Let's take a look at some of the beautiful, unique work that has happened the past 2 weeks!
Showing posts with label 52 earrings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 52 earrings. Show all posts
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Earring Challenge Reveal 12, Weeks 25/26...the Half-way Mark!!
Here we are...half-way through our challenge. How time flies! How have you done? A pair a week doesn't sound like a huge undertaking, but obviously when you have family, job, and other obligations, time can get tight! I know for me, sometimes you have to make choices...unfortunately, I am a bit behind ;)
Let's take a look at some of the beautiful, unique work that has happened the past 2 weeks!
I was drawn to these lovely ones by Earthshine Jewellery...the stormy gray colors really spoke to me, with as many cloudy, rainy days we have been having here on the East Coast!
These lovelies by SJDesigns also caught my attention! Love the sand dollars!
The positive/negative effect on these bronze clay charms by Pam Sotheran really adds a unique element to these.
Our own team members, Sue Kennedy, Linda Landig, and Kristi Bowman pinned some gorgeous work as well...
Be sure to use the Linky Tool to show us what you created! If you haven't joined us yet, it is not too late! Jump in! You have 26 more weeks to participate...that is 26 more pairs of earrings! You can never have too many earrings, right?
Let's take a look at some of the beautiful, unique work that has happened the past 2 weeks!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Earring Challenge Reveal 5 (weeks 9-10/52)
Welcome to the fifth reveal for the AJE Earring Challenge! First of all, thank you to all of you who have taken part either through the Linky tool at the bottom of the reveal posts or through pinning your creations to the Pinterest board. And congratulations to those of you who have pinned your creations each week especially!
It wasn't easy choosing earrings to show you today, so I decided to choose designs with one of my favourite colours - turquoise/aqua. Afterall, turquoise has got some green in it, hasn't it, and it is St Patrick's Day! Each person pinning their creations on the Pinterest board must use at least one quality handmade component in their earring design and state who made that component.
That's all for this reveal!
All pins added after the below button will be considered for reveal 6 on 31st March.
It wasn't easy choosing earrings to show you today, so I decided to choose designs with one of my favourite colours - turquoise/aqua. Afterall, turquoise has got some green in it, hasn't it, and it is St Patrick's Day! Each person pinning their creations on the Pinterest board must use at least one quality handmade component in their earring design and state who made that component.
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Brass findings, homemade polymer headpins and carnelian chips by Janel Goolsby |
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copper mermaid earrings made by Salmik (Silja Støvring) |
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flower beads and ear wires by Sue Beads |
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Bloom Where Your Planted by peachtreeks (Alice Peterson) |
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Elaine Ray ceramic beads, decorated flat jumprings, peanut seed beads and Thai Silver beads by Julie Panusis |
Jo Tinley
Daisychain Designs
Daisychain Designs
Saturday, January 19, 2013
AJE Earring Challenge Reveal #1
Welcome to the first AJE Earring Challenge Reveal! The AJE team has had so much fun these past two weeks watching our Pinterest earring challenge board go from the first few pinnings to a large and delightful collection of your wonderful handmade earrings. Such a bounty of creative and talented designers!
It was hard to choose just a few earrings to highlight. But here goes:
Kumi Fisher's handmade fold-formed earrings caught my eye early on. This is a technique I'd like to learn someday. The deep texture and the way the leaves reflect the light delights me. I love the pop of green on the stems, too.
Lampwork artist, Emma Kilroy created these pretty disc earrings. I was especially drawn to the color combination in the handmade disc beads that Emma made.
Regina Santerre calls these "Celebration Earrings". I love how these colors pop together! She's got the whole Pantone Spring colors thing going on here too. I would feel like celebrating too, every time wore this happy duo. The ceramic beads are by Keith O'Conner and Regina made the contemporary ear wires herself.
Kashmira Patel made these fun earrings using wooden altered art charms from J-Lynn Jewels. I loved the clever way she braided the turquoise seed beads on leather. Sweet!
I'm such a sucker for hedgehogs, so I couldn't help but choose these earrings made by Jennifer Cameron for her daughter. Besides the adorable polymer clay hedgies by Humble Beads, I loved how Jen used mismatched, but coordinating, ceramic components by Starry Road Studio.
I want to encourage everyone to click on the thumbnails below and visit other blogs to get your fill of handmade earring inspiration. Please take time to leave a little comment, as all of the artists have worked hard on their creations and have invested something of themselves in what they have designed.
If you have your own blog, please include a link back to this AJE post, encouraging people to continue visiting other blogs to see more earrings
1. Click the "You're Next" button below. Follow the prompts. It will ask for a link to your earring post.
2. If you have a blog, please link to the specific post about your earrings (not the blog's home page). Make sure the blog post credits the maker of the artisan components in your earrings.
3. If you don't have a blog, you can link to your Pinterest picture, a picture on Facebook, Flickr, your shop, etc. You will need to link up once for each picture you have posted. Do not link up to your home page. Link to the specific earring picture. Make sure your picture credits the maker of the artisan components in your earrings.
