Luminous Knots

In the winter, I'm often drawn to darkly luminous colors and finishes. One of my favorite combinations is burnished copper and peacock pearls. Here I've combined rustic copper knots in a chestnut patina from Shannon German of Miss Fickle Media with large, freeform pearls in a rich oil slick coloration and smoky gray glass seed beads.

I picture them with a funky plum gown and soft taupe accessories:

luminous winter by lunebijoux featuring a purple dress

These will be available in my Etsy shop later this week.

Winter Flowers

Inspired by the subtle shades of winter, I made these Czech flower beads the focal point of my rustic copper earrings. The flowers are a granite color with hints of green and blue, and accents of rusty brown. Accompanied by copper ovals that are also in a floral motif, wasabi green rondelles and darkened copper wire that I have loosely wrapped around the flowers for a casual look.

We are coming into the time of year when a warm weather vacation would be a welcome change. I love this Ralph Lauren crochet outfit, and it would be perfect with my winter flower earrings.

Gloria Ewing
Chrysalis Too on Etsy
Chrysalis Jewelry on Artfire

Gypsy Hoops

I love the look of adding ribbon and fibers to earrings and I hadn't done that in quite awhile so when I decided to use these gorgeous lampwork beads (by Bubby & McGurk Beads) that I had been hoarding, I went through my Sari silk ribbon stash first. I added some Czech beads and some dark red coral beads and lots of wire wrapping!

These earrings are for sale on my website but if you are interested in buying beads like these, please check out the Bubby & McGurk Beads Facebook page. Online bead sale tomorrow at 2pm EST.

Thanks for looking!

Have a great weekend,

Kristy Abner

Kristy's Kreations 

Hearts & Flowers

I am not a hearts & flowers kind of girl.

Sure. I love to get flowers, and hearts are very sentimental, but I am not that girly.

If I have hearts at all they are going to be grungy and weathered, perhaps cracked and a bit odd.

When I saw these ceramic hearts from my friend LeAnn Weih of SummersStudioBeads, I just couldn't resist. They have a cute puff shape but the glaze is rusty with flecks of black. I pulled out some handmade copper ear wires from my friend Rebecca Anderson of The Curious Bead Shoppe. One of the things I love, but can't seem to master, is handmade earring wires. So I let an expert like Rebecca help me out! Lying on my table were are few of these sweet wood flowers. Would you believe that I bought some clearance stretchy bracelets with hideous plastic beads and multitudes of these wood daisy spacers just to get my hands on those flowers? I love them.

Want to know who else loves them?

Let me introduce you to my brand new earring model.

Say hello to Delia

If you want to know the story behind my new earring model, head on over to my blog in just a short bit for an explanation of who Delia is and how I came to know her!

Beach Stones

Winter always puts me in the mood for neutrals. These natural beach stone earrings make me think of a winter lakeshore, all pearl gray sky, steel gray water, and tawny dried grasses. Other elements are red creek jasper roundels, copper, sterling silver, and little pale champagne-colored seed beads on the earwires.

I picture them with the perfect winter outfit of soft neutrals:

beach stones by lunebijoux featuring long sleeve shirts

I will be listing an assortment of these beach stone earrings in my Etsy shop this weekend--stop by!

Bling Infusion

Red Magma Hammered Copper Earrings

Once upon a time, I considered the idea of blending sparkling crystal beads with rustic metals and/or stone beads. The concept has been percolating in my brain for all this time and now I have finally worked up the nerve to begin. I am hopeful that this will be the first piece in a collection of bling infused tribal jewelry. A new direction to be explored at a time when I can make my own metal components, and Swarovski elements have been available at discounts after the holidays.

Molten lava flowing over the dark ashen colored volcanic rock is a similar contrast to my hammered copper and crystal, so it is fitting that the color of the Swarovski columns I used in my earring design is called magma.

Gloria Ewing
Chrysalis Too on Etsy
Chrysalis Jewelry on Artfire

Cosmos

These earrings feature gorgeous lampwork beads by Bubby & McGurk Beads and my own hammered copper washers. I decided to name them Cosmos because they reminded me of a planet in orbit.

Image from thewayofbeauty.org

These earrings are available HERE and to see more of my designs, please check out my website.  

Also, Bubby & McGurk Beads is having a BEAD SALE on their Facebook page on Saturday. Check it out if you can!

Thank you and have a great weekend,

Kristy Abner

Kristy's Kreations