Creamed Soda and Collages....

Yay it is finally Spring ! Today was quite sunny, so I poked my head outside and let the rays fall across my delighted face.

I had bought a bottle of Cream Soda for our son and his friend, meant to give it to them 2 days ago but had left it in the car trunk ! I remembered today :)
Now pop is not one of my fav. drinks, I'm more of a chocolate milk gal. But if I do want 'sugar water' then it's usually Cream Soda. It has that wonderful rich pinky-red coloring and reminds me of carnivals.

Here are a couple pics. you can use. One was shot while looking into the glass. The bubble blobs are from me trying to add cherry candy flavoring, just to see what would happen. Well the flavoring didn't mix in, but it smelled oh so wonderful and looked quite pretty floating on top.
The next image was taken simply because of the sun shining through the glass, love that color !

Woohoo, here are two of my computer created collages I've made into shrinky dink pendants. They're now in my Etsy shop along with 3 other collages. I'm having so much fun making these and can't wait for Monday to come so I can get more printed and baked.
Each collage uses images from my computer collection along with other items I've scanned into the computer --vintage papers, photos, 3-dimensional bits and pieces and more. Some collages also have my own photos.
They are all carefully created and meant to be dreamlike, whimsical or just plain weird lol !
I'm still wondering about the ballchain that comes with the pendant. Maybe I'll offer either a ballchain or a black satin slide knot necklace ( for those who have a chain of their own, are allergic to certain metals or just aren't into ballchains/cords ).

I hope you like my new pendants :) Thanks for stopping in ♥

Shrinky Dinking !

These images can be enlarged, hopefully it works for you unless you're using some kind of blocker thing to prevent enlargement.

Well I've succumbed to the Shrinky Dink trend ! I stumbled upon it while perusing Etsy and its altered art. Since I'm unable to really get into my art while the house is for sale, I figured it wouldn't hurt to see what some of the new stuff was on Etsy. Along with Steampunk, felting, and other wonderful items, Shrinky Dinks were quite a popular item. I do like charms and making them so why not give this new fun thing a try.

Off to Michaels I went and found Shrinky Dinks For Computer Inkjet Printers. Comes with 6 - 8x10 sheets in bright white.

I quickly learned that when using something I've never used before....do a test try first ! Thank goodness I did with the Shrinky Ds.

The instructions were quite clear except they didn't say WHY you need to cut your images before shrinking them. Your shrunk pieces turn into thickish hard things that sound like poker chips when tossed onto a table, they actually kinda feel good in the hands when you toss them around. I thought it would be easier to cut them after but NOPE. Perhaps my Dremel could be used and I'll give it a try, just not right now. Hey, I've never been Shrinky Dinking before so I didn't know how hard they got.

The best images to use are those that DON'T have a lot of dark colors. The chandelier pic. is an image I took of my parents chandelier before their house sold. I decided to see what would happen if I shrunk it, and as you can see in the images the bottom part of chandelier didn't show up as well as the top. Oh well, at least I know now.
The Metropolis images were already small to begin with, slightly larger than a postage stamp and as you can see they are much smaller ! --maybe little earrings for those Blythe dolls on Etsy ? Oops, did I just give some of you an idea what to do with your tiny Shrinky Dink pieces you thought you could never use ? No problem, I hope you do use the idea :)
The cherry blossom image is one of my favs. It's a closeup shot of one of my fav. trees on my parents property, now sold. But although I like the pinkness of this image, it's still too small for my liking, and I had wanted to cut out the individual flowers to make a bunch of charms.

So I was just playing around to see what Shrinky Dinking was like, and I quite enjoyed it. I'm happy to have Shrunky Dunked and look forward to my next batch of treasures. Lots of ideas going around my brain and can't wait to list some in my Etsy shop --but not until we've moved and my new art room is ready to roll ! --September sometime.

Hope my wee version of how S. Dunking works helped you to give it a whirl. Let me know how it goes :) xo