Thursday, January 29, 2015

Andrew Thornton's Desert Sands Kit Challenge

Thanks Andrew for another amazing kit!
Here is a picture of the kit and then a close up of the luxury bead blend...



What a GREAT kit, right?!?!
I added some Lava stone that I got at Allegory Gallery and used the Mystery Component that Andrew made for this necklace...


Here's a list of the Blog Hop participants, spread some love...

On Andrew Thornton's blog:
Andrew Thornton, Naama from Peculiaris, Nancy Noyes-Ward, Janice Ferrari, Lisa Mendum, Cheryl Lee Tucker http://andrew-thornton.blogspot.com/

Halcraft Pretty Palettes January Challenge

Thanks Erin for a fun challenge! Here's the photo Erin Prais-Hintz picked for this months Pretty Palettes Challenge using Halcraft beads from Michaels stores...

Here are the beads she picked out...

Below are the beads that Laurel and I split. I was able to get the same ones, except my metal coiled beads are smaller than what Erin found. I like to try to keep as close to her choices, it's part of the challenge actually hunting through the bead aisle for them!

Here's the part of the photo that I really focused on... Notice the two small stems of green flowers that are hiding behind the purple succulent? Not sure what they are, but I found the perfect bead to represent them!


Here is my bracelet I made! When I was shopping for the beads, I found the silver leaves from Halcraft and snagged them up! I added a flower clasp, a large hole vintage glass bead, and waxed linen all from Allegory Gallery. The red and purple felted wool bead my mother made for me and the green glass drops I found in my seed bead stash. I am still deciding if I should embellish the cord ends with some pearls or cut them off. Opinions?

Here's the link to the Halcraft site and Erin's Blog post…
Check out what everyone else made!

http://www.halcraft.com/pretty-palettes/pretty-palettes-january-reveal-2 

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Inspired by Reading: Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

The bracelet I made was inspired by the overflowing ice and rock river that kept McCandless from walking out of the wild...

The river had turned to a roiling flowing mess and was uncrossable because of the high mountain runoff coming off of the mountains...

Blue Opal and Blue Labridorite as well as Czech glass roll and tumble around my cuff style bracelet.




Monday, January 5, 2015

Andrew Thornton's Star Frost Challenge Kit






I got alot of use out of the Star Frost kit! I used the pendant for a "Frozen" necklace for my niece...



I used the blue glass bicones and the crystal drops for this necklace along with glass pearls and crystal bicones...



I used the seedbeads and various clear glass for this multi strand necklace that I added glass pearls and blue Sunset Demorturite...



I used the shades of blue for this necklace that I added Blue Labradorite and a Green Girl pendant...


Take a look at what everyone else made and don't forget to comment on their work... That's the fun part of a blog hop!!!


Art Elements: September 2019 Challenge

September Art Elements Challenge Wow, it’s been a year since I last used the blog. I always liked using my blog instead of Facebook, I act...