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Artisan soaps made from luxurious oils and exotic butters with milks, creams and silk fibers; to the whimsy of glycerine soap creations. Full of fluffy bubbles and velvet lathers, once your skin it treated to handmade soap you will never go back. bytheSEAsoap was born out of the love of TSPink soap rocks some fifteen years ago. I found those soaps at a Nevada City Art Gallery and my obsession for beauty in a bar of soap began. I still have a small piece of that first soap! ~~Pam Mella~~


Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Diamond Girl you sure do shine!

Week 3 of the challenge from Amy Warden of GreatCakesSoap  Works.    This challenge is mica swirls and several wonderful soap makers have videos showing just how it is done.  As a professional soap maker Emily of Sheih Design Studio has an informative video on swirling soap tops with micas to view.  Lovely gold and purple mica swirls adorn the soap in this video!


Here is my 2nd ever mica swirl  Black Raspberry Vanilla done a few months ago and  much like the Christmas Berry from Christmas 2012.






The soap below is for this 3rd week challenge and  is called  named Diamond Girl!   Do you ever get a song caught in your mind repeating over and over again?!  Well this was the song and I made it into a soap!  Diamond Girl You Sure Do Shine!  Over and over and oooover.  LOL

 This  is made with a gold and white pearly mica swirl!  Silver would have been better than the white pearl but you use what you have.  The swirl wasn't as photogenic or prominent as the one above, but it is just as dramatic in person!   There is no color in the base of the soap, just natural coloring with some inclusions for interest.  All the glamor is on the top of this moisturizing bar full of extraordinary bubbles and lather.  

Once again I used a new fragrance for the first time, I must used them up!  Well might as well live on the slippery soapy edge and keep it challenging and exciting!  The fragrance is a white floral combined with a sweet citrus and very upscale.  I hope you enjoy looking as I sure enjoyed making this one!  Soon to be cut giving it a few days due to the recipe.



"Diamond Girl" you sure do shine!  








 

One last soap I just  couldn't resist!

Now that was just so fun that I had to do just one more.  For a peak here is Neptune's Gold which smells amazing.  Another new fragrance from Wellington's in Ohio.  This is such a fun touch to the tops of my soaps and in the future I'll try to incorporate other colors into what I'm working on!


Neptune's Gold

I am looking forward to all the beautiful soaps this challenge has inspired!  The colors the magic oils and the fragrance.

22 comments:

  1. Em I cut it too soon and now must wait to tidy it up a bit!

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  2. Wow, gorgeous tops! Love them!

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  3. I just looove Neptune´s Gold. It is just perfect, can´t say anything else.

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  4. Beautiful soaps Pam, and I love the names! I'll be checking back for those cut photos!

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  5. Thank you for looking and your comments each and everyone! Isn't it wonderful to have other eyes comment on your work, share their thoughts and experiments. These challenges serve to push us to go out of the box, teach us to plan carefully and allow us to meet soaping buddies. Can't ask for more than that! Thank you all and thank you Amy!

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  6. Diamond Girl - WOW!! Your design and execution are fantastic.

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  7. Thank you Suzy. I've added cut photos of the Diamond Girl. The fragrance is Lily Grapefruit and is wonderful!

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  8. I really like Neptune's Gold- great color choices.

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  9. Oooohhhh I love your colours - nice soap

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  10. Cris and Mommy soaper you don't have any blog postings so sorry I missed your contributions.

    Odette thank you so much I appreciate you dropping by!

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  11. The first two are pretty great, but I'm a huge fan of Neptune's Gold! Shimmery, shiny and gorgeous colors! :) Great job, Pam!

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  12. Amy thank you so much. I always learn something from these challenges and isn't it great fun when one has the time to really get into it. Thank you!

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  13. Please do NOT make me pick a favorite! All are stunning!
    Hummer Hugs,
    Misty
    http://deliteful-gifts.blogspot.com/
    hummingbird204 at comcast dot net

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  14. I love it!!! The first reminds me of plombiere ice cream and the second one is precious. The colours are perfect.

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  15. OMG! This design is absolutely stunning and the colors you chose are so super springy that I just keep looking at the picture. Thanks for sharing! =)

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  16. Hi Misty and Rama so glad you had fun looking! Anne-Marie thank you for dropping in and commenting!

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  17. I just adore these colours,not only for soap. They my summer faves! Unfortunately, I still cannot get them (is this chrome oxide?)in soap! Adorable!

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    1. The colors are micas from TKB Trading Company in California. I love these colors of spring and summer also!

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