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time to clean up...
... with little vintage French soaps! Admittedly, the soap itself smells REALLY nasty, but how fun are these wrappers???!! I grabbed a bag of these beauties at a local antique shop and RAN home with them to play. First, I made a little just-for-fun paperweight. I started with two glass ball jar tops (the kind that fit inside the metal lid rings), filled them with a couple of the soaps and some red & black beads & buttons, glued the glass edges to each other, wrapped the outer edge with copper tape, and soldered. Finished it off with a little red & black ribbon.
Next, I used one of the wrappers, sans savon, to make a little soldered pendant...
Then I made some little beads, which I like to call "hamburger" beads. For each bead, I selected two round glass pebbles (found in the floral aisle of a local craft store), laid them on top of the wrapper to select and cut the images that I liked. I used Ranger's glossy accents to adhere the tops of the images to the backs of the pebbles, and again to adhere the backs of the imaged pebbles to each other. Then I wrapped the edges in copper tape (the part that makes the bead look like a hamburger), and soldered. If you try this, please use extreme caution ~ the pebbles are very small and get very hot, very quickly. I've singed my fingers many times, and WOW does it hurt!!
Then I used the burger beads along with the pendant, and made a funky little chunky necklace with some wire, black suede lace, wooden beads and trade beads from Funky Hannah's...
... with little vintage French soaps! Admittedly, the soap itself smells REALLY nasty, but how fun are these wrappers???!! I grabbed a bag of these beauties at a local antique shop and RAN home with them to play. First, I made a little just-for-fun paperweight. I started with two glass ball jar tops (the kind that fit inside the metal lid rings), filled them with a couple of the soaps and some red & black beads & buttons, glued the glass edges to each other, wrapped the outer edge with copper tape, and soldered. Finished it off with a little red & black ribbon.
Next, I used one of the wrappers, sans savon, to make a little soldered pendant...
Then I made some little beads, which I like to call "hamburger" beads. For each bead, I selected two round glass pebbles (found in the floral aisle of a local craft store), laid them on top of the wrapper to select and cut the images that I liked. I used Ranger's glossy accents to adhere the tops of the images to the backs of the pebbles, and again to adhere the backs of the imaged pebbles to each other. Then I wrapped the edges in copper tape (the part that makes the bead look like a hamburger), and soldered. If you try this, please use extreme caution ~ the pebbles are very small and get very hot, very quickly. I've singed my fingers many times, and WOW does it hurt!!
Then I used the burger beads along with the pendant, and made a funky little chunky necklace with some wire, black suede lace, wooden beads and trade beads from Funky Hannah's...
