Etsy For Animals

As you all probably know, I love animals! :) I am now a member of the Etsy For Animals (EFA): Artists Helping Animals street team. Each month EFA members select an animal rescue charity to be the Charity of the Month. EFA members then donate a portion of their sales to the Charity of the Month and to other charities of their choice.

Each month EFA members can choose to participate in the Monthly Challenge, which is a selected theme for the artists to create something for, and list in their etsy stores. A portion of the sale of the Monthly Challenge items goes to the Charity of the Month. This month's theme is "Some of our Favorite Animals", since I already make my items using my favorite animals I'll be changing them up for the challenge entry. I'm working on making one of each of my animals as a solid pastel color, and I will be painting a heart on each of them. :) I'll post pictures here of my work in progress after I use my dremel tool on them. To find everyone's entry for this month's challenge, search "team efa critters" as a tag on etsy.

Each month I will be posting here what the Charity of the Month is. The charity for May is Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary. "A safe haven for rescued farm animals who have been given a second chance at life."

Scenery Sets

I've listed six new Scenery Sets in my etsy store. Each set consists of one or more of my animal figurines, an ACEO card background that I made specifically to go with the scene for each grouping of animals, and a resin stand for the card. Any card that has the thickness of a trading card can fit into the stand, so backgrounds can be mixed and matched with ACEO cards made by me or other artists.

Below is a picture of two of the Scenery Sets available in my store. On the left is a mountain scene with a goat and a reindeer. On the right is a farm scene with a Swedish Dala Horse and a rooster.


Here's a sneak peek at two sets that aren't in my store yet. They're sets made with my Glitter Critter figurines.


For anyone who doesn't know what an ACEO card is, it stands for Art Cards, Editions and Originals. They are collectible and tradeable miniature works of art that can be made of any media, and must measure 2.5" x 3.5" vertically or horizontally (the size of regular trading cards).

Mmmm Carrot Cake *drool*

I made these two pairs of carrot cake earrings out of polymer clay, painted them with acrylic paint, and added light emerald Swarovski crystals. They were for my mom and myself for Easter. Yum! Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! ^_^

New Additions

Here are some new additions to my already existing product lines. I bought some copper leaf, so now I'll have some copper leafed animals as well as the silver and 18kt gold ones. In the picture below is a reindeer leafed with copper. Also in the picture are some new metallic mica figurines: a pearly white horse, and a sparkle gold rooster.




Here's a preview of two new product lines: collage, and painted. Pictured below is a dala horse painted in the traditional dala horse style using metallic paint. The other is a dala horse collaged with paper. Both are sealed with a glossy glaze.

More stuff I'm working on

Here are pictures of some of the other figurines I'm working on. These are some of my metallic animals. The goat and fox are made with antique silver mica, the bunny is with white sparkling mica, the squirrels are made with copper flakes, and the reindeer is made with antique copper mica and copper flakes. I will probably be making some figures with gold mica as well.

Below are figures made with sparkling blue-green mica and pastel colored glitter.

These figures are leafed with 18kt gold, silver, and red shimmer.

These are black with speckles of sparkling white mica. I was just goofing around when I made these, and didn't know how it would turn out. I was trying to make the white mica look like stars, but it blobbed together. Now that they're done they look like faux snowflake obsidian.

Works in progress

Here are some of the resin animal figurines that I'm working on. I'm not ready to put them in my Etsy store just yet. The designs for all my figurines were inspired by Scandinavian Folk Art.

These are the transparent colored figurines, they look great with light shining through them. Pictured here is a reindeer, dala horse, goat, squirrel, rooster, fox, and rabbit.

These figurines have printed images of drawings I made embedded into the resin. I'm planning on making scenery sets to go along with them. I know exactly how I want the sets to look, I just need to figure out how I'm going to make them. Pictured here is a goat, reindeer, rooster, bunny, squirrel, tomte (gnome), and a fox.