creative swaps: Lenna Young Andrews: bead swap : ^ )

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Lenna Young Andrews: bead swap : ^ )

yup. I also participated in this swap! I know most of you have probably already seen some of my rolled beads that I originally made for the call for this swap, but a few days ago I made some more. For one thing, I'm fascinated about playing with Tyvek paper. It can be manipulated with a heat gun for interesting effects. Some of my favorite beads are made from Tyvek & fibers by Carolyn Saxby (keep scrolling, her beads are near the end of the post). The other day I received an envelope made out of Tyvek which reminded me I wanted to experiment some more. I also wanted to make sure I had enough beads (15-20) to participate in this swap, plus enough beads to giveaway 10 of my handmade beads in a drawing. This drawing is for anyone who included some instructions with their beads and I will be drawing for this tomorrow! Of course I wanted a bunch of extras for myself, so off I went! Here is my process/results:

Tyvek envelope cut in strips and painted

This was the underneath paper I painted the Tyvek on -scrap paper.
I could not let it go to waste and stamped on top too.

Scrap paper all rolled up! Click for a detailed view.

Tyvek before heating . . .

After heating with a Heat Gun.

Before . . .

After!

Before . . .

After . . .

new beads mixed with the ones I previously made

WOW!!

This swap is CLOSED! All of the entries that have made it here are IN the swap. I will do the drawing for the extra beads tomorrow and will have all beads swapped and sent to the participants by 3/31/12. At that time I will write a post explaining how you can share a link to WHAT you might create with the beads you recieve plus any extras you may have made. Fun, fun FuN!
Thanks for your participation : ^ D ~ lenna

2 comments:

Sheila A.10:53 PM, March 24, 2012
Wow. I can't believe something so pretty and interesting starts out so....well.....ugly. Thanks for showing this! I'm interested in these little guys. Maybe I'll try it someday.
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Cathy9:36 PM, March 25, 2012
Love the extra beads that you made, Lenna, I can see you are having fun!
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Dec 2010: Mail Art Swap!

This swap was due in my hands by December 4th, 2010. We had 50 participants complete this wonderful swap!! The $12.00 fee to register included a 22 page lesson on mail art sent as a pdf file. The $12 fee also includes documentation on the creative swaps blog of all mail art sent in for the swap, return postage/ handling anywhere in the world for your returns was also included. The swaps were returned inside a Mail Art envelope created by me - Lenna Andrews! This was a really fabulous swap we all enjoyed. View all of the awesome MAIL ART here!!