Purple Petals...Amber Rose Miniatures...Tweener TECHNIQUES!

Well its been a busy 2 weeks with a lot going on and Nothing getting DONE!!! I guess it was a "TIME OUT" for technique learning!

  Last week I took at class at the PURPLE PETALs STUDIO in Maspeth NY with my friend Heather!  We Took a Minitaure Class with Amber Rose.  Amber is a Minature artist extrordinaire...creating the most beautiful charms from clay and mixed media. We learned a "skinner" blend and how to create beautiful shades of color blending into each other for petals and leaves.  All of the work with clay for dolls...we were the "dummies of the class!!!"...There is a whole "Other" clay world out there!!! So much to explore...not enough time to create it all!!!!   See some of the pictures.....Of course I came up with some vintage Treats and pillows with the tiniest flowers that are my favorite thing that Amber taught me....They will probably adorn my next couple of dolls!!!    The picture of the mixed minies are Ambers beautiful inspirations..... There is a picture of Amber Rose teaching, and also of Dori,  The Fantastic creative Owner of the Purple Petals Studio!

Also happening soon is my "Make and Take GIG" at the shepherd Valley creamery on Saturday may 8th.  I will have a set up there, doing a make and take for kids to make tiny sheep dolls....the picture are my samples of what we will do....The little sheep is sculpted from clay ...cover in sheep hair and painted.  The other is a sewn felt body using the same technique.

And One last thing I did this week, was bought a couple of the Tim Holtz Sizzix dies and created a bird cage charm.  Of course it was too big for me...so I cut it out of Shrinky dink...dyed it with some alcohol inks , stamped it..."vintaged" it up with some metallic rub-on colors AND SHRUNK it...Added some  worn findings...! Of Course, My Bird is OUT of her cage!!!   A "Sagg" is always working on "being FREE!!"   Its pretty cool looking and its "just my size"!!!