Diana Ptaszynski of Suburban Girl is hosting an Art Bead Earring Swap. Here’s how she set it up:
- Participants will be put into groups of 3 and will create 1 pair of earrings for each partner. Each earring must contain at least 1 art bead. (If you need clarification on what an art bead is, visit Art Bead Scene.)
- The reveal date is June 7th.
I was paired with Dee Elgie of Cherry Obsidia and Kari Asbury of Hippie Chick Jewelry and Design. I made each of them very different designs. For Dee I used lampwork glass focal beads by Radiant Mind and for Kari I featured artisan ceramic beads by Golem Studio. Please visit Dee and Kari’s blogs to see what I designed for them.
And now for the fun part: Here’s what Dee and Kari designed for me!
Dee is a published lampwork glass artist and her earrings feature her gorgeous handmade turquoise, purple and green hearts, crystals and a purple lamped beads suspended from sterling silver chains. Aren’t they lovely? I love turquoise and purple together!
Kari’s earrings feature rust-orange/brown lampwork glass beads with copper clay dragonfly dangles by my friend Kristi Bowman. I wear lots of brown and rust colors, so these go with everything!
Big thank you’s to Diana for hosting this and to Dee and Kari for sharing their creativity with me.
Now I encourage you to check out all the creative earring designs in this blog hop. The links for all the participants are listed below.
These are both STUNNING! Love the lampwork hearts – and the addition of Kristi’s components complete that set! Enjoy!
Wow Linda, Scooooore!! Those lampie hearts are amazing and I’m so happy to see somebody used one of my copper components and you received them!!
Kristi- I was so happy to receive earrings with you components too! Love them, but you know that already! 🙂
I’m glad you like them – I had fun fiddling with jumprings to make the tiny silver chainmaille connectors! 🙂
Gorgeous earrings. Love both pair but the copper dragonflies are so cute.
Oooo I’d wear both of them! Thanks for joining in the swap!
Both of these pairs are gorgeous. The artbeads on each pair is fantastic!!
Ooooohhhh . . . .you are going to so enjoy those earrings. How beautiful they are! And your creations for your pairings are superb! What fun!
Wow! You sure got some lovely ones, Linda!
Love what Dee and Kari made you, very fun earrings. Great colors and perfect for the summer season!
Aren’t you glad you have a blog so you can hop! Loving the lamp work lovelies!
Lovvve ethe purple, green, turquoise hearts.. a fav. of mine. The dragon flies are so cool!
Love these earrings you got! How beautiful! I did check out the earrings you made for the others and fell in love with those little bugs! How perfectly summer!
There are enough colors between the two of them that I could see wearing them every day, alternating! I love the glass on both. They seem so cheery and they would make you happy just to wear them! Enjoy the day. Erin