Posts Tagged ‘soldered’
Wednesday, 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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Friday, 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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Friday, February 12th, 2010
One of the great old children’s books I got recently was in really bad shape, pages torn, falling apart and crumbling but it wasn’t surprising considering the book was dated 1918, it’s almost 100 years old! It has some simply gorgeous illustrations in it, lots of cute animals reading books and fairies in flowers, they are simply lovely! Here are a few soldered pendants I’ve made with some of the illustrations.
An adorable frog on a lily pad reading:
A trio of birds reading / singing:
A sweet bunny rabbit reading, I love the little bird perched on the top of the book:
a dandy black crow all dressed up and strutting around (I added a black patina to the solder on this one):
a dapper fairy sitting in a morning glory (this one is going to my mom for her birthday, she loves fairies and is a world class gardener)
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Tags:antique, birds, black, book, books, bunny, children's, collage, crow, frog, illustrations, jewelry, pendants, reading, soldered, vintage
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Here’s a few more of the soldered pendants with vintage illustrations I’ve made recently………….
A little girl discovering a bunny, she’s on the front, the bunny’s on the back:
Two owls sitting under the moon:
A tiny bird nest and birds:
A fox in the forest:
and this one is a shadowbox with a silver bird cage charm inside with a teeny tiny blue bird in the cage:
These are all curently available in my Etsy shop.
I also have listed a smaller version (5″) of my vintage white button heart in an embroidery hoop in my shop as well.
Tags:, bird, bunny, cage, collage, forest, fox, girl, illustrations, jewelry, nest, owls, pendants, soldered, vintage
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
I recently found a couple more gorgeous vintage children’s books, one was in pretty bad shape and that makes it easier to cut it up:) They both have some wonderful illustrations that I’m turning into soldered pendants. Here’s a few I’ve made so far.
This first one I really love, the white cow is so sweet but mostly because I feel so clever with what I put on the back side:
This next one is a sweet Momma Cat and her kittens:
A birds nest and bird flying away (love this one!):
and this one is a child riding a horse under a full moon, really neat:
All these pendants are currently for sale here in my Etsy shop. And I’ll be adding even more in the next few days.
Tags:bird, book, cat, collage, cow, flowers, glass, horse, illustration, jewelry, kittens, mixed media, nest, page, paper, pendant, ride, soldered, vintage
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
I can’t believe it’s already December!
I’ve been working on some soldered holiday ornaments, here’s a few made with vintage children’s illustrations. I particularly love the bunny, the back of it says “snow bunny” 🙂
isn’t this Santa illustration great? The back says “I believe in Santa Claus”:
and this one is double sided with two illustrations of little girls on a sled:
these are all currently available in my Etsy shop
Tags:christmas, collage, holiday, illustrations, ornaments, soldered, vintage
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
My favorite holiday is Halloween, so much so my hubby and I got married the evening before. I can’t believe that was almost 5 years ago now 🙂 I really think I could make Halloween art all year round so I love to get a early start on items for my Etsy shop.
Here’s more of the soldered pendants I’ve been working on:
A couple more dictionary illustration, this time a black bird. On the back I added sheet music and the words “blackbird singing” for a Beatles inspiration
an adorable tiny bat illustration ( I LOVE this one so much!:))
The rest are vintage illustrations from a children’s story book.
A witch riding her broom in front of the moon, I added the words “happy Halloween”
A big happy smiling Jack O Lantern
a cute black kitten with a big orange pumpkin, I added the word “boo”
Tags:bat, black, blackbird, broom, cat, halloween, jack o lantern, jewelry, kitten, moon, pumpkin, soldered, witch
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Wow, where has August gone?? I’ve been so busy and I’ve really neglected my blog, sorry!
This week I was a soldering fool 🙂 and made a ton of new pendants, I’ll be posting them here and for sale in my Etsy shop ( http://www.PisforPaper.etsy.com ) over the next week or so. I wanted to get a little early start on Halloween so alot of them are for my favorite holiday, Halloween!
I’ve been continuing to cut up the fabulous vintage dictionary I got awhile ago and here are a few pendants with some of the wonderful illustrations.
This is very Poe inspired, plus I have a thing for ravens and crows. The back includes the definition for “nevermore”
Really pretty owl illustration
and a funny one, a concertina with the words “I heart Polka” added 🙂
Tags:crow, definition, dictionary, halloween, illustration, owl, pendant, poe, polka, raven, soldered, vintage, woodland
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Here’s some more of my new collaged and soldered pendants.
I really love these first two, they are tiny collages done on vintage French book paper, I added lots of brown ink to age them even more, stamped postage cancellation marks and a tiny stamped vintage looking label and added numbers to them so they looked like old specimen labels. One features a bird, the other a butterfly:
here’s another fairy with an attitude, she’s got a bored look on her face and I added the word “whatever”, cut from a vintage dictionary:
and lastly something a little different for me, a tiny paper piecing of a house and a tree, I cut and punched them out of cardstock and patterned papers, the background is vintage French book paper. I also added a small metal key to the bottom:
Tags:, bird, butterfly, faires, fairy, glass, home, house, jewelry, paper, pendant, soldered, specimen
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Just a quick post to share some more of the pendants I made last week.
This one is from a vintage dictionary, I cut out the picture of the artists palette and added the words ” make art every day”
this next one I called “Madam Butterfly”, it’s a vintage Geisha image, I added wings to her and a tiny mulberry paper flower, the background is cut from an Asian book I found at the used book store. I also added a kanji charm to the bottom
Tags:jewelry, pendants, soldered
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