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Crystal Dragon
I love this dragon clasp, so what could I do? Another of my beaded shaggy loop chains.
Components: Dragon clasp, aluminm jump rings, 8/0 seed beads
Pineing for Green
I have a green dress 👗 and wanted something to go with it. I also like the tassel,when they come out I like them immediately. The Zola pendant...
Components: Zola pendant, green rondals I have no idea where I got them, SW bicone pendant, green tassel, fruit cake daggers.
Cool Waters
I was rummaging thru my stash yesterday and found a shorty strand of aquamarines that I had forgotten about. Inspiration for me these days is a...
Components: Aquamarine discs, pearls, murano glass, swarovski crystals, and a gold tone clasp.
Send in the Clowns..
A bit of a hodge-podge and they remind me of the colours at a circus or a carnival. I was literally playing with the beads and wire, and somehow...
Components: From Lima Beads:
All the wire (22 gauge for ear wires, and 20 -18 gauge for the rest) - bare copper wire that was aged with liver of sulfur, the bigger Czech beads (faceted round nugget beads - bought from here last year), and the Czech Glass Ivory Picasso Turquoise Melon beads also from LB.
From my own stash.. The seaglass pillows in the turquoise and the clear Czech beads and the tiny beadcaps that were coloured with turquoise gilders paste. The tiny Anissa Picasso Czech seed beads are from my own stash.
Copper Sheets and Washers
Have been in a bit of a funk recently.
Before everything went into a bleh spiral, I had tried some copper etching. Being the impatient and...
Before everything went into a bleh spiral, I had tried some copper etching. Being the impatient and...
Components: From Lima Beads:
All the wire, which were used for the ball headpins and then turned into ear wires and hammered and aged in LOS. Czech beads, and the tiny sea glass beads and the gorgeous amber coloured seaglass dangles.
Recycled glass beads, as well as some of the Czech Anissa Picasso seed beads, copper sheet which I hacked into with shears and washers from my own stash.
Dragon's Cave
This is a group of necklaces I have made in the past. I am in the midst of redoing my work stations. I am going to do more metal and wire working....
Components: A lot of the components came from Lima Beads. Components you don't recognize came from my stash. The Dragon necklace highlights buys from L.B. to make up what I imagine a dragon's cave might look like.
Lotus Necklace
Designed by Tierracast using their new line "Soulful Spirit". Soulful Spirit was inspired by the richness and traditions of cultures from around...
Prosperity Necklace
Designed by Tierracast using their new line "Soulful Spirit". Soulful Spirit was inspired by the richness and traditions of cultures from around...
Elemental Necklace
Designed by Tierracast using their new line "Soulful Spirit". Soulful Spirit was inspired by the richness and traditions of cultures from around...
Meditative Bracelet
Designed by Tierracast using their new line "Soulful Spirit". Soulful Spirit was inspired by the richness and traditions of cultures from around...
Nobility Necklace
Designed by Tierracast using their new line "Soulful Spirit". Soulful Spirit was inspired by the richness and traditions of cultures from around...
Leather lessons...
Playing with pre-made leather straps and leather scraps. Learning to use the rolling mill and paper crafting embossing plates to make beautiful...
Components: Leather, Ren Wax, bracelet bars, buttons.
Pink Peacock
More fun with the Vintaj/Ranger Rose Gold Patina paint!
Components: Vintaj Fussy Peacock pendant w/ rose gold patina, Rose Quartz, Czech glass, etched matte seed beads, Vintaj findings.
Look Mom No Chainmaille
My mom's birthday is coming up so I made her this necklace. I found the Aqua Marine beads half off in a cool little shop and thought she would...
Components: 8mm Aqua Marine rounds, 8mm Celtic metal beads, cross focal, magnetic clasp, and other components from my stash.
Turtle medicine
With all the chaos happening all around, I wanted to make something with my turtle charms. "Turtle medicine" is very grounding and reminds us to...
Components: turtle and leaf charms, Picasso beads, ceramic beads
Sea Stones - Tide Pool
I wanted to make something out of recycled glass and a wonderful pendant I found.
Components: Anti-tarnish artistic wire, round lava stone beads, recycled glass beads in varying shapes, Gaea Ceramic Rustic Blue Bead Bar 7x19mm (Lima Beads), Peacock Blue Recycled Glass Freeform Ring 17-26mm (Lima Beads), India glass round beads and clear bead rondelles.
New Kumihimo
I’d been wanting to try some different kinds of top drilled beads with kumi. These are prongs. They were a pain in the bootie to use but I like the...
Components: Iris purple prongs, 8/0 seed beads in gorgeous metallic gold iris (something like that), varigated nylon purple cord, Anna Bronze end caps, Greek bronze toggle, 3 tiny oval bronze tags that I stamped just for fun
Flamboyant Tree
This was one of my creations for this month's Inspired by Reading book club and was inspired by the descriptions of the Flamboyant Tree in the...
Components: Patricia Healey copper pendant; Carnelian (nuggets and two sizes of faceted rounds); Red Aventurine; Czech glass rondelles, rounds, and English cut beads; TierraCast copper plated clasp
Double Wrap or Necklace
I knew I wanted to make a knotted leather bracelet & this is what evolved. Another "kitchen sink" piece! It's a real hodgepodge mix & I like how it...
