Lotus Blossom in Cooper

Another flower based on the Metal Jewelry in Bloom book.

This is a lotus pendant on a simple copper chain. The flower is made with 2 layers of 5 petals and 1 layer of stamen riveted together in the center. I added color with alcohol inks and placed a golden flat backed Swarovski crystal in the center.

This one is for me, (another in my learning process), but as I'm pretty confident with my techniques on these flowers, I'm going to be reopening my online stores with a gorgeous line of them really soon. If there's something particular you'd like to see, let me know.

Copper Pansy Bracelet

A couple months ago I bought a book called Metal Jewelry in Bloom. It's awesome! I've been playing with it. I decided to step out and attempt a pansy using her basics. And here it is soldered onto a simple copper bangle with copper spiral and coil embellishments. The blue color is alcohol ink. You'll find this one on my wrist as it's pretty but not yet perfect. Overall an excellent first prototype! I'm very excited for the potential here.

Interested in the book? You can find it on Amazon. It's worth it! Totally.

For My Daughter's Wedding

Just realized I'm not creating near as much as I should be and not posting any of what I create. So . . .

Here is what I worked on this morning. They are for the bridal party for my daughter's wedding. She asked me a couple days ago, just 9 days before the wedding, if I had time. How do I tell her "no"? LOL.

So I worked with the copper washer design that I've used for earrings. It's simple and somewhere between elegant and funky. A little purple patina to match her colors, some flat mother of pearl beads (golden Swarovski butterfly for the flower girl), simple S-clasps and voila.

She's happy. I'm happy. Yay!

Walking on Sunshine

This piece started with a really cool polymer clay focal created by my Copper and Clay Designs co-conspirator, Katie. I laced on the copper frame and added the bead drop and beaded chain, finished with a hand formed S-clasp.

You will find this piece in the Copper and Clay inventory. We hope to be showing on Isle of Palms Saturday (I'll let you know) and Katie will be showing in her hometown area later this month (more details soon.) We have more focals in the same color scheme so let me know if you want to see something different.

Make Up Work

And this a second piece today top make up for skipping yesterday. I've been working on it for a while and finally put the finishing touches on it and put it together.

It's all copper cut from sheet. The pieces are textured by various means including metal stamping, etching, and hammering. Color is added with Gilders paste, metal patinas and alcohol inks.

The little orange flowers are polymer clay pieces created by my Copper and Clay Designs partner using some cool surface texture and patina techniques. One is secured to the copper with a rivet, the other is wired on.

The oblong panel features some jump rings looped in chain maille fashion and a hand formed toggle clasp.

The copper panels measure a total of 6.25 inches and the bracelet finishes at 7.5 inches.