Hi Y'all,
That's right two post in one day, so if you are looking for AJE's component of the month challenge go here.
At the beginning of this month I signed up for Erin's Challenge of Color. I love to participate in Erin's challenges they are always so interesting and make you think a little while before getting started. This time around was no different. Erin teamed up with Brandi Hussey of Brandi Girl Blog and the two of them came up with 40 color palettes from NASA Earth As Art photographs. Erin sent each of the participants in this challenge two color palettes in which to work from. We could choose just one or both it was up to us.
When I first got my palettes I was only going to use only one, because I love the vibrant greens and pinkish purples in the palette, but then I looked at the second palette again and knew I wanted to use that one too. So here are my palettes and what I made using both.
First the Demini River: A marsh-like area borders the Demini River in northwestern Brazil. The Demini eventually joins the Amazon River.
That's right two post in one day, so if you are looking for AJE's component of the month challenge go here.
When I first got my palettes I was only going to use only one, because I love the vibrant greens and pinkish purples in the palette, but then I looked at the second palette again and knew I wanted to use that one too. So here are my palettes and what I made using both.
First the Demini River: A marsh-like area borders the Demini River in northwestern Brazil. The Demini eventually joins the Amazon River.
I went into my stash and pulled out all of the colors that I could find that closely matched my palette. I love gemstones and I collect them from every where I can. My favorite colors are pink and green, so I have a lot of those two colors. The beaded beads are from a tutorial I purchased from Monomint etsy shop. The name of the tutorial is Sweet Onion. All of the beads with the exception of the seed beads are gem stones, but I do not know the names of the pink oblong and the light green oval ones. The 4 mm green beads are Aventurine, the 6 mm pinkish purple are died Quartzite, and the purple are Blue Aventurine.
This is another Monomint tutorial Tortuga Bay.
This is a flat spiral bracelet that I made during a flat spiral class I taught at my local bead store this month. I used green round crystals in 4 mm and 6 mm and size 11 purple seed beads.
My second palette is Algerian Abstract: What look like pale yellow paint streaks slashing through a mosaic of mottled colors are ridges of wind-blown sand that make up Erg Iguidi, an area of ever-shifting sand dunes extending from Algeria into Mauritania in northwestern Africa. Erg Iguidi is one of several Saharan ergs, or sand seas, where individual dunes often surpass 500 meters-nearly a third of a mile-in both width and height.
This is also a Monomint tutorial Tricia's pendant. This photo does not do the colors in this pendant justice the blue in the rivoli is gorgeous deep blue, and the glass pearls around the edge of the rivoli are a pale green.
This bracelet was made from a Nancy Dale tutorial purchased from NEDbeads etsy shop the name of the tutorial is Twin bead flat spiral.
Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I made for Erin's Challenge of Color. I hope you liked what you saw while you were here. Now please go and see what the other participants have created using their color palettes.
Happy beading Y'all,
Therese
