Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purple. Show all posts
NEW! Delicate Lavender Swarovski Crystal Necklace and Pendant
This delicate lavender crystal necklace is designed with a pattern of two shades of purple. A filigree pendant is adorned with lavender crystals. The pendant measures 1 1/4 inches wide and long. The silver plated necklace measures 20 1/2 inches and a barrel clasp is used.http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=43768685
Will ship international, please contact me.
See more jewelry at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/findingcharm
My Favorite Colors
This weeks Etsy Bloggers Carnival asks "What is your favorite color combination and what do you amke with it?" Well, I LOVE color in general, so I love making bright things, but my top four favorite colors are PURPLE, BLACK, SILVER, and BLUE. You'll see all of these colors show up in my work, but you also see a wide variety of other colors. I've worked hard to expand my color pallette so that I will appeal to more customers hopefully :)
Despite purple being my all time favorite color - I think my love of silver is actually what influences my work the most. I've never been much of a girl for gold, and while I do use gold tones and gold colored findings on occasion, I'd estimate that 90% of my work is done in silver colored findings and accents. I try to diversefy like I mentioned earlier, which is while you'll occasionally see other metals used, but working with silver colors is much more natural for me.
I think my color explodes bracelet best shows off my love of the colors purple, blue, and black. I had a lot of fun working with this piece! It's a free form peyote stitch bracelet that was inspired by the center cabochon. This is one I've been very tempted to keep for myself - and one of the pieces I get the most comments on at the craft fairs!
So what about you? What are your favorite colors to use when creating?
"Set me Free"
Do you remember this project I talked about?
Well it's finally done!
This has been one of, if not the, hardest projects I've ever done. Letting myself go and just create randomness was much harder than I ever imagined it would be! I usually couldn't work on it for more than 1/2 hour at a time because my brain would just start tweaking out on me :P
Ironically enough - even the center piece was really challenging for me. I would have thought that would be the easiest part since it was the only part with a pattern to it (my own btw). However I couldn't come up with a color combination I liked!
The finaly result was actually take 3.
I chose to name this piece "Set me Free" because butterfly's, to me, are very light hearted and free creatures. Combine that with the free form of the rest of the pattern, and it just seemed appropriate!
This bracelet is approximately 7 1/2 inches long. It contains 7 different colors of size 11 seed beads, 4 colors of size 6 or 8 seed beads, pearls, hex beads, square beads, and even a few pieces of amethyst! It is fastened using a bead with another butterfly, and a loop closure of seed beads.
This piece is OOAK - One of a Kind. No reproduction will ever be made. I couldn't even if I wanted too :)
Like what you see? You can buy it here for $70 plus $3 tax :)
I worked on several other small projects while creating "Set Me Free" because there were times I wanted to keep creating, but I just needed to take a break from it! One thing I made was just for me. Hey - Sharla - it's purple! :P Sorry the picture is fuzzy. I had a bad asthma attack last night and my hands are really shaky today, I'm amazed I was able to get semi-decent shots of "Set me Free" - I didn't try to hard for this one since I'm not listing it :P
I've been a busy little bee...
Ok, don't worry, I know today is the day for Friday's Featured Artist, it will be up later today! I'm kinda short on time this morning and I want to make sure I do justice to this wonderful artisan's work so I'm going to put it together this afternoon when I have more time :)
I've been a busy bee listing lately. Renewed items, putting items in Artfire that I've had in Etsy, even a new item in my Mom's shop! (see the first picture) Remember that if you leave a comment on what your favorite piece is (and why!) you'll earn TWO entries towards my top commentator contest :)
I love Artfire!
I've seen a lot of things that I really like about Artfire since I joined, and I've been super excited this week! First they brought live the new studios. Which means we get to do a lot of customizing. So now my studio is purple themed, and I have two promo buttons on the sides for different groups/teams I support. I need to get one up for my blog next... Anyway, go check out my shops new look!
NOW they brought back the Free Ride program! Which means that every verefied account that signs up using my link gets me credit towards not having to pay a monthly fee! So if you've been thinking about signing up, or upgrading to a paid (verefied) account, and you LOVE me, please use my linkage! You can click below - and I'll also be sticking a widget on my left side bar :)
Thanks and I hope your having a great day!
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