ABS May Challenge

This months Art Bead Scene Challenge inspiration is a beautiful piece by Berthe Morisot. This wonderful piece is an Oil on Canvas, 18 1/4" x 21 3/4" called Cache-cache (Hide-and-Seek). It's lovely soft feminine beauty is a wonderful inspiration.

I chose to pull out the little red flowers in the tree as my focal and include the soft muted greens of the grass and surrounding area and add little bits of subtle color all around.



A wonderful Red Flower by Mary Harding Jewelry
 is the focal with a bail of silk ribbon in shades of green.




A couple of gorgeous Lampwork beads by Karen at LibelulaDesigns.




Lovely Copper Beads from Rings &Things




And wonderful faceted Agate in that lovely pale green,
 with glass beads in greens and reds and a handmade Copper Clasp to pull it all together.
 I just had to add a couple of little silk ribbon accents as well.



As always this was a fun challenge, take a look at all the other wonderful entries for this month on the

 ABS album on Flickr.

Kristi

BTW and ABS Challenge

It's that time of week again, time for Bead Table Wednesday.

This one has been on my table for nearly a week and in my head a little longer, I haven't been feeling well lately so I haven't been doing as much as I'd like. It's my piece for the Art Bead Scene May Challenge. and I hope to have it finished during the weekend if not before.

The focal is a gorgeous Mary Harding Jewelry creation, that red flower is gorgeous!!! There are only tiny little flowers in the inspiration piece but I chose to showcase it, all the other colors in the necklace are wonderful compliments to that focal including a few Lampwork beads from Libelula Designs! I'm also FINALLY using the copper beads I won from Rings & Things.

Take a look at what others have on their bead table http://www.flickr.com/groups/1601463@N21/

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