Custom Small Fairy Wings

This pair of small fairy wings in my Hilary design were customized for a little girl to wear to her mother's wedding. The white edges are a little unusual for me, since my standard is to paint the edges a darker color for contrast. This time, I painted the inside and left the edges the white of the fabric.

A Cool Necklace

When my bead store let me know they were having a one-day trunk show with pearls and jade, I was there like a shot. I like the soft, almost neutral colors of the pearls and they are dramatized by translucent amber glass pendant.

Handmade Promotional Tags: Marketing

This week I finally started cleaning out my craft closet...a task I've been putting off for a while. The great thing about cleaning is finding things that were lost or um...filed away in their proper places. I found an entire box of flying fox stickers...and since I've been thinking a lot about changing my brand name I figure I'd best get to using these up...I think it may take some time though, there are, like, a few hundred. So here are a few promotional tags I made by affixing the stickers to (recycled) cardboard, then distressing the edges with scrapbooking scissors.

New Member

Hello! I am new here and very excited to be a part of Philly Makes. My name is Joan Phillips and I run Chubby Cat Creations. I am a photographer, mixed media artist and arts administrator. I write a blog about the theory of creativity, being an artist and art for everyone. I am hoping to eventually host art exchanges, collaborations and offer downloads of free art. It is a work in progress. Please check it out at Chubby Cat Chat. I also have my own Etsy shop called Chubby Cat Creations. I sell Encaustic Paintings, Photo Charms, Shank Buttons, handmade books and coming soon photographic sets.

The image above is a window from my apartment. I love to photograph my surroundings and I love the variations of light that comes through my windows.

I look forward to contributing to Philly Makes!

Sexy Librarian Tuxedo Clutch

Hello everyone. I'm new to the blog. It may seem like I have multiple personalities because I run an etsy shop where I make mostly purses ( I do have some weird plush art in there as well), make stuffed plush sculptures (headless creatures and such), and work as a freelance photographer. In any case, this is my first posting - a cute little clutch I made this week. Enjoy!
-goodmarvin-
www.goodmarvin.etsy.com
www.melissanannenphotography.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/photos/talula1227

New Webwork

HI everyone I'm Lynn and as some of you may know I am from The old Philly Etsy Team. For a while I put my shop on vacation mode while I was planning my move from Levittown to Elkins Park. And the move happened and I'm back! I do photography and I usually try to do a couple photos a week.

Here's what I did this week:



"Through the Window" http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28170965

I also just made a new blog today for all you dog lovers/owners because I just got a Toy Poodle, Dolly, at the beginning of the month. I will eventually make a new Etsy to sell plush pet toys and edible treats for dogs, but right now I'm just trying to get viewers on the blog. Check it out please!



http://voguefordogs.blogspot.com/

Lynn Roberts
www.studiocaptura.etsy.com
www.lemondrops2.blogspot.com

Philly Makes gets some press!

We got a mention in today's City Paper! Thanks to everyone who has posted such awesome stuff here!

"Philly Makes! is a group blog featuring an impressive range of handmade projects, from an interfaith coloring book to fiber-optic fairy wings. Some are linked for purchase on etsy.com, while others are pure inspiration, like Jeanne Lombardo's Born in the U.S.A. album-cover jigsaw coaster set."

Instant Faerie Kit

I made this gorgeous little outfit as a charitable donation for a benefit one of my friends held last weekend.
The "Instant Faerie Kit" includes a pair of small fairy wings (this is Anorra #14), a matching tulle tutu, a feather wand, a glitter fairy dust necklace, and a tiny sparkle tiara.
It turned out so darn cute I may have to start making them to sell, or at the very least start making order forms for sets in custom colors and sizes.

Collaged House Tiles

These are some new pieces I've been working on to sell at my upcoming fall shows. Currently, they're about 5"x8", but I'll be making them in smaller sizes as well. I've been struggling a lot with getting some quality shots of them, but this is what I have for now. They are painted and burned recycled wood scraps with paper & fabric:

new collage

As yet untitled, a new collage on canvas board.

I love coral

When my brother asked me to make a coral necklace as a birthday gift for a friend, I had no idea how much I would fall in love with this material. It's so bright a color that I really didn't understand its depth and substance. Plus it's very light and you can wear a lot of it with little weight. I like it with silver, as in the Hill Tribe silver pendants on these pieces, but I might try it with gold.....maybe.

Embroidered Notes

I make more plans for myself than I can possibly execute. I wonder: why so many notes? I've got books and books of them...or is this just the process some people go through, only actually working on some of the projects - the ones that call out to a person when they least expect it? It's the overlap between the notes, writing and art/ embroidery that I've chosen to focus on lately.

The Interfaith Golden Rule Coloring Book is Done!

T H E   G O L D E N   R U L E

“Treat Others the Way You Would Like to Be Treated”

FOLDING ACCORDION COLORING BOOK

 Opens to two  feet long.        Color, then display on a shelf.

A UNIQUE COLORING EXPERIENCE FOR AGES 4-ADULT.

featuring The Golden Rule excerpts from 

Traditional African Religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Baha’i Faith,

Islam, Judaism, Confucianism, Hindu, and Native American Wisdom.

adorned with images of butterflies, flowers, and birds.

Here's one opened and ready for coloring!

I am offering these for sale on etsy!

They will soon be in stores too.

www.artypantz.blogspot.com

Boss Coasters

I made these coasters from a Born in the USA album cover, modge podge, 4 x 4 pieces of glass, foil tape and added little rubber feet =) I gave these as a birthday gift to a good friend who LOVES Bruce Springsteen (almost as much as I love him).

Brown Peyote-Stitched Necklace

This is my peyote-stitched necklace made using brown and neutral colored beads, seashells, with wood, amber, carnelian, and glass seed beads. This necklace took 3 months to make!

smocked sundress

Finally got a chance to make the smocked sundress from Heather Ross's Weekend Sewing. This was a baby shower gift. I made the dress and matching bloomers size 12mo, and then decorated a NB size onesie. Something for now, something for later. The bloomers aren't actually from Weekend Sewing; i just traced some shorts that belong to my 12mo son, because i too lazy to go trace another pattern.

I actually tried it on my 12mo son to see how it fit. He was not happy!! But I think it had more to do with the fact that I dared dress him, than that it was a dress. heh, heh.




-- Jeannette

Worry Fish Necklace

I made this necklace with wooden beads and some turquoise beads a couple of weeks ago and they have flown out of my shop. This one is made with beautiful, unpolished green glass beads to compliment the organic nature of the worry fish beads. You can see a more complete description and more pictures of the piece on my etsy site.

more painting in progress

Still working on the painting I posted last month. This has turned into a textbook example of how sometimes I hit a wall and need to do something really radical and even destructive to get around it. All the paintings I've done that I really love went through a really difficult stage like that. Usually it's an exercise in letting go of something to get something better in the end.

In this case, I've been fiddling with the sky endlessly, carefully painting around all those nice collaged pieces with itty bitty brushes. But all that carefulness made the sky feel really awkward and flat, so I finally realized I'd have to sacrifice the collaged bits to get the sky right. So I'm finally happy with the sky, and I can still see the outlines of the collaged pieces, which will get painted back in, hopefully for the better!

New Leather Masks

Corn Palace Card

My first post!!!! I have been mostly working on cards. This is one of a series of cards using mini postcards from South Dakota. This is an image of "The World's Only Corn Palace" mounted on a piece from a vintage map of Los Angeles. I just spent a week in Texas gathering some incredible ephemera, which I will be using and posting in coming weeks.

Fruit Art