tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75000672524392149942024-03-16T18:51:53.011+00:00Niky Sayers Artisan JewelleryNiky Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02403350799209777898noreply@blogger.comBlogger518125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500067252439214994.post-66426368749300318632020-04-30T06:18:00.000+01:002020-04-30T06:18:23.181+01:00Bees! The April Theme Reveal!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Thank you all for joining us for this months Art Element Theme Challenge, I don't know about you but this was a much welcomed distraction for me! I, as always was hoping to make more but life happens and I got one project that I had wanted to do for a while done!</div>
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As soon as I saw this gold work bee in the Stitch magazine (June/July 2019 issue 119) by Georgina Bellamy aka that embroidery girl I knew I wanted to make it I just needed a push, and this challenge was it!</div>
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I can't follow instructions so mine is a little different but I enjoyed the challenge. Gold work is incredibly fiddly and the photos don't show how small this piece is, it's less then 2 inches (my hands make every thing look bigger)!</div>
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The piece in the magazine had a pearl for its back end but I was desperate to use this lovely lamp work bee bead by Stephanie White.</div>
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Here is the finished piece, it's a pendent at the moment but I think I will turn it into a brooch or maybe frame it?</div>
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Thank you so much for visiting, I can't wait to see what everyone else has created!</div>
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<strong>AE team:</strong><br />
<a href="https://silverniknats.blogspot.com/">Niky</a><br />
<a href="http://susankennedy.net/">Sue</a><br />
<a href="https://jdaviesreazor.com/blog/?fbclid=IwAR3gM4844eBkKMce5c-IDqLA6DDziQRpnVw7lOJELymlxof_5yRGg8cIGQk">Jenny</a><br />
<a href="https://jencameron.net/march-theme-reveal-gnomes/">Jen</a><br />
<a href="https://cmendola.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR0ddWSb1zS7Ccql3iBwsmpv1wHColr4Mtu26selshhQJw_SgSkJJvervgw">Cathy</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.marshanealstudio.com/?fbclid=IwAR0pg5KkbfFTH_MKhYT1mF5T-0RMcmVvS5vKF6B7frDFj80qn45PdTB0BsE">Marsha</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.paisleylizard.com/blog/">Tammy</a><br />
<a href="https://catswire.blogspot.de/">Cat</a><br />
<a href="https://chicchixnchampagne.blogspot.com/">Alysen</a><br />
<a href="https://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/">Kathy</a><br />
<a href="https://sjdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com/2020/04/art-elements-theme-of-month-april-2020.html">Sarajo</a><br />
<a href="https://meanderingwithkelly.blogspot.com/">Kelly</a><br />
<a href="http://ebbeadandmetalworks.blogspot.com/">Evie and Beth</a><br />
<a href="https://craftyhope.com/">Hope</a><br />
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Niky Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02403350799209777898noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500067252439214994.post-67813358576855198752020-03-28T13:40:00.003+00:002020-03-28T13:40:42.824+00:00Gnomes! The March theme reveal!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well March has been a rollercoaster kinda month! With alot of home schooling I only managed to create this little fellow for the Gnome theme....</div>
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He's not finished and currently looks more wizard then gnome, but I like him!<br />
He is made from air drying clay with glass eyes that I brought from eBay, wool hair, beard and eye brows and felt clothing and hat.<br />
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I am really looking forward to seeing what everyone else has created as I am in much need of distraction! </div>
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<a href="http://lesleywatt.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db613a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesley</a></div>
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<a href="http://saraccino.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db613a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Claire</a></div>
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<a href="http://silverniknats.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db613a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Niky</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.paisleylizard.com/blog" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db613a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tammy.</a> </div>
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<a href="http://lindalandig.wordpress.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db613a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Linda</a></div>
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<a href="http://craftyhope.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #db613a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hope</a></div>
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Niky Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02403350799209777898noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500067252439214994.post-28576971893591286452020-02-29T10:54:00.004+00:002020-02-29T10:54:58.969+00:00February Theme Challenge Reveal – Letters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #989898; font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(152, 152, 152); font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;">These books are amazing (and only a small </span></span><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(152, 152, 152); font-size: 14px;">handful</span></span><span style="color: #989898;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;"> of the ones I brought, not to mention that I took books out from the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">library</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;"> as well) It is </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">safe</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;"> to say most of my month was taken up reading and watching you tube classes on how to do calligraphy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #989898; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;">Or </span></span><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">browsing</span></span><span style="color: #989898;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;"> (and buying) art supplies, I love that pens and inks are </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">relatively </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;">cheap </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">compared</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;"> to the prices of silver, gold and designer </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">cabochons!