Autumn Challenge Reveal Day

The Autumn Design Challenge is hosted by Lesley Watt of Thea Elements and Caroline Dewison of Blueberri beads. They combined Lesley's metal clay components with Caroline's ceramic beads.

Here is what I got from Lesley and Caroline.

These are not components that I would normally work with, so let the challenge begin. I also decided that I was going to work with only what I had in my stash.

I wanted to hi-light the two metal components originally in a bracelet but it became a necklace. I found in my stash this beautiful ombre ribbon. The earth tone would work well with both the heart and the flower. I decided to do a Kumihimo braid with a cream rattail. At this point I decide to make a necklace and made another length of braid using a brown rattail.

Ribbon and rattail

 I am not super happy with the finishing, but I like that I can wear either the heart or the flower.

Braids with Heart

Braids with Flower

Using the ribbon and cream rattail I worked a basic macrame square knot and inserted some of Caroline's ceramic beads. The challenge for me with this project was finding a gold-tone closure. Found this toggle yesterday morning.

Macrame Bracelet

With the last two ceramic beads I made this purse charm with cream rattail and three gold rings.

Purse Charm

Here is a list of all the other participants. Take some time to hop around and see what wonderous things they made.

Lesley Watt

Caroline Dewison

Gay Messander

Made By Jules

Heidi Post

Janet Bocciardi

Alice Peterson

Dolores Raml

Lucy Haslam

Pine Ridge Treasures

Shirley Moore

Tracy Collins

Melissa Trudinger

Mags

Pepita

Jo-Ann Woolverton < you are here

Toltec Jewels

Judith Johnston

Janine Lucas

Madeline Bunyan

Chic and frog

Sue Rennie

A big thanks to Lesley and Caroline for sharing their wonder handmade items and challenging me to try something different.

Happy Beading!

Challenge Beads in the mail

I am participating in two more beading challenges.

One is the Autumn Design Challenge hosted by Lesley Watt of Thea Elements and Caroline Dewison of Blueberri beads. They combined Lesley's metal clay components with Caroline's ceramic beads.

My package arrived in the mail this week and I have until October 2 to make something wonderful with these beautiful handcrafted beads and components. 

The second challenge is the Into the forest challenge hosted by Lisa Lodge of Pine Ridge Treasures. Lisa put together an selection of seed beads, Czech glass beads and a focal of some sort.

Here is what arrived in the mail from Lisa.  The clay pendant is by Shaterra. Green fire-polished beads and oranges leaves combined with silver lined green seed beads were also included. I have until January 11 to make something which fits the "Forest" theme.

These are both going to challentge my creativity in different ways. Stop back on reveal days to see what I am able to create.