Weeping Willow Earrings in Steampunk!

This month is a very special month for me. I am the Bead Partner for Vintaj Natural Brass. I have been using Vintaj since almost the very beginning of my Jewelry making career and I LOVE their products! It was an honour to be invited to participate in this program. I think the pieces that the Vintaj team have created are astounding and Gorgeous! I have created a few pieces myself, to help inspire you on how to use my wood tiles. But that is for my Skye Jewels blog, so follow me there to see more.

 I created these Asymmetrical earrings using these fun tiles from my Weeping Willow collection. I will make more and add them to my Supply shop for those of you who create your own jewelry. For those of you who don't or just really LOVE to buy earrings, you will find these in my Jewelry Shop!

I hope you are curious about what the Weeping Willow challenge is all about and will take a minute to visit the Vintaj Blog to learn more about it.

Thanks for visiting 

Marie

Peace Bird

Peace signs and birds....they just seem to go together.

I'd pair these earrings with this casual outfit that I created on Polyvore.

Saturday Afternoon by kristyabner featuring printed flip flops

To see these earrings and more of my designs click here or to visit my blog click here.

Have a Wonderful Weekend!

Kristy Abner

Kristy's Kreations

Serendipitous..

I love that word!  It describes how I feel about the creation/evolution of these earrings!

I had etched a big copper disk a couple of weeks ago when I was writing this post over at Art Jewelry Elements.  This past weekend, it was on my beading table at exactly the right moment when I needed something pretty to fasten a length of leather cord to a chain necklace for my Bead Soup piece.  I cut the center strip out of the disk and rolled it up into a tube!

Fast forward to last night, as I suddenly remembered that today was indeed my day to post here.  I saw the curled up scraps from cutting the center strip out of the disk and was like,"hmm, these are to pretty to ditch...I wonder if I can use them for earrings?"

So I did!  At first that were going to hang horizontally, with chain connecting them to the earwires, but after turning them around a bit, I liked the mirror image vertical look much better.  To bring the bling, I added some faceted chalcedony briolettes in a finish called "Mystic Mango" by the seller!

Add a fun, flowy spring blouse and your favorite jeans, and you are ready to go!

These will be up in my shops later today!

Melissa Meman
Melismatic Art Jewelry
Art. Life. Love.

Polynesian Princess

Daydreaming lately of white sandy beaches, bright blue waters, scuba diving etc etc. How I would LOVE to just run away to the Polynesian islands and be spoiled by sunshine and waves. Fun earrings that feature some pretty amazing polymer clay coins by Pam Wynn beads.  I hand-formed some thick wide brass wire and riveted them with screw rivets, dangling the beaded headpins inside.

Here's some inspiration for you on this pretty Spring day...

You can find these earrings in Lorelei Eurto Jewelry on Etsy

Chambray and Sunstone

One of my favorite things to wear is a chambray shirt. They are always in style, in the midwest anyway. A chambray shirt and jeans are my standard "uniform". This combo can be dressed up any number of ways, and never loses its casual appeal.

My earrings are sunstone and soft blue amazonite with patinated copper. The wires have been hammered and patinaed. Then I have wrapped a seed bead in African Sunset on each one for a punch of color. The earrings are fairly easy to make and have a simple rustic look, a great combination that is perfect with your favorite jeans.

Chambray by bohobeader featuring levi boots

Mimi Chica / Current/Elliott / Levi's levi boots / Zara suede bag / Patrizia Pepe scarve, $190

For more rustic earrings from Gloria Ewing, click here or here.

Spring Petal Earrings

 Delicately hued petals have been hand painted on these simple and elegant earrings. 

Tiny handcrafted pink beads accent copper earwires.

I'm ready for spring to bloom, how about you?

 

To see more of my earrings and jewelry, check out my new site:

www.humblebeadsjewelry.com

Medieval Spring

Medieval Spring

I had an idea some time ago for a beadcap made of two strips of metal, riveted together. Here is my thought experiment made reality! I couldn't figure out how to fasten them together (while avoiding soldering) until I discovered tube rivets. I love the medieval feel they have. I chose hollow lampwork globes by Alisha White in a taupey-mauve to debut my little medieval caps, and combined them with pearls and Czech glass in a fresh peridot green. Springy!

I picture them with a drapey gown, vaguely medieval (with a touch of 1930s Hollywood glam):

mauve by lunebijoux featuring rose shoes

You can see more at my Etsy shop HERE. I hope to be making a few more earrings in this style with the rest of my Alisha White hollow globes!