</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(152, 152, 152); font-size: 14px;">a necklace made up of hand sawn words from silver sheet metal that would wrap around the neck and was set with beautiful stones in-between </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(152, 152, 152); font-size: 14px;">dangly earrings from soldered wire that spelt out dream on on one earring and dreamer on the other</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(152, 152, 152); font-size: 14px;">design my own coffee mug for work</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(152, 152, 152); font-size: 14px;">write on my walls and frame it!!!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Paint my Childs cupboard in chalk board paint and practice chalk lettering (with the excise it was for him)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #989898; font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">label everything</span></span></li>
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I LOVE the idea of a handmade Christmas (Kirstie's Handmade Christmas is my favourite TV shows ever and I have learnt of soooo many crafts that I had never even heard of from that show!!!) Every year I try to make more and more things but don't ever really feel that I manage to make very much as Christmas is just so busy, but this year I started much earlier and managed to get a lot more done!<br />
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The biggest problem I had was trying to photograph every thing as there was just next to no day light and very little time before finishing a piece and having to package it up to post it off in time, so some things I made I have no photos of! </div>
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This necklace was one of the hardest pieces I have ever worked on! The opal was on a base of sand stone and it kept crumbling away as I was fitting the bezel. Half way through the top half of the opal broke off and I almost gave up, but the stone ended up looking so much better with out the inclusions at the top so I filed it round and kept going, and I am glad I did as I really love this one.</div>
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This one I kept! Its an Andamooka opal with a trilobite on the back, handmade chain and I intend to make a trilobite clasp to finish it off.</div>
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There was so much more things I made but I think I will need to invest in some kind of daylight lamp and a better camera as the photos did not make the cut! </div>
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Thank you all so much for joining in with the November theme challenge, I am so excited to see what everyone has made.<br />
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November started off so promising, I had so many ideas. I gathered all of my fossils and stuck them all onto my wooden board....<br />
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I set about making my fossil moulds....</div>
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I then made lots of little silver clay fossils, I spent hours sanding the backs flat, the sides neat and I then fired them in the kiln and....</div>
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Melted them into blobs (I should have just used the torch but I thought the kiln would be easier)! At this point I gave up for the day and the next day my boiler leaked through my floor and flooded my neighbour downstairs so I had to have the boiler and water switched off for almost a week, 7 days of no running water and no heating and a hotel stay killed all my mojo so I only managed to make one of the pieces I had planed on (you can't win them all)!</div>
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This month our October theme - eyes, was chosen by the wonderful Laney Mead and I have had such a roller coaster of emotions making my piece!<br />
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I had these elements blue tacked on my wall for so long, but I never got around to making the piece as I was, well ....scared! This has been the most complicated, the largest and the most expensive piece I have made to date and I was rather worried I would mess it up.<br />
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I never normally draw designs but I thought this might help keep me calm! I was hoping for a magical talisman kind of look?!?!<br />
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After two solid days of sawing soldering and hoping, it worked!!!<br />
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I still need to make some kind of chain and I may well add more LOS and some more texture as I want it looking older and well loved!<br />
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But I'm really happy with how it turned out. It has 14mm amethyst, wolf eyes by Laura Mears, a Tiffany stone, some petrified wood by Designer Cabochons and some touches of gold, plus there is a 14mm moonstone on the back....<br />
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With a hand sawn wolf and a cast silver Crinoid star.<br />
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Thank you Laney with out your challenge I never would have got around to making this piece!!!<br />
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It's time again for the Art Elements reveal and this months theme, chosen by the amazing <a href="https://blueberribeads.co.uk/">Caroline</a> was foliage. I started off this month with out any idea of what I was going to make and then I got inspiration form the life book summit, there was a wonderful lesson by Dar James that shows how to create a beautiful water colour and gesso painting. I did not like the idea of freehand drawing lots of leaves so the neat freak in me made me cut our some templates....</div>
