I love blue!! I mean I luhhhhhhhve blue! I think apart from
black blue is the only other colour I am comfortable wearing and working with!
I have accumulated a large collection of blue beads, stones and cabs within the
past couple of months so I just really wanted to use them and since I have been
working on making earrings I set out to make a pair of blue earrings!
Following up my theme of not being able to stop myself when
choosing beads, I said to hell with it I am going to use any type of bead I
want in these. Who knows it might even prove to be interesting.
I had an idea
of the cabs I wanted to use in this piece but after that I was clueless. I
glued on my first cabochon, which was the lighter blue cab. And this cabochon
is OMG beautiful. I can’t describe the colour but to me it’s the perfect blue
and it has different hues of blue, navy, silver and green when the light hits it.
its just a magnificent piece, too bad that it is one of those vintage pieces
that is hard to come by. But I am keeping an eye out for these on my favorite
websites.
After doing a row of variegated blue seed beads around the cab,
I glued on my second cabochon, the small navy blue one with specs of gold.I had specifically bought this piece for another piece I was
working on, but this cab came in a pack of four so I had two extra ones to play
with and that’s how they ended up here.I decided from early on that instead of the smaller cab
being on the top part of the earring I wanted to be on the bottom just so it
would be different. I used the same seed beads I had already sewn around the
oval cabochon to go around the circle one.
It was after this row that I went all crazy. I practically
tried on every bead in the blue and silver colour family I owned which I had
not previously used on any other piece to see which ones I liked. And because
blue is a favorite colour I liked almost all of them. It’s a good thing that I
ended up vetoing some because knowing me I would have ended up using them all
on this earring.
You can see the
beads I ended up choosing in these pictures. But then when it was all done I
felt the piece looked too flat and one-dimensional. I had such high hopes for
the piece that I felt a little bit disappointed.
I went trough my whole stash to see what I could add to salvage
this piece. That’s when I ended up using the swarovski marguerites to make the
piece more interesting and bring in some different colours. But in the end the
way to make anything look better is to add on some swarovski, I mean these
crystals to me are like bacon, they just go with anything. I love these
earrings now, they are about 5 cm long and the shape reminds me of those
Russian nesting dolls or a ladybug for some reason and I think it’s just the
cutest little earring ever.So I guess today’s lesson was: when in doubt add crystals!!
For some reason I could not get the lighting right for these pictures and I am not sure if these photos to the earrings justice but i really hope you can enjoy them.
For some reason I could not get the lighting right for these pictures and I am not sure if these photos to the earrings justice but i really hope you can enjoy them.
LIST OF MATERIALS
USED:
- 18x13MM COBALT BLUE AB CABOCHONS
- DARK BLUE GLASS OPAL
- GUNMETAL IRIS DELICA BEADS SIZE 11/0
- OPAQUE COBALT AB SEED BEADS 11/0
- SILVER LINED GREY AB SEED BEADS SIZE 11/0
- GREEN LINED TRANSPARENT SAPPHIRE SEED BEADS SIZE 15/0
- 2.5MM LABRADORE SILVER FIREPOLISHED GLASS BEADS
- 6MM METALLIC LIGHT GOLD SWAROVSKI MARGUERITES
- 6MM VOLCANO SWAROVSKI MARGUERITES
- 8MM CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION SWAROVSKI MARGUERITES
- FIRELINE 0.006 THREAD IN CLEAR
- LACY’S STIFF STUFF
- BLACK ULTRASUEDE
- E-6000 GLUE
- CRAFTER'S PICK THE ULTIMATE GLUE
- STERLING SILVER EARRING HOOKS FROM MICHAELS
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