Colors of Spring Blog Hop hosted by Sally Russick

Hi y'all
I am participating in Sally Russick's Colors of Spring blog hop.  Sally put out the challenge to select a one of Pantone's Spring and Summer 2012's colors.  Two sets were done in each of the Pantone colors except for Tangerine Tango four sets were done in this color.  For me it was a toss up between Margarita and Cabaret, since I just did a challenge involving a color close to Cabaret I chose Margarita.

(The following segment was borrowed from of Sally's blog)

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The lentil was torch fired glass enameled in one of the Pantone 2012 colors (chart below) and the accent beads were enameled in contrasting or complimentary colors.

Here is the set I received in the mail from Sally the lentil is of course Margarita and the other four beads are Driftwood.  I was totally stumped as what to do with these beautiful beads.  I kept them on my work table, I looked at them, held them, caressed them, then one day the idea came to me as what to do with them.

Last month I purchased some of Marsha Neal's silk bundles so I pulled a Solar Power yellow and a Cockatoo blue out of the bundles.  Then I had some of Sue Kennedy's glass spacer beads in different colors so a pulled two Tangerine Tango orange from the lot and got busy putting them all together to create this bracelet.

The Shambala style bracelets are very popular right now and making this bracelet with the silk ribbon makes this bracelet very comfortable to wear.  I also just found out that this is the year of the knot, no wonder just about every piece of jewelry you see these days has some kind of knot in it.  I chose to use a lobster clasp because I was not sure how much of the ribbon I would have left after tying all of those knots. It takes away from being adjustable, but this bracelet will fit up to a nine inch wrist.

One can wear this with the Solar Power yellow going down the middle or

with the Cockatoo blue going down the middle

Thank you for stopping by and viewing what I created with Sally's beads.  Please go by and see what the other participates have created with their beads from Sally.

List of paticipants:

Host: Sally Russick
Margarita
Therese Frank
Kim Bender
Cabaret
JLynn Jewels
Christine Altmiller

Sweet Lilac
Cherrie Fick
Jenny Vidberg
Driftwood
Sabine Dittrich
Hope Smitherman
Solar Power
Nicole Rennell
Erin Fickert-Rowland 
Bell Flower
Patti Vanderbloemen
Kristi Bowman
Starfish
Shannon Chomanczuk
Elisabeth Auld

Cockatoo

Alice Perterson

Donna Bradley
Sodalite Blue

Kristi Harrison

Cilla Watkins

Tangerine Tango
Lesley Watt
Maryanne Gross
Susan Kennedy
Courtney White Breul

Happy beading Y'all,

Therese