Components: Maybe I should list what is *not* in it!
2mm Tamba leather, Czech button, ceramic beads, Xaz & Greek raku, Burma jade, jasper, dichroic, Swarovski rondelle, Grace lampwork, copper beaded rondelles, brushed copper with purple luster--all large hole beads, assorted copper bead caps, hand dyed silk ribbon by moi. Most components from Lima.
Playing with leather
Now that I knew that those scrapbooking texture folders worked on copper, I was interested in seeing how they worked with leather. I have no...
Components: leather, brass, turquoise, stamps
Boo Bear
I made this bear into a bracelet...it was just too large...so I made it into a necklace! Good chance to use my u shaped bail.
Components: PC bear, brass "u" bail, Red Jasper, Orange aventurine, Indo Lampwork, Red Creek Jasper, Grace Lampwork, Nut?, Carnelian, sari silk, Buckskin strap, No clasp
Lilly Pop
This piece started out to be a bracelet with just the smaller amethyst stones. Wire wrapping is a new technique for me. After having made the...
Components: Oval lavender stones, rhodochrosite pendant and gold plated 24 gauge wire . The clasp is a gold plated magnetic diamond shape.
Brass Attack!
I've been collecting these antique gold plated brass beads & decided I wanted to create a necklace with them. I began with knotting them onto...
Components: 1mm metallic violet leather cord, brass beads, Czech firepolished beads, lilac stone, 2 beautiful amethyst rectangle beads from Lima, crystal bicones in purple & CAB, brass rollo chain, Tierracast spacer bars, 2 cord slides to feed the 3 leather strands to the amethyst (that took some thinking & testing, then glue)
Fall Earrings
I love making Fall jewelry and a good start is earrings.
Components: polymer clay pumpkins, Unakite, falling leaves chain...LB, copper bead cap, carved Carnelian leaf, tin earring components, vintage seeds.
Slide Chokers
Make quick and simple chokers using a flat cord and a slide. Finish simply with fold over ribbon ends, glue in cord ends or just tie it!
Arrow Earrings
These lightweight arrow tips are great for finishing off a lariat or bolo necklace made with 1 - 1.5mm cord. Because of their light weight I felt...
Lattice Choker Collar
The lattice focal is flexible (to an extent) so making it fit to your neck is really quite easy. To make this necklace, all you need is a 2 meter...
Silver Nugget Necklace
These nugget drops can be used individually or in a group. For some reason, I kept picturing a ring of druzy, so I decided to try and replicate...
Metal Feather Earrings
These new paddle focals are fantastic for making a quick embellished necklace or a great pair of earrings. I decided to make earrings but added a...
Cicada Necklace
Here is the first of two Cicada necklaces!
Components: The Cicada is Vintaj from Lima Beads. As is the nice big, easy to use 15x9mm TierraCast antique copper lobster clasp. Two colors of 6mm Czech druks; Opaque Black Picasso and Opaque Olive Picasso. I used 8/0 Czech Charlotte (1 cut) Metallic Brown Iris, 6mm dark natural coconut rondelle spacers, etched round buri seeds, Czech 6/0 brown iris, Toho 6/0 matte raku olive/purple, Toho 8/0 Toho matte Cassiopeia, 8/0 Toho matte black, heavy jump rings (oxidized) from Unkamen, black glossy iron jump rings in mixed sizes, heavy 2x2 sterling silver crimps, and good ole trusty .019 silver satin softflex.
Ruby sunset
This is one I made out of the red with green Picasso rectangle Czech glass beads. Haven't finished the set yet.
Components: Red with green Picasso Czech glass tribal rectangles, English cut turquoise Picasso 8mm rounds, and faceted 6mm ruby red Picasso rounds in one of my own mixtures of Toho seed beads. Antique brass beads and findings.
Tribal blues
I absolutely love these 'tribal' rectangles from Czech glass! Here's a necklace I made from them. I also included the bracelet and one pair of...
Components: Czech glass tribal rectangles and 6mm druk rounds, with brass beads and findings.
Single tear drops
I thought of something different one is bicone the other is round,
Components: Precosa bicone, precosa round, 4 mm, precosa black pendant.
One black crystal
I liked the black crystal so I built around it, also wanted it to go with my silver earrings.
Components: Zola pendant, rondals from lB, precosa round crystals, SW small pendant, coin Czech. One black crystal
found it in a coffin
I spent too much time sanding, painting, distressing, gluing, lining, etc these little coffin boxes. But boy did they turn out cute. All so I could...
Components: Howlite, Greek pewter fish skeleton, tierraCast gunmetal bat, skulls of all kinds, Hematite ankhs, sterling silver ear wires, sterling silver ear post, gunmetal ear wires, black niobium ear wires and much more.
food for thought
Gearing up for Halloween! I chose mostly pink beads to match the brain. The black water jasper adds just a touch of neutral.
