The final colour in the cool colours series is purple!
Colour Play – Cool Colours – Purple
Month: July 2018
Colour Play – Cool Colours – Green
More cool colours! I love the mix of greens in this necklace. Combined with the clear glass, it’s really sparkly.
Flower Necklace
I love how this necklace turned out! Made from a Bethany Winery wine bottle, the beads are subtly decorated with gold and silver pixie dust, making them look super pretty.
They match with these earrings. Would you wear them together?
Silver and gold flower bead hoop earrings
I am so pleased with how these square hoop earrings turned out!
I used a wine bottle from Bethany Winery, and decorated the beads with silver and gold pixie dust while they were still hot. As I was placing the beads in the kiln I was hopeful that they would come out super pretty, so I was really pleased when they actually did!
This style of earrings is really eye catching.
Glassblumengarten
I have started working on some new exhibition pieces for my “Glassblumengarten” exhibition that will be at Bethany Wines for the SALA Festival in August. [Note: “Glassblumengarten” is German for Glass Flower Garden].
I hope to fill a cabinet with all sorts of flower jewellery, I’m excited about some of the new pieces that I am drawing, and I can’t wait to make them.
This is one of the first pieces that I have finished. I wanted to reflect the colours of the grapes in this pair of earrings, so I chose purple and green to decorate the flower beads (made from a Bethany Wines wine bottle).
Wine and Gin bottle bracelet
I love the subtle contrast in this bracelet, featuring beads made from wine and gin bottles.
Colour Play – Cool Colours – Blue
I have to say that where I live this winter has been extremely cold so far! This month my Colour Play series is inspired by Cool Colours! When I looked at the colour wheel and saw the cool colours were purples, blues and greens I was thrilled. Such pretty colours. I was sitting outside this afternoon, enjoying a cup of tea in the sunny afternoon, and I could see these colours everywhere – blue skies, green trees, pink/purple flowers.
The first colour that I am sharing with you is the blues! I chose two different shades of blue to contrast in this necklace. On the clear base the beads are super sparkly. They are available in my online shop.
Gin o’clock?
I made a pair of earrings similar to this the other day, with niobium hooks, but today I had some disk beads with pixie dust on them and I thought I would see what it looked like with that little addition. Hmm…quite liked it! I like how the two silver beads are different and still work so nicely together.
The beads in these earrings were made from a Hendricks Gin bottle.
Warmer coloured earrings
I am loving the colours in these earrings. The luscious reds, browns and purples all work together so nicely. All of the beads were made from a wine bottle, decorated with coloured glass, which I have melted in, to get the colour into the beads.
Cool Colours
I’m not loving the cold weather here. I don’t really enjoy winter, I kind of endure it! It’s a season I have to get through to get to the warmer weather. I just try to keep busy, keep making, keep going.
I have been enjoying making beads with the cooler colour themes though and you’ll see some more of them as part of my Colour Play series of work.
But for now, I will share with you a pair of earrings that I made from a Banrock Station wine bottle, decorated with assorted colours of frit. I love how these beads look together. So pretty!
