The Introverted Crafter

I've tried to alter something this week, using wax, moulds, and paint. I'm not wholly happy with it, but I was going to throw the whole thing away at one point, so I'm....happier than I was.  Here's the before.  I started off my adding bird moulds and covering the whole thing in white gesso. I then used stained wood wax, which made it look awful frankly. I much prefer the metallic waxes, and sorely need to replace my gold and silver ones.  So, back to the drawing board, I then used clear gesso, then crackle effect, then distress purple paint. I coated all the birds haphazardly in the purple paint, as I wanted it to look used, then I used copper wax.  It looks better in person.  Onto the stitch, I'm now on 70% At least this is still looking good. Until next time Ems

This week I've been mostly making bracelets. Sorry, that was my inner Jessie from the fast show there. Anyway, I've worked on day 6 of the kits I got over Christmas, making two bracelets with beads and lots of jump rings.  One thing you have to make sure of is that you use the right size jump ring for the beads.  I also used some of the items from day 7 (the wind chimes one) to make a necklace.  The hearts are large enough to make it a statement necklace, but not overly large.  I've also been working on the stitch. Here's the latest. Look you can actually see something appearing!  Until next time Ems

I've made a couple of cards this week. The first is a simple card, using clear embossing powder and a sea stamp.  The other is a platform pop up card, using cityscape, snowglobe and dinosaur dies from tim holtz. I used the t rex and stegosaurus dies to make a godzilla. I've been working on the stitch. Here's the latest update  Until next time Ems  

Now as I said last week, I've tried something new this week. I wanted to post my first attempt, both to hopefully show my progress as I learn to hone my techniques, and to show that you don't have to do thing perfectly to craft, what's more important is that you enjoy yourself when doing it.  So I've been trying my hand at polymer clay, in the hope to make jewellery in the future. This is obviously with cutters and moulds. I've already learned a few lessons from this first attempt. Firstly, make sure your baking paper doesn't cure in the oven, as that will curl your pieces. Secondly, the tiniest hole cutter is still too big (see the foxes) for a hole for findings to go through. I might put a stone or bead here to fix it. Thirdly, you can put findings in clay prior to baking. Anyway, here's my first attempt.  I've still got to figure out how to get the pieces off after I've cut them without squishing then a bit.  I've also been working on the stit...