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Then with the help of Dar James I created these.....<br />
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Now none of these are finished yet, so lots of works in progress! The green one was my first attempt but I did not like the bold neat lines so I made a couple more attempts, I am thinking I will use the light one and the green to practice on and the bold red one will be for best. Think more detail and the words Hello Autumn in some kind of beautiful lettering!!!!</div>
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The little leaf templates ended being used in this piece that I started ages ago from the lesson by Laura Horn, again still not completed but I'm getting there!</div>
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I'm defiantly in autumn mode at the moment as I have been photocopying, laminating and cutting out lots of these watercolour leaves to use in our seasonal tree at work, to help our residents with dementia.</div>
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Another project I have been working on but have not finished is this little A7 water colour book with goddess focal by the amazing Leslie and matching draw string bag.</div>
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The little draw string bag is made from recycled leather from a tobacco pouch and is made to fit this tiny jam jar and mini water colour pallet.</div>
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It's that time again, another month has ended (I'm sure the older you get the quicker time seems to go)!</div>
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This months Art Elements theme was chosen by the wonderfully talented Jenny Davies-Reazor and was some thing I had never heard of, Selkies! </div>
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I have to say I watched the film - Song of the Sea as Jenny recomended and I fell in love!!! Such a beautiful story with amazing graphics and a beautiful sound track, I was humming the songs for days!!!! </div>
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My first idea was to make a Selkie but I also now have a sketch book full of ideas from the film too!</div>
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Unusually I started early this month and I am very thankful for that for I had not realised how much time goes into make an art doll!</div>
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It took a lot of trial and error to come up with a pattern for my doll that I was happy with and then I found that you could buy blanc doll forms ready made off Etsy (if I ever make one again, I'm buying pre-made)! </div>
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The doll was painted with acrylic paint and I sewed on some eye lashes and eye brows. Her hair is made from wefts of grey mohair that I put some sparkle strands in. Her top and skirt were made from silk, ribbons and Angelica fibres.</div>
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Her Seal coat (made from some very old velvet that I saved from an upholstered bench) has a little seal face on the hood, flippers by her hands and a little tail at the back, with a little goldwork wire stitched in. It's not sewn very well or very neatly but it will do!</div>
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I do rather love the cute little seal face!</div>
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Thank you so much Jenny for introducing me to the wonderful world of Selkies, I can't wait to see what everyone else has created....</div>
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Thanks so much Sue for a wonderful challenge, I really enjoyed it. I took the children out exploring some of the local woods for inspiration, we had a picnic lunch and really made a day of it!<br />
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I got out all of my art beads, I even drew up several plans - see the Laura Mears wolf eyes? they were going to be set in metal clay twigs in a prong style setting with the surrounding beads. The owl face bead was going to be wire wrapped into a hair fork and the beautiful orange fox cab by Lesley Watt was going to be mounted on metal to make a pin for my coat. But alas I ran out of month before I even got properly started! But I do have a couple of works in progress.....</div>
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This charming hedgehog cab by Caroline shall be set on a metal plate and held in place by little oak leaves and the lovely brass oak leaf by Lesley shall be stiched in place with thread to match the binding (my first attempt at a long stitch binding).</div>
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I planned the same sort of thing for this lovely fox cab by Jenny but this book is filled with water colour paper.... still a work in progress!</div>
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The only thing I did manage to get finished were these feather and twig paintbrushes, these work really well for super thin lines and are really easy to make!</div>
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As always the month has gone so quickly! I have throughly enjoyed this months Art Elements Challenge set by our wonderful Lesley and I fell into the rabbit hole that is Pinterest looking for ideas! Unfortunately there were more ideas then month but I managed to finish up a few....<br />
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First off I took one of those cheap little sayings books that you always find in the charity shop and I turned it into an art journal, this was done by removing half the pages and sticking every other page together for added strength. once the glue was dry I gave each page a layer of gesso (this part took for ever as I had to wait for the gesso to dry before moving on to the next page)! I then added scraps of paper and stamps to the cover with another layer of gesso and this one is ready for adding lots of colour! </div>
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My next idea was to create a junk journal, but I wanted one with a hard cover and an enclosed spine I had not made one of these yet so this was very much an experiment.... </div>
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Every part of this book has been repurposed/recycled. The cover of the book used to be the lining fabric of a upholstered bench (I kept this and a beautiful grey velvet from the bench) that I added water colour paint to, the hard board for the cover is recycled from the back of a water colour pad, the spine (which you can't see) is old sari silk and the pages are and assortment of old ephemera.<br />
