Sunday, August 8, 2010

Some New Ideas Are Brewing

Mostly just for fun, I purchased some of these:


and some of these:


Yup, I'm going to make some rings for my friends and nieces.  The format is very small, so I need to really think about the artwork that I will use under the glass cabochons.  I might try some of the marbled papers I made 2 years ago at Volcano Arts.  Some of the papers have very fine detail that will be visible under the 12mm glass.  The real question is, why am I still hoarding this paper??

3 comments:

brokenteepee said...

'Cause you knew you needed it for THIS project of course!

cindy shake said...

little pieces of roadmaps from favorite places might be cool...

Orion Designs said...

that's a good idea Cindy -- but I only have a 12mm circle to work with -- not sure if I can get enough detail in there to make a map snippet work