This week’s Flickr Friday is serendipitous because we came across these lush pendants this week!
Juanita Burton at Lookie Lookie created her ”Serendipity” collection by painstakingly creating multiple layers of paper, transparencies, stampings, glitter, confetti and found objects embedded in ICE Resin.
Juanita used antique Optometrist lenses as the base for some of the pendants.

For some of her other pendants,  she created the pendant shapes with 16 g wire to make an open back bezel. She then embedded her objects in ICE Resin. Using laser printed transfers and stamping with STAZ ON ink ensures the colors won’t bleed when embedded into the wet resin.

You can see more of Juanita’s beautiful work on her blog.

Be sure to become a member of our ICE Resin Flickr Group. If you want us to publish your work, be sure to make it so I can download the image. We understand how important your designs are to you and will always credit you on the blog. If you provide a link to your website or blog, I™ll be sure to add that to the posts too.

Happy Friday everyone!   Since Summer means going to the beach or playing in pools for so many of us, , I chose a sea themed pendant for today’s Flickr Friday post.  This gorgeous abstract wave pendant comes from Gregory Bryant at Manta Wave

I love the way Gregory combined the organic shape of the wave image with a small mechanical part. Mixing nature with machine for a completely unique look. Gregory has been working with clay for over 15 yrs, but has just begun working with ICE Resin and we love the way he has integrated it into his work.   This pendant would be perfect for any surfer boy or girl.

Be sure to become a member of our ICE Resin Flickr Group. If you want us to publish your work, be sure to make it so we can download the image. We understand how important your designs are to you and will always credit you on the blog. If you provide a link to your website or blog, we’ll be sure to add that to the posts too.

Today’s Flickr Friday is awesome creativity because it shows a complely unconventional way to use ICE Resin. Jamahv totally tricked out a bicycle with a theme, lots of bling and flat-backed rhinetones and handmade spiders out of wire, beads and ICE. Take a look at the close up of the handmade spider, and then check out the rest of the Flickr photostream  for more photos of the blinged out bike.

"IceResin is the only thing that would securely attach Hitchhiker to the rear fender! ... The old, scratched up bike was sent to me lightly sanded for the sake of adhesion. When a final protective clear coat is applied to the bike, the glue lines will no longer show." -- Jamahv

Remember, if you make some cool creations using ICE Resin, be sure to upload them to our Flickr group and we’ll pick some of our favorites every Friday to showcase on the ICE Queen Zine. Be sure to allow us to download the images so we can feature them (if you have disabled the download setting, it doesn’t matter how great your stuff is, we won’t be able to feature it on the blog). If you would like to have a link to your website or blog be sure to put the URL in the description of the photo and we’ll be sure to link to it here.

This weeks Flickr Friday Find is from Julie Bean from Blue Pig Design House.  Julie has done an excellent job showing how layering with a few elements in ICE Resin can create stunning jewelry components.

Remember, if you make some cool creations using ICE Resin, be sure to upload them to our Flickr group and we’ll pick some of our favorites every Friday to showcase on the ICE Queen Zine. Be sure to allow us to download the images so we can feature them, but if you want to have a link to your website or blog be sure to put the URL in the description of the photo so we can not only respect your copyright, but also send people to check out more of your work

We’ve heard more than a few times that people are afraid to try ICE Resin because it looks “complicated” of having to measure and mix to equal parts together. Honest-to-goodness ICE Resin is very, very easy to use. Today’s Flickr Friday is proof. Take a look at this amazing found object bezel that cheekymagpie1 put on our Flickr photostream. She says very clearly in the photo description of “Transparent Wings” that this is her first try using ICE Resin. It’s gorgeous, don’t you agree?

Remember, if you make some cool creations using ICE Resin, be sure to upload them to our Flickr group and we’ll pick some of our favorites every Friday to showcase on the ICE Queen Zine. Be sure to allow us to download the images so we can feature them, but if you want to have a link to your website or blog be sure to put the URL in the description of the photo so we can not only respect your copyright, but also send people to check out more of your work. Thanks!

