Saturday, April 20, 2013

Spring Fling 2 Hosted by Amy Severino

Hi Y'all,

Welcome to the Spring Fling 2 reveal.   The beautiful and most talented Amy Severino of Amybeads blog is the host of this second Spring Fling Challenge.  Amy puts together a kit of a focal piece and a few coordinating beads for a small price, and you guessed it a lot of us pounce on a chance to be a participant in her challenge.  Here is what we got to work with this time.


Amy got together with her partner of Bead Soup Blog Party 6 Alenka of Pepita Handmade blog, Alenka made the beautiful focal piece in this challenge using polymer clay.  It took me a long time to come up with what I wanted to make in this challenge, because purple is not an easy color for me to work with, but I managed.
Here is what I came up with...

I did bead embroidery around the Dragonfly focal with white glass pearl and 3 mm black Czech crystals. The neck strap is done in RAW with white glass pearls, 4 mm Amethyst beads, and size 15 seed beads.




I made a pair of earrings using the white AB 8 mm beads and the crackle glass beads with cooper ear wires.  The bracelet I used the purple died agate beads with the white pearls, light purple AB 4 mm bicones and copper accent beads. 

Thank you for stopping by to see what I did in this challenge, also thank you Amy for presenting this challenge.
Here is a list of the other participants in this challenge, please go show them some love.

Maryanne • Zingala's Workshop 
Therese • Therese's Treasures (you are here)
Tanya • A Work in Progress
Alenka •  Pepita Handmade
Kepi • A Little of This, A Little of That
Beti •Stringing Fool
Dolores • Crafty D's Creations
Jenny • Wonder and Whimsy
Cynthia • Created Treasures
Mowse • Mowse Made This
Carolyn • Carolyn's Creations

Happy beading Y'all,
Therese

19 comments:

  1. Lovely and so neat i bet that took hours and hours!

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  2. Whoa. You really do have magic fingers!

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  3. Wow, Therese, your necklace is fantastic! What an awful lot of work! My eyes could'nt do their job when making such a filigree piece. I love the whole dragonfly-design. You really did your job very, very well even though this was not your color.
    BTW, I know that feeling very well not coming up with a design for a while. Last week I sat down for hours making the pieces for the BSBP!! ;-)
    Sabine

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  4. Gorgeous Therese! Wow~you are the best bezeler I know! What a beautiful necklace and sweet earrings and bracelet.

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  5. I'd say 'you managed' to hit it out of the park! WOW that is gorgeous!! I love your beadwork my friend!!

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  6. I love how everything came out. It is funny how we had the same idea to bezel the pendant in pearls. I love how the raw rope compliments the focal. It's awesome. The earrings and bracelet are lovely.

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  7. I love how you attached the pendant to that sumptuous rope, gorgeous pieces all of them.

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  8. Wow, what a perfect bezel!!! I like very much that light-dark contrast with a touch of purple! Just can't stop admiring it ....

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  9. I love your bezel, I haven't learned how to make them like that. The pearls make it very elegant.

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  10. Hi Therese, I really like how you used the pearls from your bezel in your neckstrap design. They really bring a nice continuity to your design. Also really like the clasp you chose. Beautiful!

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  11. What beautiful, beautiful pieces! I am so impressed by that necklace--so intricate and lovely! Wonderful job. :D

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  12. Love how all of your pieces turned out. You did a great job with your bead embrodiery.

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  13. Therese, those are all absolutely gorgeous! Love the way you've done your bail, and that bracelet is really, really pretty. Nice job!

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  14. Very pretty! You really made Alenka's piece standout!

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  16. As always Therese beautiful work on all your pieces. Love the necklace it is stunning!

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  17. I love how you turned this into a black-and-white design, with a splash of purple. One of my favorite color combinations. Beautiful details!

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  18. I love your piece Therese! The focal is so pretty and I love the classic embroidery you did around the edge.

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  19. You my friend are a beading goddess! I love all of your creations for this challenge!

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