Monthly Post

...wow, I hope not! lol! I know, it's been forever ... but, well, what can I say...life happens.

Let's see...where to start. How about my latest creations for the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group Making Art! Challenges?  That's a mouthful and a half, isn't it? I forgot to post the last one, and here it is already time for the next one that's due Tuesday.

Here was challenge #21...using the Snow Cap Pigment Ink resist technique...

The stamps are Studio 490, of course, the flower is metal, embossed with some free hand squiggles, then swiped over with black archival. And, I'm sure you recognize the butterfly as Tim's. :) 

On to the current challenge, which is to use a scallop edge and two different border strips.  Here we go:

The colors are Peeled Paint and Wild Honey, which I kind of like together.

The flower is glassine paper cut with the Tattered Florals die, embossed with a folder, and swiped with some Inka Gold by Viva, which you can't see here very well, but it looks pretty cool in real life. 

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go to Stampaway in Cincinnati with my friend Nancy.  We met up with Michael (ok, I've tried all available resources in the last fifteen minutes, and I can't find his blog, sorry Michael!), who graciously drove us around.  I didn't take pics around Cincy, but Nancy and Michael did. lol. He took us to an antique mall, where we all bought something, of course. I found an old jar that was labeled "jar of old stuff". HA! Got it for $5. I also got some brass corners, brass doorplate and some other brass hardware that I believe was originally for a plate rail on the top of a cupboard. Any hoo... here's the goods:

Everything's full of dirt, so I think it was on the floor of a barn or old building or something, and they just scooped it up and put it in a jar. lol. That's ok...that's what old toothbrushes are for. What I thought might be a frozen charlotte head turned out to be a little white pitcher, see it there next to the doorplate? The handle is busted off, but it will still look great as part of an assemblage.

Nancy and I were in the same classes, except I took one that she didn't.

The first one we took was Haunted Little Houses, where we soldered some vintage glass pieces together with a picture sandwiched in between, here's my rookie attempt:

Ok, that's a weird angle, but at least you can see the sides. I do plan on hanging something from the bottom, just haven't gotten to it yet.

The other classes were with Sandy Obertin, where we basically made some jewelry pieces using glass tiles and fantastic film (fusible film).

Yep, wire wrapped by moi.  The top is really iridescent, it's just hard to photograph. Or, it could be the camera operator.

I took another class with Sandy, once again using glass tiles, only this time we used decals, colored pencils and diamond glaze....

There was another class...but it isn't quite finished yet...lol....

A good time was had by all, and a lot of money spent. lol. We'll get into that later. Thanks for stopping by, hope you had a chance to make some art this weekend!