Posts Tagged ‘jewelry’
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
In many of the vintage books I find there is usually a sweet picture on the title page of a child or animal reading a book, these make some of my favorite pendants! I love to read and despite the fact that I cut up books for my art I do dearly love books. I always try to find books that are falling apart, unwanted and unloved so I can give them a new life.
Here’s a few new “reading” pendants, both are currently available in my Etsy shop. And be on the look out for lots more new pendants in the coming weeks, I’ve gotten several great books recently with some wonderful illustrations.
I adore this one, a boy reading to his dog…
Tags:altered, art, bibliophile, books, boy, charm, child, dog, glass, illustration, jewelry, librarian, necklace, pendant, read, reading, solder, soldered, vintage
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
I wanted to share another mixed media charm necklace. It is on a ball chain and has a soldered stamped domino and a soldered round wooden game piece that I added vintage text too as well as a silver charm. I love how these clink around and move as you wear them!
A pretty bird escaping his cage:
available in my Etsy Shop. (sold)
Tags:ball chain, bird, blue, cage, charm, charms, domino, dominoes, fly, flying, game, hand, jewelry, mixed media, necklace, pieces, solder, soldered, vintage
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Sunday, 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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Monday, 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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Tuesday, 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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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Wow, where did the month of December go?……..:)
I’ve really been enjoying making more of the round glass bubble charms, they are so tiny and sweet. Here’s a few of my recent favorites.
These can all be found in my Etsy Shop.
Tags:animals, bear, blue bird, bubble, charm, cow, fox, glass, jewelry, pendant, round, silver, solder, soldered
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
I’ve been very busy making lots of collage art soldered pendants for Halloween. I’ve done lots of witches, women and little girls, a bat fairy and some little wizards too. I think some of these would be great for Harry Potter fans also 🙂 Each hand cut collage is mounted on vintage Italian book paper and sandwiched between glass and soldered around the edges. I added black patina to the solder. These pendants are currently available here in my Etsy shop.
I adore the little grumpy witch asking “who are you calling a witch?”, I almost kept her for myself 🙂
I’m really happy with the bat fairy, I think she’s so cool.
Tags:black, boy, collage, girl, glass, halloween, holiday, jewelry, mixed media, moon, pendant, photos, solder, soldered, vintage, witch, witches, wizard
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The vintage children’s books I use for alot of my solder pendants sometimes have very tiny but cute art in them. Too small for even 1″ square pendants I thought I could find a way to make some teeny pieces with them. So recently I got some flat backed round glass bubbles that are about 3/4″. I soldered around the edges and back and they are perfect. Like a little window with a tiny surprise inside it. I adore the way they turned out!
These can currently be found in my Etsy shop.
Tags:animals, art, book, bubble, charm, critters, glass, illustration, jewelry, mixed media, page, pendant, solder, soldered, soldering, vintage
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
I’m listing some new domino charm jewelry in my Etsy shop this week. And right now I’m working on lots of great new collage art Halloween soldered glass pendants. There are already some in the shop but I’ll listing a lot more in the next week or so, so be sure to check back 🙂
I love this Poe charm, great for Halloween or anyone who loves to read.
And of course Alice is always one of my faves. In addition to the domino charm there are also wooden game tiles with vintage text.
This one is nice and creepy for Halloween, the headless horseman. “Ichabod………..”
And this cute one has scrabble tiles that spell out “BOO” and a cute ghost shaped jingle bell.
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Tags:, alice, altered, charm, charms, domino, dominoes, etsy, game pieces, ghost book, halloween, headless horseman, jewelry, necklace, pendant, poe, scrabble tiles, wonderland
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
A while ago I had found some lovely small vintage photos at an antique store. I think they must have been a type of model shot, some had the same girls in different outfits. They are the perfect size for jewelry. I turned this pretty girl into a fairy by adding blue wings to her. I didn’t want to cut the actual photo so I cut the edge of the wings to match her shoulders and applied them onto the photo. I also added the word “fly” from a vintage book and mounted her on vintage French book paper. The tiny collage is sandwiched between glass and soldered around the edges. Because the photo is black and white I added black patina to the solder to pull everything together.
Tags:blue, collage, fairy, girl, jewelry, mixed media, pendant, photo, photograph, solder, soldered, vintage, wings, woman
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