Saturday, May 5, 2012

One Colour Crayon Challenge Blog Hop


Today is the big reveal of of the One Crayon Color Challenge!  For this challenge, we were to pick one colour and use all the shades, tints, and tones of a colour.  Of course, I chose my ultimate favourite colour.  and my colour is.........

purple!


I started by gathering all the purple beads I could find from my stash. Since it was my favourite colour, I didn't have to look very far. The hard part was putting something together that actually looked nice and deciding which beads I should use. Should I use all of them or some of them.

I decided to use the purplish-blue hue instead of the red-purple. Then it took me a couple weeks come up with the design.  I had several butterfly filigree beads that I never used so I thought I'd include that into the mix.



Started by placing beads onto my beading tray and rearranging and adding/subtracting pearls until I got to something that looked like this....



I used 2 sizes of mauve Swarovski pearls. The larger 8mm pearls near the center/focal and the smaller 4mm pearls were handknotted for the rest of the necklace.  I also used dark purple nugget shaped Swarovski pearls.  I have never seen Swarovski pearls in this shape before until I saw them at a local bead store and just had to buy them. In the center, of the butterfly are two shades of purple Swarovski crystals with a teardrop Swarovski pearl hanging  from the bottom of the butterfly.

And here it is!




Here are the matching earrings.




Both pieces are now on sale in my Etsy store. Just click on the button below.

**NECKLACE IS SOLD**


A big thank you to Sally Russick for hosting this challenge. I learned a lot more about colours and jewellery design. Now, off to check out the rest of the participants!


Hosted by:

Sally Russick  http://thestudiosublime.com

Red

Bobbie Rafferty   http://beadsong.blogspot.com

Orange

Linda Landig  http://LindasBeadBlog.com
Renetha Stanziano   http://lamplightcrafts.blogspot.com
Tanya Goodwin  http://pixiloo.blogspot.com
Amy Severino   http://amybeads.blogspot.com

 Yellow

Heather Powers   http://humblebeads.blogspot.com

Blue

Rebecca Anderson  http://songbeads.blogspot.com
Hope Smitherman  http://craftyhope.blogspot.com
Alicia Marinache  http://allprettythings.ca
Charissa Sloper   http://blog.obsidiansoda.com
Sandi Volpe   http://sandivolpe.com

 Green

Jenny Davies Reazor   http://www.jdaviesreazor.com
Elizabeth Auld  http://beadsforbusygals.com

Purple

Jennifer Judd Velasquez http://jenjuddrocks.blogspot.com
Lori Anderson  http://prettythingsblog.com

Brown

Diana Ptaszynski   http://suburbangirlstudio.com
Janice Everett   http://JLynnJewels.blogspot.com

Black




Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...