Mucha Bling!

My soldering still isn't perfect, so I decorated the front with rhinestones.



My main problem is that I wasn't cleaning the tip properly. I bought a tip cleaner/tinner and used it for the first time tonight. It's awful stuff, but it works. The solder flowed better, but my tape is still a bit bumpy. It just won't stick!

I made another memory glass pendant- a naughty flapper (image from the Graphics Fairy):



This just needed a little extra sparkle, so I put a few rhinestones on the corners, and added a copper crown.

Memory glass work...

More charms for my travel-themed necklace- London and Paris.




I may take apart one of them and re-do it as New York, so my final necklace would be NY-London-Paris. :)

Navy girl pendant- based on a classic WWI recruitment poster.



I glued small charms to each frame. The Navy poster image came from LunaGirl Images.

These came in the mail yesterday- mini shadow boxes. I can put any kind of tiny item in them! I'll probably cover the insides with clip art, then choose a theme.



I suck at soldering. I tried to do the Mucha pendant again, and failed miserably. I just can't get the solder to flow well. :( I hope I figure out what I'm doing wrong- I don't want to waste any more solder or tape!

More charm work.

One success, one work in progress, one mess. :(

The success- a memory frame charm. I glued the little charms (from B'Sue Boutiques) to the frame. It's 1x1 inch, much smaller than the picture!



This will be part of a bigger project- a travel themed necklace. The next memory frame will be London themed.

Work in progress- three little charms with vintage photos from LunaGirl images:



They need more resin. I have three more blanks to work with! These are so tiny- 8mm.

More from LunaGirl, and this was the mess. :( A Mucha poster with a rhinestone border. This was supposed to be under glass and soldered, but on my first try, the glass cracked, and on the second, the solder just didn't flow and made a HUGE mess. So I pulled the glass off and will try again...



I love the images from LunaGirl!

New stuff to post, at last!

Getting back into charms, plus I made pendants with resin.

"Keep Calm", a double-sided bezel:



London themed charms surround the pendant:



A Paris pendant. I'm not really happy with it- I think it's a bit cloudy.



Also, I made a quickie necklace with a pendant from Vintage Groove: