The European Street Team Challenge for last week was minimalisme. I tried several things, but they all looked kind of cheap and childish. Then I got a bag full of old buttons from a friend of mine who found that at a fleah market with the most gorgeous large buttons from the fifties. After brooding for a week, I suddenly saw the light, and used these funky, funny and mod buttons with large holes to make a minimalistic bracelet. I like it ! What do you think ?
and you can see all the entries on Jettie's blog !
Ever heard of ACEO's ? I did not before I saw some on Etsy.
ACEO means Art Cards, Editions and Originals. It's a mini artwork measuring 9 x 6 cm (3.5 x 2.5").
According to Wikipedia: ACEO's are typically made on a base of card stock. However, they have been created on metal, stiffened fabric, plastic, clay, glass, balsa wood, leather, embroidery canvas, acetate, heavy watercolor paper, and many other materials. The art on the cards can be done in any media: textile arts, pencil, watercolor, acrylic, oil, collage, scratch board, mixed media, assemblage, digital art, calligraphy, beadwork, rubber stamps, carved soft block stamps, pen and ink, colored pencil, airbrush, pastels, and many others - anything artists use.
Here are some great examples on Etsy !
"Spray paint on wood from SwedishJewels" and "Paper collage from bndesign"
"Drawing from annarubyking" and "Glasswork from PamelaAngus"
So, I thought, why not an ACEO from BUTTONS ? And here it is, my first ACEO:
vadjutka from the European Street Team on Etsy had the great idea to gather "then and now" items from the members; you can see them on her blog: http://craftsthenandnow.blogspot.com/
I had to look into my old stuff and finally found this 1985 brooch. This brooch is one of the first I made (I think it was in 1985) and I am still having it ! It's made from this metal instrument you get with IKEA furniture to build it. Back then my husband and I bought our first IKEA chair, and after it was build, the instrument became a brooch. There are some wooden beads on it and some plastic female screws too; probably also leftovers from some IKEA thing ......
And this is what I make at the moment; various buttons are sewn together to form a brooch or pin. It's part of my P8 Button Art line.
