$2 Back Issue Sale at Somerset Studio!

I know, I think I ordered about 13 and had to stop myself - I wanted them all! I'll be drooling for 6 months! I've got to get my paper arts tables cleaned off and start collaging again!

Wow be sure to post pics when it's done!

Does anyone here use collage techniques to make beads/jewelry?

Those sound so cool! I WANNA SEE.

ME TOO!!!!!!! And that's cuz the Sooz-a-lator got me into collage!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) I've got some pix..........

Hi Susan in VA - Beautiful!!

Susan >

Those are sooo cool! You know, way back when, the woman who got me into lampwork (Jen, I used to just call her Beauty for her gorgeous smile, russet curls, and perfect sweet soul!) used to make something like that. I wonder if she still does? I haven't talked to Beauty in ages...

No, I am certain you didn't!

I do....but most everyone knows that!

Jill

Thanks, Kalera. As I said, it's all Sooz's fault!

These were some of my first, so they were seriously "mimimalist". :-) I *love* the more intricate ones that I've seen! And Sooz, you *MUST* post some pix!! We'd all love to see your work! :-)

I've been wanting to do that, but my glass-cutting skills totally suck. Of course that means practice, practice, practice, and I'm always way too impatient!!!!!!!! I wanna do what's in my brain, and I wanna do it NOW!!! LOL!

SUSAN -- I didn't mean at ALL to imply my collages were BETTER than yours. I just wanted to illustrate that not all collaged charms are the same. PLEEEEEEEEEZE don't take it as such. I'm not real tactful when I get a pain spike -- hell, I can hardly speak English.....

I'd love to show photos, but the only ones I have left need soldering and so aren't finished. (I tend to give them away as presents to people I love) ---And intricate? HAW HAW! These were rush jobs! All they are is squares cut out of (GORGEOUS) giftwrap paper (tiny little bumblebees amongst flowers). I loved those bees so much I HAD to have 'em just as they were. They will someday be earrings for *me*. (Hopefully before I die of old age)

As for glass-cutting skills, I found it terribly intimidating -- til the teacher gave me a really good glasscutter to use (about $75 retail). It has the oil in it, in a little plastic pod, and feeds the oil onto the glass through the blade. FABULOUS, and ever so easy. Get one, they're worth every penny.

~ Sooz, who h>

Ok so can you point me to some instructions? What kind of glass, where do you get it, etc.