Luminarte Polished Pigments - a thing of the past

As many of you have probably already heard, Luminarte is almost at the end of its final manufacturing run of their wonderful Polished Pigments. It's sad to see that this product will eventually disappear from the shelves of your LSS. But I thought that seeing as many of you have probably been stocking up on those precious little pots of colour that you might enjoy a little eye candy. This set of ATC's was published in Volume 14 No 9 of Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft and they were all created using Polished Pigments as the background. Aren't the colours intense? I love how Polished Pigments pop!! Geisha Lantern Noh Drama You can read more about how to create this background and how these ATCs came together in these earlier posts . Edited 12/06/09: Great News! Luminarte has announced that they will continue manufacturing their wonderful range of products thanks to the overwhelming support they have received since announcing they would close....

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Friendly Plastic Pen Eye Candy

It's eye candy day today.... so feast your eyes on these! I had heaps of fun making these pens and trying out different colour combinations. I've told you previously how addictive making these pens is and with a supply of pens leftover from the bulk pack I'd bought to experiment with, I just couldn't resist making more. The one drawback though is that the nib is held in place with a blue plastic shield and whilst that's fine on this pen, Metallic Blue it really doesn't work so well on this one, Rusty Coppers...... So a colour change was in order. Ah, that's much better! I think they will all benefit from a colour change so that's my next task, but in the meantime here's some more colours to look at. This one's my favourite: Floral Garden. I love how the soft green and pink work together. This one is called Magenta Haze. And the last one is called Royal Purple . Want to learn how to make these pens? Then check out my class schedule for ......

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What's in a Colour?

Have you ever had beads that left you unsure as to what colour metal you should use for your findings? Ever wondered how different a piece of jewellery might look if you chose gold instead of silver? Well I have. Some beads look just as good in one colour as they do in another. Take the following for example. After making up my ugly duckling beads into a necklace (see yesterday's post ) I still had a few beads left over so I decided to make the beads up into a necklace using gold findings and here's how it looks........... Quite lovely - the gold warms up the beads rather nicely! But then I had some doubt..... would it look better made up in silver? So I pulled it apart and replaced the gold findings with silver....... Not bad either - lovely and cool looking - silver really brings out the red in the beads. And for comparison, here's yesterday's necklace in copper. These beads were a little more copper than the second batch so they worked quite well with copper findings......

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