A Valentine with Beads

With this post, I'm going way back in my crafting past to my first Yahoo group, Pennywise Arts.  The challenge is to create a Valentine with beads....generally microbeads that were the primary product of PWA.  If you visit the blog, you can see many beaded creations of PWA members. Then you can visit the website to see the products and other goodies.

I've covered contemporary heart shapes of designer paper in the new and unusual "bubble beads," pretty iridescent glass beads that are the largest of the beads sold by Suzanne of Pennywise Arts.

Pennywise Arts Community Blog Hop!

Thanks for hopping along on our Pennywise Arts community blog hop.  If you didn't start at the beginning, you can go to the PWA blog and get your hopping orders!  At the end of the weekend, there will be a prize drawing among blog hoppers who leave a comment on every blog entry.  Be sure to let us know you were here!   Sponsor of this blog is Pennywise Arts.

My card features the famous...and my favorite...ultrafine clear microbeads.   Although I have a huge variety of microbead colors, I almost always reach for the 'sugar' when I create a microbeaded item.  Actually everything on the face of this card is a Pennywise product:  the background is a collage comprised of items from the "Ephemera I" collage sheet designed by PWA member, Michele Aiello-Zendejas (Swing Shift Designs).   I printed the collage sheet, cut out the items and 'collaged' them on the card front.   Then I chose the image from Lovely Ladies I and covered it in clear O'So Sticky double-stick tape and ultrafine clear microbeads. (Click on image for closer view.)

Thanks for visiting! If you don't have a blog address, you can leave a comment anonymously...and then add your name so you are part of the drawing at the end of the hop!     Your next stop on the hop is where you started--at the Pennywise Arts Blog.  

Tags for New Year's

I was truly delinquent this year in sending Christmas cards to friends from my long-ago college years....and Christmas is generally the only time we make contact with each other! So I have chosen to make New Year's cards, using vintage collage images from Pennywise Arts. (I love that naked little New Year's baby talking on the phone!) These are collections designed by Michele Aiello-Zendejas. The New Year's images are new to the site, and I've discovered that they are perfect for tags. Pennywise ultrafine microbeads cover the images on the tags, which have been inked with Distress Inks and stamped with various coordinating images. (click image for a closer view of the microbeads)