AJE Earring Challenge Second Reveal

Continuing on with the one pair of earrings a week challenge from Art Jewelry Elements.  This time I really only did the one pair a week as I was completing the Lucite and Clay challenge from my previous post.

Here's what I have for you this week.  Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.  Be sure to go to the AJE site to see the other blogs or the AJE Pinterest board.

This pair is made from a pair of gear hoops by Karen Totten of Starry Road Studio.  Be sure to check her Etsy shop for lots of drool worthy ceramic pieces.  The center hoops are enameled copper by me and the ear wires are hand made by me as well.  Really need to get these listed on Etsy, but I'm having a hard time parting with them.

The second pair for this reveal is all component made by me other than the Swarovski bicones of course.  This week I learned to make hollow lampwork beads and this is one the pairs of them. Pairs of hollow beads are proving to be a little tricky for me in getting the size to match, this pair is pretty close. The nice thing about the hollow beads, besides the look of them, is they are quite a bit lighter so I can use larger beads for earrings.  On my monitor these are appearing almost the size they are in real life.

AJE Challenge First Reveal (and a giveaway coming soon)

It's time for the first reveal date of the AJE Challenge.  The challenge is for each participant to create one pair of earrings per week using artisan jewelry elements.  My first few weeks used only components made by me here at Northwoods Creative Studio  The only exceptions are the seed beads and Swarovski bicones.  I love challenges, they make you stretch your creative muscles!

Here are the earrings I made for the first reveal:

Squiggles

Lampwork headpins twisted into squiggles, mounted on handmade copper ear wires.

Framed

Green lampwork beads in wire wrapped copper frames.  Hand-forged copper ear wires with enamel accents.  Crystal bicone drops by Swarovski.

Slightly Southwest

Black and turquoise lampwork beads accented by commercially available seed beads.  Hung from hand-forged copper ear wires.

Tubular Dangles

Enameled copper tubes, hand-forged enameled ear wires.  Wire wrapped copper frames.

My 50th post is coming up very soon.  In honor of the occasion I will be giving away one of these pairs of earrings.  The winner (by random draw) will have their choice of which pair they would like to receive.  To be entered just leave a comment on my 50th post (which will be later this week).  For a second entry follow my blog and leave a second comment stating you did (or already do).