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Soldered Easter Eggs!

Just in time for Easter ... soldered eggs! These can be used as decorations, as I show here, or as a pendant. Please join me today over at the CLASSroom, where I show you how to create TWO of these unique eggs, along with the arrangement I created for the vase I showed you earlier this week! I'll be back tomorrow for Good Friday and with the Weekend Sketch Challenge . . . Read more →

Inchie Lamb Birthday Gift Set

My baby turns 6 tomorrow, so I wanted to make her something special, handmade from me. She LOVES any kind of animal and jewelry, so I decided to put the two together for her in this soldered pendant: I started with an Inchie Arts 1-inch White Inchie Square and stamped Karen Lockhart's Itty Bitty Rose Border and LuLu Lamb with Tsukineko's Tuxedo Black Memento ink -- I loved how these two small images fit so well together! Then I colored the images with these Copic Sketch markers and Silver Copic Atyou Spica glitter pen: Actually, this is the point at which I began wondering what I wanted to make with this sweet little lamb Inchie! So I got out my soldering supplies: and found 1-inch Memory Glass squares that fit perfectly over the White Inchie Square. I wanted to use the Wavy Edge Copper Foil Tape around the edges, so some of the green edge of my Inchie would still show through. It was a snug fit with the 1-inch glass pieces sandwiching the Inchie Square, but the copper tape just barely did fit properly! Before sandwiching, I colored the back of the Inchie Square with some of the same... Read more →

Soldered Ornament

Woo-hoo, I finally soldered! I took a few stained-glass classes about 12 years ago where I learned the basics of soldering for that art form, so it all came back rather quickly for me. Here's a holiday ornament I made for Ellen Hutson's In Touch Newsletter that you all should have received yesterday. At the bottom of the newsletter, there's a coupon for 10% off all the Simply Swank soldering supplies that she carries -- that's what I used for this ornament. If you don't receive her newsletter and would like to, go to the homepage here, scroll to the bottom and sign up to join the mailing list. If you need some pointers on soldering, you'll find a great article written by Debbie Olson on Ellen's In Touch blog this month. If you scroll down to the bottom, you'll find another great soldering tutorial done by Ellen. If you have any questions about this ornament, just leave them below in the comment section and I'll answer them. Read more →