Bits of this and that (or how looks my table)

I thought maybe you would like to see some of my thousand UFO which lay around or in big piles on my desk! No, I don't show overall pictures, the mess looks even worse as a foto! ^^

The star is made out of real clay and "stamped" with some lace. 

Below you see some new carved stamps. I am just carving a lot of more new stamps because the ones from my giveaway never arrived their destination... (yes, I was surprised how much it really hurts to know that the stuff one made is lost...). So the new batch is nearly finished... hope I can send it at the weekend.

*sniff*

But back again to... stuff! Some pendant I am using as a experiment to play with all my 3D laquers. And pieces of a big cone I drilled a hole into (with my dremel! ;)). I also added a thin layer of silver with acrylic paint. I think it brings the texture better to the eye... 

And a button. Of course.

A lot more of plant material! Kasuarines, don't know what the yellow are and also the long one was something my family found being on Mallorca... (and of course they thought of me!). Also with some silver colour added....

Wooden stars... Still without holes. They also need a thick layer of laquer... or maybe more colour. Although the colour seems bright it is almost a little bit dull in reality.

The cover of a fraunhofer magazine. I love the little pictures, perfect inspirations for stamps! They captured the essence of the silhouettes in a great graphic way!

Old christmas decoration... turned to earrings. The metallic colour is great, shining but not too extreme.

Started scanning / taking pics of beautiful wrapping paper (small used leftovers). Oh, I would love to have fabric like this!

As soon as you put something new on the floor... (I want to paint or wrap the wood)

...the black shadows arrive!

Tape! I bought for christmas a lot for family and friends :) And one set for myself...

Some clay stuff... 

Just an example how the advent calendars looked like...

Still don't now what to make out of this tiny crochet flower. But love the beads!

There is more... lot more... but maybe I'll repeat this kind of impressions :)

No end to sparkling pink!

Okay.. that's not true! This ones will be the last ones for some time. At least the last pink earrings I made for the pink advent calendar! The ones from 2011... and what I'll make for the one in 2012... I just can show you after giving it away. So not for december 2012 or early 2013...

Puh.. that seems a little bit creepy! But what other time in the year than january to start thinking about christmas? ^^

Cardboard... with pink glitter! A lot of glue and pink glitter! And the glitter is really durable once the glue is cured :)

Guess the *not so mysterious* thing!

This earrings were made for the pink advent calendar. Yes, I may say that the pink sparkling glitter in pink will already told you so :)

But also this one is for Mich L in LA and her "Guess the mystery thing". 

I love her findings and what she makes for cool jewelery out of them. Just seeing the jewelery, most of the I am completly without clue what stuff she used for creating it. And I may add: If I think I have a clue... it is going in the complete wrong direction! 

So this one is for her, not so difficult at all like her stuff but still I made earrings out of non-jewelery-related stuff and I really love the result! :) 

Have a closer look! I think you all already know what I used, nai? Not that strange or difficult :)

Let it snow in polycolour!

Earrings you may say... nothing but earrings...! But an earring is not only an earring! With all the stuff I find I am always thinking: Mh.... could I make an earring out of it? You may say that this is an easy way. I was just wondering why it makes so much more fun for me to create earrings than other stuff. 

I realised that this may be because earrings are more than just a piece of normal accessoire. They build a frame for your face and even if you take a picture just of the head / face, you'll always catch the earrings. Earring more than any other jewelery creates a kind of look and an impression of how your image could be received by others. 

Sometimes it is decent, more often earrings are the little pieces of rebellion worn with the everyday clothes. They allow everyone to step a little bit outside the line without completly crossing it. 

Old adds... paper earrings

Yes, more paper earrings! And guess what, there will be a lot more in th next time! But this pair was also for an advent calendar, so I can show it to you finally. Just some little items left to show and also some pictures from my visit in Münster where my sister Lachafa now lives and studies (now = over a year). She studies now... exceeds me about a head lenght (so much for being my little sister!)... and I am sometimes wondering myself, when did all this happen? ^^ 

Back to the earrings... the picture is an old advertising I just printed out :) Way too many possibilities for earrings out of paper! 

Colours and dots!

I hope you are still with me although the amount of paper earrings is rising and rising...! But I still just love them! This pair of earrings I made out of some scrapbooking paper, so it is a lot more sturdy than normal paper. Nearly like light card board. Perfect for earrings! Like free ad postcards ^^ )although they are even better! Really! Even if you are not making earrings but want to scrapbook, trust me, use free ad postcards!)

But the paper alone wasn't enough for me, there was something missing... and this something was not a single piece but a lot of dots! You never can go wrong with dots! ^^

Glueing the circles on recycled card board (you can use everything). Adding (you must be tired of reading / hearing this from me, bit it makes such a difference!) a black edge with an edding. 

And a layer of 3D glue (laquer, diamond glaze, something like this... my stash is empty now although I had some of different companies *sniff*)

Hidden pink!

More earrings using the hidden pink to be suitable for the pink advent calendar ^^ 

This time the dream of pink elefants! 

For the little elefants I made a mold out of air-drying clay. I used an old necklace from my grandmother which consists of a lot of elefant beads (yes, from the time ivory was still used). The beads are very typical in their shape because a friend of me has a very similar necklace (also from her grandmother, necklace seems to be as old as mine). 

The mold I used with fimo / polymer clay and after baking the little elefants were painted with golden / copper acrylic paint.

Oh, all the free postcards!

Another one which was cut by me into little pieces...! Or better into small circles...! Just layered with 3D glue / laquer... 

Oh, and I paint the borders in black because it is this little detail which makes the whole difference in the end! Which makes paper look less like paper ^^

Again: The hidden pink factor! All for the use by a pink advent calendar ;)

PS: "Moin, moin" is the north german variation of hello or hey :)

Sparkles - glitter - butterflies!

Acryl? Yes! But acryl which has a mirror-like surface! Like perfect tiny butterfly mirrors... and even better: They are so light and I could drill holes in them... it made them perfect for (you would never have guessed, mh? ^^) earrings!

Do you see me with my camera? I found them in a store for cheap stuff where they sold them as stickers (for scrapbooking or so). To remove the little glue dot on the back was quite enervating! 

So for the pink advent calendar (they went in the pink advent calendar as well as in Lachafas :) ) I glued a lot of sparkling pink glitter on the back! Another case of hidden pink?

Look how great their mirror-like effect is!

Small and big!

This was an ad from a company for nucleic acids purification kits. I hope they'll forgive me for using their ad in this way ^^ 

Just paper glued on card board for stability... the edges were painted with a stamp ink pad... and then 3D glue and pink glitter was added! 

Of course part of the pink advent calendar! :)

More hand carved stamps!

More hand carved stamps! Some of them were in the advent calendar for my little (not so little anymore, she is a head higher than me! ^^) sister Lachafa. Others are just some leftovers of the rubber I used for carving... with which I played a little bit :)

Leaves were included.... of course!

And a tag! Everyone needs a tag stamp, nai?

I really like how the lines of the rubber get a more interesting texture to the stamped image (for this one I used  normal school erasers so therefor the surface is not perfect sometimes for printing, but I love the effect! :)).

You want your own tag stamp? Nothing is easier to carve than a tag stamp, really! Have a try! 

All you need is:

• some eraser / rubber
• a sharp knife / paper knife / scalpell / linoleum carving tool or just a tapestry cutter (just the sharp blade is important)

And here are the little stamps I made out of leftovers... we are talking of 1 cm stamps or smaller ^^

Not much is needed for a house shape...!

Squares create great pattern, especially if they are NOT perfect :)

What about more squares, triangles or other shapes?