Beaded Charm

I have joined a charm swap and thought I'd try out some of my improved beading skills since reading Beverly Ash Gilbert's book Beaded Colorways. It cleared up some issues I had with the details of the beading process. I was pleased though that the basics of the freeform beading I've been dabbling in were not too far off. I hung the charm up on the wall to try to take a photo of it, it is just over an inch top to bottom.


From one side.

From the other side

ATC catch up

I belong to an ATC group and we have a guessing game every month to try to identify who made which ATC. This means that I can't post up the ATCs as I make them so I always forget to post them up later. So here is a catch up from the last few months.

Birds



Edgar Allen Poe


Texture



Beatles

Book

I made a book for a Christmas gift swap. I stitched some deckle edges notecards into a book block. The front and back were covered with hand painted paper and then I made a tag to decorate it using Tim Holtz stamps.

Christmas decoration

A Christmas decoration made for another swap. It was a piece of mount board covered in fantasy film, heated and then stamped into using black ink. The dangle was made by ironing fantasy film onto an inked stamp.

The Stamp Moves

I participated in a swap where each person in the group sends round a stamp for each person to use. Here are my finished ATCs.


Rosie's stamp. Stamped onto glossy card and then distress inks sponged on top. Used some black german scrap to finish off.

Adrienne's stamp. I sprayed some card with red glimmer mist. I then sprinkled over some UTEE and heated until molten then stamped using some black ink. I then used the stamp on a fragment of polymer clay.

I use a background sprayed with ink sprays and stamped the picture and text. I used a black marker to add the borders and a silver pen to pick out the text.

I used a dictionary page painted with watered down gesso and then coloured using watercolour crayons and water. The image was stamped on a piece of background made using acrylic paint and an old credit card. I then used a sponge to darken the edges of the main image and tint the edges.

Making books

I have been busy making some books after some instruction by Julie Prichard in her Super Nova class.


Hand painted covers and watercolour deckle edged pages


Preprinted paper covers and standard notebook pages


Preprinted paper covers and watercolour pages.

Jigsaw Canvas

This is for a swap. It specified the size of the canvas and the jigsaw pieces and was to contain three pieces. The theme and colours were left open.