Saturday, September 12, 2015

Pine Ridge Treasures' Blog Hop and Challenge - Sept 12, 2015

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Once again, Lisa from A Grateful Artist has given us a challenge to complete. I so love these challenges as I use them to try and think out of the box. And in this group of beads I had a lot to challenge me. Normally when I get my challenge kit in, the beads start talking to me right away...This was a very quiet kit! But I started moving them around and putting them in different configurations and finally all the beads except one set talked to me.


SOOO...lets see what they said. First up:  I don't normally post clothes with my jewelry, but my daughter is a fan of Japanese culture and found this dress on line right after I made the necklace so I couldn't resist. Matches pretty well I think. The red balls are thread covered and then I used red and turquoise seed beads, though they look kind of blue in the picture. The bigger blue round beads and the blue disk beads were in my kit. I used bright silver tone bead caps on the red beads. I really like this piece and so does my daughter, it is no longer in my possession!







Next I wanted to do something with just the pearls and crystals and something swingy but feminine. So I found the silver necklace piece in my "junk" drawer stash and hung the crystals and pearls from it on wire that I flatten the end of, made the side pieces by stringing them on beading wire and then attached the sides to an antique silver chain with a lobster claw closure. Then as I have to make earrings, I did so.. 


In this one I used the small pale green crystal disk.They are so pale and small, they are hard to see. But they are glass and very cute. Then added pearls and acrylic aqua beads. Very simple looking. Has a silver tone toggle closure.The earrings I wired wrapped between each bead then attached to ear wires.



 Wanting to try my bead stitching again, I used a pattern from Domestic Diva that I had gotten offline. The pendant in the pattern is real small, but I used it to get started and then "grew" the pattern a little and added the spikes and oblong aqua beads. The twin seed beads that I used are a kind of brown with silver seed beads between them. There are brown veins in the spikes and then in the turquoise beads from my kit there are silver veins. The topper of the pendant is my own design, I just kept working at it til I got it the way I wanted. There is a little "bridge" on top to put the jump ring through. For the rest of the necklace and the earrings I used the turquoise round beads and the aqua round disk from my kit and added silver grey pearls and brown glass seed beads along with the oblong gold and aqua beads. 


There were a little package of these trapezoid looking wooden beads with two holes and they just screamed bracelet, so I used some small silver tone metal flower spacers, strung it all on wire, bent it to my wrist, attached a chain and toggle clasp. I really like, so I think I might keep it. It is easy to get on and off. 







And lastly, there were some small blue beads that kinda looked like coral, so I got out my sea shells, drilled a few, got out my sea creature charms and strung them up on head pins and attached to a chain with a toggle clasp, though I think I may change it, not sure. But it is swingy and says "beach"



Well, that is all for me. The blue glass beads that stayed silent are still in a baggie on my desk. When they decide to talk I will let them out. ;-p.

To see more challenge pieces hop over to Lisa's page for a list of the participants. 

Thanks for stopping by and til next time...

Keep on Beading

Veralynne






9 comments:

  1. Your trapezoid piece is so creative! Great design idea. I also love your pearl necklace. It is gorgeous and once again your design is brilliant. I love orange and turquoise together so the necklace inspired by the Japanese culture is lovely. Those are my top 3 picks!

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  2. Love love love what you did with this!! My favourite is definitely your pearl necklace. Gorgeous!

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  3. I love all of your pieces, but my favorite is that pearl necklace. It's so elegant and just beautiful.

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  4. Fantastick job on all! The Bead weaving set is my and Trapazoid beads my favorite.

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  5. All of your designs are gorgeous! I especially like the pearl necklace!

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  6. Wow, this is a fun group of pieces! They are all so different; you really used your kit well. I love your first set and how your daughter (the owner!) found the out fit that goes with it perfectly. I've never used fashion as inspiration, but I've seen it mentioned several times lately, and your photo has really pushed me to start looking at fashion as inspiration because I love that color combo. Everything is lovely, but that pearl necklace is perfect. I love it.

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  7. Veralynne - you created an outstanding collection! The trapezoid bracelet is sublime. Thanks for being in the hop!

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  8. GREAT pieces! they are absolutely incredible! I especially love the thread beads with the turquoise and the pearl piece - STUNNING! GREAT job!

    Linda Anderson

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  9. I love every single one but especially love the pearls.

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