Faux Pewter Necklace

Dragged out my melting pot yesterday and made a summer necklace. The shell pendant and faux pewter coral beads were made from platinum UTEE and then rubbed with silver Rub N Buff. I made the molds with mold n pour and a real scallop shell and coral pieces.

PONY CAVE PAINTING

I love primitive native American stamps and this pony stamp from I Break For Stamps is one of my favorites. This card came about because I had some scraps of Granitx Sculpey polymer clay laying about that I wanted to use. I kneaded the scraps together just enough to make a smooth ball of clay but not enough to blend the colors too much. Rolled it out until it was large enough for the pony stamp. Stamped the pony on the sheet with permanent ink. I like to stamp before baking and press the stamp into the clay slightly. This way you get a nice impression. If you bake the clay first, sometimes it warps and then you can't get a good impression. Bake the clay according to package instructions. When the clay has cooled, swipe the edges with gold ink.

The base card is made from dusty pink cardstock. The background paper is a piece of wallpaper that I thought looked like rock strata. Wallpaper sample books are your friend. They are great for background papers. Back to the card, adhere the background paper to your card with double stick tape. Use thick white craft glue to adhere the clay piece to the card. I don't think double stick tape will not do the job for the clay piece.

Jeweled Tapestry Card

The card is made with a stamp from one of the new Posh Asian sets from I Brake For Stamps that will be coming out soon. IBFS is the new home for Posh rubber stamps. IBFS also has a huge collection of other images including animals, fantasy, Asian, western, southwestern, people, words and cute and cuddly. You can see all their offerings at http://www.ibrakeforstamps.com/

When ordering, use my code SAVE10KATHY to get a 10% discount.

I stamped the image with gold pigment ink on cocoa cardstock. Let dry or speed up drying with a heat tool. The flowers and leaves were painted with a combination of Smooch Ink, Dr. PH Martin's irridescent inks, Twinkling H2O's and metallic gel pens. Affix jewels to the centers of the flowers and the little circles in the design. Cut down cardstock until you have a 1/4 inch border of the cocoa cardstock remaining around the image. Mount to a gold panel that has been dry embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. Mount to a cocoa card.

Jeweled Tapestry Card

This card is a coming attraction from two new Asian sets of Posh stamps that will be offered by I Brake for Stamps, the new home for Posh stamps. IBFS also has an amazing collection of rubber stamps in every design category you can think of. The are southwestern, western, native American, Asian, fantasy, women, animals and word stamps.

MINI ATC ALBUM

Artist Trading Cards (ATC's) are very popular in the stamping world and here is a little album I made to hold my special cards. I cut up a shirt size gift box to make the covers and pages. The cover and pages were decorated with stamp pads and the direct to paper method, rubber stamps and stickers. Two holes were punched on the left handside of the cover and all pages. A coated pony tail elastic was pulled through the holes and a tree twig was used to secure the pages. Fibers were tied to the twig.

The pages on the inside of the album are decorated and then a clear plastic ATC sleeve is run through a Xyron machine and adhered to the center of each page. The ATC's are then slid into the clear sleeves

Encaustic Kimono

I was playing around my my encaustic waxes today and attempted to make a kimono with the waxes. My freehand drawing with the stylus writing tip needs a lot of work. Actually, what I need is drawing lessons.