Ginger Tom Brooch

The latest challenge over at Artful Times is to make a badge button or brooch so I thought I'd have a go.

I've been playing with some Pebeo Prisme Fantasy Paint and covered a wooden cat blank.

The colours I used are mandarin and Moonshine.

I love how the colours mix together, one of the fun things about this paint is that you never know what patterns you will get.

I adhered a pin to the back when the paint dried and this is me modelling it, I was really pleased how he turned out.

Birds Nest Pendant.

It was my friends birthday a couple of weeks ago and I made her some jewellery for her gift.

I made the birds nest by threading three beads onto some wire and then wrapping the wire round to make the nest, then I added the bird. I attached a chain that I made with some jump rings and beads and them made some earrings to match.

Here is a closeup of the nest.

I also made her a bangle by wrapping wire and then adding beads.

Stampboard Pendant

I made this pendant for a Stampboard Mingle at KCUK and now that Ann has received it I can blog it.
I started of by getting hubby to drill the holes, next time I do anything like this I shall make the holes a little larger. I stamped the image, not sure who's stamp it is, then masked the image before colouring the background with blue Brilliance ink then a little galaxy gold round the edge. The hair and flower were coloured useing Promarkers. I tripple embossed with clear UTEE and on the second embossed layer I added some gold micro beads. After each layer I had to make sure that the holes didn't get clogged up with the UTEE.  After it cooled down I added some jump rings, chain and charms then added the cord.

Steampunk Pendants

I thought I'd show something different today. I made this pendent at a jewellery workshop a couple of months ago. It started of as a brooch but I decided I'd prefer it as a pendant so I added a hangy thing at the top.

 It was my friend Alison's birthday this week so I made her this pendant for her gift. I added a cord to finish it of.

I didn't like this one very much when I made it and was going to pull it apart, but the more I looked at it the more I liked it.

Crystal Pendant

This month at the workshop we did bead stringing and I made this pendant out of Swarovski Crystals. There are approximately 135 crystals and it took ages, the workshop was for 2 hours but we were there nearer 3 hours. I'm pleased with the result though and will have another go one day.

Bangles and Beads

I thought I'd blog something different today.
Last year I started going to a monthly jewellery workshop and these are some of the pieces that I've made there.