I mentioned in my birthday wish list post last month that since I've gotten more serious about my photography, I've been drawn to old cameras and camera related items. I've been favoriting a number of these items on Etsy and thought that it would be fun to share a few today. Enjoy.
Wood Photo Blocks - Vintage Cameras - Home Decor - Wall Art - Whimsical Decor, Office Decor, for the photography, under 100 - Shutterbug by TraceyCapone
7 Camera Magnets / perfect for the fridge / also fits magnabilities 1122 by PipingHotPapers
Pillow Cover, Colorful Camera Vintage Brown Pillow, Retro, Decoration 16 x 16 or 18 x 18 by Andrekart
Camera iPhone 5 case, Brownie, Gadget cover, black, white, cool gift for photographers by Raceytay
Vintage Camera Print Retro Decor Limited Edition 100 Blue - 8 x 10 Screen Print Canvas Wall Hanging - Indie Housewares by MoxieMadness
Vintage reflex camera print - on Upcycled Vintage Dictionary page by naturapicta
TLR camera, screen printed glasses, set of 4 pint glasses by vital
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
"What's Old is New Again" Art Beads design partners piece
Typically I complete my Art Beads pieces about three weeks after the themes are announced. I got the initial e-mail for the spring theme at the very end of March and didn't complete my piece until this past Sunday. The size for one of my bead sets was mislabeled on the Art Beads site. It took a couple weeks to get a new set of something similar in the right size. I've also been busy with custom orders (no complaints there!) and all of the moving and graduation stuff. But I finished it and am really happy with the result.
The theme for the Art Beads design partners is "What's Old is New Again." We were supposed to use any old or vintage inspired components with or without new components to create a brand new piece. I didn't have any initial idea for the theme. I started browsing the suggested site categories and came across these patina daggers in the glass beads category. I'm sure that it's no surprise that I was immediately drawn to them. I've been eying some similar ones in Shannon's shop for a while, but hadn't bought any yet. This was the perfect opportunity to use them. The whole set with orange, lime, turquoise, and purple reminded me of the 70's, which fit perfectly for this theme, so I decided to go with it.
Once I was set on the patinas, I hunted through my own bead stash for cube and seed beads in coordinating colors. I supplied all of these myself, although three of the cube bead sets were ones that I'd purchased from Art Beads on my own. You can see my sneak peak post about this here. I filled in the patina daggers with orange, lime, and transparent green daggers. I love the dagger beads on Art Beads, but as I've posted about here before, it's cheaper to buy them in bulk elsewhere. Usually I get a few unusual designs from Art Beads and fill them in with bulk solid colors.
This is the first dagger bracelet that I've made with side fringe. I used coordinating orange and lime pressed Czech glass beads, along with the seed beads, with the same technique that I use for my other skinny fringed/embellished bracelets. If you want links for the specific Czech glass that I used in this piece, let me know.
Art Beads has several awesome triangle clasps in their clasp category. I choose this one because it was vintage inspired and has the circles on it, which mirror the ones on the patinas. Normally I would have used a button from my own collection, but we need two product categories for our pieces, so this was a perfect way to make that happen.
I decided to name the piece after That '70s Show. I thought that this would be appropriate as I grew up in the 80's and got my inspiration for this retro color combination from my own generation's pop culture.
I love the way the colors came together in this piece. I also love the side fringe. I think that the size and shape of the beads that I chose worked really well as a little border. I may experiment with similar fringe in the future.
It's available here. I collected some new green daggers in the process of making this bracelet so I'm planning an all green dagger bracelet in the future. That's the only dagger piece that I have in the works right now, but as always I'm open to other suggestions.
Disclosure - I received my ArtBead's products free of charge through their blogging program. I am honestly reviewing their products and have not been paid for my endorsement as it pertains to the products I received.
