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Stress is making me churn these out like crazy -_- This is not a beading blog, but it sure is turning into one xD A few process pics
The cabochon is one of my fimo faces, coated in UV resin. The rest is glass beads (pressed glass, seed beads) stiff felt backing and yellow microfiber backing.
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Another pendant done. It took me a while because I undid/redid some stuff at least twice. The cabochon is one of my fimo ones, as well as the half-flower at the top left. Otherwise it's all seed beads, red-colored glass chips, pressed glass beads and cristals. Felt and faux suede for the backing. I still have to stitch in bails and stuff. … it's so red and purplish. I love it. It's prettier in person, but it's really hard to get reds right on my camera (at least it's not as bad as when I take pictures with my phone).
I finished this pendant today, with one of the early face cabochons I made in fimo. The big flower and the smaller one next to it are from a french artist who makes the most beautiful cold porcelain creations. I just gave them a coat of Mister Super Clear to strengthen the finish, and I drilled more holes at the bottom of the big one to make it easier to attach it and the beads inside. It's not difficult since cold porcelain is a home-made type of polymer clay itself. The rest is all glass seed beads and pressed glass flower and drop beads (etc) as usual. The seed bead sizes for this one go from the smallest 15° to size 6°. I've made way more fimo faces since then that I intend to use sooner or later. Might also try to bead a pendant around one of the cat heads… Now I still need to make a chain for this.
My adventures in making my own fimo face cabochons (and assorted other things). Most are UV resin coated, but I've started experimenting with just a few coats of acrylic to protect the color (it's mostly alcohol markers, which stay on very well, but I've also used ink, watercolor, pastels and acrylic paint lately), before waxing. If I don't protect the color first, the wax tends to wash it away. Or maybe I'm not waiting long enough to buff, that's possible. I'm really doing this blind so far. After I do a first color pass, sometimes I drill patterns and I fill those with a contrasting color. I also usually make patterns with another color or make another pass to burnish edges or lighten them, or I use metallic markers or paint, just experimenting to see what I get. It's not always successful ^^;
UV coating isn't easy on a surface that isn't flat, especially since I tend to do 2 or 3 faces at the same time so I have to be very quick and make the resin go where it's supposed to go, and then make a few passes with my old heat-gun to pop bubbles (sometimes they don't all pop. you'd think with such a small item and such a thin coating there wouldn't be bubbles, and yet…)
At the very first, I tried coating with some liquid fimo but I wasn't very succesful. I need to try it again sometime. Anyway, I have plenty of face cabochons now. Because it's pretty fun to make them and I need an artistic outlet when I'm procrastinating or between work sessions. ¯\_(•—•)_/¯
Then the other day, I decided to make myself a color sampler for fimo because there's always a color change when I apply markers, so I rolled out some super thin rectangles and baked them. and now I have this.
It's pretty small, about 4 x 6 cm. I had two cards left so I drew stuff on them ^^; And now I have two cool little cards that serve no purpose xD
… they're cute so I think I'm going to make more. ¯\_(ಠ.ಠ)_/¯
But only until I finish that fimo block I have. They suddenly doubled the price of those for some reason so it's not as inexpensive to make this stuff as it was before. *grumbles*