Red and black is always such a stunning color combination. Take a look at today’s Flickr Friday ICE Resin-filled bezel from Maro Morales. This piece, called “Nature Strikes Back” is comprised of Abrus Precatorius, an extremely toxic seed if ingested. What is so striking about this piece is the grid structure the artist arranged the beans before adding a layer of ICE Resin. This technique can be difficult to achieve sometimes because objects, when embedded, can move around when the resin is added. Trick: A drop of strong glue, such as Crafter’s Pick The Ultimate, on the bottom of the seeds and then set into place into a grid pattern will help the objects stay in place as the resin is dripped into the bezel. Unfortunately, Moro has not contributed other work to the ICE Resin Flickr site, but you can see the photostream here.

Be sure to become a member of our ICE Resin Flickr Group. If you want us to publish your work, be sure to make it so we can download the image. We understand how important your designs are to you and will always credit you on the blog. If you provide a link to your website or blog, we’ll be sure to add that to the posts too.

Happy Friday! Since its summer and the temperatures are sweltering outside for most of the country, I thought it would be fun to show the work of Cindy Cima Edwards. How does Dove chocolate and summer go together in the same sentance? Well, I happen to LOVE Dove chocolates. They are one of my guilty pleasures. I keep them in the freezer, and on a hot summer day when others are grabbing popsicles, I pull out a frozen square of heaven and pop it in my mouth.

Like, Cindy I have always enjoyed that the Dove folks put a cute saying on the inside of their Promise wrappers. I like it so much that I taught a class 5 years ago where I saved all my wrappers and we did a recycled tags class with lots of surface treatment and bits of wrappers collaged onto the tag. It’s so cool to see Cindy take it a step further and pour ICE Resin over her creations!

Take a look at her handmade candy wrapper beads too. Clever girl! Some mushed up wrappers, a couple of bead caps = fun, fun, fun!

TGIF everyone. Hope you have a creative weekend ahead. — Jen

A recent contributor to the ICE Resin Flickr Friday photo pool is Lubica Vinicenko, who’s profile says she is from Slovakia and addicted to making jewelry. Take a look at some of her absolutely beautiful designs using Susan Lenart Kazmer’s signature product ICE Resin.

 A cast dragonfly piece. Yummy!

 One of her own paintings sealed in ICE Resin.

Cast resin piece with dried flower inclusions. So pretty!

Be sure to become a member of our ICE Resin Flickr Group. If you want us to publish your work, be sure to make it so we can download the image. We understand how important your designs are to you and will always credit you on the blog. If you provide a link to your website or blog, we’ll be sure to add that to the posts too.

This week’s Flickr Friday comes from Gingernonuts. It’s a vintage optical lens where transparencies, gears and objects are layered on both sides and poured in ICE Resin. We liked how she stamped on a trasnparency and added it to her peice. Notice how the stamped image remained colorfast? That’s because she used Staz-On ink, which is a solvent-based ink.

The artist does a lot of these layered pieces, so we thought we’d also show her heart locket with layered gears and a nice red heart with wings bead in the center of a stop watch case.

Be sure to become a member of our ICE Resin Flickr Group. If you want us to publish your work, be sure to make it so I can download the image. We understand how important your designs are to you and will always credit you on the blog. If you provide a link to your website or blog, I’ll be sure to add that to the posts too.

Today’s Flickr Friday is a beautiful design by Lady Wishcraft. What she shows so well in her design is how ICE Resin can be colored and used in jewelry. This lovely green makes me think of meadows and moss on tree trunks. The perfect compliment is the silver filagree embedded into ICE.

You can color ICE Resin with a tiny drop of oil paint, or even acrylic paints, mica powders, kitchen spices and so much more. Have fun experiments, just like Lady Wishcraft did and see what lovely things you, too, can create using ICE Resin and our handcrafted bezels.

Be sure to become a member of our ICE Resin Flickr Group. If you want us to publish your work, be sure to make it so I can download the image. We understand how important your designs are to you and will always credit you on the blog. If you provide a link to your website or blog, I’ll be sure to add that to the posts too.