New packaging and a new selling venue for Nellin Shoppi

New packaging for my Nellin Shoppi bookmarks and jewelry was direly needed. The previous papers I used were out of stock for a long time and I was kind of bored at white paper. I headed out to the local paper store and picked out four different kind of grey and midtone papers for testing the package designs I had come up with at home. In the end I chose the medium grey acid free paper. I also made some business cards from tags. Stamping is so much fun! The stamp I bought from an Etsy shop that makes them by hand (best purchase _ever_!!).

I was contacted by Susanna from the local shop named Taikarasia and asked if I would want to sell my items there. Well, of course I took my bookmarks and jewelry there. The shop is very cute! I am so happy to get my items there. I was also asked to make a fun crafty event 2nd of May but it's still being planned!

This picture was taken from the Facebook page of Taikarasia. 

Taikarasia also updated their facebook page yesterday and uploaded pictures of my items there. Here they are: 

Ohai and happy 2013!

Year 2012 is now behind me and I am very happy how busy I was during Christmas season. Thank you to all my lovely customers. :)

I also sold first bookmarks to Japan and because it was a great experience with Kristy from Monoco (in facebook) I will be working with them again in the future. First I just need to make some more bookmarks and create new designs. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them!

Here's a few cuties I have been working on lately:

Polymer clay gauges

Polymer clay gauges are relatively easy to make. I am now learning how to make polymer clay gauges for my shop... Starting with the easy ones, then moving on to the more complicated ones. I hope you find this collection inspiring!

Here are some inspiration pictures from the internet that I found: 

How to make cat earrings from polymer clay

Here is how to make cute polymer clay cat earring studs for you or someone you love!

I also sell them in my Etsy shop.

You need:

Black and yellow polymer clay

one pair of earrings studs

4 jewelry pins

round jewelry pliers

superglue

Make the face of the cat. Starting with same size
 balls is easy to flatten out as a face.

Add two feet. I used a wooden stick to create the toes.

Add yellow spots as background for the eyes.

Roll some polymer clay so it has a sharp end.
Then cut the end with a wooden stick.
Keep in mind you only need a tiny little bit of polymer clay.

This is what you should have now.

Roll the clay gently with your finger to make it more oval.

Use a stick to insert the eye in the middle of the yellow part of the eye.
Make a small oval body on  a jewelry pin like in this picture.
 Add two oval feet in the lower part of the body, use the wooden stick to help create toes for the legs.

Make a small clay ball and stick a jewelry pin inside it,
then roll the clay between your fingers to create a tail for the cat.
You now have three parts for each cat: the head, the tail and the body. 

Fire the cat parts in an oven heated to 130 celcius for 30 minutes.
Cut the tails jewelry pin shorter and bend it with jewelry
pliers to attach the tail to the body like in this picture.

Now cut the jewelry pin in the body shorter and
bend it inside/around the lock of the stud earring. You cat body is now ready!

Glue the stud on to the cats head.
Use a superglue so strong that you cannot pull the pieces apart.
 I use Loctite superglue.

The front!

The back!

The side!

I hope you enjoyed this how to :)

Thanks for looking!

Nelli

Teddy necklaces

These are my newest necklace designs, just in time for the Christmas market! I'm planning to make more and different ones too! Yay :)

Teddy is not impressed -necklace
buy it here

Sad Bear

buy it here

Pig bookmark for christmas!

I have been making many new bookmarks last few weeks. It includes a pig bookmark for christmas. :) It's been alot of fun! It all started from making the cat bookmark and now I have quite alot of variety in my bookmarks. They have become my bestseller over my jewelry items.

Here are some of my favorite bookmark designs:

My cute little earrings sell alot better in person than trough internet. I guess it is hard to realise the size and weight of the item trough the pictures and when people see them they actually wonder how I can make them so small and detailed. If you have any suggestions on what animals or designs you would like to see in Nellin Shoppi, leave me a comment or contact me! 

Here are some of the black jewelry currently for sale in Nellin Shoppi.