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.

Here’s the last of the jewelry I made this week, all cute animals:)

The first is a Queen Bee pin, I used images from an old field guide of a bee and honey comb, there is also a gold bee hive charm hanging from it.

The next two pins are made with adorable kitty and doggie pictures with the words “Best Friend”. I added black patina to the solder of all these pins, I love the aged look it adds.

Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile, I’ve had the flu:( Today’s the first chance I’ve had to work on any collage stuff so I made several soldered pins and necklaces today. I’ll post them all over the next few days but here’s my last Halloween one for the year. A cute little witch pin (I named her “Witchy Poo”) holding a big pumpkin, soldered between microscope slides and a black patina added to the solder.

and another piece, a necklace with a tiny dancing fairy on her tippy toes on a hill as a butterfly goes by. The charm says “Imagine”.

I worked on some more soldered jewelry for Halloween today. I made another fun witch with the word “Wicked” and an old rusty star in a microscope slide pendant, I stamped an image of Edgar Allen Poe with a raven on his head on an old book page with the word “Nevermore” and cut a microscope slide in half to make a smaller pendant for a cute little wizard in a starry hat, his says “Cast a Spell”. I added a black patina to the solder to make them black and aged looking.

Patina is easy to use, it’s a liquid that comes in a bottle (you can get it on-line or at a stain glass store), just put some on a cotton ball and rub it on clean solder, it changes color right away by a cool chemical reaction.