The shows begin...

Yes it's show time again. This year I'm trying some new spring shows. Tomorrow is my first at the Glebe Community Center in Ottawa. It's called the Girls Want To Know Show. Here are a few new steampunk necklaces that I finished recently for the spring season.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to make room to create.

A little steampunk anyone...

It's been a while since I've played with some watch parts so I thought I should get a few made for my springs shows which are fast approaching(see schedule here). The bases of these are both the core part of a watch.

This one is wrapped in a filigree, with some swarovski crystals added.

With this one all the components are wired on. I've made little flowers from brass findings and beads. I call this Poison Ivy, you know like Batman! I don't usually name my pieces but that just came to me when it was all finished. I don't know if that will be a good selling name though!

Instead of putting them on chains I decided to try something new. The first one is on a bead chain combination. The second necklace has a bead, wire mesh ribbon combination.

Now it's time to get back at the copper.

Happy Creating!

Copper...I can't get enough!

That's right I've been back at the sheet copper that the Tin man got for me. I've been sawing, hammering, dapping and riveting. I love it. I get lost in it. There is so much to learn and try out. This is my dapping set I got at the Beadfest last month. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the disc cutter at the same time but I think I see it in my future! LOL.
These earring are made with my new dapper. It forms the dome shape of discs. For now I'm sawing my own disc.
The background on this piece has been hammers to give it texture and then rivet the brass bloom word and "flowers". I also antique it with Liver of sulphur and tumble it.This is my steampunk version with a similar textured background as the above necklace.

Today I experimented with etching copper. I think I can say it was a success. I'll try and get some pictures of the etched pieces on soon.

Gears, di's and jacks.

Here are a couple of necklaces I finished recently. You may have seen the discs on an earlier blog after they had been embossed, antiqued and were just coming out of the tumbler. I liked how they looked after coming out of the tumbler but it took me a while to figure out how to finish them off. So they sat on my work table until one day while working on something else it just came to me how to finish them. That is usually how I work. Don't force things, just let it happen as it will. The one above I call Gears and the one below is Di and Jacks

Steampunk tag

I had a lovely day yesterday at the Perth Farmers Market despite the rainy start. After having a recuperating nap when I got home I stayed up late working on my tag for this week.

The theme over at Kard Krazy is "A few of your favorite things". Well I've never been good at deciding my favorites because they change from day to day or is that moment to moment, so I guess these were my favorite things last night.

Of coarse just playing with a tag is a favorite of mine. I started off with distress inks and glimmer mist as a base and then just as in my daily life I used music for my background. I had some gears already cut from Tim's new gear die so there started my steampunk theme, a new favorite fascination. Another all time favorite is metal embossing so I used some brown Ten Second Studio metal with their new Time kabuka mold. Add a little alcohol ink and it's ready to adhere to the corner. I love old keys, I've been using them in my jewelry lately, so it's seemed a given that my favorites should have one too. Added a few more embellishments here and my favorites was revealed.