Art Jewelry Element - February Component of the Month Reveal

I'm so excited to be one of the guest designers for the AJE February Component of the Month Challenge! The lovely components for February's challenge were made by Francesca Watson. Hand-cut copper disc, enameled in beautiful colors and then accented with silver "pebbles".

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When I received Francesca's component, I knew exactly what I wanted to make. I have always wanted a lariat necklace and the component seem perfect.

The pendant had so many lovely colors and I just happened to have complimentary beads in my stash. It's hard to tell in my photo's, but the light blue color of the small seed beads is in the pendant. I also had some Czech glass beads in my stash that matched the colors in the pendant very well.

Thank you AJE and Francesca, for the opportunity to participate in your monthly challenge!

Please visit the other contributors blogs to see their designs for this month's challenge.

Participating AJE Contributors:

Kristi Bowman-Gruel - http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/02/aje-february-component-of-month-reveal.html

Jenny Cameron - http://glassaddictions.com

Jenny Davies-Reazor - http://www.jdaviesreazor.com/blog

Susan Kennedy - www.suebeads.blogspot.com

Linda Landig - www.LindasBeadBlog.com

Melissa Meman - http://melissameman.blogspot.com

Kristen Stevens - http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/

Francesca Watson - http://www.francescawatson.com

Guest Designers:

Dawn Horner - http://www.northernadornments.com/

Kym Hunter - http://kymhunterdesigns.blogspot.com/

Kay Thomerson - http://kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/

Shelley Graham Turner - http://www.shelleygrahamturner.blogspot.com/

Sandi Volpe - http://sandivolpe.com/

Enjoy your day!

AJE Earring Challenge Week 6/52

 

  My earrings for week 6 of the AJE Earring Challenge.

For this pair of earrings, I used a lovely pair of red, etched lampwork beads made by pinocean (Mika Collins). These are wire wrapped with various Swarovski crystals in complementary colors and Vintaj brass bead caps.

For the 3rd Art Jewelry Elements Earring Challenge Reveal & blog hop, please visit Art Jewelry Elements blog. 
 

Enjoy your week!

AJE Earring Challenge Week 5/52

My earrings for week 5 of the AJE Earring Challenge.

   In making these earrings, I used Ellen Dooley's beautiful, organic pink, lampwork discs, strung on Vintaj brass chain.  I suspended these from wire wrapped farfalle seed beads in complementary colors and added Vintaj brass ear wires.

For the 3rd Art Jewelry Elements Earring Challenge Reveal & blog hop, please visit Art Jewelry Elements blog. 

Enjoy your week!

Bead Soup Ingredients have Arrived!

I received my bead soup ingredients today!

Love the ribbon!

Anticipayation!

Gorgeous pendant and clasp and a beautiful accompaniment of beads

Check back on April 6th to see what I made with the bead soup from Tammi.

Art Jewelry Elements: Bead Giveaway

Kristi Bowman is giving away some gorgeous beads at Art Jewelry Elements! Visit the blog to check out the beads and for giveaway details.  I have my eyes on these beauties!

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BSBP 7 - Soups on it's way!

I made a trip to the post office yesterday and shipped my bead soup ingredients to my partner, Tammi Sloan.  Here's a sneakie peek of what I sent.

The first reveal of this year Bead Soup Blog Party will be held on March 30th.  Tammi and I are part of the second reveal, which will be held on April 6th.  There is also a third reveal, which will be held on April 13th.

7th Bead Soup Blog Party - Meet My Partner Tammi Sloan

I received my email yesterday revealing my partner for the 7^th Bead Soup Blog Party. This is my third time to participate and I have had so much fun each time and have met some wonderful people! This time I am excited to be partnered with Tammi Sloan of http://www.mybrownwren.blogspot.com/.  Tammi makes beautiful Artisan Crafted Eco Friendly Metal Clay Jewelry and you can find her on Etsy at http://www.etsy.com/shop/MyBrownWren

Here are a couple of my favorite pieces from Tammi's Etsy shop.

I love the warmth of these patina domed copper earrings!

And Tammi's fine silver Heart with Wings pendant is so beautiful!

Tammi and I are a part of the second reveal date, which is on April 6th. If you are not familiar with the BSBP, visit Lori Anderson's blog here for details. 

A special thanks goes out to our hostess, Lori Anderson, for working so hard to put all of this together. This will be the only BSBP for 2013 and more than 500 people have signed up to participate.  Wow!  Can you imagine having to pair off that many people?

Stay tunes for some sneak peaks of my bead soup for Tammi and come back on April 6th for the reveal!

Enjoy your week!