Working a little more on charms

Yesterday i worked a little more on charms...practiced soldering a little more....and i found that if that tape is not on the soldered item correctly...FORGET IT! the tape can bulge out,,,be very wrinkled or rip....and the solder goes on as smooth or bumpy as the tape is applied! So take time to burnish the metal tape onto the item correctly...this will save a lot of time (and heart break!!!)

So....i wanted to get a little different look attached to my charms...like smaller charms attached to bigger ones...so i had some sqaure GLASS BEADS...in leapard print....i taped them nice and smooth and soldered...then i soldered the jump ring to a corner instead of in the middle and it looked more like a diamond than a square shape.....i love thisnew tiny hanging charm...now i will search for pretty flat glass beads to solder.....thet have a lot out there now.....check out the picture ........

Today is "back to dolls" day!!!

Charming!!! ....REALLY!!!

Man....i got on the Charm wagon...i dont thinking i'm getting off soon!! This was such a learning experience and i cannot stop trying new ways to make these cool little embellishments for ...well...i dont know....i guess they could be for EVERYTHING....

So.... instead of going for the new L Vuitton pocketbook for my anniversary...i got a new Soldering setup....a circle (lens) glass cutter....a glass/clay grinder wheel...and a new heat gun.
My husband taught me how to solder and cut glass...squares and circles! i'm going to need a bit of practice...but what i did was pretty cool. I learned a lot of cool things from a book called Pretty Little Things...the author made some amazing things and it totally inspired me.....

I also made some charms out of clear rubber tubing......and stamped images on clay and painted watercolor paper that was embossed with clear utee embossing powder...see the attched "Charm" photos

An ART JOURNAL

well...its the end of april already....and i have been LOST in art....last weekend i got together with Tery and Stephanie to create a JOURNAL book. We made them from scratch with canvas board. I created my cover by taking 2 pieces of cardboard and covering them with paper that i treated and embossed, also material that i free motioned and stained....and then glued the covers to a spine ....adding the paper "signatures" with a piece of dyed ribbon. Embellishments were made out of clay....paper...utee...stamps and paint/inks/metalic powders.

Now the pages will get filled in with Art Charms.....!!!!!