What's On Tour Workbench Wednesday(WOYWW)-Jewellery!

WOYWW is here again. It's the time of the week were art farty folk all over the World share what is on their workbench. If you want to join in or read about it go to Julia Dunnit's blog here. I had wanted to post this four hours ago during my dinner break but as it goes with being a nurse...I didn't get a dinner break LOL. It's now 11pm and here I am at last. 

There are some paper crafting items still on my desk from yesterday but its mostly all about making hand made jewellery this week on my desk. I didn't get as much jewellery making done as I wanted though as I had to go to work early on several occasions and then got too busy on my days off running around all over town for various things.

Now a bit closer and you can see on the left side of my desk I have my Ice Resin out and behind those to bottles is the mixed media card I made last week and my pastel stamping card I made yesterday. There is more pastel stamping samples at the left and some Mica sheets. In the middle are resined bezels and hand etched metal strips ready to make into cuffs. To the right of them are etched house shaped metal pieces to be made into necklaces. At this stage I just try various combinations of Ice Resin filled bezels on the cuffs and necklaces until I am happy. Then I'll shape the cuffs, drill, rivet, glue and cold connect the components

Here are the pastel stamped items you can see. How I made them is below this post with a little video as well if you want to have a look. This is the card behind the Ice Resin

This is the pastel stamped item at the left of the Ice Resin

and the one in front of that lying down

A closer look at the left center of my desk. All the wings at the top finally came in the mail yesterday. I only had a few left and for whatever reason I use allot of these when I make jewellery.

On the right side of my desk I have my etched eyeball and etched puffed heart ready to play with as well. I'm thinking of adding the Tim H clock key to the top of the heart.

Hopefully next week I shall have actually finished some jewellery items to show you. Thanks for dropping by.

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Annette In Oz

Pastel (wax or crayon) Stamping How Too / Tipnique Tuesday

Hi everyone

this Tuesday I shall share a technique I discovered myself. Don't get me wrong as I am under no illusion some one some place else hasn't done this as well but this is what I came up with one day on my own. I don't think I have seen it on others blogs. When I pulled this page open in my tips and techniques book I was actually surprised at how well this sample below had kept as I think it was about 10 yrs ago I stamped the piece with pastels and filed it away. The pastel stamping was done on acrylic painted over canvas sheets. Image 1 is flash off and image two flash on. As you can see this technique gives you images that look water coloured and ghostly. The more pastel you apply can give you raised texture when you stamp.

MATERIALS

• Crayola Portfolio Series water soluble oil pastels. Other crayons/pastels may work but I haven't tried them
• Stamps of choice. Bold stamps without too much detail work best
• Heat gun
• Something to stamp on such as smooth water colour paper, canvas sheets, card stock etc etc

HOW TOO

1) Have the oil pastels, heat gun and what you want to stamp on close by as you need to work fast for this technique

2) Colour directly on the stamps with colours of pastel of choice

3) Apply heat to the stamp. The wax melts and takes on a shiny appearance so as soon as it looks "wet" turn off heat gun and stamp onto chosen surface

4) When done wash stamps in warm soapy water to get the wax colour off.

As I wanted to show you clearly what to do I was using smooth water colour paper that was not coloured before I stamped. In the image below the center flower was re stamped without adding any further pastel colour as soon as I lifted the stamped image at the left. It gave a faded look

I made this into a quick card by colouring the back ground with water colour pastels using the wet on dry method. That is a wet brush loaded with my colour onto the dry water colour paper. Image one is flash off and image two flash on

Here is another sample with the background pre coloured with sprays on the smooth water colour paper before I did the pastel stamping. Image one flash off and image two flash on

 Lastly another sample again on pre coloured, smooth water colour paper. Image one flash off and image two flash on.

Here is a little video of the technique for you if you prefer to watch the process here

As I said in the past when I do these tips and techniques I'll make the process easy enough for beginners to achieve the end result OK but if you want to go for full on mixed media effects go for it :o). My Translucent liquid Sculpey transfer from last week has become a WIP (work in progress) as I had partly machine sewed it to a calico bag when my old sewing machine died. I can't afford a new one for a few weeks but when I do I'll finish that project.

hugs

Annette In Oz

What's On Your Workbench Wednesday (WOYWW)-200

It's time for WOYWW again. For the details go to Julia's blog and see what's it all about. My desk this week is a a bit cleaner on the paper crafting end. I had just cleaned it up a bit last night before bed after making a Translucent Sculpey Transfer (see the post below if you want to know how these are done). This is my busy week at work so I haven't got any jewellery made on my jewellery making end of my desk. On the Paper crafting side I did get another 2 mixed media cards made. One is made from the mixed media background that was on my desk last WOYWW. I stood back a bit to take this photo so you can see that all my goodies are in stackable draws at the left. Ink pads and frequently used items are at the back of my desk. The iron is my handy craft iron and NOT for ironing clothes LOL.

It's Wet season now so you can see out the window it's very green outside. Wet season brings us 6 months of on/off rain and it's also our Cyclone season. Thankfully this year there have been no Cyclones our way. We have had less rain then usual too so its been very hot and humid too. Wet season ends at the end of the month and then it will be...you guessed it The Dry Season LOL. I live in the tropics so we do not have 4 seasons just 2. Both seasons play havoc on my art supplies like you wouldn't believe!

These are the two cards I just completed. My ring mandrel acts as a washi tape holder at the right of them LOL. The disposable tray in the front of the card at right with the yellow and deep orange colours on it are the Luminarte Primary Elements Polished Pigments colours I used on the card behind it...there are allot of metal embellishments on that card and the Polished Pigments stick to metal beautifully. Oh there is also a small dish of used bullets a friend gave me to use in my mixed media stuff

Here a close up images of the cards....the first one has the Words hidden on it that say "Magic Can Happen".

and this one has "My friends in art"on it.

I cleared the left side of my desk as I intend to make some jewellery on my next days off so want to spread out. I suspect next Wednesday that's what you shall find on my desk then :o). Off to look at other's desks now
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Annette In Oz

Translucent Liquid Sculpey Transfers / Tipnique Tuesday

This week I will share how to do a type of transfer using Translucent Liquid Sculpey (TLS).  A transfer allows you to transfer an image or words onto projects where a normal printed image wont suffice such as onto metal, wood, fabric etc.'TLS transfers can be easily cut with scissors, have holes punched thru it or can be sewn by hand or with a sewing machine. They are transparent so look good over wording or decorative papers. They are water proof as well. For these transfers you need a toner copied image or you can use your own drawings with coloured pencils. I haven't tried this but I have read you can heat set inkjet printed images by placing them in the oven on 200 degrees Celsius for 5-10 minutes and then they will act like a toner printed image.

MATERIALS

• Translucent Liquid Sculpey (TLS) or other liquid polymer clay
• Toner copied image. I used a laser printer and my image is printed on Kodak gloss photo paper. Mirror image your print as needed and especially if you are transferring writing 
• Baking parchment-I have used Glad Bake 
• A flat baking tray, an oven and a oven thermometer. The TLS has a mild smell but is safe to use in your oven in a well ventilated room.

HOW TOO

1) Heat set oven to manufactures instructions on your bottle of liquid polymer clay. I used the Sculpey brand so had my oven on 130 degrees Celsius (275-300 degrees F). Use an oven thermometer to check temperature is correct. Place baking sheet on baking tray, image on top and then squeeze TLS all over area you want to transfer

Gently spread it all out evenly and ensure there are no holes/air bubbles. I just used my finger to do this but you can use a palette knife etc if you want

2) Place tray in oven and bake to recommended time on your bottle. TLS recommends 15-30 minutes so I cooked mine for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and allow it to cool to touch. As the TLC bakes it becomes more transparent.

3) Once cool peel off your transfer.

As you can see the transfer is see thru. You can colour it using permanent markers or other mediums if you want

I'll try to make my transfer into a card or something later in the day or the next few days and post it here. I think I may even sew it onto my background I have done above. As I have long had a love of making transfers I think there will be more tipniques featuring them in the future using other media as the transfer agent.
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Annette In Oz

Magic Card How Too-Video

At last I've been able to upload the videos of how to make a magic card. I did the how too over three videos as I thought that would be easier to upload. Here is the first one..



and the second....


and the last part





Hope they load OK. Oh if you notice I start using a different coloured dress on the stamped image its because I was making three of these at once and just picked up a different one to what I started with....the steps are the same though. Writen instructions are here
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Annette In Oz

WOYWW-199

Hi all

I decided to join in on the "What's On Your Workbench Wednesday" where artist/crafters from all over the World share what is on their work bench each Wednesday. As I work every Wednesday evening and am not home till 11.30pm  my sharing will be later then others. I did check pre work but the link post wasn't up yet.. It all started from here at Julia's blog. Anyway my desk is a large table and on one end I create paper craft/mixed media items and on the other end I make hand made jewellery. So first shot is the paper craft end complete with some new Tim H stuff that came in the post yesterday!!

And other side at right is my jewellery making side

On the paper crafting side I have three Magic Cards. On Tuesday I share an old paper crafting tip or technique and that post was Magic Cards this week...the how too for them is here.As you pull them out the colour appears like magic.

There is also a GORGEOUS hand painted ATC that I recieved from Lauren

2 other awesome ATC's from another friend Glenda

A water and drawing ink bg with a gorgeous stamped image awaiting a card transformation.

A mixed media background waiting to be made into a card tomorrow

 A completed mixed media card made for my sisters birthday that I have to send tomorrow. Closer images here

Then over at the jewellery making end I have these amazing Prima Junkyard light bulbs that are screaming at me to make them into necklaces!!

Some of my hand etched items waiting to be made into cuffs and necklaces

I'm into "puffing" metal of late as well as I like steam punk so this is a partly finished steam punk puffed eye ball and a puffy heart awaiting a steam punkery treatment.

Some Ice Resin filled bezels

A polymer clay doll that needs painting!!!

A closer look at my etched puffy heart and a completed etched bird house necklace. The other day I had tried to make an etched copper ring and just couldn't do it so tried making a bird house as the bends etc were larger and I could solder that Ok...I'll retry the ring soon.

There you go that is what is on my messy work bench this Wednesday :o)
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Annette In Oz