Artist Spotlight: Part Fifty-Five

You've met this talented Aussie before, here, here, and here.  Yup, Haffina of Haffina's Creations!

This time, I thought I'd focus on the wares in her Handmade Artists Shop.  So...

Check out this Men's red diamond pendant on leather.  You don't see a lot of male-oriented jewelry on handmade sites, so this is especially fantastic, made from a faceted glass pendant.

Or there's this kumihimo and polymer clay bracelet or anklet.  She braided the kumihimo herself and made the polymer clay beads by hand too!

Or this green circles seed bead choker necklace, which includes freshwater pearls.

See for yourself!

Artist Spotlight: Part Forty-Six and Forty Seven

Two artists for you again this week!

The first you've met here a couple times before, but she's so multitalented that she's worth discussing again.  Sandi Levy of IKnitQuiltSew does in fact knit, quilt, and sew!

Like these great items:  baby booties, receiving blanket, women's headband, and baby headband.

Or this amazing hand-done car quilt, one of many in her Etsy shop and Handmade Artists Forum shop with which I'm in love.

Or these terrific hand-sewn dolls (I love the glasses and the smirk!), sundress outfit, and bear!

To learn more about Sandi, be sure to check out her blog.

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Our second artist is also multitalented.  Fasten your seatbelts for this one, because you're about to meet Haffina!

I'll start with my favorite part.  I've got dollhouses.  I got my first one for high school graduation, and spent a lot of time and effort painting, wallpapering, carpeting, putting in wood flooring, hanging pictures, running electricity, furnishing, and decorating.  I even have a tiny little Hummel figurine.

What I do not have - and really want now - is one of these cakes, made from polymer clay and available at her Handmade Artists shop!

Looks delicious, right?  But look how tiny!

Crazy?  Not as crazy as this chainmaille necklace or this seed beaded one from her Zibbet shop!

Not nutty enough for you?  At Haffina's Minis, you can find this tiny Barbie jewelry, in seed beads or micromaille.

Or how about her tiny, hand-embroidered doll cushions?

Your Barbie needs more accessories?  She can have this handmade suede purse!

On the other hand, you can find more human-sized pieces at her Artfire shop.

To learn more about this Australian mother of five (!!!), you can check out her Wordpress blog or Blogspot blog.  Of course, if you're having trouble keeping everything she does straight, since I have no idea how even she does it, you can just get all the links at her main site.

Enjoy!

Artist Spotlight: Part Forty-Two and Forty-Three

This time, I bring you two artists you haven't seen here before.

The first is Designs by Shauna.  A working mom of two, she actually took up jewelry making fairly recently, but you can already see the talent!

Being in Ohio, she's a big Buckeyes fan and makes lots of color-themed jewelry for those who root for the team.  You can look for that in her Etsy shop.  Here, I'll show you some of her other nifty stuff, like these earrings.

That pair on the left is part of her bridal line, as is these necklaces.

I love her more colorful stuff, too!

And if you're not in the market for neck, ear, or wrist jewelry, how about some adornments for your head?

Or your shoes?

For more information plus giveaways of her awesome wares, check out her blog!

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And the second artist is polymer clay artist Karina, of Kabi Designs.

This is some serious talent here, but she's had a bit of practice since she discovered polymer clay just over five years ago and practices daily!

As you may be able to tell from the variety of things I'm showing you here, she loves experimenting and creating just about everything, like sculptures and stitch markers, but her favorite is jewelry.

With jewelry, she can use many different techniques.  Check out this pendant, for instance, which is a fairly traditional use of the clay.

And then there's this one, which is wire wrapped and doesn't even look like clay at all!

She'll also enhance her clay jewelry with other things, like Swarovski crystals.

And check out this reversible pendant.

Her pieces are just such a range of the pretty, the fabulous, and the interesting!

I think that makes her pretty fabulous and interesting!