Here is a little teaser of what I have done so far. I did not want to lay out my project too well. I would not want to give too much away. Of course I will not add the muse until later. I have to say I have not done too much with blues and I really like it. I am really attracted to greens in general and I have trouble straying away from them. This is a good challenge for me.
I have fallen in love with brass filigree from Vintaj. Some of you already know what that is, the rest of you can click on the link to find out. I wrapped this lovely piece of Ocean Jasper with a filigree and attached a jump ring to make it a pendant. I made the two sides of the necklace a little different for fun, {that seems to be one of my favorite things to do lately}, adding some more filigree in links this time. I also added some ocean jasper beads. The pendant is reversible and you can see a closeup of the filigree side on the bottom picture.
I will be back soon with more pieces, and a teaser of the Muse II piece that I am working on.
Once again my photography is somewhat lacking, ok maybe more than somewhat. lol. Unfortunately, I can not go and retake the picture because I sold this bracelet already. The beads for this one were yummy. I used some fun Lampwork glass beads and small Bali style pewter beads that I got from Beadazzled. I used some fun lime green Jasper stones and pink fresh water pearls. I got some fun bead caps from my local bead store Beads n' Plenty More and I can not remember for the life of me where I got that gorgeous toggle, but I am going to have to figure it out because I want more! lol.
Look What I got in the mail yesterday! I just thought I would give you a little peak {not that you have not seen it before} but this one is mine :) I honestly ave never used the teeny tiny little seed beads so I am at a loss on how to use those, but I am up to the challenge.
This post today has two purposes. One, to show you this lovely necklace that I am really happy with. And two, to show the lady that ordered it and hopefully get approval for it. 
Above is a close up {blurry close up :S} of the matching toggle and below is the picture of the bracelet and earrings I already made for her. I hope she likes the necklace...
Thanks for stopping in
To start off, I got this fun, bright, shiny copper pendant from Artbeads. I picked it not because I liked it, but because I had a vision of what it could become. I always loved the shiny copper roofs on some of those building you see sometimes. What I liked even more was watching them change over time to this wonderful verdigris patina. Well, I did not have that kind of time so I improvised. {I am good at that ;)} I will tell you first that I have been a scrapbooker for about 5 years now, and I have accumulated a ton of stuff over the years. One of my favorite
things is embossing. I have sooo many colours, I can not even begin to list them off for you. So without further ado... THE EMBOSSED PENDANT!!!!
pendant, the powder melts on contact. Keep heating it though, it does not always all melt. Repeat this process
Once it is dry, drip a drop of walnut{or brown}alcohol ink and sponge it. Repeat in a couple of different areas and repeat with a bi of copper alcohol ink. Make sure that is dry and then take an old nail file and sand a little bit at the corners and any other thick spots. That's it! You are done.
I am not sure if any of you know this, but when Artbeads first started their "beaders that Blog" group, I was asked to join. I was truly honoured to say yes. In all honesty I did not believe I was good enough to even be considered! I have evolved so much since then. I honestly feel like I was given a chance by someone who saw something in me that I did not know was there yet. Thank You Steve Gronier for believing in me, you have been a HUGE part of my evolution and I am eternally grateful. This necklace, I feel, is one of my best.
Here is a close up of some of the beads. You can see green Aventurine, two colours of Fresh Water Pearls, Copper beads, Glass beads and even Lampwork beads along with a few copper spacers.
I think the name came from the sand I put the bracelet on to take the picture more than the bracelet itself. lol. I think it works though. It certainly has the right colours for that name. This is one of the first bracelets I made after I discovered copper. It must be 2 or 3 months now? I just loved the way it looked, so much warmer than silver, and a nice change from what I was doing to start. These last six months have been a discovery of my artistic skills. Having never made a piece of jewelry in December, to being able to make pieces that are being published within just a few months. God has given me a great gift and I want to use it for good and to better our lives.
I have seriously been on an earring frenzy lately. My rack is so full I don't know where I am going to put any more. I guess I will just have to sell them ;)
The one thing I wish, is that Bead Trends would have picked these earrings{second pair} as well as the 2 vintage pieces they did pick. These really were my favorite earrings I sent them. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. The most important thing of course is taking the chance and trying.
I have never claimed to be a good photographer, I have claimed the opposite on several occasions. These pictures prove that of course. lol. One of these days I will have to take a photography course and get a decent camera.
or should I say this morning? I think it was about 1am when I finally went to bed. My husband was snoring last night, he doesn't usually but he is having problems with allergies right now, so needless to say he was keeping me up. Instead of fighting the hopeless battle of trying to fall asleep, I got up and finished 4 special orders and made 2 extra bracelets on top of that.
I used chunky Bali style pewter beads in about 3 sizes. I also used Bali style Lentil Bead caps. These have to be my new favorite. It just adds so much to the bracelet, now I need to get more because I used them all up.
I also used large side drilled fresh water pearls and those gorgeous lentil beads that I got from Beadazzled. Same place I got everything for this bracelet except the toggle and pearls.
Don't forget to enter Silver Parrot's Bead Giveaway contest, she has a HUGE hoard of beads that she is giving away and she wants everyone to enter!! Make sure you check it out before it is too late!!! The deadline is Friday midnight so HURRY!!
Keep coming back I will have lots more to show you this week
Marie
So I recently discovered Amazonite. I imagine most of you have seen it before and I am late to get the punch line...again. lol. I fell in love with the pale milky turquoise colour. So I started to experiment and I made these three bracelets. All the stones in the first and third bracelets are Amazonite. The second one has some snow quartz mixed in and most of these silver beads are pewter although some are just silvertone.
I love toggle clasps and I usually use those over any other clasp. The first is from Beads n' Plenty more, my local bead store. The second I think I picked up at Michael's and the third I bought on-line from Fire Mountain Gems.
I hope you enjoyed these pale delicate but bold bracelets. Please leave me a comment and let me know :)
