I have been in my craft room creating something other the a bigger mess! I have learned how to make puffy hearts for necklaces. Thank you Debbie of Artistic Ambitions for teaching me. I took it one step further and cut them in half to make some really cute barrettes. I have two baking and when they are cooled I will have them pose for pictures.
I have been working on ideas for mini-masks. I joined a swap where I send in 10 masks for each group that I sign up for and get 10 different masks back. The mask are to be no larger the 3 inches by 3 inches, which are perfect for barrettes. I have ideas for the two groups that I have signed up for. I have the canes done for one group. I haven’t figured out yet but I think that that group will be fairy masks. I will be doing a group of Comedia Del Arte masks as well. I am not sure which characters that I will use but I am thinking of doing Harlequin. But who knows, El Doctore and Pantalone may show up.
Well I should go check the oven and make sure nothing is over cooking!
These barrettes came from the same tin. It was a small tin and I was only able to get four barrettes out of it. The two that are similar in shape are from the sides. The fourth barrette is the same as the one with the three flowers.
The oval barrette is the only one that I got out of the top.
I finally got some of the many tins that I found at thirft shops, flea markets and antique store cut into barrettes. I had to go and but some clumps to hold the barrette backs on the tins so that the glue would set. The tin that was used is thick and does not bend easily. These two barrettes are just two of six different designs that I got out of the lid of the tin.
I still have the side of the tin to plan and cut. I like the victorian look of this tin and how it creates some really interesting barrettes.
Both of these barrettes are from the same combination of alcohol inks. The first one I decided not to trim with copper clay. I like how it looks. The leaves seem to blend together with just a little bit of white to separate them.
This barrette has the copper clay trim. I think that it looks more finished then the first. You see both of the leaves and they don’t seem to blend together.
This is one of the new fall leaves barrettes that I made. I colored the white clay with three different colors of alcohol inks and added a copper additive (also alcohol ink). The texture is done by pressing some of the leaves that mother nature drops in my back yard at this time of the year.
I am thinking of doing other barrettes with different colors of alcohol inks. I can even add different additives like pearl, gold or silver. I might even do some and add snow flakes to them.