Easy Hat Rescue: Summer Straw

Good day! I feel ever so much more social in a hat. Maybe it’s a talking point, maybe it’s a shield, either way I adore wearing hats. It was not until I entered this art and craft world that I understood it was allowed, nay encouraged, creatively improve on items by reconstructing them. For instance [...]

Tuna Can Earrings Raise Awareness

Jen and I were quite taken with the earrings Deborah McCullough was wearing when she stopped by to say hello at To Bead To Be True in Tucson this past month. Jewelry can be transformative. The fact that Deborah upcycles tuna cans into wearable art to raise awarness about the plight of migrants is something [...]

ICE Resin Roses with Jennifer Priest

I’d like to welcome Jennifer Priest to the ICE Queen Zine today! I (Carol) first met Jennifer at Seaside Soiree a few months ago when she helped me make a WWII airplane-themed paper mache dress form out of old patterns for dresses, color pictures out of an airplane book and fun buttons and pins. She [...]

MAKING METAL JEWELRY BOOK PRIZE PACKAGE

Something magical happens when I dip wire into a blue flame and watch the metal ball up and roll in on itself and I have been feeling the magic of metalsmithing since I took that first workshop in 2005 taught by master silversmith Susan Lenart Kazmer at a national art retreat. My metalwork education continued [...]

Indigo Blu + ICE = Brilliant :)

ICE Resin® is at Stitches in the UK and we are so incredibly excited! Here are just a few of the jewelry, ATC cards and mixed media samples we sent to our friends at Indigo Blu. (We can hardly wait to see wait they made!) Covering “flitter” with ICE Resin® was a brilliant pairing. Lancashire [...]