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art (n)
creative work or its principles; a making or doing of things that display form, beauty, and unusual perception

-- Webster's New World Dictionary

SkyBluePink Art Gallery

Bandanna Doodling

Lady Belinda Spiwak has been using an Inkssentials White Pigment Pen to make these cool Bandanna Doodles. Samples and directions can be found on Robin Beam's blog. More examples with a different overall look can be found on Lynn Robert's blog.

Charm Bracelets

A bevy of beautiful charm bracelets made by Lady Belinda from our Chunky Ball Chain Bracelets in Mystic Red.

Soldered Memory Glass Pendants

Queen Xina took a soldering class at Artiscape '08 and made beautiful pendants with our Clear Memory Glass Slides. The images are sandwiched between two slides, sealed with Copper Foil Tape, then soldered.

Valentine Ornaments

Lady Carol has wowed us all with her Valentines Ornaments made from our Big Bamboo Tiles and our LOVE Keys!! The images are transparencies she glued onto the tiles.

Chipboard Clock Faces

Princess Wanda, Personal Book Designer to the Queen, loves all things time related. She has used our new Heidi Swapp Chipboard Clock Faces in this greeting card collage. She placed a face image in the center of the chipboard clock, then layered it onto several tags cut out of fabric, and added a ribbon and a paper flower.

Inchies!

One of the newest crazes is creating Inchies - 1 square inch of Art! Click the image to see samples sent in by Lady Debbie.

Coin Folder and More

The Lady Debbie Metti made us this wonderful piece using a Coin Folders embellished with Double Happiness Coins, Lightweight Chinese Charms, and the Double Dragon Good Luck Charm at the top. The women are from our Chinese Calendar Girls card deck.

Debbie says, "For the coin holder, I cut one "page" off of the folder, painted it with black gesso and stamped the Asian text with Encore Gold Ultimate Metallic ink. Sprayed it with a matte fixative spray, then used a 1" circle punch to punch out the red papers and the images from the deck of cards. That's your Double Dragon coin at the top, and I added a tassel to it. I glued the coin on with Golden's Heavy Gel.."

Chinese Charms

The Lady Debbie Metti made us this charming ATC using our newest lightweight Chinese Charms. The woman is from our Chinese Calendar Girls card deck.

Ornate Cabochon Settings

Belinda used our Ornate Cabochon Settings for these brooches.

Irresistable Resistors

Barbara Rossman sent us this adorable paperdoll with Irresistable Resistors in her midriff.

And continuing her infatuation with Resistors, we now have a Circus Clown contained with bars made of Irresistable Resistors.

Cat's Eyes

The Lady Debbie Metti, Guildmistress of the Royal Academy of Design and Museum Pieces, has used our Cat's Eyes on her latest ATC and tag creations. So realistic!!

Calendar Pads & More

The Lady Debbie Metti, our very own Guildmistress, has created some wondrous calendars with our Calendar Pads. The Royal Calendar on the right uses figures cut from the Russian Playing Cards and a Primitive Heart Brad in Red just between the couple. The most unusual and interesting part is the strips of Copper Memory Foil Tape which she texturized. She used an antique tool with a toothed wheel, much like ones used in sewing or the specialized ones for working with metal foil.

The Lady in Red Calendar on the left uses a Lotus Pad with Ring as a hanger. Lady Debbie says "I cut the tag myself from a couple layers of heavy cardstock that I glued together first. It's got that ribbed texture on it as it shows in the scan. Encore Bronze metallic ink around the edges...and those cabochon 'jewels' are your Queen's Jewels. The image of the woman is from the Lynne Perrella papers from Stampington."

Typewriter Key Bracelets

Jennifer Coats creates cool Typewriter Key Bracelets using our Bracelet Blanks. She says "I use metal snippers to get the keys off of the typewriters. My husband uses a drill with a metal polishing disc to smooth the backs of the keys. I adhere the keys with E6000 craft glue which is available at most large craft stores."

Hang Up Your Clothes!

A very sweet ATC made by Lady Debbie with one of our hangers.

Copper Tags

Cat Pick created these beautiful pendants from our Copper Tags

Giant Puzzler Piece

Deb Neerman altered one of the Giant Puzzler Pieces, adding lots of fun things!

Lion's Head Pull

Jean Sunderman has created a unique round card called "Reflect", which uses a Lion's Head Pull from our Hardware for Art collection.

Calendar Pads

CATlanta shows some fun cards she made with our Calendar Pads. Now we know why she's called CATlanta!

Pirate Playing Cards

Our very own Lady Debbie Metti, Guildmistress of the Royal Academy of Design and Museum Pieces, has been having a grand time with our Pirate Cards on her tag creations.

Ornate Cabochon Settings

Barbi Goebel sent us this picture of her gorgeous pins made from our Ornate Cabochon Settings.

Stuff

Deb Hook has sent The Queen a very special card for Pack Rat Day, May 17th! To see a closeup of all the goodies inside the window, many of which came from us, click here.

Shaped Playing Cards

Deb Hook very kindly made us some samples using our cute Easter Egg and Heart Playing Cards.

For the yellow card, she cut an opening in the front of the card. Then she pasted two egg-shaped playing cards together with a piece of nylon fishing line running down the center between them. She attached the fishing line to the inside-front of the card and sealed it in with a second piece of cardstock glued on top of it. The egg can turn on the fishing line! If you wind it up by turning it in one direction a few turns and then close the card and put it in an envelope, when the recipient opens up the card, the egg will spin around! The heart card was made the same way using the heart-shaped playing cards..

Front Inside front

Front Inside front

For the purple card, she made a very realistic basket with some basket-weave and wood patterned papers, and added some egg-shaped cards.