The theme for the Art Beads design partners is "What's Old is New Again." We were supposed to use any old or vintage inspired components with or without new components to create a brand new piece. I didn't have any initial idea for the theme. I started browsing the suggested site categories and came across these patina daggers in the glass beads category. I'm sure that it's no surprise that I was immediately drawn to them. I've been eying some similar ones in Shannon's shop for a while, but hadn't bought any yet. This was the perfect opportunity to use them. The whole set with orange, lime, turquoise, and purple reminded me of the 70's, which fit perfectly for this theme, so I decided to go with it.
Once I was set on the patinas, I hunted through my own bead stash for cube and seed beads in coordinating colors. I supplied all of these myself, although three of the cube bead sets were ones that I'd purchased from Art Beads on my own. You can see my sneak peak post about this here. I filled in the patina daggers with orange, lime, and transparent green daggers. I love the dagger beads on Art Beads, but as I've posted about here before, it's cheaper to buy them in bulk elsewhere. Usually I get a few unusual designs from Art Beads and fill them in with bulk solid colors.
This is the first dagger bracelet that I've made with side fringe. I used coordinating orange and lime pressed Czech glass beads, along with the seed beads, with the same technique that I use for my other skinny fringed/embellished bracelets. If you want links for the specific Czech glass that I used in this piece, let me know.
Art Beads has several awesome triangle clasps in their clasp category. I choose this one because it was vintage inspired and has the circles on it, which mirror the ones on the patinas. Normally I would have used a button from my own collection, but we need two product categories for our pieces, so this was a perfect way to make that happen.
I decided to name the piece after That '70s Show. I thought that this would be appropriate as I grew up in the 80's and got my inspiration for this retro color combination from my own generation's pop culture.
I love the way the colors came together in this piece. I also love the side fringe. I think that the size and shape of the beads that I chose worked really well as a little border. I may experiment with similar fringe in the future.
It's available here. I collected some new green daggers in the process of making this bracelet so I'm planning an all green dagger bracelet in the future. That's the only dagger piece that I have in the works right now, but as always I'm open to other suggestions.
Disclosure - I received my ArtBead's products free of charge through their blogging program. I am honestly reviewing their products and have not been paid for my endorsement as it pertains to the products I received.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Art Beads sneak peak
The Art Beads blog design team got details this week about our newest challenge: "What's Old is New Again!" Of course my mind immediately went to work because I can never resist placing my blog order with them as soon as possible. I have a lot of the cube and seed beads that I need for my idea.
As you can see, I'm using an orange, lime green, turquoise, and purple color palette. I'm actually going to substitute the purple cubes for some darker matte finish ones from Art Beads. And yes, this is going to be another dagger piece. I'm going to use the wasabi and orange daggers on the right as well as some transparent green and patina daggers that I'm ordering.
Some of you may remember that I made a dagger piece for the last Art Bead challenge. The color palette and theme will be totally different for this. I'm also going to add some side embellishment and substitute a metal clasp for my typical button clasp. Yep, I have about a couple hundred vintage buttons in my own collection and could easily pick out something awesome, but we need 2 main product categories for our piece so the metal clasp is a perfect way to make that happen. I found a neat retro one. I love how it has the circles in it, which will coordinate perfectly with the patina daggers. I won't have any true vintage components, but I will have vintage inspired components, which is okay for this challenge, and the piece will have a definite retro feel.
I should have my order within the next week and will have more news about this piece soon.
Some of you may remember that I made a dagger piece for the last Art Bead challenge. The color palette and theme will be totally different for this. I'm also going to add some side embellishment and substitute a metal clasp for my typical button clasp. Yep, I have about a couple hundred vintage buttons in my own collection and could easily pick out something awesome, but we need 2 main product categories for our piece so the metal clasp is a perfect way to make that happen. I found a neat retro one. I love how it has the circles in it, which will coordinate perfectly with the patina daggers. I won't have any true vintage components, but I will have vintage inspired components, which is okay for this challenge, and the piece will have a definite retro feel.
I should have my order within the next week and will have more news about this piece soon.
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