A few new soldering projects

May 28, 2010

I was lucky to get Trisha Con­lon to come to my house for a pri­vate sol­der­ing les­son this past Wednes­day. She is so tal­ented and has so many won­der­ful ideas. Trisha and I started brain­storm­ing and came up with a super cool class idea that we are going to teach  together at The Crafty Scrap­per. It will be down the road because first we have to get the idea out of our heads and to the table. All I can say is it will be an all day class that will incor­po­rate both our styles and yes I have to say it again.… it is so super cool!

Okay so on to what she taught me.… I love the shadow box type pen­dants and wanted to learn how to make them so badly. Well let me just say they are so fun to cre­ate and if Trisha does a shadow box class you have got to take it… hint, hint Trisha.

I filled my shadow box with some small and medium sized pearls, a rhine­stone but­ton and a resin flower. The back of the inside is part of an old but­ton card. The back of the shadow box is altered using clip art Trisha brought me. I decided not to pol­ish the pen­dant because I like the old tar­nished look… kinda looks like some­thing you would have found in your grand­moth­ers van­ity. Also, I did not bur­nish the tape really well on a few spots around the side so it lifted just a tad but hon­estly I like the look. I know it is not what you want but I think I am going to always have a slight lifted area on all of mine as I really do love how it looks… look­ing old and beat up =‘s per­fect to me.

So after the shadow box tuto­r­ial she told me how to make this adorable flower. Oh my… you need to take this class. I am going to turn mine into a pin. On some areas of a few petals the sol­der would not stick even after flux­ing the thing (will have to ask Trisha about this) but again I like the beat up look. This flower looks like it has been sit­ting out­side in a gar­den for sev­eral years. I love it and will cer­tainly be wear­ing this pin proudly. Trisha men­tioned another flower that she is try­ing to cre­ate and let me tell you I will be the first one in her class when she fig­ures it out. You will want to be there too… promise!