Terry Ricioli Designs

Hi Everyone! Today I am etching a cheese board with etchall® etching crème .  Cheese is one of my favorite things to eat.  I think I like it even more than chocolate!  Cheese is so versatile - you can eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner - and, of course, snacks!  And, there are so many varieties! I started out with a piece of slate, which I purchased at Michaels. I used adhesive stencil letters to spell out the name of the cheeses. Then, I taped around the letters with masking tape.  Since I didn't put the letters in straight lines, there was a lot of tape! I added etchall® etching crème over the letters and waited for 15 minutes.  I scraped the extra crème back into the jar.  (It's re-usable!) Here is how it looks so far. Now, I'll etch the other corners.  Here it is! And, I did it with  etchall® ! Here's another to show it without the goodies. This takes a little time, but it's a very easy p...

Hi Everyone! Just a quick post to share my latest plastic canvas set designed for Herrschners.  I've always love Sunbonnet Sue and I'm happy to have a chance to design this motif again.  Hope you like it! Here's the link to the kit on Herrschners.

Hi all! Beadwork for August/September is out and I'm happy to announce that I have a necklace published in the Fast and Fabulous section. In this issue, the Fast and Fabulous section is devoted to tassels - all kinds.  So whether you like thread, ribbon, chain, leather or mixed tassels, there is one for you. Elegant or casual, they've got them!  And, you'll recognize the designers - Tamara Honaman, Fernando Dasilva, Nealay Patel, Debbie Blair and more - I've admired their work for a long time. Here's the one I made with strips of my husband's old shirts, yarn, sari silk ribbon, chain and a little leather.  I found my bead cap in the plumbing aisle of my local hardware.  So, with the copper cap and the recycled bits in the tassel, the editor named it Plumb Scrappy!  So punny!   Plumb Scrappy I love to create with recycled materials and use up some of the bits in the cupboards and bins.  What do you have that you can create with?...

Hi there! Today I'm playing along with the Pretty Palettes challenge on the Halcraft site.  This Last month our inspiration was peacock feathers. Here are the beads Molly Schaller chose for this month: I ordered some of these - the purple dyed agate round, the green matte fire crackled agates, and the aqua dyed quartz stone drops.  And, of course, a few more that struck my fancy! Well, I've been working on this for about a week now, trying to come up with something that I like.  I thought alcohol inks would be interesting, so I played with those for awhile. Fun, but not exactly what I had in mind for a peacock.  It looks more ocean-inspired to me.   I need some purple ink!  So, I decided on a tassel.  I've been making lots of tassels lately - one of which will appear in Beadwork later this summer. Here is my peacock-inspired tassel. Peacock Tassel These are fun and easy to make and I love the sari silk and sari yarn mixes....