Another month has passed us by, and another challenge will be in the books. Appropriately, the theme for the Art Elements challenge this month is Ornaments. I had a lot of fun with this one - I had more than a few days I wasn't working this month so making ornaments filled some of my time.
The first ones I want to show you are stitched by me - they were made with some little heart ceramic tiles my daughter found on a job site. I love finding little treasures on job sites, so I decided these needed to be bezeled and hung on the tree!
I also had these snowflake forms hanging around for years, so I decided to make some with these blown hollow glass beads and czech fire polished beads, along with some seed beads. They turned out pretty good - I may have gotten a little carried away. I still have a little pile of hollow beads to make more ornaments with!
I had made some ornaments a few years ago with vintage chandelier parts - they never sold, so I took them apart and made new ones! I really like them, even if no one else does! They can also be used as suncatchers.
And finally, since I've been doing more fusing in my kiln lately than making beads, I made some fused cast glass ornaments that I really love. The first ones are from a tree casting mold.
This one above was made with little tiny bits of stringers, and some dichroic glass thrown in for good measure.
This one was made from a frit mix called Winterberry. Very festive!
AND, my absolute favorite ornaments this year, were made with a star casting mold.
These are made from solid black glass and dichroic bits, and from clear glass and dichroic bits. They are very sparkly and fun!
I hope you enjoyed seeing what I made for the Ornament Theme Challenge, and I hope you'll visit everyone else to see what they made! Very Happy Holidays to you all!
The first ones I want to show you are stitched by me - they were made with some little heart ceramic tiles my daughter found on a job site. I love finding little treasures on job sites, so I decided these needed to be bezeled and hung on the tree!
AND, my absolute favorite ornaments this year, were made with a star casting mold.
I hope you enjoyed seeing what I made for the Ornament Theme Challenge, and I hope you'll visit everyone else to see what they made! Very Happy Holidays to you all!
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