Blog feature - LBArtworks - Part 2

 On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 I wrote a blog feature post about LBArtworks. This is a webshop which creates beautiful handmade bags and wallets with a glimpse of nature as how they describe it. We are nine years later and they are still creating and selling and I want to let you see what they are selling now.

Bird Purse, Handmade Wood Buttons , Appliqued, Handbag, Messenger, School Bag

Bird Tote, Canvas Tote, Vegan Purse, Bird Bag, , Eco-Friendly Nature Messenger

Bird Shoulder Bag

These and more are found at: LBArtsworks

Japanese Kokeshi Dolls Designs

Japanese Girl

Japanese Girl

Japanese Baby

You can find these cases and many more at my shop

New designs

Green Leaf Wood Phone Case

Pink flower Phone case

Cute Orange Tabby Cat Phone Case

White flower on Pink Phone Case

You can find these cases and many more at my shop

It has been a loooooong time ...

....a very looooong looooong time ... life called these past couple of years and I got very busy but now I am back and I am slowly working on some new jewelry. I decided to take a break from resin jewelry and wanting to focus more on other kinds of jewelry craft.

Hot Air Balloon

A Butterfly

A dandelion in the wind

I reopened my shop again and all these items can be found in my Etsy shop

Tree in a lamp

Blog feature - LBArtworks

It is friday ,blog feature time!
Since I discovered Etsy and all the shops in it , especially those wonderfull shops where you can buy great handmade sewed items like wallets and bags, I finally started to save for my first sewing machine.
Those shops really inspired me to be even more creative.
This time I picked LBArtworks , located in Tennessee, USA. In this shop you will mostly find bags and purses with "a glimpse of nature".

Here are some of my favorite items I would like to share with you:

Melodious Charm Wallet/Card Holder

Mini Tweeting Birds Olive Green shoulder bag with adjustable strap

Hidden Melodies Wallet/ Card Holder

Just click on the photos or links to visit LBArtworks

Playing around with ink and paint

Here are some new painted creations which I have been working on in the last week.
I used indian ink, colored resin and paint:

Four green leafs Resin necklace








Antique Brass Black Tree Resin necklace





Arent they smashing looking ?? :D
These and more are available in my shop.

My latest creations

I've worked on 3 dried flowers in resin , dried moss in pink resin and my ladybug cabochon. They are finally sanded and ready to place in an open pendant. It took me 2 hours to sand them :/ Sanding is the worst part of making resin jewels.

And it keeps going...

...here's another treasury list called Dried Flowers by thepurplepainter
I have to be careful not getting used to this. Someday it could/will stop :)

My item is in the first row fourth picture, yes again the flower pendant :)

Etsians are such great people

A while ago there was a topic on the forum of Etsy about helping several undiscovered shop collections too the Front Page.
And Hiyapapaya just made a treasury called "NO SALES YET!! Found these great UNDISCOVERED shops!!" and I am on it and happy with it!! :)
I hope it helps me and so many other undiscovered shops to finally having that first sale ;)
So please help click and twitter it too the Front Page :D


This time my item is on the fourth row, thirth column.

My second treasury item !!

One of my items, a round pendant made it again in a treasury list :D
It's the black round pendant with shells and rocks on a layer of blue colored resin.
This time it went straight to the front page of Etsy :D
I had lots and lots of views !! Almost 400 and lots of hearts. That felt good :) Thk you DawnCorrespondence.

My first treasury item

Yoehoeee, one of my items made it to a treasury page :)
Thk u RGRocks.

In the third row, second photo , thats my pendant:D

My little ladybug

This one is still in progress. A ladybug shaped drawing pin placed on some potpourri leaves and domed in clear resin. I love this one the most. Its so beautiful ! I cut of the pin ofcourse or it would become a painfull pendant. But I still need to sand it first. It's too big for my 25mm round pendant setting.

I use polyester resin for all my pieces. It stinks but with measuring the hardener and the resin its less difficult than epoxy resin and it gives all of the pieces a real glasslike and very shiny look. Epoxy resin has a mat finishing look, its less shiny.

And in the end I polish the piece with polishing wax and the smell goes away.

You can find your own resin kit here.

Little red hearts

This is also one of my latest masterpieces: red hearts domed in clear resin with a white background. You can see the hearts "float" in the clear resin layer by the shade they create on the white background .... mmm was that even an English sentence? Oh well, I hope you understand it anyway :D You can find it in my Etsy shop as well.

You can find your ow resin kit here

My latest creation

I love this resin masterpiece. I bought some cheap potpourri from a shop in Holland. There were tons of little flowers and leaves in the bag and I picked two different colored flowers, white and orange, placed it in an 1 inch sized cabochon mould and put some clear resin in it. After the first layer had cured into jelly, I placed a layer of black colored resin onto it.

And finally this is the result, It took a while before the silver plated pendants arrived in Holland. They came all the way from the states, unfortunatelly Holland doesn't have such nice and simple jewelry supplies. :(

You can find it in my etsy shop.

You can find your own resin kit here.