This one is a little over 3 inches and rather messy being a first attempt, So I though I would have another go to see if I could get a neater finished item....<br />
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This one I like much more! It's bigger at 4 1/2 inches and made of the same things but has a recycled symbol embossed? on the front cover (hand cut from the back of the water colour pad and then glued in place before covering) and this time I did not gesso the pages as they took soooo very long to dry, but there is a lovely mix of old envelopes, music paper and drawings from interesting books! After this one turned out so well I got a little cocky and thought I would try something a little fancier with this beautiful hare focal by our multi talented Caroline....<br />
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But I'm not too sure about this one as it did not turn out as I envisioned it! <br />
I used Carolines focals as the inspiration and mimicked the oval and the swirly edge but I did mine as Celtic and they should have been more art nouveau, still you live you learn!<br />
The focal is set into the cover not just glued on top, but the water colour on the cover looked a little pale so I kept adding more colour, now I'm thinking it would have looked better on a dark leather background!?!<br />
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This months challenge was brought to us by our ultra talented Jen Cameron and was the adorable Luna Moth!</div>
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Normally I'm not a fan of moths or butterflies! Yes, they can be <u>very</u> beautiful but then they do that fluttering thing, and it is hard to predict where they are going to fly which makes me uncomfortable and then they start to dive bomb me at which point I run around the butterfly house trying to escape the dive bombing while my other half is laughing his socks off and the unhelpful assistant is telling me that they are attracted to the minerals in my sweat, as I am running around looking like a crazy person with crazy mad hair at this point because wow the humidity, trying not to to squash them in my blind panic!!!!</div>
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So yeah, moths - are not really my thing, but then I googled Luna moths and well they are cute and fluffy looking, not insect like at all and almost magical looking, which got me making!</div>
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and this was where my inspiration started, I wanted to sew a goldwork luna moth so having only read this book and no previous experience in goldwork I started to draw out my design (something I never normally do, I'm more of a play and lets see where this goes kinda girl) The more I drew the more complicated my design got and the more ideas I had!</div>
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This is still a work in progress, I don't like the moths head, I wanted it the same as the body but I ran out of chippings, so I may well unpick it's head and redo that and add a little silk shading and spangles to the wings then I think a round boarder and this will properly be made into a little cushion or if I can find a nice round frame maybe ill frame it. Either way not too bad for a first attempt!</div>
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Goldwork the same as sewing takes quiet a lot of time and I wanted to try something a little quicker for my next project so out came the water colour paints....</div>
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Another work in progress imagine a water colour moon, some paint splat stars and maybe a hedge or some flowers in the corner.</div>
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My last work in progress (I had a few more but they did not make the cut) is a mixed media piece I wanted to try and make a cute/fluffy luna moth something not at all scary, and then I got lost in my imagination in amongst a teddy bears ball in the middle of an enchanted forest where all the teddy bears were dressed as beautiful moths and butterflies sitting at a long dinning table having a mad hatter style meal with silver and crystal candelabras and table decorations gathered from the forest of beautiful wild flowers and pine cones and then this emerged....</div>
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None of it is attached yet but the wings are double sided, the back has a very subtle outline of the wings and the front is ironed angelina fibres cut into shape with goldwork and embroidery holding it in place and on top of this will go my little teddy....</div>
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He has a lot more needle felting to go and I need to add in some shading and find something for him to stand on but he is alright for a prototype, I would like to make a bigger one with a mohair teddy I think! Once again too many ideas!!!!</div>
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Niky Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02403350799209777898noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500067252439214994.post-9848706670419985682019-02-28T16:03:00.002+00:002019-02-28T16:03:43.218+00:00February Themed Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our theme for the February challenge over at the Art Elements Blog was chosen by our amazingly talented Cathy Spivey Mendola and was Birds of Prey. </span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My initial thought was wow there are so many things I want to do..... I once had a very vivid and strangely calming dream of an eagle flying over a mountain and I wanted to do something to do with that, I also used this theme as an excuse to buy an owl bead from Kerri Fuhr which I was going to wire wrap onto a hair pin but never did get round to either.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine if you would a couple of copper sawn ivy leaves with twisting copper branches winding up the wooden post and a little copper plate stamped with something owl themed. I wanted the owl to be really grungy looking with lots of texture but I don't think I managed to achieve the look I wanted and now I want to see what he would look like made from bronze clay or copper clay with a beautiful green patina !!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I also fell in love with a tutorial from </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/UrsulaJewelry?ref=simple-shop-header-name&section_id=13580371" style="font-family: inherit;">Ursula </a><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u>Jewellery</u></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> for a beautiful wire wrapped owl pendent, that did not come out exactly as it should have but I still love it....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you Cathy for a wonderfully enjoyable theme and I am really looking forward to seeing what everyone </span>else<span style="font-family: inherit;"> has created!</span></div>
