Taking shape-changing ideas and altered directions- part 9

Brooch or cabochon, slight variation and larger.

2 1/4" x 2 1/4"

Speaking of Buddha...

 I have been working on this for awhile. I love little shrines and I have a set of stamps that cut them out of the clay. Yesterday my sisterfriend Bella Sinclair http://bellasinclair.blogspot.com/ mentioned that the last face cab I did had a Buddha face. I have always wanted a segue way like that and there it was. So, today speaking of Buddha... here it is.

I am still working on a way to hang this piece. It is meant to be a wall shrine.

Textured foil background mounted on a 4 1/4" x 3 1/4" wood panel. The foil is painted with Super Russet Lumiere acrylic paint.

The shrine itself is made from Gold, Copper, and Verdigris Cernit that is stamped with Pearl-ex ink in Black and Copper.

There are Copper metal leaves hand cut and tooled with small flowers from Black and Opaque White Cernit, Copper metal beads, and Flowers that are made in various shades of black white copper gold and brown Cernit. I have also added triangular silver filigree metal pieces and a couple of different sizes of vintage swarovski crystal flat back stones. The hinges on the shrine doors are 20 gauge copper handmade jump rings.

I know now, by doing the work,+ some of things I will do differently with the next shrine. It was fun to experiment and to find the things that worked and that didn't. I may have to make a couple more of these.

Uh oh, another tangent??

Taking shape-changing ideas and altered directions- part 8

Another cab or brooch Steampunk style

2"x 2"

Taking shape-changing ideas and altered directions- part 7

Another brooch or cabochon in the steampunk fashion

2" High x 1 5/8"Wide

Taking shape-changing ideas and altered directions- part 6

Another Brooch or cabochon

2" x 2"

Sidetracked and stuck

I have been side tracked and I am stuck here for a bit.

I hope you don't mind while I work this tangent out!

Oh Geesh, this is fun!!

4 1/4" x 3 1/4" mounted on wood

Remembering Christmas-Jodi's vase and Sisterfriend Day

I was looking for something else in all my files and I found the pictures from Christmas 2009. I made this for my best friend (sisterfriend) and it is one of my favorite pieces. I am sorry the pictures are so bad but as usual I was in a hurry at that time and this is one of the last pieces I made before Christmas arrived. I probably baked it the night before I went there.
I used vintage crystals another friend had given me and a cracked glass globe that was used for a project long ago (that was ugly, very old, and out dated).
I captured each crystal in black Cernit and added them one at a time to the top of the glass. I then added some little bits of clay here and there for detail.
Baked the whole thing and when it was cool, I washed it with Old Brass Lumiere and wiped off the excess.

In my case, sometimes it is good to be under pressure and time constraints and not to have time to over think something. I wanted to keep this real bad.


Today is Sisterfriend day and no housework day, I am, in honor of both days, telling you my sisterfriends, I love you and appreciate you so very very much and not doing any housework (LOL, something new and different, ya right, and this point, what my dear sisterfriend Renee would say "Harharhar!!")
Read my sisterfriend Ces' post about her declaration of this outstanding day of love!
http://cesandherdishes.blogspot.com/2010/04/sisterfriend.html
I appreciate you Ces, my dear sisterfriend, you are a brilliant light in my life!!