Hello Punkin

Well, Fall is here & I see pumpkins are all around me! Thus this piece was created.

While in Electica for a club meeting, a class on scratch board was taught. Of course, I didn't leave the store without a little package of the scratch boards in all different sizes. Artistic Outpost images were used on this piece. Here's how this pendant was created.

• Stamp images with StazOn black ink.
• Using a Q-tip, color images with StazOn colors, yellow, orange & green, making sure you don't rub hard, DAB your colors on to keep from smearing the black.
• Using a needle awl or carving tool, scratch your highlights into your scratch board.
• Go back & fill in some areas if desired with inks (ie. the background here)
• Add some black trim
• Drill a small hole for a jump ring (I used a Dremel Drill Press)
• Lightly spray with sealer
• Add jump ring & ball chain
• ENJOY
  

Wearable Journal

Roxi Phillips & Candice Windham taught this class at the "Time for Art" event in Memphis and it turned out awesome, as if we expected anything less! This project demonstrated basic metal working skills as well as introduced the class to Ice Resin treated papers. What we ended up with was a beautifully handcrafted wearable journal! This picture doesn't come close to showing you the beauty of this pendant but it's the best I could do.

Candice & Roxi had pre-resined the papers for us to stamp & cut to size. One inch square brass plates were hammered & stamped. Papers cut & stacked to fit neatly inside the brass plates, holes drilled with a Dremel/Dremel Drill Press, jump rings inserted. I used a braided black leather cord, coiled with brass wire, and embellished with small brass sayings/keys. The ends were finished off with end caps & jewelry fasteners.

This necklace is a head turner & show stopper when wearing! I wore it to church & was stopped again & again with people wanting to see what I was wearing!

Thanks Roxi & Candice for teaching this class!!! Loved every minute of it!