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This months Art Element theme was chosen by the wonderful and crazy talented Lindsay. This post will be short and sweet, I had so many ideas but so little time!<br />
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I decided that I wanted to make some earrings so I gathered some supplies and started playing. Never one for the easy route I decided that I wanted prong set herkimer diamonds on my earwigs for a bit of sparkle....</div>
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With silver moons, I had planed to use silver sheet with a hammered effect but did not have enough in the right size so I cut up a pair of silver three pence coins instead and then finished them off with a pair of mismatched moonstone nuggets.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I wish I could catch the sparkle in the diamonds and the blue in the moonstone as they look really ethereal in the sunlight!</span><br />
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This was my attempt at a selfie while wearing them. <b>I have not mastered selfies</b> and have a small child that likes to get in every photo possible!</div>
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Thank you Lindsay for such an inspiring theme, I'm still hoping that I manage to make some of my other ideas!</div>
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As always I can't believe how quickly the month goes! Novembers Art Elements Blog hop was hosted by the amazing Laney Mead and should have been an easy one, there is so much you can do with the theme stars but this month I struggled!</div>
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and as always I left everything to the last minute (hence the bad photos, there is NO day light at the moment, none! So these are indoor in poor lighting photos....)</div>
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To get myself started I went through my trust bead stash and found this lovely polymer star by Staci Louise Smith, I then riveted a lamp work head pin by our own amazing Jen Cameron through the hole and onto a star shaped backplate cut from copper and made a prong setting for a old shop token, I finished the hanging section with a stunning blue glittery lamp work headpin. I am still working on the necklace part of this one!</div>
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This next piece was supposed to be a charm for a bracelet, made from my silver (and even a little gold here) scrap box but I decided that I liked it as a small charm necklace, but it needs a silver chain. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">and lastly I made a pair of earrings, the stars here are actually fossil star crinoid that I pressed into polymer, baked and then moulded from silver metal clay, I then soldered little hoops on the back and made a pair of gold bead caps from scraps of gold and put it all together on a pair of </span>by Earthshine Glass headpins.</div>
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I really rather like these but oh my they are very hard to photo....<br />
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Thank you Laney for a great challenge and I do hope you will join me seeing what everyone else has created!</div>
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I love fairies! For me they are the epitome of magic, but I really struggled with creating something this month. It was not through lack of ideas, I had a wonderful old lantern that I was going to make into a fairy lantern....<br />
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This was a really grubby old find from a charity shop, I washed it up, cut out fairy silhouettes from black paper and stuck them inside the glass but it was not looking right so I had a meltdown and scrubbed it off!</div>
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I then had the idea that I would make a fairy themed book, like something from the tv series Grimm, but I could not even decide on a design! </div>
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Or a fairy garden, with a house made the same way as I made those mini bird houses, but No!</div>
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See the issue I am struggling with is lack of desire to create, I get like this when ever I am sad, and my oldest has just moved out to go to Uni, which is great for her and an amazing opportunity but I am missing her like crazy and she's not able to come home until christmas which seems like a long time away and it is showing in my lack of creating!</div>
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But I decided last minute the best way to get out of this is to just to do it, just make something!</div>
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so I headed to the local art shop to see what was inspiring....</div>
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And ended up buying some more water colour paints, but these sparkle! I love sparkles, So with these in hand and not a clue what to do I turned to the book Creative Girl by Danielle Donaldson (I also have her The Art of Creative Watercolor but I found this one less intimidating as it is mixed media and I still don't have much of an idea how to work watercolours). </div>
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Inspired by her tutu girl project I came up with this....</div>
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While it is not perfect I did learn ALOT from this piece like Daniel Smith Cascade Green is the best colour ever (well that and Schmincke Helio Turquoise), I throughly enjoy mixing up colours and you can not pencil over the shimmer paints as they have a PVC type consistency when dry, but they do look great!</div>
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Heres a bad lighting shot so you can see the sparkle in her wings! </div>
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Thank you Caroline for pushing me out of a creative rut, and hopefully I will be able to create some of the other ideas I have had!</div>
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Please do join me exploring what the other participants have created....</div>
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July's Art Elements Theme Challenge was chosen by our wonderful and talented Jen Cameron and was seed pods.<br />
As soon as I learnt of the theme I started to collected all the different seed pods that I came across, but I had no idea what I was going to make and found it hard to get started.<br />
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I decided to try some thing easy to begin with and made this copper fold formed seed pod with Jen's beautiful lamp work head pins bursting out....<br />
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Then once I saw Claire's fantastic <a href="https://www.artelements.net/seed-pod-beads-polymer-clay-tutorial/">polymer clay tutorial</a> on the Art Elements Blog I decided that I needed to try making some of those, I did not unfortunately get to Finnish these as I am very easily distracted and they need a few more coats of paint....</div>
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The polymer clay got me thinking, oh how about moulding tiny seed pods and recreating them in silver metal clay?!? </div>
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I looked for the smallest I could get my hands on but with the best textures and heres what I came up with....</div>
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I started to add gems and beads to see what I could create with the metal clay pods but in the end they just looked much better on there own so I made them into simple earrings, the studs have a wonderful star type pattern.</div>
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Then I wanted to try some art work, I really like the idea of painting and drawing but always find it hard to get started! So on these ones I used parts of the seed pods and either stuck them on to the page or used them and some acrylic paint to print on the page, these were experiments and need a bit more work but as I was making the "helicopter" seed pod piece I was distracted by how much they looked like dragonfly wings so then I made this....</div>
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Not seed pods but seed pod inspired, I made a water cooler background (I had much too much fun doing this and may have made 50 or so water colours splats) and used the helicopter pods and some acrylic paints to print the wings and drew a very simple dragonfly and added some more water colour, I rather like this one!</div>
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Thank you Jen for inspiring us all this month, I can't wait to see what everyone else has created...</div>
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Niky Sayershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02403350799209777898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500067252439214994.post-3073404863217225902018-05-31T05:58:00.000+01:002018-05-31T17:46:33.906+01:00May Art Elements Blog Hop - Tide Pools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yet another month over in the blink of an eye!<br />
May's theme was chosen by the wonderful and very talented Lesley Watt and was Tide Pools or Rock Pools as we call them over here.<br />
When I think of rock pools I always think of sea anemones, I have never seen any in the wild, only ever in the sea life centre, but thats where my mind heads straight to.<br />
While searching through my stash (as often I do while looking for inspiration) our wonderful <a href="http://www.glassaddictions.com/store">Jen's Lampwork headpins</a> kept screaming out "I look like a sea anemone caught in a water bubble what more do you want?" the original idea was a wide band ring with the head pin at the middle surrounded with silver rocks, but some how I got distracted and the idea transformed into a pendent....<br />
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I tend to be easily distracted! The main stone has a hole drilled through the centre and the headpin (which is set in a 9ct gold bezel) and "rocks" (which are all soldered together as one piece) have been set as you would set a stone on stone. The actual stone has then been set in a very thick sterling silver prong setting.<br />
I then had another idea I wanted to make a rock pool, not an actual rock pool but a tiny little metal ring dish inspired by rock pools....<br />
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I started off by gathering some of my sea stones, shells and sea glass that had interesting patterns on it and then I added in a few tiny fossils (I'm thinking rock pool in the Jurassic Coast, in Devon a place that is on my bucket list to visit) I then made a fimo texture plate with these pieces and tested it on the fimo before breaking open the metal clay.</div>
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Unfortunately I have not gotten around to firing the metal clay pieces yet, but I did experiment more with the fimo pieces (why dose spell check keep correcting fimo to limo? what even is limo?) pieces and I was really pleased with how they came out....</div>
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These are the little cabs I had made, these have each had several layers of water colour paint and one of them has even had a layer of resin, which I plan to do to all of them, but I ran out as I used the last of my resin on my little ring dish....</div>
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I really love this piece and it turned out much better then I expected, again it is coloured with many layers of water colour paint that pooled into the recesses, a few coats of matt varnish and then a thick coat of resin.</div>
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I love how much it looks like ceramic and am planing to make a little metal stand for it, possibly out of a domed coin with three soldered rocks for legs! </div>
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I had so much fun this month, Thank you Leslie for inspiring us! </div>
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As always this month has flown by and yet again it is time for the Art Elements monthly Reveal. Our theme for April was chosen by our amazing Jenny and was horses. </div>
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I must admit when I first found out the theme I thought.... oh this will be easy, I live right by Sandown Race Corse, I see horses all the time, inspiration is bound to strike!</div>
