Color Challenge – Red
joy.joyner on Feb 27 2009 at 11:56 pm | Filed under: Beads, Daily Stuff, Jewelry, Recently Finished
This month Ashley and I challenged ourselves to make a piece using red. It was a quick color challenge, we had all of a week and a half to do it. She made some amazing earrings using some great vintage Lucite drops we scored from Three Beads and a Button on our monthly shopping trip a couple of weeks ago (more about that shopping trip soon!). I need to snap a picture of them, she whipped them up over night and they’re lovely!
Red was a challenge for me. I don’t normally work with it and it’s a challenge just to find good red beads! I was totally stoked when Ashley gifted me the red beads I used in this piece. They were from a two strand necklace that one of the ladies from the antique store in San Juan gave to her. She wasn’t crazy about them, but I went gaga over them. :) They’re an unusual shape, I have no idea what it’s called. The color was perfect red. Not orange, not magenta, but true red.
I played off the vintage and rustic nature of the beads and added some brass beads and feather drops to the piece and created a drop pendant using a chunk of Coral and a brass bell from India.The clasp is a loop of matte red seed beads with a black agate disk/button closure.
It has a funky tribal feel to it that I love. Steph loved it, too! In fact, she was so smitten with it I decided that it’s going to go live with her in her soon to be shipped goody box.
Is everyone else out there hibernating?
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Beautiful job… Love the color of it…
Very, very nice:) I love red, though I don’t wear it often enough. It makes me feel powerful and passionate (or at least reminds me that I can be either if I wish)! It’s only 19 degrees here, so maybe I should wear some red to remind me of warmth, too, lol.