It was hard to choose just a few earrings to highlight. But here goes:
Kumi Fisher's handmade fold-formed earrings caught my eye early on. This is a technique I'd like to learn someday. The deep texture and the way the leaves reflect the light delights me. I love the pop of green on the stems, too.
Lampwork artist, Emma Kilroy created these pretty disc earrings. I was especially drawn to the color combination in the handmade disc beads that Emma made.
I'm such a sucker for hedgehogs, so I couldn't help but choose these earrings made by Jennifer Cameron for her daughter. Besides the adorable polymer clay hedgies by Humble Beads, I loved how Jen used mismatched, but coordinating, ceramic components by Starry Road Studio.
I want to encourage everyone to click on the thumbnails below and visit other blogs to get your fill of handmade earring inspiration. Please take time to leave a little comment, as all of the artists have worked hard on their creations and have invested something of themselves in what they have designed.
If you have your own blog, please include a link back to this AJE post, encouraging people to continue visiting other blogs to see more earrings
How-To Section for Challenge Participants:
How to link up:
2. If you have a blog, please link to the specific post about your earrings (not the blog's home page). Make sure the blog post credits the maker of the artisan components in your earrings.
3. If you don't have a blog, you can link to your Pinterest picture, a picture on Facebook, Flickr, your shop, etc. You will need to link up once for each picture you have posted. Do not link up to your home page. Link to the specific earring picture. Make sure your picture credits the maker of the artisan components in your earrings.
Additional info for our next earring reveal:
1. Try to take the clearest pictures possible. Since so much of the AJE blog is visual, we will be more likely to highlight pictures that are in focus and not under-exposed (too dark).
2. Please start dating the pictures that you add to the AJE Earring Challenge Pinterest board. We only want to highlight earrings on the AJE blog that were added in the last 2 weeks, so from now on, all pins be must be dated.
3. Make sure your earring pins credit the maker of the artisan components in your earrings.
4. If you post your earrings on your blog, please include a link back to the AJE blog encouraging people to continue visiting other blogs to see more earrings
4. If you post your earrings on your blog, please include a link back to the AJE blog encouraging people to continue visiting other blogs to see more earrings
5. The next reveal will be Sunday, Feb. 3rd.
Questions? Feel free to ask for help or clarification!
Linda
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Tutorial - Blackberries and Raspberry earrings
Our year-long Earrings Challenge has got me sketching out lots of ideas for new designs! I've also been spending perhaps a little too much time browsing Etsy for art beads and components, but it's been fun discovering new (well, new to me!) bead makers. And yes, a few beads obviously did find their way into my shopping basket. Well, I am a bead addict, after all!
Some of those beads arrived yesterday afternoon, so I thought I'd share with you a new tutorial for a pair of earrings that I've made with them, the pair that you can see above. Another reason for sharing this with you is that I wanted to try out my new photographing set up, which you can read more about on my own blog.
You will need:
approx 40cm 0.8mm wire - I used sterling silver but you can use copper if you wish.
beads to hang below the wire shape
round nosed pliers, flat nosed pliers, wire cutters
permanent marker pen and ruler
hammer and bench block
8mm and 10mm mandrels
needle file (or a nail file will do!)
1. Cut two 12cm lengths of 0.8mm wire and mark 4cm from one end of each piece.
2.Holding the pen mark on one of the pieces of wire against the 10mm mandrel, bend the wire to form a teardrop shape. You want the pen mark to be at the middle of the bottom of the teardrop, and the teardrop to measure roughly 2cm in length. Repeat with the second length of wire.
3. Hammer the bottom and sides of each teardrop.
4. Use flat nosed pliers to turn the long wire tail so that it is vertical from the top of the teardrop, and the short tail so that it goes across the long one at a right angle.
5. Twist the short tail around the long tail to close the teardrop as you would a wrapped loop. Try to turn the wraps on the second teardrop in the opposite direction to the first for a more professional finish.
6. Turn a U shape in the wire above the teardrop using the 8mm mandrel to form the ear wire.
7. Flick out the last 5mm or so of the wire to give the ear wire a more professional finish, and file the end of the wire to make it comfortable to pass through your ear.
8. Hammer the front of the bend in the ear wire to strengthen it.
9. Cut two pieces of 0.8mm wire long enough to thread your beads on and form a wrapped loop above them. My pieces were 8cm long. Hammer one end of each to create a hammered headpin. Thread your beads on the headpins and link them onto the teardrops with wrapped loops.
I decided to oxidise my earrings as for me they were too bright with those lovely bright lampwork beads! The gorgeous purple disc beads that I've used are by AlishaWhite on Etsy, and the smallest beads are Czech glass. The lovely little green lampwork spacers were made for me by a friend who moved from lampwork to metalwork a few years ago!
If you make a pair of earrings using my tutorial I'd love to see them!
