Turquoise and Red and...

While at a show on Saturday I had lots of time to create!
 I made these Turquoise and Coral Earrings among others.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/192330492/handmade-turquoise-and-coral-earrings?ref=shop_home_active_3

https://www.etsy.com/listing/192338129/handmade-turquoise-and-coral-earrings?ref=listing-shop-header-0

And today I made these!!
Not Turquoise and Red, completely opposite!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/192331522/butterscotch-drops-lampwork-and-sari?ref=listing-shop-header-1

All listed in my Etsy Shop.

I'm putting together an Indimade shop so watch for it in the near future!

The show venue was absolutely gorgeous! This was the view from my pop up.

During the day I wandered over to this lovely area and was lucky enough to spot this Cedar Waxwing, only the second time I've seen one and I was able to get a much better picture of this one!

Cedar Waxwing

Kristi

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Art Bead Scene Challenge Earrings

It's been so long since I've participated in the Art Bead Scene Monthly Challenge, I think these earrings work great with the inspiration this month.

Bernardo Bellatto's Capriccio Padovano

These Earrings are available HERE in my Etsy Shop.

Kristi

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AJE Earring Challenge Reveal #5

Welcome to the Art Jewelry Earrings Challenge #5 reveal.

Our goal is to create a new pair of earrings every week and share them with you every other week.

During that 2 weeks we all post them on the AJE Earring Challenge Reveal Board on Pinterest,

Click HERE to take a look and please follow along!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/126537746/polymer-clay-tribal-texture-bullets-and?

I rarely use such snazzy background in my photo but this just seemed to fit so I went with it.

Some of my newest Polymer Clay Bullets with Tribal texture and gorgeous Pietersite Discs and a little striped Czech Glass bead to top them off.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/125778390/polymer-clay-cocoons-and-lampwork-glass?ga_search_query=cocoon

Amazing Outwest Glass discs with new Polymer Clay Cocoons danging below. 

Long, lucious and very lightweight.

Checkout the other earrings in this Reveal below.

Hope to see you again in 2 weeks (April 7) for Reveal #6

Kristi

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I Heart Macro - Blue Jay Feather

On of my Blue Jay visitors left me a wonderful gift!

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Copper, Lampwork and Leather Earrings

http://www.etsy.com/listing/89118469/handmade-copper-lampwork-and-leatherAdd caption

These were my Earrings Everyday earrings for tomorrow but

 since that blog is taking a break I thought I'd share them here.

Some of my Copper Components, with strips of leather threaded through some awesome big hole Lampwork beads by Ferrari Originals

who it just so happens is having a 50% off sale at the moment.

Kristi

Bead Table Wednesday

It's BTW time, still trying to get back in to the swing of things since vacation. Playing with Beads is always a good start!!

How about some gorgeous Teal Agate, soft green recycled glass rounds, bright Blue flat glass beads, some bone beads in tan and handmade Copper clasp and maybe a bronze charm. I like it!

It's going to have to wait until I get home from work tonight, but I'll be thinking about it today.

Kristi
http://dreamsome.etsy.com/
http://www.artfire.com/users/KristiBowmanDesign

Here's the finished Bracelet, made a couple of changes in material but pretty much used everything.

http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=2933750

January Art Bead Scene Challenge Necklace

And what a challenge it was for me. I love doing these challenges especially when they push me to something completely new. Using the Sari fabric was definitely that and it was not easy, but I couldn't be happier with the resulting necklace. Thanks to the help of Linda at BurntOfferings on Etsy I was able to get just the right combination of fabrics to use as my necklace. I sent her the inspiration photo and she picked a couple of bundles for me to choose from and I think we did good!!!

I tried to create somewhat of a tuturial for this blog post, I took pictures along the way of most of the steps in creating my Gypsy Princess Necklace. I am working on creating earrings using the fabrics as well which I will share in a future post.

First of all I'll share the inspiration photo from the
 Art Bead Scene Blog!

Brown River by Wayne Thiebaud

An amazingly beautiful piece with lots of bright colors!

In the beginning, there was the Bronze Focal piece,
Faceted Mookait rounds,
Small lampwork beads from Radiant Mind,
Tiny Faceted Iolite Heishi.
I was unable to use those gorgeous
chunky Yellow Chalcedony Nuggets because the holes are too small.

I chose the fabrics I wanted to include
 and looped them through the hole of the focal
I added some Antique Bronze chain so I'd have something
to anchor the beads I wanted to attach along the necklace.

I wire wrapped the colorful little beads I wanted to use
 and added them along the bottom of the pendant.

Wire wrapped a few more little beads and added them up the chain,
some of these beads had to be moved as it all got twisted around and wrapped together.

I wrapped the ends with wire
and looped them over then secured them to create the loops for the clasp.
Clipped off the extra fabric leaving nice tails,
pulled on the fabrid to create the frayed rough finish to the ends.
Most of the wire I used was Copper that I used
MissFickleMedia solution to give them lovely green verdigris.



Here is my finished Gypsy Princess Necklace



Thank you everybody at Art Bead Scene Blog for giving us these wonderful challenges every month!

Kristi

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http://www.artfire.com/users/KristiBowmanDesign

I had to add the earrings I made to go with this necklace.

 I have lots of Sari fabric to use so I'll be making more.

These earrings are now listed on Artfire.



Sales Continue through the end of the year!!!

All items in my Artfire Studio (including lots of new) are still marked down 15% plus free shipping.

Also...most items in my Etsy Shop are still marked down 30% or more.

Here are a few of the newly listed items from Artfire.

Kristi
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