearts, article, digi, digital, magazine, pupblished, zine
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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:
back:
Steampunk Guy front:
back:
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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.
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.
These are both currently available in my Etsy shop, click here to visit.
Tags: alice, altered, blue, bottle, charms, drink me, game pieces, jewelry, key, mixed media, necklace, skeleton, soldered, wonderland
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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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May 18th, 2010
Oh my gosh, has it really been that long since my last post?! Spring time is just so busy, I’ve been doing so much yard work, planting, weeding, mowing, etc. it’s taken up alot of my free time. I’ll try to do better 🙂
I haven’t posted any cards or stamping lately so I wanted to share a fun card I made for a class recently. They loved it, especially the flower and I wanted to share how I made it.
First off you need a large brad and some ribbon that has stitching through it, it comes in lots of colors and can be found at most craft stores. Cut a 5″ piece of ribbon and begin pulling the threads from the *same* long side on both ends. Keep pulling and gathering the ribbon as you go, when it forms a circle tie the ends of the ribbon threads together, then trim off the ends of the threads, careful not to cut through the knot. Then insert a large brad through the ribbon flowers open center and open up the brad, this will hold it in place and you can use a large glue dot to hold the flower to your project. Easy and cute, huh?
The skunk and sentiment stamp comes from a set from The Paper Company and he’s been embossed in black, the bottom of the card has been cut with a scalloped pair of decorative scissors.
Tags: crads, flower, greeting, how to, note, ribbon, skunk, stamped, stamping, stamps, technique, tip, tutorial
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April 14th, 2010
Ok, I also can’t seem to stop making things with Alice in Wonderland either 🙂 I’ve been making Alice jewelry and collages for years now and am happy to see a big jump in popularity because of the new Burton movie. Somerset Studio even did another issue with lots of wonderful Alice art, the first Alice issue some years back is still one of my favorites and I still have my dog-eared copy.
Here’s a picture of all of the Wonderland character soldered domino charms I posted about recently:
and here’s a domino ring I made with Alice:
and here’s my favorite, a charm bracelet. It has charms made with shrink plastic, soldered wooden game pieces, a tiny glass bottle, soldered dominoes, vintage King and Queen puzzle pieces, vintage text and silver charms.
All these items are currently for sale in my Etsy shop, click here.
Tags: alice, altered, bracelet, charms, collage, dominoes, jewelry, mixed media, pendant, ring, soldered, wonderland
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April 7th, 2010
I just can’t seem to stop making things with birds 🙂 Here are a couple of new mixed media necklaces I made last week.
I enjoyed making my Alice in Wonderland Domino charms so much I used a larger domino, inked it blue and stamped a really cool flying bird on it and then soldered around the edges, adding two sets of jump rings to the top to hang from the ball chain. I also adhered a glass rhinestone to the front for a little added bling:
I also made this necklace with a pretty silver bird charm and a tiny soldered word charm that says “fly away” on vintage music paper, also on a ball chain:
Tags: art, bird, birds, charms, collage, domino, fly, fly away, jewelry, mixed media, necklace, pendants, soldered
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April 2nd, 2010
I recently went to a wonderful large antique show with a friend (who bought a super cool vintage Ouija board) and found a couple of really cute children’s books from the 60’s. People are always asking me where I find the book I use for my art work and my best recommendations are used book shops and antique shows, you can usually find some really great books, vintage photos, postcards, music sheets, etc.
Here’s a couple of soldered pendants I made using some illustrations from one of those books.
A tiny cute squirrel, the back says “oh nuts”:
A sweet fawn, the back says “oh deer”:
a sly little fox, the back says “foxy”:
and my personal fave a chimp in a party hat and pink bow tie:
I think the back is pretty funny too:
Tags: animals, books, chimp, critters, fox, jewelry, necklace, party, pendants, soldered, squirrel, vintage
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April 1st, 2010
While digging through one of my many drawers filled with supplies, embellishments, etc. I came across a small box of tiny dominos I’d forgotten about and thought “I need to do something with these” and so I did:) I’ve made domino pins in the past but thought these were too tiny and would make a better charm so I decided to add my love of soldering to them and made some cute soldered domino charms. The fronts are inked and stamped and then the edges are soldered with a jump ring on top. They only measure 1″ x 1/2″ and I think they are adorable. Right now I’ve only done some Alice in Wonderland characters but will probably try some other images soon.
Alice front:
Alice side:
Alice back:
Queen of Hearts:
Mad Hatter:
Royal Alice:
Cheshire Cat:
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March 19th, 2010
My obsession with birds continues. Here are two of my favorite pendants I’ve made in awhile. I made tiny inchie ( 1″) bird collages on vintage paper and added text from vintage books, encased them in glass, soldered around the edges and then added metal corner embellishments to the tops for a scallop roof to form tiny bird houses. So happy with these 🙂
They are both currently available in my Etsy shop, click here.
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