Showing posts with label Deryn Mentock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deryn Mentock. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Carved tree pendant and wrapped felt bead


Today I am showing off a photo of a new tree pendant that I made and then strung with a wrapped felt and wire bead. I carved the tree into clay and made a mold. Then I fired an impression from the mold, stained it and painted with multiple colors. It is simply coincidence that the colors match the wire wrapped felt bead. The bead is one I learned how to make in a tutorial by Deryn Mentock which you can see here. The tutorial for making the wire wrapped beads is now on sale at her Etsy shop.What a wonderful tutorial. It has sparked so many ideas for me. Thank you again Deryn. The felt on the bead was made by me also. It was an unsuccessful flower that I have been cutting up to wrap around the metal bead frames which are then wrapped with the wire and seed beads. I love it the way something unsuccessful in one context is great in another.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

I Am So Excited

I am so excited. I just made these fused glass links last night and took them out of the kiln this morning. I got the idea from Deryn Mentock's blog tutorial on wrapped beaded links. I have some time this morning so I am going to make some more. I will also try some variations.
Thank you Deryn.

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