Some New Colors - but still Pennies!!!

My new enamel colors finally arrived - and in less than 24 hours I was back at the bench playing with color combinations.  I got some pink, some lavender and some off white which I combined in these:

The off white makes a nice base for other colors too...... like the red:

and the blue:

and the turquoise:

I did some other combinations:

orange and gold

gold, yellow and red

white, pink and red

These are currently available for purchase at Beads on the Kennebec AND she is having a contest (see rules and more information here ) based on pieces made using the enameled pennies. 

More enamel happenings

After the success of my enameled penny bracelet (see it here), my mother decided she wanted a bracelet of her own - with the same "turquoisey colored ones" I used in the last bracelet.  (yes, those were her words!)

I couldn't help but play with the layering this time - one layer of enamel is not enough for me to be happy with the overall coverage and color, so I experimented with the layers of color this time - and had a really fun time doing it.  The first set of pennies (I do four at a time) I used a gold enamel as a base layer with a layer of light green followed by a layer of turquoise on top.

You can see the gold layer a bit around the edges, and the second layer (the light green) helped the turquoise layer come out a bit darker.

I used a base layer of light golden brown on these pennies - actually two layers of the brown and one layer of light green.

For the base layer of these pennies I used a brown mix, the light green for the middle layer and a light coat of dark green for the third layer. 

All the pennies were drilled and domed before I enameled them.