Altered Key Ring and Envie

Over on a FB group I've joined we were sent a key ring to alter and then send on to our swap partner. I went very simple just using raspberry and sail boat blue alcohol inks on the frame, cut a printed image out and left the front panel clear.

This is the back.

And of course I then needed an envelope to send it in. So reaching for one of my many gelli plate prints I made this envelope and stamped and doodled over it to create some interest. PaperArtsy have a theme this week of mail art, so I'm entering the envie.

UTEE Keyrings

Continuing on with my play day last Sunday later in the afternoon I got my melt pot out to make these key rings. Even though I put them on white paper, you still couldn't see them properly.

Luckily the sun was out, so I went outside and placed them all over the bush at the end of the garden, and the sun glistened through some of them.

And from a different angle.

Bezels with Utee

I was watching some Utee uploads on YouTube and came across this one by the lovely Carol Fox. Using lots of different metal embellishments in the bezel I covered them in melted Utee and then used the heat tool to get rid of the air bubbles. I like this one as the spinner still spins.

For this one I cut out a piece of coloured text paper and added a silver coloured charm. I pushed the charm into the melted Utee.

I added gold coloured mini dragonfly beads and sequins to this very small bezel and filled with Utee.

This is a 1" Ranger memory frame and therefore doesn't have a back.  I placed a charm and 3 beads inside and filled with Utee.  As you can see, it's pretty transparent.

And this is it on my craft surface, as you can see, the Utee looks more yellow.

And this one is exactly the same except I used a single butterfly charm. But I need to go back and reheat this as you can see the top right corner has a bubble in it.

And again on the craft surface.

And here are all 5 together. Sorry for the glare but I used my new daylight lamp as it was nearly dark by the time I was finished.

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.

Piecework Brooch & Key Ring

I used three colours of friendly plastic to create these pieces.  The tag shape was created using a cookie cutter and the brooch by lying the warmed plastic over a bamboo stick to create the kink.

I've Started!!!!

I received this little lot in the post today from my mate LazyKay. She has made me a little notebook to keep a log of my miles, a stunning card made from metal and coloured with alcohol inks and a fab key ring of Fraz made with UTEE which is already housing my desk drawer key.

I officially started yesterday, and it was all a bit hectic to tell you the truth, but as I get more into it I'm sure it'll be fine

Key Ring for Jo

This is especially for Jo, as when I sent out the last batch of samples, RM managed to loose Jo's, so I've made her something else, but again I was awaiting the key chains to finish it off. Will get it in the post to you Jo

Key Rings / Chains

Still waiting for my key chains to arrive, unfortunately there's been some hiccup with RM (say no more), but I found a shop it town that sells them today so I got a few to keep me going. Top one is UTEE marbled background with a UTEE sun from one of the moulds and the bottom one is a collage between 2 pieces of 2" x 2" memory glass and the sides have been dipped in the marbled UTEE to seal - these are on sale in my Ebay shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/samshandmadecrafts?ssPageName=ADME:L:storeconfirma:UK:10001

Key Rings / Chains

Made a couple more key ring / chains but I've run out of them so the one on the left is 'naked' for the moment!!!! I love the colour combo for the one on the left, no idea how I ended up with it!!!

Key Rings

A few more key rings. I am much happier with these ones, I have made a better job sealing them with the UTEE, they look loads neater, although I am not sure they have photographed that well. They are much brighter in real life!!!

Key Chains

The first couple I have made using 2" memory glass and dipped them into the hot UTEE to seal the edges - this is much harder than it looks!!! The third, same thing, except used 1" x 3" pieces of memory glass. \And lastly is another buddie, head bottle top, body UTEE, arms chain and charms and beads for the legs

Memory Glass

These have been created using 2 pieces of memory glass and then dipping the edges into the coloured UTEE to seal. Did the one on the left first and then realised that I couldn't attach anything to it, so got wise for the second one and added a metal pin to the top so that I could add a key chain

Melt Pot Buddies

Been playing this weekend and made some 'buddies' using my melt pot - YAY. Top left - body is made from 2 pieces of glass sandwiched together and sealed with coloured UTEE, head is a mold made from UTEE, arms and legs wooden beads. The other 3 bodies are all made from coloured UTEE. Each has been embellished and arms and legs have been added, heads are made from bottle tops, 2 have key ring chains attached. These were fun to make!!!