Friday, March 7, 2014

We're All Ears :: March Reveal




Pen and watercolor by Beatrix Potter
from The Tailor of Gloucester from the collection at the Tate Museum

This sweet picture sent me back to the simplicity and innocence of childhood. I was immediately drawn to the color palette of the pinks and blues, those soft colors of youth. My jewelry is seldom simple, but I wanted these earrings to be mimimal. The vertical lines and texture of the tree trunk inspired the brass rectangles. After cutting, texturing, and antiquing some brass sheet, I added a flower dangle of pink Czech glass, creamy bone, and lovely flowered brass bead caps to mimic the flowers in the illustration. The needle and thread in the photo kept screaming at me to add some sort of fiber, so I wrapped some silky soft sky blue C-Lon around the brass. Simple and sweet. Like those childhood years.

Anyway, here are the earrings I created for the March challenge. Fun project. You chose a sweet and inspiring illustration, Erin. Thanks for posting these challenges. 






Now off to the hop! Check out these other earring creations.


27 comments:

  1. So creative!! Every detail so well thought out and executed.Love them!

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    1. Thank you, Terri, for your kind words. These earrings were fun to make!

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  2. These are beautiful. I love all the different elements you incorporated and the way you were able to unify them into a cohesive design! Great job.

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  3. These earrings speak to so many wonderful parts of this painting! Lovely and sweet reminders of a beloved author.
    Lynda

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    1. Thank you for your kind words, Lynda. I loved this challenge and the creative designs everyone came up with. Excited for the April challenge now!

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  4. These are great! I too was immediately drawn to the color palette of blue and pink. These are sweet earrings.

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    1. Thank you, Kristy. What an inspiring challenge and so many cool earrings resulted from such a sweet illustration. I'm excited to see the April challenge!

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  5. I love these--what you did is so pretty and so original!!! they are great!

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    1. Thank you, Jean. These were such fun to make, and I loved looking at everyone's creations. Excited for the April challenge now!

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  6. Love these! The mix of soft and hard material, of antiqued and shiny is just perfect!

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    1. Thank you, Karin. I do love those contrasts. Your kind words mean so much. Looking forward to the next challenge!

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  7. So sweet! I love the colors and textures!

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    1. Thank you so much for your positive words, Alice. It was a fun challenge!

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  8. So beautiful. What a wonderful idea to use some fiber! Love the earrings!

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    1. Thank you! I did struggle a bit with how to use fiber, so I'm glad I pulled it off!

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  9. lovely ..love the use of fiber ..:)

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    1. Thank you so much! I'm glad I was able to finally figure out how to get some fiber in these! What a fun challenge.

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  10. These are just too cool!! The thread and ribbon in the photo screamed at me, too - but I don't have any imagination and used pink like in the photo - LOL!! I think your earrings reflect the inspiration photo perfectly!!

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    1. Thank you! I loved the colors in your earrings, and that pink ribbon was just perfect!

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  11. Your metal work is wonderful and I love how you added fiber to your piece. Great job!

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    1. Thank you! I loved your use of colors and those gorgeous seaglass pieces in your earrings. What a fun challenge!

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  12. Your textured brass sticks are a beautiful representation of the wood. The illustration's images of thread and embroidery screamed at me, too. I knew I would use some fiber as soon as I saw this month's inspiration. :)

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    1. Thank you, Kala. I absolutely adored the pastel tassels in your earrings. Now THAT was the perfect use of fiber. Looking forward to the April challenge!

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  13. I love these! I had thought of fiber too, but then never followed through. I'm glad you did!

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    1. Thank you, Linda. Your earrings and the story behind them were so sweet. Fun challenge! Looking forward to the April one!

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  14. Thank you, everyone! I just now figured out that I had comments waiting to be moderated. (New to this blogging thing.) I can't tell you how much your supportive comments mean to me on this first attempt at one of these challenges. I loved seeing everyone's creations and look forward to the April challenge!

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