A few more Charms......

....that I've been having fun making. These are soldered seaglass picked up off my local beach whilst walking my dear old Max & embellished with sterling silver wire spirals.
This will be the last of the creative stuff posted for a week or so as my Mum will be arriving from France tomorrow to stay.
I will be quickly posting the draw result on Valentine's Day, so don't forget to add your name if you wish to be included - see previous post here.

Beloved

This is my piece for "A Very Special Valentine" , a 3.5 x 5 inch soldered collage, a project for my Paper Whimsy Yahoo group, but as it does have some pink I thought it might be ok for this week's Wednesday Stamper - "Think Pink".

Charms

I've finally managed to complete my charms for the Oh So Charming charm swap. If you fancy having a go at these, I've included the instructions. Warning......soldering is addictive!

Ingredients
Glass marbles
Rubbing Alcohol
6 mm wide copper tape
Scissors
Bone folder
Flux
Lead free solder
Soldering iron
Silver jump rings
Silver Indian bell charms
Directions
Clean the marbles well with the rubbing alcohol.

Measure some copper tape by wrapping around a marble to gauge the circumference allowing a little extra for overlap (approx. 5.5cm) and cut as many pieces as required.
Then cut each 5.5cm strip down to narrower pieces making them 2mm wide.

Wrap 2 pieces of copper tape around marble in opposite directions forming segments & burnish well with a bone folder.

Flux & solder over the copper tape.

Flux & solder jump rings to top & bottom, then wash charms in warm soapy water. Once dry, polish with silver cloth.

Attach bell charms.

Soldering

Santa was really sweet this year, not only was I lucky enough to receive Sally Jean's new book Pretty Little Things but also a soldering iron & supplies to get me started........guess I must have been a good girl! LOL
Here are my first attempts, a little rough around the edges but as they say, practice practice practice!