Red Garden Party

I covered copper washers with molten metal and embossed them, then soldered filigree flowers.  Tiny carnelians are set in bezel cups for the finishing touch.

 I would love to wear them to a garden party with this fabulous dress! Granted, the shoes would probably only last about 10 minutes!

garden party by melismatic featuring nine west

Melissa Meman

Melismatic Art Jewelry

Art. Life. Love.

Navy Gold and White

THIS dress that I stumbled upon on ModCloth today inspired these beaded earrings. They feature some buri seeds, Lucite, and glass rounds, with some sunshine  yellow silk ties, and hand-cut vintage tin discs. I love this color palette, and the dress is amazing. I might even think about it for my sister's wedding.

These earrings will be available momentarily at my Etsy shop!

Country Chic

Hammered Copper Earrings

Warm weather signals lots of outdoor activities, art fairs, bar-b-ques, graduation parties. . .  you get my drift. Comfortable and fashionable clothes with one of a kind jewelry are in order for these casual events. 

I made these rustic copper earrings with hammered sheet copper, to which I applied a heavy patina. Then I added snippets of copper bezel wire, African copper heishi beads and tiny little aluminum eyelets for contrast.

Country Chic by bohobeader featuring plastic sunglasses

For more rustic copper earrings, check out my shops on Etsy and Artfire.

Tribal Wrap

I have a new found love for silver and turquoise. I've always liked them together and had an appreciation for jewelry pieces that feature both, but lately, I have made a few of these pieces for myself which is new for me. Maybe my Cherokee ancestry is finally making an appearance? The Irish lass in me needs to make room for this new me. I'm liking it!

Native American by kristyabner featuring a suede coat

To see these earrings and more of my work please visit my website. 

Thanks!

Kristy Abner

Kristy's Kreations  

Nesting Instinct

I had the opportunity to travel to Michigan on May 18th to take a polymer clay beadmaking class with Heather Powers of Humblebeads. Her beads show up prominently in my work, and I came to find that I have almost every single Humblebeads in the collection! I really need to start using them more. (But wait! I just saw that there is a Humblebeads Destash going on and I spied a bead that is not in my collection! I will be shopping soon!)

Heather taught us all her secrets (shhhhh!) for making spectacular canes for polymer clay. And here I thought that magical elves made these tiny patterns and scenes on her beads! I can already see the possibilities opening before me and have bought my first pasta machine and bricks of colored clay. I am sure that before too long I will be making beads of my own, but that won't stop me from buying more Humblebeads! One is never enough!

While I was there, I suggested that having a signature cane would be a great idea. Funny that Heather had never thought of that before! Not only did she whip up a signature cane for me to use (the tiniest key you have ever seen in clay!), but she developed one of her own: a birds' nest with three little blue eggs. Quickly she was applying them to all different bead shapes, including the workhorse of the Humblebeads studio: the disk bead. 

She gifted me with a few of the very first she made, and I thought that it would be special to make them into some sweet earrings.

I love nests and eggs. And eggs need a bird. And nests need a branch. Don't you agree?

I would wear these sweet little danglers with a tunic top from Sundance that is the color of a brilliant spring sky dotted with clouds on a light breeze blowing by.

Erin Prais-Hintz invites you to go on a journey of inspiration at her blog Treasures Found :: Inspiration is Everywhere. You can view a gallery of her work at http://www.tesoritrovati.com/ or purchase her popular line of 'Simple Truths' in her Etsy shop.

A Touch of Old World Charm

I was lucky enough to spend some time with our beloved Heather Powers at her home in Michigan. What a fantastic time we had. Getting to meet her, her family and a few special beady friends was one of the greatest times of my life!! I was lucky enough to learn some amazing things while I was there, including the technique that made these leaves look like old world artifacts that were dug up out of the ground.

 I can't wait to get my hands on the products I need to make more of these! How fantastic and fun! Looking forward to many more creations with my little collection of Old World artifacts ;)

You can find these in my Etsy shop!!

Marie

Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights

I have been really enjoying etching using some lovely digital damask patterns from Aesthetic Addiction on Etsy. I was toying with some double-sided folded shapes for earrings, trying to think how I could add hanging loops here and there for beads. I had sketched out this idea and these were my prototype. I was so thrilled that my "thought experiment" worked in real life! The beads are Czech glass--daggers and roundels in a moss green, and lovely lavender nuggets.

Call  me crazy, but I picture them with jeans (or your favorite belly dancing costume):

Arabian Nights casual by lunebijoux featuring lacy tops

And when you wear your hair up, these earrings will look exactly the same from the back!

These are sold, but I will be making more and adding them to my Etsy shop. Stay tuned!