Up for swaps!

Can anyone make use of these? 

They are brown and green pillow boxes, which are very nice but don't match my packaging. I will happily swap these for something small and of low value. There are 7 bottle greens, 3 chocolate browns, I pearlesent coffee colour, and 9 pearlesent burgundy brown colours. All nice different textures and are cut from high quality paper/card. They measure 8.5cm x 5.5cm and 2cm wide when made up.

Custom

I want to blog about my owl swap which i'm just finishing and my button swap which I sent off today, but I don't want to reveal anything as news travels fast and before you know it the surprise will be over!

I was really pleased with my buttons, i have my photos ready an waiting to post on here when my partner has received them. It made me think about making more buttons in the future as I guess you could use them for almost anything, card, jewellery, clothes, toys. That got me thinking about other things in general that I could make from my illustrations, like magnets and decorations. I'm not really sure if these sell, but some people could let me know what they think anyway!

Back to my jewellery, I custom made this a few days ago for a friends mum's birthday. She has a decorating shop called Colourworld and I made this little brooch for her. I love it, it's so geeky. She loves pinks and purples and so this was a great opportunity to colour the paint pink and have a sparkly purple jewel. I hope she likes it, but her birthday isn't until march so we won't find out yet.

Just to let you know too I've relisted a tea set necklace on Etsy as my first one went pretty quickly.

Busy busy

I have been busy finishing off some of my new illustration jewellery. My tea set necklace and chandelier earrings proved popular so I thought of some new ideas in which I could use 2 or three charms together to create a kitsch theme. So far I have done a valentines "love letter" necklace, which features an envelope, a love letter and a pen and a robot with some nuts and bolts, but my favourite has to be the vintage telephone with it's very own receiver and "hello" speech bubble. I might have to make myself one! 

I will be listing these on my website and etsy later.

A belated congratulations is in need also, to Alice who won my bow necklace give away! Commiseration's  to everyone on my mailing list who didn't win, but there will a chance next time as I plan to do more giveaways in the future!

Anyway I really should go an start these logos I am ment to be doing for my dad and a music producer. I just can't help myself getting carried away with finishing off my new jewellery ideas! I still have many ideas floating around my head just waiting to be put to paper.

And lastly, please visit our crafteroo comic relief shop on Folksy. Members from the crafteroo forum have kindly donated some pieces for the shop and all proceeds from the sales will go to comic relief so make sure you take a look so you can do your bit! Thank you.

Giveaway

Later on this evening I will announce the winner of my very first giveaway. This was open to anyone and you can still enter (if you haven't already) by signing up to my mailing list at glueandglitter.co.uk. Anyone on my list will automatically be added to the random.org generator so it is very simple to be a part of it!

This is the necklace that is up for grabs.

This particular design hasn't been for sale yet, and so you'll be the first to set eyes on it. I hope you like it. It's a very sweet white bow, a sister to the red I have for 

sale and is hung on a gold plated chain. 

I will let the winner know tomorrow, just to really bring the excitement to boiling point!

I have also been working on finishing some other illustration jewellery and the two swaps that I am involved with. The owl swap and the button swap. I can't reveal too much, just incase someone is reading this! But I am happy the way they are going so far anyway.

I managed to grab the attention of a local magazine and they have decided they would like to meet with me and do a feature in a magazine! I am quite excited but also a bit scared especially when she mentioned a photographer! I don't mind being photographed but I don't like it either. Haha. And the thought of me posing is really cringe worthy. Who ever said capricorns make good actresses? This one doesn't that is for sure.

I also have some much needed work experience next week thanks to my cousin. And hopefully I will be driving there in my new car, my very first new car, after 4  years of having a driving licence! Yay. Perhaps people might take me a little more seriously now and hopefully accept me into the professional job world. 

However I have been making some new jewellery, some charm necklaces in fact. I decided to dig out all the vintage bits and pieces I had and do what I do best - compile them together! It suddenly clicked that I should combine my own illustration charms with these vintage charms and so this is the first one.

This one is a bit Rococo or Baroque style. I used some vintage shell buttons and vintage beads combined with my ornate frame and cameo illustration charms. I've just ordered some gloss/varnish type stuff as recommended by Pennydog and so I might use that to seal in some vintage images on the frames. I often put something together and take it apart as I have decided to add something to it.

I'll get some of my other charms necklaces on soon!

I'm beavering away making new illustrations today. I'm obviously on a role at the moment with all my wrapping paper. I thought I would make some friendly additions to the fox I created yesterday. He is new one...I have made two others as well but my scanner has a creative mind of it's own and so this is a sneak preview (literally) of another character..





I also made this one...This has to be my favourite of all the pieces I have made. As before these images are solely created from paper, my new ikea wrapping paper features the most. It's just so versatile. I hope to make more today, although I'm getting a head ache and my good ideas are running low!

Hello new year!

I have just made my first ever animal illustration. I'm not really big on people or animals when i'm drawing. I've never felt I had the "cute" or "interesting" factor when portraying them. I always opt for still life as I feel I do those best, but I thought I should at least give it another go. This is my new fox!

I recently bought some fab wrapping paper from Ikea and thought the colours would be great to make a little fox from it. I bought an orange and red patterned one, but I also bought a double sided paper with black and grey stripes on one side and black and grey spots on the other. It is truely amazing! It's an ingenious idea, and I say we all should get some.