Christmas Ornaments with Repurposed Materials

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Art, art from recycled materials, art, creativity, crafts, inspiration, beads, cabochon, Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Ornaments, copper, copper foiling, copper fpoling, Design, inspiration, jewelry, Materials, new ideas for christmas ornaments, Personal Growth, repurposing and christmas ornaments, solder, soldering, stained glass, UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Christmas Ornaments with Repurposed Materials

I make lamp worked beads; sometimes with scrap glass and I fuse glass, too.  I was pondering whether to toss the little odd  scraps.  ugly beads and fused pieces that didn’t come out quite right.  Then I decided to try something new.  I started playing with the materials and ended up making Christmas ornaments using the copper foiling method.  Here’s what I came up with.   I will give them away as gifts.  They might make nice sun catchers  when the tree is taken down.

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Santa’s Workshop-South Philadelphia Branch

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Ancient Patinas

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Altered Art, Altered Curiosities, Art, art from recycled materials, art, creativity, crafts, inspiration, blogging, Blogroll, cabochon, Craft demonstration, Crafting Traditions, Design, Ellen Marshall, jewelry, Materials, Metal Working, mixed media, Patina, Photo transfers, Photography, Polymer Clay, Polymer Clay Photo Transfer, Polymer Clay tutorials, screen printing, Television Production, That's Clever, UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Ancient Patinas

     Here are some new  twists on  polymer clay surface techniques I have been working on.   You can see some earlier incarnations in the Keepsake Memory Book I demonstrated on HGTV, and my work in Ellen Marshall’s Polymer Clay Surface Design Recipes. More to come.

Arlene Groch: Polyaddict

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 Let Arlene Groch’s story be a warning to all of you. “My totally out of control addiction to polymer clay had such an innocent birth in September, 2004”, she recalled. “I bought some clay and a couple of books to share an activity with my 8 year old grandson. He was mildly interested; I was hooked. Within a month I had decided to give up my 30 year career as a trial attorney so I could devote most of my time to playing with clay and attending workshops and classes. I set myself a one year goal of learning enough to be able to begin to develop my own style.”  To see more of Arlene’s one of a kind Mezuzah cases and jewelry, go to her site,PolyGemDesigns.

Repurposing Revisited

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      This necklace is made from part of another one of my Grandmother’s silverplated spoons. After I made the bracelet I showed in an earlier post, I decided to try something new. The cabochon is polymer. The spoon is dapped, pierced, and patinated.  The cab is held in place with gold filled wire.  The pendant is strung on rubber cord and finished with Balinese style vermeil spacers and a vermeil clasp.  I am exploring more ways to make jewelry from spoons and found objects. I will post the more interesting results.