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!

Mechanical Aeshnidae

As I've been saying for a while, I've been playing with UTEE (Suze Weinberg's Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel). While I've made a handful of buttons and embellishments, this is my first piece of art incorporating a creation made with UTEE:

I made a mold of a Czech glass dragonfly button, with Suze Weinberg's Mold n Pour. I used Suze Weinberg's To Dye For solvent ink dyes in blue and green to get the beautiful teal color in my otherwise clear utee. I also mixed a little embossing powder called 'Psychedelic' to get a rich sparkly blue effect in the button. I used Krylon gold leafing pen to color the dragonfly, and rim the button. I used Loctite Super Glue Gel to adhere it to a 1-1/2" fender washer treated with Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Inks in Rust, Espresso and Butterscotch. Surrounding the button, are copper ox findings, star lock washers in various sizes also treated with Alcohol Inks, aluminum Metal Mesh also treated with Alcohol Inks and Krylon gold leafing pen, and large brass ox findings on a 4x4" black ceramic tile.

Here is a close up of the 'button':