Saturday, June 30, 2012

Flower Bangle Challenge...

I am taking part in a blog hop challenge that Joanne Tinley of Daisychain Designs put together. She drew five designers who got one of her Flower Bangle blank to design with.

It took me a while to come up with a design idea. I wanted it to be fun and airy and keep with the flower theme. I decided to make flower dangles but needed a way to stop them from falling of the bangle if opened. So I unfolded the hook and put some copper butterfly beads on the blank and then wire wrapped them in place a little asymmetrical. The flower dangles are made of Czech glass flowers in different sizes in a cream, pink and copper color palette.

Here are the pictures, and please hop on to the other participants - links at the end!

I also made a matching pair of earrings with the flower dangles one some patinated copper rings.

Hop on and visit:

Jo Tinley Daisychain Designs

Sherri Stokey - Knot Just Macrame

Shannon Chomanczuk - For My Sweet Daughter

Jenny - Shyme Design

Keri Lee Sereika - Pink Lemonade

Heidi Post - Ex Post Facto Jewelry

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Monday, June 25, 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

I am taking part in the Colors of Spring Design Challenge that Sally Russick of Studio Sublime have arranged. The challenge was to use enameled ceramic bead sets in the Pantone Spring colors made by Sally. My main color is Sweet Lilac. Th is the bead set I received from Sally, the lentil bead is in the main color and the other beads was a surprise.

Unfortunately due to illness I haven't been able to finish my design but I have started so I will show you some photos of what I have made so far. I hope I will be able to finish during the weekend and show you the finished design. This is what I have made so far:

List of paticipants:

Host: Sally Russick Margarita Theresa Frank Kim Bender Cabaret JLynn Jewels Christine Altmiller Sweet Lilac Cherrie Fick Jenny Vidberg Driftwood Sabine Dittrich Hope Smitherman Solar Power Nicole Rennell Erin Fickert-Rowland Bell Flower Patti Vanderbloemen Kristi Bowman Starfish Shannon Chomanczuk Elisabeth Auld Cockatoo Alice Peterson Donna Bradley Sodalite Blue Kristi Harrison Cilla Watkins Tangerine Tango Lesley Watt Maryanne Gross Susan Kennedy Courtney White Breul

It is time for the Bead Soup reveal!

The Bead Soup Blog Party is hosted by the fabulous Lori Anderson

This is the beads I received from my swap-partner Cheryl Roe. The lovely handmade lampwork beads made me a bit intimidated, would I be able to make them justice? The rules of the Bead Soup Blog Party swap says that the focal and the clasp must be used but I really wanted to use as much as possible of the beads Cheryl sent me. I had a hard time getting started on my design but when I did get started it all come together quite nicely. Since I just bought some new tools I wanted to incorporate some wire work in to my bead soup. I also wanted the lampwork beads to play the big role so I didn't ad that many other beads just a few milky firepolished beads and a amazonite dagger. I didn't find a incorporate the big copper bicone beads and spacers Cheryl sent me but I am very happy with the pieces I ended up with and I am going to keep them for myself. I do have some plans for the left over beads but I didn't have the time to work on that before the reveal day - which is today!

Here are the pictures of my pieces, a necklace, a bracelet and a pair of earrings: