Monday, December 17, 2007

Nile Dragonfly

This is a necklace I made yesterday. The button design was cast from a Czech glass button with Suze Weinberg's Mold n Pour, and is made of Suze Weinberg's clear UTEE mixed with green and blue To Dye For solvent inks, psychedelic embossing powder, and Krylon gold leaf pen to color the insect and rim the piece. It is mounted onto a brass ox filigree finding, that has various glass seed beads, and Czech fire polished glass beads in gold and emerald hung from the bottom. The pendant hangs on a gold tone figaro chain, with a heart (lobster) clasp, extension, and tiny gold leaf dangling at the very end.


Now this is the cool thing I discovered: When you mix a psychedelic embossing powder with UTEE, it gives the initial appearance of being glittery blue on the surface, and when looking at it indirectly. But if light should catch the button, you will see the original color, which in this case is green. The next picture is of the button being held up to a light, so you can see it's actual color.
Isn't that just awesome??
This UTEE is fun stuff!

3 comments:

Monica Sandström said...

You are amazing! That necklace is so wonderful!

Glee-scrap said...

Wow, "Cat", You are so creative & productive! Everything you make is beautiful. Thanks for the tip about Mold n Pour, that looks like fun!
Peace, Erin : )

Shirley said...

I love what you have done with all of this "stuff." I need to try it too! You make it look so easy and your results are beautiful.