Archive for June, 2010

It’s Getting Steamy in Here

Thursday, 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.

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So Charming

Monday, 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.

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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.

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These are both currently available in my Etsy shop, click here to visit.

Spread Your Wings

Thursday, 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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