Treasury Round Up - 4/15/12

I am always excited when I see a treasury feature in my activity feed!  Please help me thank the curators who featured my work this past week by visiting their shops and checking out their treasuries.

Pamela (ForHerEarsOnly) included my Beaded Cuff Bracelet - Dagger Fringed - Pink Garden in her With Spring Comes Easter treasury.  She posted this last Sunday.  Many of these items are perfect for any time during the spring.  Check out Pamela's Pink Parlor.

Dorota (SaboDesigns) included my Button Charm Bracelet - Spring Green in her Little green on your hand treasury.  If you're looking for a new bracelet for this spring, check out this great collection.  Check our Dorota's Vintage Clock Earrings.

Janet (HoneyFromTheBee) included my Beaded Cuff Bracelet - Metallic Brown, Blue, Red, - Clover Leaf Embellished in her All American Mom treasury.  If you're looking for a Mother's Day gift, head on over to this great collection.  Check out Janet's Rose Lampwork Bead Bracelet - Organic Mint Green Beads.

Diane (KickStandProductions) included my Beaded Cuff Bracelet - Strawberry Fields Forever in her Strawberry fields forever treasury.  This is the third Strawberry Fields treasury feature I've had with this cuff for 2012!  Each one is so unique.  Diane's collection is no exception.  Check out her Framed charming tinted photo of a little blonde boy.

I also curated my own treasury this week.  Lime is one of my favorite underrated colors.  I hadn't used it in a treasury in ages.  It seemed like a perfect time of year to bring it back.

Rock April with Lime

 

Thanks to those who linked up with me last week!  Here are a few of the items that they featured last week.  Click on the photos to check out the product listings.

I am really touched by all the people who I have inspired to start their own treasury round ups with awesome shop features and write ups!  Please link up with me and grab a button for your own post.  I know that not everyone posts these rounds ups on Sundays, which is fine.  I will leave this link up open all week.

If you link up, take the time to visit and comment on at least one other post.  No one benefits from linking up if we don't all support each other.  Thanks!










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"What's Old is New Again" Art Beads design partners piece

Typically I complete my Art Beads pieces about three weeks after the themes are announced.  I got the initial e-mail for the spring theme at the very end of March and didn't complete my piece until this past Sunday.  The size for one of my bead sets was mislabeled on the Art Beads site.  It took a couple weeks to get a new set of something similar in the right size.  I've also been busy with custom orders (no complaints there!) and all of the moving and graduation stuff.  But I finished it and am really happy with the result.

The theme for the Art Beads design partners is "What's Old is New Again."  We were supposed to use any old or vintage inspired components with or without new components to create a brand new piece.  I didn't have any initial idea for the theme.  I started browsing the suggested site categories and came across these patina daggers in the glass beads category.  I'm sure that it's no surprise that I was immediately drawn to them.  I've been eying some similar ones in Shannon's shop for a while, but hadn't bought any yet.  This was the perfect opportunity to use them.  The whole set with orange, lime, turquoise, and purple reminded me of the 70's, which fit perfectly for this theme, so I decided to go with it.

Once I was set on the patinas, I hunted through my own bead stash for cube and seed beads in coordinating colors.  I supplied all of these myself, although three of the cube bead sets were ones that I'd purchased from Art Beads on my own.  You can see my sneak peak post about this here.  I filled in the patina daggers with orange, lime, and transparent green daggers.  I love the dagger beads on Art Beads, but as I've posted about here before, it's cheaper to buy them in bulk elsewhere.  Usually I get a few unusual designs from Art Beads and fill them in with bulk solid colors.

This is the first dagger bracelet that I've made with side fringe.  I used coordinating orange and lime pressed Czech glass beads, along with the seed beads, with the same technique that I use for my other skinny fringed/embellished bracelets.  If you want links for the specific Czech glass that I used in this piece, let me know.

Art Beads has several awesome triangle clasps in their clasp category.  I choose this one because it was vintage inspired and has the circles on it, which mirror the ones on the patinas.  Normally I would have used a button from my own collection, but we need two product categories for our pieces, so this was a perfect way to make that happen.

I decided to name the piece after That '70s Show.  I thought that this would be appropriate as I grew up in the 80's and got my inspiration for this retro color combination from my own generation's pop culture.

I love the way the colors came together in this piece.  I also love the side fringe.  I think that the size and shape of the beads that I chose worked really well as a little border.  I may experiment with similar fringe in the future.

It's available here.  I collected some new green daggers in the process of making this bracelet so I'm planning an all green dagger bracelet in the future.  That's the only dagger piece that I have in the works right now, but as always I'm open to other suggestions.

Disclosure - I received my ArtBead's products free of charge through their blogging program. I am honestly reviewing their products and have not been paid for my endorsement as it pertains to the products I received.

one of the most underrated colors

I like almost every color. Since I seriously got into making jewelry almost two years ago, I've experimented with a lot of colors and started wearing a lot of colors that I never thought I would. There are several colors that I think are underrated. Lime is one of them. I got these awesome lime beads when I was back in Chicago over Presidents' Day weekend.


Since I'm sure that everyone could use a refreshing spring color this time of year, I thought it would be fun to do a little lime feature.

Spring Fairy Wrist Warmers by koopdegrace

large olive, lime, vintage glass wire wrapped teardrop pendant and necklace by bethtastic

NEARLY SPRING....Free Shipping by blueseraphim

Green Apples (handmade buttons set of 6) by TessaAnn

peridot . drop . necklace by sleepymoondesign