A Royal Mess!

I made a huge mess, but I redid the princess charm. This time, I remembered to seal the picture before putting it under glass!



Soldering is fun but messy. And the flux smells. Ugh. Collage work is pretty messy, too. I had to clean up a lot of glitter and ModPodge that got all over my workspace!

I made another princess charm- I found a book of scrapbook paper with a fairy tale theme, including crowns, and cut the photo of the girl to fit. Then I added glitter to the roses in her hands, and gold ink around the edges. It gives it an even more vintage look!



This one is pretty big, 2x2 inches.

I put dried flowers on the back of both pieces:



I'm going to put away the soldering iron for a while, and work on plain old beads and charms. I need to get a new tip for the iron before I can do more soldering, anyway!

Oooooops!

I'm still trying to master the art of soldering! My charms are starting to look better, but I keep forgetting to do one important thing- Seal the pictures with decoupage gel. This is what happended to one project:



This is a definite do-over- I love the little girl's expression! The flux leaked through the tape and discolored the photo badly. The reverse of the charm turned out all right:



More examples of what happens when paper or other items aren't sealed:



The daisy is supposed to be white!

Again, the other sides of these charms turned out okay:



Somehow these next two pendants didn't get flux under the glass.

#1, front and back:





#2, front and back:





At least I'm not burning the papers now.

All of the images are from lunagirl.com. Some of them needed some cleverly placed flowers and glitter. ;) I love old photos.

I'm trying to get the hang of soldering jump rings...I'm not doing it very well.

Just what I needed. :p

Yet another place on the web for me to spend money on my hobby. Lunagirl Images- awesome vintage photos and clip art at reasonable prices, most of them copyright free.

http://lunagirl.com/

I've already downloaded four collage sheets. I'm working on some pieces with them right now.

There are a lot of nudes and otherwise risque images...I'll use them, but I'll have to do some editing (i.e., strategically placed stickers and glitter) to make them family friendly! I'm no prude, but I like to keep my jewelry at least PG-13!

A finished necklace and some shopping finds!

I finally got around to making a necklace out of some of my old coins. This one uses French coins, and an Industrial Chic pendant.



I couldn't use all the coins- they would have been way too much! I like the mix of metals.

The dangles are from a new Michaels line, Luna Nuova. I bought a few sets of them, plus some large "watch gears" made for scrapbooking.