Remember my post on resin collages? Well, I finally got around to doing something with one of my collages.

I cut out little rectangles exactly the right size to glue onto these little balsa wood tiles. Using mod-podge, I affixed them to one side of each of four tiles. (Note: the tiles ended up curling, so keep that in mind if you want to try a similar project – you may want to use something that won’t curl when glue is applied.)

Collages glued to balsa tiles

Once they were dry, I got out my package of composite mica, and peeled off some pieces of it, which I mod-podges to the back of the tiles. On one tile, I glued some newspaper underneath to see how it would look with mica over it. (Gluing on the back helped a bit with evening out the curling from the previous step, but not completely.) I also glued some mica over one of the collages, to see how that would look. Didn’t work too well, since the image was curling away from the mica, so I ended up removing the parts that didn’t stick.

The backs of the tiles, with mica applied

Then I thought I’d punch holes and finish them with eyelets so I could potentially make some kind of wire bail for my tiles to use them as pendants. I thought about maybe connecting them all together to make some kind of book, but I forgot about that when I was punching the holes, and ended up trying a few different placements of holes instead.

Tiles finished with eyelets - ready to be made into pendants

Next time, there are some things I’d do differently – like maybe start with wood that is thicker, something more like scrabble tiles. That would mean I’d have to drill the holes & use something besides scrapbooking eyelets to finish them, but luckily I have the skills to do that.