Process - Flowers, Continued

If you saw my post two weeks ago, Process - Flowers, then you are familiar with where I have been going with a particular design, Flowers.  I'm not a flowery person, per se, but this winter has been so gray that I have been craving color, I guess, and have been making my own version of flower beads.  Here's where I went next.

You may have seen these earrings on the Art Jewelry Elements Earring Challenge Pin Board.  I started making these flower beads with a regular, donut shaped bead and flower petals with dots on them.  I had/am having a lot of fun making these, I love figuring out color combintations!

Then I decided I wanted to make some buttons.  I love my button mandrels.  I have to say that I made these before I received the April issue of Soda Lime Times - this is my own process, and sometimes people come up with similar ideas.  In any event, I do like how these buttons look, and had fun using my pliers to make the ruffles. I'll have to figure out a way to provide more sophistication to the design; however, I can see these on a sweater for sure!  These measure 24x28 and to make a statement would need to be bigger - I plan on making more in a bigger size!

 Then I started making disc beads (with my CG Bead Roller) and put ruffles around those as well.  The top purple one you can see I tried to make into a heart.  I have a better idea for that and will try it the next time I'm at the torch.  I really like the lower left-hand ruffle bead, as well, with the two-toned ruffles.  I will be making more of these for sure!  I can see them being used for button closures for bracelets, etc.

While I was at it, I decided to put dots on disc beads - these ones are turquoise, lined with pea green, with teal green transparent dots. I really like these too!

Finally, during the same Saturday fun torch session, I made these disc beads into flowers.  This is just a variation of the donut-bead flowers, but may be more useful for different things...

So, I hope you enjoyed this second look into my own personal design process.  I have decided that I need to keep a sketch journal, as well, and will be getting one and some colored pencils this week!