Beaded Jewelry Inspiration
Yes, I will admit I have a weakness. That weakness is handmade bead swaps. I simply love working with items I know were lovingly handmade and picked just for me. Opening the package is the adult equivalent of opening the first present on Christmas day. Yes, I get that excited every time. The thought of someone taking their precious time and dedicated a small portion of it to create and select beads purely for my creative pleasure. My special partner for this bead soup is Pamela Gangler of Pamela Lynn Jewelry.
Copper findings with Peaches and Cream Beads
This necklace literally designed itself. The beads poured out of the baggies in such a way that I moved a few pieces around and it came to me.
If you stopped at her blog you will notice the pictures of what she sent me are her pictures too. If you read the opening paragraph you might notice my reference to Christmas. Well, I was also the kid who snuck a peek at all of her presents and upon opening them would still be delighted. I also would have played with them all by noon. This package was not much different. Not only did I open them but I created with them too. A little to quickly to even take pictures. Yes, I was that excited.
The clasp is delicate and lovely.
The focal is Raku. I was not familiar with the material or the process used to make it. After watching several videos and articles online, I am eager to try the technique. I did not use the focal for the piece I made in this post. I am waiting until my order of Sari Silk comes in. I feel that is what it is calling for.
Back of Raku Focal Bead
Handmade jewelry is one of my many crafty passions. I love making pieces and giving them as gifts. Sometimes when I am making a piece I know who it is going to and others. I make because I feel the need to create. The earrings I made pictured below were of the – I simply need to create variety. I make a ton of earrings. I find it humorous that I love making earrings when my ears are not even pierced. I usually give earrings as thank you gifts. A small gift that is homemade is the best. I hope I have given you a few ideas on how you can make your own pieces of jewelry.
Leave a comment to win the earrings. Comments must be made by Aug 5th, 11:59 pm est, 2012.
Paige Maxim, Paige Maxim Designs
Pamela Gangler, She Always Loved Pink
August 6th, 2012 Comments Closed and the Winner is:
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These are gorgeous pieces! I love that you titled them Peaches & Cream…that totally goes!!! I can’t wait to see what you do with that raku piece!
Lovely work! Very charmings designs!
jean
Oh how I love raku! Very lucky with your gift, and you’ve done a great job with it too
Lovely colours.I love the bright oranges.Love and Hugs Tanya
I love the copper and orange with the bone. Peaches and cream at its finest I must say. You created some beautiful pieces. Great job!
Isn’t it amazing how some pieces almost make themselves? Very pretty!
I love orange so I love what you made! I would also really love to win those fab earrings I have several outfits that they would look perfect with.
I love everything you made, and am glad you were exposed to something new (the raku!) — do a search on Etsy for raku and you won’t have a bank account anymore!
Thank you so much for playing!
Love your necklace, copper goes so well with orange. Can’t wait to see what you do with the raku focal.
I will have yo look up Raku now since I have seen it mentioned a lot lately. Love the earrings and necklace! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the focal and silk too!
Great pieces!
So you’re planning a follow-up post with more pieces after you get the sari ribbon, right?
ABSOLUTELY, more pieces.
I love orange and aqua/teals together..your soup mix was beautiful and i love everything you’ve made from it.
Everything is so lovely! Pretty necklace!
Raku is the best! I agree it will go very well with sari – can’t wait to see what you’ll do. I love when jewelry creates itself. It makes things so much easier on us 😉 It’s a really pretty necklace too – it knew what it was doing.
The copper is just perfect with the Peaches and Cream. I really liked your creations.
I love the necklace, it looks very delicate but still has lots of texture. The earrings are cute too, I really like the little butterfly dangles at the bottom.
The necklace came together beautifully 🙂 Thanks for emailing me your link so I could find you!! I’m glad I did. Those earrings are adorable!!
Very pretty necklace, but once again, I’m taken with the earrings! So nice!
Love the raku can’t wait to see what you do with that !! Have fun continuing with your Soup!
Gorgeous! I love the colors and the chain. Beautiful job!
Really pretty necklace and earrings! I love the peach stones with copper. Great work!
Hahah, I have been to the flea markets today, spending a lot of time rummaging through old jewelry (my back still hurts from bending down so long, ow) and … intended or not, that necklace of yours definitely gives off intense retro vibes. Love it!
I just love the necklace but the earrings made me gasp. I would so like to give them a home.
I love the necklace and the name you gave it and the earrings are sweet. I hope you get your sari silk soon. Don’t ya just hate waiting for orders?
Niki- Your pieces are beautiful!! Gorgeousness!
Your necklace turned out really lovely. It’s so simple as well as simply beautiful!!
Isn’t it wonderful to be exposed to new components? Ignoring the siren call of our habitual creative voices is sometimes difficult, but it is also such an exciting opportunity for growth if we embrace it! Your piece is sweet and subtle – even though the *orange* shines through. I could see from the picture how it simply made itself – tiny moves of this or that bead – it kind of made a little stop-motion movie in my head, LOL thanks for the smiles!
Very nice necklace. The colors are all great. Can’t wait to see what you do with the focal. Lovely earrings, too.
Beautiful necklace…like the name you gave it too!! I love the copper with the peach. Nice job!!
Great job. I will stop back to see what you do with the Raku pendant too. Thanx for a chance to win the earrings too.
I’ve compared the hop to Christmas myself lol
Looks like you had fun! Looking forward to peeking back in for the Raku pieces 🙂