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So I went out and photoed everything horse related that I could find, I learnt all about the Shire Horses at Hampton Court.... </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"The </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Shire</b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a British breed of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_horse" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Draft horse">draught horse</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. It is usually </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_(horse)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Black (horse)">black</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_(horse)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Bay (horse)">bay</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, or </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_(horse)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Gray (horse)">grey</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. It is a tall breed, and Shires have at various times held world records both for the largest horse and for the tallest horse. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Population numbers are still considered to be at critical levels by both the UK-based </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Breeds_Survival_Trust" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Rare Breeds Survival Trust">Rare Breeds Survival Trust</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and the US-based </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Livestock_Breeds_Conservancy" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Livestock Breeds Conservancy">American Livestock Breeds Conservancy</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">." Wikipedia</span></div>
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I had a vague idea that I would make a necklace with a shire horse (with it beautiful fluffy feet) standing tall above a nice sized cab set in a gold bezel with a horse shoe or a cart cut out of the backplate behind the stone, but I could not find the right stone in my collection and I really could not draw the horse small enough for a necklace but big enough to get all the detail in so I had to think again!</div>
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Ah, I know I thought... I will paint a unicorn, that will be easy and then I will have lots of time to work on some other ideas! WRONG! Oh my gosh, was I wrong....</div>
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So I found a site that shows <a href="http://how2drawanimals.com/8-animals/198-draw-unicorn.html?start=4">how to draw a unicorn</a> I drew out my outline and added some paint. Now I am not a painter, I very rarely paint and when I do it is just really playing around with colours but all of a sudden I was filled with confidence and just started throwing paint on to the canvas. At this point I decided that I needed some more colour so I just kept adding....</div>
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Then this happened! For me colour can make or break everything and I really broke this one, so I did what everyone who had invested HOURS into a painting that they hated would do and had a melt down and gessoed over the whole thing....</div>
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Then I made a mental list of all the things I hated and tried not to do them all again! Many, many, many hours later I had glued pieces of book pages/maps on, added lighter colours and less of them and even sanded down the paint in a few areas to add some distressing and texture....<br />
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It's no where near finished yet, there are still MANY more hours of painting and lots more layers that need to go into it but I am in a happy place in that I don't currently want to throw it out of the window!<br />
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I really like the colours and love the map pieces and the texture on the moon, now I just need to be brave enough to add the shading and decided what is going on with the rest of the piece. Did I mention I don't like painting!!!!</div>
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Thank you Jenny for this months challenge, I really stepped out of my comfort zone and I can't wait to see what everyone else has created....<br />
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<b> AE Team Members:</b></div>
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Today is the day for the March Nest Theme Reveal over at Art Elements Blog! Thank you Cathy for such a wonderful theme, I have throughly enjoyed this one, but as luck would have it I had more ideas then time this month so mine are all works in progresses!</div>
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I had so many ideas for this theme that I had to start writing them down and then came the rush to buy supplies and then life got in the way and slowed me down! The original plan was to needle felt some spring scenes onto the polystyrene eggs and crochet a big fibber nest for them to rest in, think beautiful mossy green coloured nest with little pieces of ribbon woven in for a touch of colour, but the moss wool did not arrive in time and the needle felting did not happen! In the first photo there is also the beginnings of a little bird house, I found one on pintrest with a penny tiled roof and thought oh my I need one of those but you can't saw a bird house with a jewellers saw or a massive man saw which were the only saws I had. The mossy star was a christmas decoration I feel in love with and have kept on the wall the plan there is to create a woodland scene but I'm pretty sure this project will take me most of the year.</div>
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These are the practice crochet nests I made while waiting for the moss coloured wool, this gold mohair wool is just so lovely and the smallest nest is just under an inch wide. The plan is to needle felt a humming bird for the smallest and fix it to a twig mounted on a plinth.</div>
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Also you may have noticed if you follow my instagram account I am slightly obsessed with making wooden books at the moment and there was this beautiful gnarly hole in one of the pieces that I thought would make a wonderful space for a nest, Im thinking of having a metal wildflower set into the corner cover and some how having this quote on the front.</div>
