AJE Component of the Month - April Reveal

For April we had Rebekah's beautiful beads to work with. I utterly love these beads, the colour, the texture and the writing on the side is such a wonderful little detail!

(Rebekah's wonderful photo)

I got a stunning seawashed grey heart and knew straight away that I wanted to make a necklace with it.

I decided to put together a collection of prong and bezel set treasures that like the heart had alot of texture in them and here is what I came up with!

Purple lampwork bead, rough peridot, old Spanish coin, Rebekah's beautiful seawashed heart, wonderful lampwork by Genea Beads, rough amethyst and a tiny ammonite.

My photos do not show up the beautiful colours in this necklace that well, there is lots of purples, greens and browns!

A massive thank you to Rebekah for the stunning bead and if you would like to see more of  Rebekah's amazing beads check shop Tree Wings Studio!

I'm really looking forward to seeing what the other participants have made....

Guests

Karin Grosset Grange

Carol Briody

Rebecca Anderson

Ann Schroeder

AJE Team

Rebekah Payne

Jenny Davies-Reazor

Caroline Dewison

Susan Kennedy

Diana Ptaszynski

Kristen Stevens

Linda Landig

Melissa Meman

Niky Sayers

Lindsay Starr

Have a wonderful day x

AJE March Component of the month reveal

Today I am joining in with the Art Jewelery Element Component of the month, I was lucky enough to win one of these beauties by Caroline Dewison of Blue Berri Beads....

In my haste to put my name forward I did not take much notice of the colours, purple, brown and grey I can work with all of those, so you can imagine my surprise when my Luna moth came through my door, I opened it up and inside, Wow..... It was the most beautiful treasure ever, and it was gold! Shiny and stunning and gold! I cannot tell you how amazing this piece is it looks, like it has been recovered from a treasure chest on a royal sunken ship, yes it really is that lovely! I guess I better show you....

See! I decided that as it looked like an ancient treasure, I wanted to make an ancient looking Viking knit chain for it. Not a problem that I have never made a Viking knit any thing (I can't even knit) or that I don't have the right tools, thats fine I will improvise! A wooden spoon and various small holed items later and here it is....

I love it, I have even used my most treasured lampwork beads by Kerri Fuhr, that I may have been hoarding! 

Now these photos are not great (I have a new camera that I don't know how to work yet) so my oldest kindly offered to model it for me....

Which I though was a lovely offer, right up until she claimed that we could "share" this one as it goes so nicely with her top! Ha, I think not child, my beads!

I think in future I will stick to using my wooden neck for modelling, not as glam but that way I don't have to "share" my precious!!

I would like to say a huge thank you to Caroline for making these beautiful pieces I have loved working with mine and have now learnt a new skill! Please take a few minuets to check out what everyone else has made I know I can't wait to see!!!

Have a great day! x

Guest Artist

Niky Sayers – http://silverniknats.blogspot.co.uk

The AJE Team

Caroline Dewison – http://www.blueberribeads.co.uk 

Diana Ptaszynski - http://www.suburbangirlstudio.com

Susan Kennedy - http://www.suebeads.blogspot.co.uk

Kristen Stevens - http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/

Keirsten Giles - http://cerebraldilettante.blogspot.com

Jenny Davies-Reazor - http://www.jdaviesreazor.com/blog

Melissa Meman –  http://melissameman.blogspot.co.uk

Rebekah Payne - www.treewingsstudio.com

Lesley Watt - http://thegossipinggoddess.blogspot.co.uk

Linda Landig - http://www.LindasBeadBlog.com