Add Spice To Your Life With Orange
I love color! The tagline for my business is: Luscious Color. Lasting Quality. Its color that makes my heart sing! So when I read that Sally Russick, of The Studio Sublime ,was hosting a color challenge blog hop, I signed up right away!
While playing with some crayons, Sally got the idea to host this color challenge. Participants each chose one color to work with – and one color only! We could use all shades and variations of our chosen color, but no other colors. For someone who designs for the joy of rich color combinations, being confined to just one color was, indeed, a challenge.
I chose the color orange and had the good fortune of having been given a number of orange art beads recently. I received orange spacer beads from Erin Siegel in a bead swap at the Philadelphia Bead Fest in April. After the bead swap we had a drawing for door prizes and I won the fantastic orange polymer clay heart by artist extraordinaire, Staci Smith. The two enamel beads near the pendant are by Barbara Lewis of Painting With Fire. There’s also one small lampwork bead by Radiant Mind. The remainder of the necklace consists of artisan and commercially produced ceramic beads, handmade Indonesian glass, pressed glass, copper and brass.
“Orange You Glad I Love You?” necklace
I wanted to challenge myself a bit, so I strung the pendant and beads on cotton cording. I’ve only done a few necklaces and earrings with cording and I’m having fun experimenting with it. I’ve recently started making some of my own clasps. The clasp on this necklace is hand formed and forged of brass and it hooks into an orange resin ring.
“Orange You Glad I Love You?” necklace, with handmade clasp
I haven’t had time to add this to my shop yet, but if you are interested, contact me or leave a comment below.
Thank you, Sally! This was a great idea for a challenge!
“Orange You Glad I Love You?” necklace
The links to all the other participants are listed below.
Hosted by:
Sally Russick
http://thestudiosublime.com
Red
Therese Frank
http://theresestreasures59.blogspot.com
Rochelle Brisson
http://acreativechelle.blogspot.com
Lisa Lodge
http://pineridgetreasures.blogspot.com
Malin de Koning
http://beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com
Bobbie Rafferty
http://beadsong.blogspot.com
Orange
Linda Landig
http://LindasBeadBlog.com
You are here!
Cherrie Fick
http://designsinthelight.com
Beth McLarnan
http://threetrees-art.blogspot.com
Cece Cormier
http://thebeadingyogini.com
Renetha Stanziano
http://lamplightcrafts.blogspot.com
Tanya Goodwin
http://pixiloo.blogspot.com
Jean Welles
http://jeanawells.blogspot.com
Amy Severino
http://amybeads.blogspot.com
Rebekah Payne
http://treewingsstudio.com
Lola Surwillo
http://.beadlolabead.blogspot.com
Judy Turner
http://silver-rains.blogspot.com
Yellow
Jennifer Justman
http://soulsfiredesigns.blogspot.com
Rose Brisson
http://ahteesblog.blogspot.com
Kim Bender
http://www.kimmykats.com/
Heather Powers
http://humblebeads.blogspot.com
Shelly Joyce
http://www.aujourlejour-shelly.blogspot.com
Blue
Cherie Reed
http://creativedesignsbycheri.blogspot.com
Rebecca Anderson
http://songbeads.blogspot.com
Hope Smitherman
http://craftyhope.blogspot.com
Patti Vanderbloemen
http://myaddictionshandcrafted.blogspot.com
Michelle Buettner
http://MiShelDesigns.blogspot.com
Alicia Marinache
http://allprettythings.ca
Charissa Sloper
http://blog.obsidiansoda.com
Sonya Stille
http://dreaminofbeads.blogspot.com
Maria Grimes
http://mariagrimes.blogspot.com
Nancy Saccoccio
http://risingdesigns.blogspot.com
Sandi Volpe
http://sandivolpe.com
Joanne Tinley
http://daisychaindesignsjewellery.blogspot.com
Catherine Pruitt
http://boobeads.blogspot.com
Green
Mary Harding
http://maryhardingjewelrybeadblog.blogspot.com
Karin Gilman
http://www.qaygee.blogspot.com/
Jayne Capps
http://mamasgottodoodle.blogspot.com
Lorelei Eurto
http://lorelei1141.blogspot.com
Melissa Meman
http://melissameman.blogspot.com
Alice Peterson
http://alice-dreaming.blogspot.com
Jenny Davies Reazor http://www.jdaviesreazor.com
Cynthia Machata
http://antiquitytravelers.blogspot.com
Melissa Essenburg
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com
Regina Santerre
http://reginaswritings.blogspot.com
Lauren Streets
http://ornthoughts.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Auld
http://beadsforbusygals.com
Purple
Tracy Mok
http://bumblebeadsdesigns.blogspot.com
Jennifer Judd Velasquez
http://jenjuddrocks.blogspot.com
Marti Conrad
http://marticsclay.blogspot.com
Lori Anderson
http://prettythingsblog.com
Donna Bradley
http://strandedbeads.blogspot.com
Courtney Breul
http://beadsbybreul.blogspot.com
Linda Younkman
http://lindysdesigns.blogspot.com
Susan Kennedy
http://www.suebeads.blogspot.com
Lisa Liddy
http://Lisaliddy.wordpress.com
Tracy Stillman
http://www.tracystillmandesigns.com
Dawn Doucette
http://designsbydawnmarie.blogspot.com
Brown
Diana Ptaszynski
http://suburbangirlstudio.com
Shannon Chomanczuk
http://formysweetdaughter.blogspot.com/
Janice Everett
http://JLynnJewels.blogspot.com
Karen Williams
http://Baublicious.blogspot.com
Black
Kashmira Patel
http://sadafulee.blogspot.com
Heidi Post
http://expostfactojewelry.blogspot.com/
Birgitta Lejonklou
http://lejonklou.blogspot.com/
Holly Westfall
http://silverrosedesigns.blogspot.com/
Karin Slaton
http://backstorybeads.blogspot.com
