New Charm Art

I am always adding new art to my catalog of work for charms.   A lot of it is nice, fun, and useful, but fairly mundane.  However I have made a few recently that have had me giggling so I thought I would share them with you.

The first two are cat's with wine for the "Cat-A-Tonic" Funky Bracelet.  I have for several years just been putting normal cat's and normal wine glass charms on the bracelet, but for 2016 I thought it would be amusing to have the cat's drinking.

The cat on the left is a nice socialite kitty enjoying a glass of wine at a cocktail party.    The cat on the left  is drowning it's sorrows at a bar and has had one to many.  yes I know,  I really over think these things

This next picture is of a sheep dressed up as a butler.  Now you might be saying to your self "okay that's cute, but Why?"  The reason for that is because I love puns.  In Japanese Shitsugi = Butler and Hitsugi = Sheep, only one letter different.  Hence the pun of a sheep as a butler.

The sheep/butler is caring a tray, but when I cropped out all the wasted space to save it, I cropped it a little to close and cut off the edge of the tray... oops.  Not really a big deal since I only use these pictures as a guide when I hand draw a charm.

When I come up with more charms that send me into a fit of giggles I'll share them with you.

Today  I have been working on hand-making Little Book charms out of Polymer Clay.  I typically will make around 100 charms per batch so it's an all day possess...  well in reality it's a several day possess, but 90% of it will be done today (and for those of you who read me regularly know that is a 12 - 14 hour day).  If you look very closely you can tell there are 2 sizes of book being made... Small and Really Small.

First I have to prep the clay and make the "paper" part of the books.

- Then I create the "Covers"

- On the curved side I create an indentation and a little black label for the "binding"

- Then It's put them all on Head Pins and into the oven with them

After they bake I seal them and let them dry for 3 days, witch I still need to do.  Once they are dry I twist the wire at the top to create a loop. 

Tada!  A batch of Book Charms are borne.

For the most part all the charms have marbleized covers so each one is different, this can make finding 2 close enough to be earrings a little difficult.  When they are all finished I will use them for Earrings, Funky Bracelets and Pepole Pins.