Jo Tinley
Daisychain Designs
You will need:
approx 40cm 0.8mm wire - I used sterling silver but you can use copper if you wish.
beads to hang below the wire shape
round nosed pliers, flat nosed pliers, wire cutters
permanent marker pen and ruler
hammer and bench block
8mm and 10mm mandrels
needle file (or a nail file will do!)
1. Cut two 12cm lengths of 0.8mm wire and mark 4cm from one end of each piece.
2.Holding the pen mark on one of the pieces of wire against the 10mm mandrel, bend the wire to form a teardrop shape. You want the pen mark to be at the middle of the bottom of the teardrop, and the teardrop to measure roughly 2cm in length. Repeat with the second length of wire.
3. Hammer the bottom and sides of each teardrop.
5. Twist the short tail around the long tail to close the teardrop as you would a wrapped loop. Try to turn the wraps on the second teardrop in the opposite direction to the first for a more professional finish.
6. Turn a U shape in the wire above the teardrop using the 8mm mandrel to form the ear wire.
7. Flick out the last 5mm or so of the wire to give the ear wire a more professional finish, and file the end of the wire to make it comfortable to pass through your ear.
8. Hammer the front of the bend in the ear wire to strengthen it.
9. Cut two pieces of 0.8mm wire long enough to thread your beads on and form a wrapped loop above them. My pieces were 8cm long. Hammer one end of each to create a hammered headpin. Thread your beads on the headpins and link them onto the teardrops with wrapped loops.
I decided to oxidise my earrings as for me they were too bright with those lovely bright lampwork beads! The gorgeous purple disc beads that I've used are by AlishaWhite on Etsy, and the smallest beads are Czech glass. The lovely little green lampwork spacers were made for me by a friend who moved from lampwork to metalwork a few years ago!
If you make a pair of earrings using my tutorial I'd love to see them!
Jo Tinley
Daisychain Designs
Monday, January 7, 2013
Earring Challenge Eye Candy!
Have you signed up for our earrings challenge yet? I'm really excited about it. I can sometimes get so caught up with the day to day running of my business and teaching that I don't make enough time for just having fun and playing with the beautiful beads sitting in dishes on my desk, so making a commitment to make a pair of earrings each week will most definitely be good for me!
If you missed Linda's post yesterday (where were you?!) then you can read the full (but easy) rules for the challenge and find out how to sign up here. In a nutshell, though, all you need to do is make a pair of earrings a week, use a pair of art beads or art components, show your creations off and let us know who made the beads you've used, and yes, you can use beads or components you have made yourself. Please do, we would love to see them!
Top left to bottom right:
suburbangirlbeads, daisychainextra, jdaviesreazor, suebeads
KristiBowmanDesign, TreeWingsStudio, ktotten, THEAtoo
The AJE team are looking forward to discovering some new (well, new to us!) bead artists as the challenge progresses, but for now, to hopefully help get some ideas flowing I thought that I'd show you some of the beads and components I've been thinking of using. I've tried to pick some of my favourites that you wouldn't necessarily think of using in earrings at first glance. Rebekah's beautiful turquoise horse beads are a perfect example of this - they would make a great pair of earrings but if it wasn't for this challenge my first thought would be to use them in a necklace or a bracelet instead. I've included beads and charms of all materials in the Etsy treasury below, and even some buttons too.
'AJE Earrings Challenge - art bead inspiration!' by daisychainjewellery
Do you need a kick start for your creativity in 2013? Art Jewelry Elements is sponsoring a year-long Earring Challenge in 2013, broken up into quarterly sections so you can try it out for 13 weeks at a time. Visit www.artjewelryelements.blogspot.com
 Handmade Ceramic Textur... $7.50 |  Easter Day Fiber Art Be... $11.25 |  Set of 2 Scattered Rose... $8.00 |  Lampwork Beads - SueBea... $8.00 |
 Ceramic charm pair euca... $10.00 |  Aqua Porcelain Square C... $10.00 |  Rustic Tapestry Discs -... $15.00 |  Tweety Bird Handmade Po... $3.00 |
 Polymer Clay Lovebird B... $6.00 |  Handmade Ceramic Discs ... $10.00 |  Copper Vines and Leaves... $8.50 |  Copper Heart Charms lin... $3.50 |
 Lampwork head pins - Wa... $5.70 |  Buttons / Raspberry Whi... $15.00 |  Lemon and Lime - polyme... $7.00 |  Blue earring charms, te... $10.00 |
We will be taking it in turns to post pictures of some of the earrings you have created every other Sunday. I hope that, whether you are able to join us this time round or not, that you will enjoy seeing the new designs!
Jo Tinley
Daisychain Designs
Monday, December 17, 2012
52 Earrings
All this year I've been participating in a Flickr group challenging artists to create 52 earrings during the year, technically 1 per week but I certainly didn't post mine weekly. I just posted pair number 52, I wanted to finish a little early because there's so much going on the last few weeks of the year.
Here at AJE we're working on creating a similar challenge
where you can link your creations to a special pinterest group
and to our blog bi-weekly.
Watch for details coming up in the new year.
Kristi
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