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Nicole Hanna: Pocket Watch Design |
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Pocket Watch Ugh |
Here are the beautiful stamps I found by InvokeArts on Etsy. I will definitely use these again:
You stamp the images on the Shrinky Dink plastic, pop it in your toaster oven (only used for polymer clay) and watch while magic occurs. They curl up and frighten you half to death thinking they will never straighten out but once they bake for about 25 minutes, here's what you get:
Then Laurie talks you through building a frame for the image which you paint and adorn like so:
I just loved them. And then (cue scary music) I baked them. I guess my oven was running too hot because the sweet little wings on the left piece just curled up and melted, as did the frame itself looking like something out of Halloween15! Not so fantastic....
I think the Dream piece is salvageable - at least for wearing by me - and will look interesting on a ball chain or Silversilk. The frame did warp a bit but I'll just chalk that up to part of the dream motif.
So, in summary, I give both Nicole Hanna and Laurie Mika high marks for instruction and give me DNF/average scores for the final results.
I will share a bit of disappointment in the Art Jewelry Community. Although the web site has a general discussion board as does each class, not many students post pictures of their work or discuss their experience online. The online friends you make is something I have enjoyed with blogging and other challenges but we may have an especially small or shy class!
1 comments:
thank you for posting and sharing your process ... agree that not many do share what they learn, and we can all learn from each other. I have tried wire weave as well, and lets just say it is going to take a few hundred more times before that wire feels confident in my hands. But hey, I did give it a try! I would never guess that your frames were Shrinky Dinks?! who knew? but it did turn out wonderfully for a focal
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