One of Kathy’s crafts is working with paper, creating greeting cards, albums, etc., and sometimes uses stamps by a maker named “Maymay Made It” in her work.
She loved one of the Cross stamps that came in one of Maymay’s sets, and wanted me to make a domed pendant with that style of cross on it, so what could be easier than using that very stamp on the pattern I use to pierce out the overlay piece?!
As the stamp has a “stitching” pattern on the interior, I drilled my starter hole between the stitching and outer lines. Then, after sawing out the cross, I cleaned it up along the stitch-lines and used that piece on the underside of the dome.
The oxidation turned out beautifully on this piece. Although it might not look like it in this photo, the patina from the liver of sulfur used in the overlay has a nice, consistent, dark gun metal gray from edge to edge.
Above is frontal shot of the domed overlay Cross pendant in sterling silver.
And below is a shot of the back of the domed overlay Cross pendant showing the piece that was cut out of the overlay layer, domed, then soldered onto the back. 🙂