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This month was my turn to host the Art Elements COM and I did so with copper clay Runes moulded from a set of wood and coin Runes I made myself last year.</div>
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As always I had so many idea's and even had several pieces to play with but there was just not enough time so mine is a work in progress....</div>
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I have so far made a thick silver wire bezel to hold the rune and have hung a Laura Mears feather from it, I just need to add some texture to the wire and come up with a chain! I can't wait to see what everyone else has created....<br />
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It is no secret that I have a huge hoard of treasures and this months <a href="https://www.artelements.net/use-your-stash-challenge-reveal/">Art Elements</a> 'Use Your Stash' blog hop hosted by the talented Lindsay Starr is one that I will be continuing through out the year in the hope of making a large dent in mine!</div>
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I was hoping to have more pieces finished then I achieved but they are many works in progress!</div>
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My first and only completed piece is this wall hanging....</div>
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This piece started off as an idea for a necklace but then it morphed into this wall hanging! The beautiful star is by our wonderful Jenny Davies-Reazor and the lampwork headpin is by Kimberly Rogers it also consists of a wonderful 16th century Spanish coin!</div>
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After our trip to the British Library I needed to make some more books, so I spent hours hand tearing hundreds of pages (I have enough for about 7-8 different sized books) and sewing leather covers and now for the fun part the embellishing with more of my stash!!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love making decorations and this first one was made by my 9 year old Lana every year at their christmas school fair one of the class rooms is turned into a ceramic studio and the kids get to paint their own decorations....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love the winking eye! This year I had a go with one of the ceramic balls but our time was cut short by a rather impatient other half, I could easily have spent a few hours scratching out swirling designs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These next two are designs by Gingermelon on ETSY (I love her cute designs and attention to detail) I started making these at work with some of my residents (scaled up so they would be able to sew them easier) but only managed to get two completed in time....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There are several more of her designs that I have brought but as usual time always seems to slip away too fast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am looking forward to seeing what everyone else has created, and I wish you all a very merry christmas xxx</span></div>
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October was my turn to host the Art Elements component of the month and due to my first idea not quite panning out I decided to send out hare coin clasps.</div>
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The clasps are made by doming old Irish 3d coins and soldering a hook clasp on the back, I have always been fascinated with old, unusual or just beautifully designed coins and love that they are so easy to use in jewellery, and here is what I created with mine....</div>
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A simple bracelet made with thick sterling silver chain, a couple of lampwork beads (with a dicro core so they sparkle beautifully), a couple of lampwork headpins by Earthshine beads and a beautiful moon and star by our very wonderful Lesley Watt.<br />
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This was a complete pain in the backside to photo due to every thing being shiny and reflective (the moon and star are a silvery glaze on one side and a beautiful deep blue on the other adding just a touch of colour), but I really love it, my very own moon gazing hare!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Septembers component of the month was provided by the wonderful Laney Mead and were these adorable Zom-bees (photo of course stolen off the AE Blog, as I always forget to photo first). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now for some time I was quiet flummoxed as to what to do with mine, see the hole goes through his mouth and if I was to string him you would get a side view but he has the most adorable little face so I wanted him facing forward!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then there was the lightbulb moment, I would make a little halloween scene for him....</span></div>
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The Art Element component of the month for August has been provided by the amazingly talented Caroline of <a href="http://blueberribeads.co.uk/shop/">BlueBerri Beads</a>, and this time I remembered to photo them before I started.... </div>
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Arn't they stunning!<br />
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As soon as I saw these beads I started singing "fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars...." and I just could not get the song out of my head and then I started playing with my stash and out came this beautiful Raven cab by our very lovely Jenny Davies-Reazor and then this....<br />
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I made a part bezel part prong setting for the lovely Raven and then hung the beautiful star bead on some really thick silver wire with a couple of melted silver bead caps.<br />
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I intend to hang this off a really thick silver snake chain, there is even a little surprise on the back....</div>
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A cute little hare gazing longingly up at the stars!</div>
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Thank you so much Caroline I have throughly enjoyed emerging myself in making this little treasure! I hope everyone will join me hopping around the rest of the participants </div>
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