Funky face series

Made another one of my funky face cards. I really enjoy these except they make a huge mess. Lots of tiny little pieces floating everywhere and they are hard to corral to use or throw away. As usual with art - sometimes the first piece just doesn't work out - so I might make a few eyes or lips. Then I also have all the tiny pieces of backing paper to contend with. Luckily Zach doesn't come in the studio anymore so I don't have to worry about him eating the pieces that fall to the floor! I have the card up for sale on eBay if you're interested.

Another face

I made another fabric collage art card today .. it's up on eBay now. Sure is hard to place all those little tiny pieces of fabric .. it's fiddly as can be. But it's fun ... here's the link for the auction and here's the card:

This one is much prettier than the last one I made. The contest in Quilting Arts magazine sure got me going .. this is the third one of these I've made!

Funky figures

One of the swaps I'm doing this month with my Embellished Circus mail art group is Funky Figures. At first I tried making a figure using a wine cork as the body but it didn't work out very well. I mean, it worked, but I didn't like it. So then I dug into my embellishment box and came up with two metal pieces that I decided to work around. I think they came out okay.

The first one is a traveler; the head is a half globe with the map of Australia, the banner says Travel, one hand is a charm shaped like Alaska (it's sideways in the photo, oops), the other is a Chinese coin. What's fun is that all the pieces traveled to get to me -- I got the globe from a mail art friend, the travel banner came from Heather in Michigan, the Alaska charm was bought down in Anchorage by my daughter, and the Chinese coin - well, maybe it came from China, LOL.

The second figure is pretty self explanatory. Both the metal body pieces are scrapbook embellishments (from Heather - thank you very much!)!. It really is fun trying to find things that will work with your visions!

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Blatant Advertisement

I've had quite a few inquiries about the dominos .. they are $15 each and shipping for one or two is is $4.25 for priority or $2.00 for first class. I have a PayPal account so if you pay that way I can ship right away. I can ship overseas too but it won't get there in time for the holidays. I'm told the deadline for mailing is Dec 12th for the states. Well, that's if you want it to get there in time for Xmas/Channukah.

I've also been asked about how I make these ... so ... I'm taking photos as I go along and might make it into an on-line class. It's just too complicated to write up as a tutorial. Especially if you haven't worked with some of the supplies before.

That said - as of this evening I have all 70 dominos stamped and glossed and only have about 25 more to bead. Then it's on to making 70 necklaces! The end is in sight!!!!!!!!

Same old stuff

Finished stamping about 25 dominos today and inked up another 25. I took everyone's advice and made more of certain types and none of others, LOL. I did use the Staz-on ink this time and I ended up with 3 that I didn't like so I collaged them. I thought I'd take a photo of them before they were enameled .. less glare. Here's the latest bunch ...

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Here's the batch I inked ... there's a lot of green in this batch. I'm afraid the bluish purple one in the bottom row will have to be collaged .. it's way too dark.
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and here's my niece's treasure box that I made for her holiday present. I actually got to do something today besides doms for a little bit! Yay!

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Domino Madness

I have been working on dominos like mad the past few days. I am going to try to sell these at a Christmas bazaar one Saturday in December. Of course I really should go sign up for it. It's a small bazaar held every weekend in December in a half-empty mall in North Pole. It never fills so it shouldn't be a problem. If I can't get in I'll just open an Etsy shop on the web and see if I can move them that way. Anyhow - you know that saying that there are no mistakes, only opportunities?

I had the opportunity to do a couple of collages on this batch of dominos. I discovered that you can't make a dark background and expect the black ink to show up. I might try silver next time. I also found out that pigment ink does not dry on these things no matter how long you leave them. I was trying to avoid using the Staz-on permanent ink because I hate how it won't clean off the stamps. I ended up having to spray these with a light coat of polyurethane to seal it before I enameled them. Live and learn!

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Oh, oh, oh .. almost forgot ... also learned that a husband who was given green glow in the dark powder will bug you to death until you agree to put some on a domino. One of the doms with the Japanese characters has a 2nd character stamped on it that only shows up in the dark. Crazy.