Art Beads......Spring Break

I hosted an Art Bead class

for a few lovely young women

who were on spring break...

It was their first experience creating art beads...

they were fearless...

they especially enjoyed printing words and

highlighting them with contrasting paint...

They smiled and laughed a lot!

They mastered marbling clay

They created lots of art beads

They were here from 10am - 6pm

They made several necklaces from their beads.

They brought brownies!

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.......more Grunge Houses

I finished up the last 4 Grunge Houses...

Artful House

Inspire House

Imagine House

Simplify House

These have bird beads on the necklace

These were great FUN to put together!

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.....Skeleton Key Houses

House Beads......FUN!

These are simpler than the grunge houses,

with a skeleton key pressed into them:

Skeleton Key House Necklaces

The coin beads are very FUN to create

and stack nicely under the birdies...

This is a great way to incorporate all the 

different bead shapes I have been creating...

they all work with these necklaces.

Instead of pressing a skeleton key into the house,

I made windows and doors.

These are a bit smaller 

than the skeleton key houses.

The beads and jewelry are piling up around here.

I am thinking of opening an etsy store.

Do you have any advice for me?

Many Thanks for your comments!

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.......Grunge Houses

This is what the bead table looks like today:

I pulled out a few beads and charms that might

work with the grunge house beads 

I made last week.

Can't resist using a few of the birdie beads...

Grunge House Beads

All of this has me inspired 

to make some jewelry...

Grunge House Necklaces

The bird beads and skeleton keys 

work nicely with the houses.

Instead of skeleton keys.....feather charms

Grunge House Necklaces...

I need to make more!

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.......Hearts, Houses, Owls

Making more Art Beads...

I am playing around with crackle texture 

on polymer clay...

I dug around in the cupboard and found

 3 different brands of crackle medium:

The Delta brand in the center of the image 

made the largest crackles.

All 3 brands worked equally well.

I hand shaped the hearts from polymer clay

then baked them

then painted them with acrylic paint...

Then the crackle medium was applied 

over the dry paint.

The crackle happens as the medium dries.

They have been glazed and are ready 

to be put into a piece of jewelry.

I had so much fun creating these 

grunge house beads:

I am creating jewelry with them today

so I will post images soon!

Owl beads.....hard to resist:

Owl beads.....fresh from the oven

Hand-shaped Owl Beads

I use acrylic paint to highlight their feathers...

The paint reminds me of shaving cream 

when a man is shaving his face!

I immediately wipe off the paint...

it remains in the recesses of the feathers.

 The next step is to glaze these:

I am thinking these will make 

awful sweet bracelets.

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LuAnn Kessi