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OzMosaics Christmas Decorations
Sandy Robertson orginal idea to make mosaic decorations out of pull-ring food tin lids and pull rings. Christmas Angels, trees, holly, candles and more were made out of mosaic tiles, tulle, glitter, ribbon, sequins, jewellery, smalti and more! Very popular indeed! Thanks to my Mosaic Addicts Group and Team who worked so hard to help me make this special fundraisers.
Christmas Decoration using Dyansty Smalti (c) OzMosaics 2011
Christmas tree - mosaic decoration (c) OzMosaics Sandy Robertson Dynasty Smalti, Laticrete Adhesive, vitreous tile shards, 22k gold smalti and gold glitter and a pull ring tin lid. Dedicated to my wonderful black cat, Shaq! Shaq ate his way through the last 12 months so we would have enought tin lids! We love you Shaq! (Full Name = Shaquille, named by my sons after their mosaic hero Shaquille O'Neil!).
Christmas tree decoration and Christmas card.
Sandy's OzMosaics Christmas Angel in progress (c) OzMosaics 2011
A gorgeous Christmas Angel.
Chopped up Dynasty glass smalti turned into Christmas Tree Mosaics! (c)
In progress Christmas Decorations. (c) OzMosaics
Wine Bottle Tags/Christmas Decorations and Christmas gift tags (c) OzMosaics 2011
Angel in progress (c) OzMosaics
Christmas Decorations hanging on tree for sale by OzMosaics for the Liz & Friends Art Show - raising funds for The Wesley Hospital Palliative Care Unit.
Thanks to everyone who purchased an OzMosaics Christmas mosaic! Thanks to my merry band of mosaic addicts who worked for days to help make them all! xx
Christmas Mosaic Decorations (c) Sandy Robertson
Deck the boughs...
What do you get when you add generosity, kindness, caring, hugs, laughter, sincerity, hard workers, inspiration, togetherness, fun, giving and emotion? An event such as Liz Heber organises. Everyone rises to the occasion and benefits in so many ways.
"Life should be mostly froth and bubbles, but two things stand like stone; Kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own"....
OzMosaics and the Mosaic Addict "elves" worked together for some time to make a Christmas Tree decked out with Mosaic Decorations. Even though many had pressing mosaic projects to complete, it was with great kindness and sense of giving that they dropped everything to help me make mosaics to sell at the art show.
These miniature mosaics proved very popular at the art show and most sold out! The dozen or so remaining, were donated to The Wesley Hospital for the fundraising craft stall for the Palliative Care Unit the week after the art show. Thanks girls!
Sandy Robertson's mosaic Christmas Decorations/idea (c) is dedicated to The Robertson Family Cat - Shaq! Shaq kept us in good supply of pull-ring tin lids by eating his way through tin after tin of cat food. We also had various shapes of decorative Christmas hangings, by way of tuna tins and more! Small, large, huge! All gorgeous. The snow flakes were so beautiful made form OzMosaics faux metallic glass tile and shimmering glitter tiles!
It's amazing what a touch of glittery red tulle, Christmas ribbons, sequins, jewellery, baubles and glitter can do for a tin lid! I will always remember the fun we had and the stories we shared as we made the Christmas decorations LOL!
Of course preparation is everything when it comes to a mosaic and the Laticrete Crew laughed with glee when I showed them what I did with one of their adhesives! Fun all round and very, very strong mosaics!
Glow in the dark? No problem. Shimmery, of course!
The Dynasty smalti proved again to be superlative! No pits, easy to cut, chunks and regular brick sizes made making the mosaic Christmas trees and more, a mosaic delight!
The huge range of mosaic vitreous glass tiles in OzMosaics huge mosaic shop, allowed sumptuous mosaic artwork. Sandy's tips for cutting minute shapes out of tesserae were well received by the mosaic students and mosaic addict helpers!
The mosaic addict groupies (!) all learn at our Mosaic Addicts Days on Tuesdays and we all share the joy of mosaics around the workbench and cuppa area by the pool. If you have done OzMosaics intro to mosaic workshop, you are welcome to join us on Mosaic Addict Tuesdays! $10 per day or $5 Club DIVA members.
We toss the money in the new, soon, to be mosaiced dunny and we plan to have a mosaic shindig in due course or perhaps save or an art show in two years time!
The original Art from the HeART mosaic dunny resides in Sandy's mosaic courtyard with a huge plant in it given to Sandy by Dr Des! Many mosaic art from the heARt dunnies evolved after this famous first.....!
The next one will have 3-D flowers all over it. We will start it at the same time we stART on the Great wall of mOz!
We were sidetracked with the Art from the HeARt project at The Wesley Hospital but once the Wesley mural is completed and the Steve Irwin Day 2011 mural is completed, we will stARt on the huge wall and more!
Commissions are also being worked on up until March 2012. A few trips out west are booked in for fabulous mosaic workshop trek adventures and a trip across the ocean after May!
Never a dull mosaic moment at OzMosaics!
We hope to make more mosaic Christmas Angels soon! They are so beautiful and look gorgeous as gifts, wine bottle gift tags, fridge magnets, brooches, jewellery and more! Very versatile and fun to make.
It's all in what you do with the glue! I am planning a huge fundraising venture with my ideas, so stay tuned! It's very exciting.
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