June 4th, 2009
I belong to a mixed media artist group on Etsy called Melange and each Wednesday we have a challenge word and everyone makes an art piece based on that word. This weeks word is “Fly”, which happens to be a favorite word of mine, I use it often in my work. I made two pieces for the challenge, both Art Cards, using some really fun small bingo cards I bought at a convention a few years ago and some cool black and white alphabet beads. Be sure to visit the Melange Team blog : http://melangeonetsy.blogspot.com/ and click on the comments to visit my fellow artists blogs and see what they made for the challenge. Also please feel free to participate in the challenge yourself, you do not need to be a member, just link to your artwork in the comments section too.
my first card is a cute fairy flying a butterfly:
my other card is a bird inside a cage:
Tags: ACEO, art card, ATC, bird, challenge, fairy, fly, melange
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May 31st, 2009
Here’s some more soldered pendants using the latest vintage children’s book I found, these are more “fantasy”.
Fairy runny though flower stalks:
Mermaid swimming under water, I added a sweet turtle charm to the bottom:
Fairy riding on a beetle (very usual illustration, I love it):
Tags: beetle, bugs, fairies, fairy, fantasy, jewelry, mermaid, pendnat, soldered, turtle
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May 27th, 2009
I found another wonderful vintage children’s book, this one is from 1937, it has some amazing illustrations in it, lots of cute animals and fairies! Here are some soldered pendants I recently made with some of the illustrations, they are all woodsy animals.
little squirrel:
little bunny:
wise Mr. Owl:
These pendants are currently for sale in my Etsy shop: http://www.PisforPaper.etsy.com
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May 26th, 2009
I found a really neat black and white illustration of a frog in a vintage children’s book and thought he’d make a great friend for one of my fairies:) I made a copy of him and colored him with colored pencils and then added a sweet fairy holding a rhinestone wand hopping a ride on his back. I also added a mushroom, frogs and mushrooms just go together, right? 🙂 They are sitting on a hill of polka dotted paper and the background is vintage book paper that’s been white washed. I hung it on a cute metal hanger and added the word “Dream”.
Tags: collage, dream, fairies, fairy, fairyland, frog, hanging, mushroom
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May 22nd, 2009
Just a quick post to share a sweet little Art Card. It’s a fairy holding out her pretty dress to show it off, she’s got big yellow wings and a bow on her head with a rhinestone. I added a stamped plaque with the word Dream. It’s on green cardstock and paper torn from a vintage French text book.
Tags: ACEO, art card, artist trading card, fairy, green, yellow
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May 14th, 2009
Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, my husband was on vacation so I decided to take a little break from creating and recharge a bit:)
Here’s a couple of fun altered collages pieces of fairies caught inside glass jars. I made the collage of the a fairy on a vintage book page and inserted it into a canning jar (the kind with no writing imprinted on them) and tucked some fake grass and paper flowers inside the bottom of the jar. I then aged a tag and stamped some neat sentiments on them, one says “Evidence” the other says “Dept of Antiquities” and tied them around the jars with cool ribbons. The lid of the jar was too shiny and new looking for me so I used a sponge and added some black permanent ink to age them up a bit.
Tags: altered, captured, caught, collage, fairies, fairy, jar
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May 1st, 2009
Here’s a super fun pendant I made recently, it would be perfect for anyone who does any kind of paper crafts, sewing, school teacher, hair dresser, etc.. I took an image of a girl from a vintage dictionary and drew a tiny pair of scissors in her hand. I cut the words “runs with scissors” from the same dictionary but wanted them to stand out more so I backed them with black cardstock. I sandwiched it between glass and soldered the piece and then added a really cool gold scissors charm to the bottom, the scissors actually open and close, neat huh? 🙂
Tags: dictionary, girl, jewelry, pendant, runs with, scissors, soldered, vintage
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April 24th, 2009
I’ve been trying to participate lately in more “challenges”, it’s where a website or group picks a theme, idea or product and everyone makes something based around it and then shares their art. It’s so much fun to see all the different ideas others come up with all based around the same theme.
My “Artchix” yahoo group has a current challenge called “Go Fly a Kite” and my Melange team from Etsy has a challenge called “Ticket” and an idea came to me to combine the two and so I made this ATC called “Flight Ticket”.
Please visit the Melange team website and click on the “Mix it up with Melange” post comments section to find links to other participants art work: http://melangeonetsy.blogspot.com/ each Wednesday a new challenge will be posted.
You might also want to consider joining the Artchix yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artchixstudio/
Tags: ACEO, art card, ATC, butterfly, challenge, fairy, fly, kite, ticket
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April 23rd, 2009
I wanted to make something a little different than what I normally make with my soldering and decided to make a wall hanging, it was inspired by a piece from Sally Jean who is an amazing collage and soldering artist. I took 3 glass panels, each 3″ x 1″ and cut backgrounds for them from vintage French book paper and added the words “Home” “Tweet” and “Home” to each, on the last one I also added a cute little bird nest with blue eggs. I soldered each panel with scalloped edge solder and soldered jump rings to each then attached the panels together with more jump rings, hung a chain from the top and a tiny silver bird charm from the bottom. I’m thrilled with how it came out! 🙂
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Tags: bird, eggs, home, nest, soldered, tweet, wall hanging
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April 21st, 2009
I logged into my Etsy shop tonight and found out that one of my items had been featured on the front page! I’m so thrilled to be picked and featured on the site 🙂 Here’s a screen shot, my soldered button and game piece is on the bottom, middle of the screen.
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