Thursday, June 7, 2012

Art Bead Earring Swap Reveal

Hi there, I've been absent from my blog for awhile. May was a very busy month and I was out of town for most of the month I did however squeeze in an earring swap that was sponsored by Diana Ptaszynski of Suburban Girl Studio.

My partners in this swap were Shannon Hicks of Uptwnshfallingintothesky.blogspot and Jenny Davies-Reazor of Jdaviesreazor.com/blog. The earrings were to include art beads and sterling silver ear wires. Between my travels, I sent off the earrings to my partners.

Since I do not make art beads I purchased ceramic beads for my earrings from Natalie Pappas of NKP Beads on Etsy. Both pairs of earrings featured beads from Natalie and were navy blue.

Here is what I sent to my two partners. It was a little intimidating since this was my first swap and without knowing the style of each of the partners. I went with a very simplistic design.

Once I finally got home from my travels, I had my two packages to open. Here is what I received from my two partners.

The first pair of earrings were the earrings from Shannon Hicks. Her earrings featured cute little lampwork owls and very ornate wire wrapping in my favorite color - Red

by Shannon Hicks

The second pair came from Jenny Davies-Reazor and featured some of Jenny's own enamel beads in a gorgeous teal/green.

Thanks again to my earring swap partners for such lovely earrings. Thanks to

Diana Ptaszynski for sponsoring this fun swap.

Now on to the other blogs to see what the other swap partners received. Thanks for visiting today.

Diana Ptaszynski http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com --> Hostess

Jan Onipenco http://moltenmayhem.typepad.com/

Patti Vanderbloemen http://myaddictionshandcrafted.blogspot.com

Mary Harding http://www.maryhardingjewelrybeadblog.blogspot.com

Diane Hawkey http://www.dianehawkey.blogspot.com/

Lesley Watt http://www.thegossipinggoddess.blogspot.com

Jenny Davies Reazor http://www.jdaviesreazor.com/blog

Melinda Orr http://www.orrtec.blogspot.com

Cilla Watkins http://www.tellyourgirlfriends.com

Stephanie Haussler http://www.pixybugdesigns.blogspot.com

Sally Russick http://www.thestudiosublime.com

Susan Kennedy http://www.suebeads.blogspot.com

Amy Freeland http://www.copperdiem.blogspot.com/

Marla James http://marlasmudmoments.blogspot.com/

Pam Sears http://crazycreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Tania Spivey http://www.moobiegracedesigns.blogspot.com/

Kathleen Lange Klik http://www.modernnaturestudio.blogspot.com/

Lori Bowring Michaud http://artfullyornamental.blogspot.com/

Erin Prais-Hintz http://www.treasures-found.blogspot.com/

Gail Barnett http://www.atlastanewyearsresolution.blogspot.com/

Linda Landig http://www.lindasbeadblog.com/

Sharleen Newland http://www.shaterraclaystudio.blogspot.com/

Dee Elgie http://cherryobsidia.blogspot.co.uk/

Mary Shannon Hicks http://uptwnsh-fallingintothesky.blogspot.com/

Lisa Johnson http://whimsyswonders.blogspot.com/

Shelby Foxwell http://sundownbeaddesigns.blogspot.com/

Keri Lee Sereika http://www.pinklemonade.typepad.com/

Cheryl Brown www.dragonflybeads.ca

Linda Younkman http://www.lindysdesigns.blogspot.com/ --> You are here

Kari Asbury http://hippiechickdesign.blogspot.com/

Fay Wolfenden http://www.torchfairy.blogspot.com/

When I saw the latest challenge being hosted by Sally Russick at The Studio Sublime I just had to hop on board (no pun intended). The rules - pick one color from the 8 color crayon box and make a monochromatic design. Well I love almost all of the colors in this crayon box but I chose purple as the one color to work with for this challenge.

Purple is the color of my garden right now. I have lilac, columbine and wild phlox all in various shades of purple.

I have two pieces to share with you today. The first is a freeform peyote cuff bracelet using various shades of purple seed beads, Swarovski crystal and Czech glass beads.

The second piece is a fringe bracelet inspired by a bracelet I saw in Beadwork magazine many years ago by Bindy Lambell. It uses various shades of purple flowers, Swarovski crystal, Czech glass bead and leaf beads. Even though the leaf beads look green in this photograph even they have a purplish tint to them.

This was a fun challenge. Many thanks to Sally Russick for hosting. Now hop on over to the other blogs to see what fun things they painted with their crayons.