My last offering for this week. "Be Mine", another of my hand drawn and etched dichroic designs overlaid onto pastel pink opal glass. I chose to do something a bit different on this one. I normally wrap only with sterling silver or gold filled, this time I used copper. I've forgotten how much I love the color of copper. The wire I used in this is Artistic Wire. It has a thin coating that protects the metal. This coating also make the piece hypo-allergenic as no metal touches the skin. I really love how these hand drawn designs turned out and look forward to making more. I've found it challenging to take pictures of them that truly do them justice. They are just so awesome in person!
Despite all I have had to do today and yet to do, I managed to squeeze enough time to get this pendant finished. I tried yesterday, but my hands just weren't working well enough so I decided to wait and try again today. Here it is, my Red Sweetheart Pendant! Another one of those cabs that I was working on last week all finished in sterling silver. Hope you like!
Here is my newest pretties, my Red Sweetheart Earrings, freshly listed today! A pair of my handmade dichroic fused glass cabochons created of red glass overlaid with a hand drawn and etched design in silver dichroic glass. All wrapped up in sterling silver wire with sterling silver earwires. Next a matching pendant!
Here is the first finished pendant and earrings out of the finished cabs. Aren't they gorgeous? I love them! And just wait till you see the heart earrings and pendant coming up next. I just listed these in my Artfire studio, Hearts & Flourishes Earrings and Hearts & Flourishes Pendant.
I have a Valentine's Day Sale going on now through Friday, Febuary 5. Everything in my studio has been marked down 30% including the clearance items.
I cut out all the designs I did in Spectrum's 96 line. The others that I did in Bullseye 90 are cloudy/slightly divitrified. I will be etching the tops of them, applying a divitrification solution and then firing them. Then I will finish them. As for these I will be able to start wrapping them tomorrow!
Here is the Key Of Love Necklace after I've darkened the silver. I think it really shows the dichroic glass off. This is one of those pieces that I've impressed myself with.
Next I will be focusing on some fusing. I have a custom order to make. I will also be fusing a few "doodles" in this batch.
I apologize to all of you that may have tried to leave a comment yesterday. I didn't realize the comments buttons didn't work. I had just changed my template and really liked that one too.
Here it is, or a least a sneak peek anyway. I am seriously considering darkening this piece to give an antiqued, romantic look. I haven't tried this before as I usually prefer the appearance of the silver to be bright and shining. What do you think? Please leave me a comment.
As you can see the new wire woven bail has done wonders for this little dichroic glass heart. I've strung it on this delicate ball gold filled ball chain. The addition of anything else would of detracted from it. I'm rather pleased with myself as even the bail was upcycled. Remember me complaining about the piece I was almost done with before the wire broke? Well I was able to salvage the woven part to make this bail.
This also helped me to understand how to go about making more bails like this. I know it isn't a key, but don't we have to have some hearts for those keys? I settled on "Heart Of An Angel" for the name and listed it in my Artfire studio.
I am sharing a picture of the cabs I will be using in my next project. I will be wrapping them in 14K gold filled wire and turning them into little keys. Now I am just debating on how fancy I'm going to make these.
I didn't get time to work on a new piece for the Romance collection today. Between my aunt visiting, another shower for Miss Lacy (and me) the morning was gone. The afternoon was spent stealing some time to go to Michael's with one of my best friends and the evening will be spent teaching beginning stained glass. Then it will be bedtime.
But first I thought I would show the next dichroic glass pendant that I'm going to upcycle. This little heart has a lot of color and fire not to mention the "zebra" striping. I'm going to make a new bail, put it on a chain and am thinking of adding a small wire wrapped key charm or maybe I'll use a charm from my stash. I'm trying to decide between several names for it: Heart Of Ice, Heart Of The Mist or Heart Of An Angel. I'm leaning towards the latter myself, it's also Mike's idea.
Here is the first pair of earrings designed and made for my Romance collection, based on the theme of "Key To My Heart". I think the hardest part of this theme will be coming up with names for the pieces! I'm thinking "Keys Of Amour" for this pair!
Once again I raided my older work and upcycled these cabs into these earrings. I even re-used the handmade sterling silver earwires I had made for the old pair!I decided to call the piece from yesterday "Fiery Key Of Love" and listed it in my Artfire studio. I found a delicate gold filled rope chain to suspend it from and love how it looks!
