Twisted

Last week I had this really fabulous idea for a pair of earrings, I sketched it out and thought about it alot for a couple of days. When I sat down on Saturday to create these cool earrings I had in my mind, they just did not happen. I worked on them for a long time and could NOT make them work.

 So frustrating!!

So after I walked away from my table for awhile I came back and decided that for now, at least, I was going to scrap that idea and go with something completely new. 

So I dug around my incredibly messy table and found these Copper Spirals hanging in the pile...

a good place to start!!

Then I dug around my bead stash looking for something with a good size hole so I could insert part of the point in to the beads. YES!!!! These gorgeous beads by MaryAnn Carroll are perfectction!  I love the gorgeous brick red color and they look fantastic with these flower pieces.

I topped them off with these cool twisted wire beads I recently found at Michaels and they worked perfectly!!!

Thank goodness my creative block didn't last long!!

I have a couple of these shapes for sale in my store.

These Twisted Earrings have SOLD

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Vortex Spikes

I see a Vortex in these Gorgeous Lampwork Beads by BeadFairy and thought they were perfect paired with the Titanium Coated points.

Wrapped up in lovely Purple Sari Silk and Copper wire and topped with Czech Glass Beads.

Available to Purchase HERE!

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Mixed Metal Swirls

Recently I experimented with combining

 White Copper and regular Copper Metal Clay and here are the results.

 I love the look!

Some say they look like Petrified Wood or Sliced Agate!

Petrified Wood                                                                             Sliced Agate

I tried using complimenting beads on the wire wrapping

 but in the end they looked best wrapped simply with no embellishment.

Whether they resemble anything else or not I think they are very beautiful and interesting. I love how the where the 2 metals alloyed to created a third color where they connected. Exaclyl what I was hoping for.

If you'd like to see how I made them check out my post on Art Jewelry Elements HERE.

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