Decorated Shloer Red Grape Bottle

I forgot to take a photo of the empty bottle again!

I did this the same way I did the vodka bottle, to get the cracks except I used silver instead of gold this time.

Then I decorated the front and coloured it with metallics.

Skull Danglies

I watched a video of an Australian lady who made some paper beads. These are my take on them.

Painted and then used Ranger crackle accents on them, once dry rubber with treasure golds.

Mini Tassels

These ones are only 1 and a half inches tall and are finished off with small metal beads.

This is just for comparison from yesterdays post.

Hardware Skulls

It's been a while...............................

Black Powertex & shiny nuts, bolts, screws, hooks and rivets.

Black Powertex base, red Powertex with black bister & screws, nails, nuts and safety pins.

Yellow ochre Powertex, rusting powder, small sand balls & rusted screws, bolts, nails and bracket.

...............................Happy Hallow's Eve

Miniature House

Over on Mini Marvels FB group Chris has set a challenge called miniature houses and we basically have free reign to make what we want for the swap, so I decided to go down the matchbox style route, but added a roof. I made the basic matchbox shape using pieces of chipboard. I found an image in a magazine and this more or less determined the size I ended up with, approx 9 cm x 7 cm.

I did exactly the same for the other side of the box. I stuck patterned paper on for the roof and stamped it in timber brown stazon with an Andy Skinner background stamp.

And this is what's inside.

A 50th Birthday

A friend of mine has a 50th birthday today, can't tell you who as I promised I wouldn't tell anyone how old she was!!!!  The head and body were made from modelling clay, the hook screws and pins were added and were left to dry for over 24 hours.  Once dry I sanded them down, painted the body in faded jeans acrylic dabber and the head in sand CH studio paint.  I created the face with Artbars.  The head is wrapped in a piece of window lead.  I used beads to create the arms and legs, added washers to make the hands and added a bead and a bead cap for the hat.  To attach the head to the body I used a washer, a metal flower and a bead cap.  I made the metal frill for the neck from the smallest of the flowers on the TH tattered floral alterations die and added the key chain.  I added the

'5' '0' gold peel offs to finish.

This is the card I made.  The 50 and the happy birthday are clay pieces which have been coloured with cool peri alcohol ink as was the card background.  Various Art Journey and T!m images were stamped in shaded lilac and seedless grape distress inks.  The main indigo blu image was stamped on a separate piece of card in black stazon.  The edges were coloured with frayed burlap distress ink.  Frayed burlap was also added to the main background to balance it out.

Beaded Bracelets

As most of you know, I've not been able to do much in the way of anything, let alone crafting.  I have managed to get Martin to put a few beads on a tray and get me some tools out but it wasn't really a success as I dropped the bead strands on lots of occasions and kept dropping beads everywhere!!

So I've just finished these few bracelets off over the last week or so.

Mum is coming over again today, so I'm going to get her to choose one for herself.

I've made a couple for my colleagues at work.

May change this one as I'm not sure about the middle bead.  Can't decide if it's too big or not.

And finally, yes Kate, a pink one!!!


Won't be doing much more for another few weeks!!

Bead and Fabric Bracelets

I've been having a play with making bracelets from fabric and using wire and beads to decorate them.  Here are my first attempts, a bit messy, but then I love the randomness of it.

FP Glass Pendant

I made this pendant by wrapping a large glass losenger and a piece of wire in a piece of foil coated friendly plastic.  I continued to decorate with the FP and added some beads and a chain.

Inspired by Linda Peterson - FPTV

FP Bead

I watched a recording of a Liz Welch C&C tv programme recently (there was nothing on tv!!) and she made one of these beads.

It's made by turning the FP on a kebab stick.  I added beads caps to each end and attached the chain.