Soldered Bottle Art Class at the Red Shed in Grapevine, Texas

Everyone may be tired of all of our posts about the Runs with Scissors Art Classes, but they are just so darn fun! It is truly amazing, all the gorgeous altered art that is being created at the Red Shed!

This last Thursday's class was Soldered Bottles. It was adding embellishments and art elements to an interesting bottle, for display or to give as keepsakes or great gifts.

Once again, Jeannie and Michele had tons of options for the ladies to choose from.

Lots of bottles........



Fun ingredients to put inside the bottles, for interest or to add to a theme....

Sand, glitter, rice, salt, so many choices and interesting textures....





Lots of gorgeous embellishments to add to the top........Charms, shells, rhinestones, crystals....what a great way to recycle broken crystals or glass stoppers!



With the choices made, the teaching began......

After the bottles are filled and decorated,

Foil, burnish, and solder the tops.......

The foil and solder the embellishment.................

Then solder the whole thing together, add interesting texture and dots. Michele and Jeannie where there the whole way to stimulate creativity and keep burned fingers at bay!
The ABSOLUTELY Gorgeous results!

Gayle made this with a wedding photo, rice, and the words "Cherish" inside. The broach is from their anniversary party...

Lisa found this interesting bottle....

That became the dress for her "dolled" up delight!

Jaymi went all GLAM....

This one is a crack up! Andrea put her dog's TEETH in a vintage Listerine bottle! The charm says "angel" on one side and "devil" on the other.....she says that perfectly describes her dog.

Love this one, reminds me of the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz....

Mari's bottle is Pretty in Pink and Blue........

Gigi made this great bottle, with her mom and brother also framed in solder...

Aren't they all absolutely gorgeous?

We want to thank everyone who has made the art classes so successful! We sold out every class the entire year, which is fabulous for a venture only a few months old.

If you would like to be added to the mail list for the 2009 schedule of classes, be sure to sent an email to

TheRedShed@Earthlink.net

Soldering Class at the Red Shed ** Dallas / Fort Worth Altered Art classes

September 25th was the date of the Creative Soldering class at the Red Shed. Again, the instructors Jeanne Stregles and Michele Jones outdid themselves. When all the participants arrived, we were greeted with a look at fun and inspiring projects that can be created with Soldering skills.
Decorative and vintage bottles with antique jewelry and interesting items soldered to the top for display.

Gorgeous wall jewelry....
Necklaces, baubles and beads........


We knew we would be starting out with more "basic" projects, but we were still excited.
Again the tables were set with care with all of our instructions and equipment...

Of course, the famous "Runs with Scissors" cookies, lest we starve...
The weather was gorgeous so we move outside to the Red Shed patio, to receive our instruction...

Jeanne taught us how to cut glass....... How to grind glass and all those rough edges.......

We learned the basics of equipment, solder, (leaded or unleaded), flux, soldering styles, cleaning, antiquing and polishing....

Jeanne made it all look really easy. For some reason we didnt think it would be that easy, but she said we could do it so we jumped right in........

And the results? Here are just a few of the darling beveled charms that were made. It really wasn't that hard and just think what we could do when we practice a little more....

We can't wait to try more projects and to join more classes! We are already dreaming of projects of the future............



For more information about Altered Art and Soldering Classes at the Red Shed visit:

http://www.redshedonline.com/altered_art_classes.html