Spring Collage #2

Spring Collage: mixed media...vintage linen and snippets of silk, vintage little bitty pearls, transparency, paper, acrylic paint, gesso, vintage music paper.

Birds Nest Necklace

A little bird's nest...hanging from a wire wrapped branch, using crackly bone beads. Polished steel wire. Lovely...

Jewelry

I just started to sell my jewelry at Gallery 41. I am the feature artist there this month, and I have a nice show in the back gallery - both my jewelry and my collage as well. Up on top is my focal piece for my 2D stuff... I used an old chess board, all aged and crackled already for me, and I used an old lithograph print that was falling apart as the background imaging, plus a lot of little thingamajiggies from about my studio...this piece reminds me of my father, who was an attorney.

Pictured in the bottom photo are my hand pounded hoops wired with little sapphire beads - sparkly!

Merry Christmas

Some of this year's ornaments........................available at Gallery 41, Owego, NY!!!

Christmas Cards '09

Wish me luck in selling this collection of '09 Xmas cards! Gallery 41 will be featuring these one of a kind creations!

Art Mix Playing Cards

Art Chix Studio has put together this very clever deck of cards, using a selection of their favorite ATCs that have been used in past swaps and contests! I was so flattered to see they used 3 of my ATCs for this amazing deck!!!! I got a complimentary deck in the mail today - HOW COOL!!!!!!

an old ATC - one of my faves

100 wedding invitations!!

I made 100 of these cards for my cousin, Cally - for her wedding invitations. I made them as my wedding gift to her. What a big project! On Sunday, I got together with my mother, 3 of my aunts, my daughter, and my cousin - we drank wine and set up an assembly line for the card production. It was an awesome family day!!

I used antique vintage music paper, and all handmade embellishments. I corrugated the hearts myself.

Tattooed Ladies

These are some ATCs I put together a while back. I'm posting them in tribute to my tattoo shop, which is about to open. i used Marah Johnson papers and Art Chix images.

The Tattoo Queen by Gill Del-Mace

Isn't she wicked cool?!!! I had a poster of this painting in my first tattoo shop...it's long since gone. I'd love to find another $20 copy of it, but I've looked everywhere, and to no avail. The art prints of this piece start at about $350, and that's for a little one. To have one that does it justice is unthinkably priced at around $800. I want it for my tattoo shop so bad. Maybe Santa claus will bring it to me... if I'm a good girl...

Paper Whimsy collage canvases

I just finished these two for Gallery 41. Both are using Paper Whimsy collage images. and take alook at the rusty ribbon, also from PW - it's sooo cool!!! The button frame uses mostly buttons from my grandmother's extensive button collection - now mine, and a great source of materials! Thanks Oma.

True Heart

Another new one for Gallery 41. The substrate is plain old cardboard with crackle medium to reinforce. Thank you again Art chix Studio for yet another great image to build upon!

My Girls

I got my new neon sign for the tattoo shop. It won't be long now till we're open for business.

Look at my beautiful daughters!

Anabel

Here are a couple of scrapped and Photoshopped pics of Anabel. I'm loving this Photoshop now that I'm finally getting to know it.

Anew piece. It's to hang from the rear view window. I made it for my sister, using s keychain that was our grandparent's - it has my grandfather's name on it - so cool!

Valentine Banners

I made these for a swap with the Yahoo In This House group - Mini Valentine Banners. Looking forward to it - the last swap I did with this group was the best swap I've ever been involved with - it really brought out the best work from me. "In This House" is such a wonderful book, so full of inspiration and beautiful art - I look to it often...

Naughty or Nice

Naughty or Nice. I just love the concept, especially for xmas cards. This one is my favorite card from this year's batch. The pinup girl is actually a Camel cigarettes coaster. Under the word naughty is the Camel logo. I thought it came out so cool I couldn't bring myself to send it to anybody! So I'll put it up here - my holiday card to all you fine people who happen along to my humble blog.

Wire Jewelry

I've been playing with wire wrapping for about 6 months or more - here are a few of my creations. I have been influenced in a big way by Deryn Mentock. Thank you Deryn for such great inspiration!!! Her work with steel wire is amazing! I've got the book, "A Charming Exchange", as well as a few of Stampington's jewelry magazines - I've been having a lot of fun with it, and hope to have some for sale soon. As soon as I started to play around with wire wrapping, I knew I'd stick with it - it just feels right to me. I love to work with metal - I've always wanted to - like to forge steel or something like that. Build gothic gates and torture devices and stuff like that... I have also long been enamored by glass. That's so cool, the wire jewelry - I like to use glass beads. I go pick the irregular glass beads from a bin at the bead store. It's a treasure trove of every color, hue, size, and shape of glass. Cheap too! And the irregular shapes add to the organic feel to my wire pieces.

The piece in the top picture is a "window charm" - I designed this with a rear view mirror in mind, but it looks cool just hanging in a window anywhere.

Holiday Bling

Fun with german scrap pieces-

Art Chix Studio Xmas Cards

2008 cards for sale with Colleen at The Sea Hag, in Brackney, PA.