Components: Rhodonite, Black Water Jasper, "brain in a jar" ceramic pendent, metallic pink seed beads, and silver plate findings
Tapesty Bracelet
Another seed bead/faceted glass bead bracelet made on the loom. This is a gift for a friends daughter, who likes all different hues of blue!
Components: Seed beads, Czech glass, silver components
Who knew? Not me!
Found these paper embossing folders cheap, cheap, at Tuesday Morning this week. I don't have an embossing machine nor do I do paper crafting. But...
Components: copper sheet metal, sterling silver, Chalcedony, turquoise heishi beads, recycled glass from Ghana
Things are Coming up Rose Gold!
I've been going gaga for the new(ish) Rose Gold patina paint from Vintaj and Ranger. I just couldn't stop painting more brass components with this...
Components: Variety of Vintaj charms, pendants, findings with Rose Gold added to them. Lots of Czech glass and other goodies.
Chatter
on “Look Mom No Chainmaille”:“
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on “Crystal Dragon”:“Thanks, everyone! Shaggy loops is a very easy chain to learn. Here is a free tutorial.…” read »
on “Crystal Dragon”:“Wow piece, indeed! I agree how the chain lets the dragon piece be the star…” read »
- on “Pineing for Green”:
“another piece that I like to the moon and back! This would be good with…” read »
on “Crystal Dragon”:“Wow!!!!…” read »
on “Crystal Dragon”:“Really a beautiful piece, I agree with sue done well.…” read »
on “Pineing for Green”:“Lovely piece. Love the color, the materials, and the construction!…” read »
- on “Crystal Dragon”:
“Well, obviously, what you did is just remarkable! Great clasp, and you've given it a fabulous…” read »
on “Dragon's Cave”:“The Nunn design necklaces I love too. I love doing resin and love all of Nunn…” read »
- on “Dragon's Cave”:
“Just wanted to say that fantastic little Czech bead I was talking about was a matte…” read »
- on “Dragon's Cave”:
“Moogie is right. The sparkly grey beads are druzy. The bead that looks blue was a…” read »
- on “Copper Sheets and Washers”:
“Annabel, not only is your etching so nice, but your explanation of your process was supper.…” read »
- on “Send in the Clowns..”:
“I love them! They are so beautiful and creative. I really like how copper looks dipped…” read »
- on “Cool Waters”:
“Wow, I love Aquamarine! I love your choice of beads to highlight the Aquamarine. So BEAUTIFUL!…” read »
on “Cool Waters”:“Yummy is right! Those are some higher quality aquamarine beads & your other bead choices are…” read »
- on “Send in the Clowns..”:
“Wow, these are super cute & creative! You just keep doodling around because the outcome is…” read »
- on “Copper Sheets and Washers”:
“Hey Annabel, your work is so awesome! Thanks for all the info on etching. I’ll have…” read »
- on “Dragon's Cave”:
“Donna, I’m dying here! I just love your necklaces. The dragon is my fav. How creative…” read »
- on “Leather lessons...”:
“These came out really neat Lynda! I love how you colored the button too. Don’t you…” read »
- on “Turtle medicine”:
“I really love your stylish turtles! This is a wonderfully earthy necklace & the perfect length…” read »
- on “Sea Stones - Tide Pool”:
“I love all these different blues together. I appreciate the times you took to wire wrap…” read »
on “Send in the Clowns..”:“Thank you! I had another pair of earrings I had made, but for some reason, I forgot…” read »
- on “Copper Sheets and Washers”:
“Thank you! The bleh spiral was basically from the flu, which I had been battling for around…” read »
- on “Cool Waters”:
“I can see why you were inspired by the aquamarine discs. They are so yummy. Wonderful…” read »
- on “Send in the Clowns..”:
“Beautiful beautiful! Love the color combos.
…” read » - on “Copper Sheets and Washers”:
“I'm so sorry to hear about your bleh spiral. I hope you're feeling much better. Your…” read »
on “Pink Peacock”:“Beautiful, pink is always lovely.…” read »
- on “Cool Waters”:
“Your design sense is still there! This is beautiful!…” read »
- on “Send in the Clowns..”:
“I'd be very happy to wear these earrings!…” read »
- on “Copper Sheets and Washers”:
“The earrings are beautiful! The design on the long ones is wonderful. The last…” read »
- on “Dragon's Cave”:
“Really like your collection, what is the bead that is sparkling? The one on your dragon…” read »
- on “Cool Waters”:
“Smart design colors are just right, you have good eye appeal. Anna…” read »
- on “Cool Waters”:
“This is a lovely, wearable piece that I would definitely wear!…” read »
- on “Cool Waters”:
“I love the aquamarine discs. This is lovely!…” read »
on “New Kumihimo”:“Such pretty color and texture! I get impatient when doing Kumi, hence I don't do it…” read »
- on “Look Mom No Chainmaille”:
“Lovely! And great advice from Moogie. I've never thought of adding a crimp here and there…” read »
- on “Pink Peacock”:
“Beautiful! I always have a hard time designing anything pink.This is fantastic!…” read »
- on “Send in the Clowns..”:
“Very nice! I'd love to wear these!…” read »
- on “Dragon's Cave”:
“They are all beautiful, but I do especially love the color, texture, and sparkle of the…” read »
