Experimenting

In my incessant research of learning new technique I stumbled upon one which involves, once again, wire and beads. There was this pin coming up all the times on my Pinterest and I decided to give it a try. My result is far from being as nice as the one on Pinterest but this was just a first attempt….

[Light blue bugle glass seed beads, copper wire and cultivated pearls.]

A birthday gift

Here is the necklace I made for my friend Paola’s birthday. Since she expressed her admiration for this necklace here, I decided to make one especially for her. I didn’t have enough blue glass beads so I used green glass beads of the same shape instead.

Copper and green beads necklace

 

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A gift

I made this necklace, which is a variation of this one here, as a gift for a friend’s birthday. It is made with hammered copper wire and glass beads…

Necklace for a birthday…

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Blue glass

Here’s a new necklace I made with some copper wire and light blue glass beads. I really like the contrast among the two colours.
I hammered and shaped the copper wire and added the beads. Very simple!

Copper and light blue glass beads necklace

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Another ring

Here is another ring I made in the past days. I used some copper wire and what I think is a faceted hematite squared bead. But I’m not sure about this… I mean, I’m not sure whether it is an hematite stone or what….

Anyway, I think the result is nice but I still have to improve my skills….

copper ring

copper ring

copper ring

The ring

I’ve been thinking on how to make a ring for a while now, and I finally decided to experiment. Here is the result. At the beginning it wasn’t ment to be for my pinky but after a couple of changes of mind, it became a bit small… 😉

The ring

The ring: out of focus detail

the ring: out of focus or artsy detail… 😉

My necklace

I’m in a wire frenzy! Here is another necklace I made for myself, baring my name. The clasp is also made by me. 🙂

say my name…

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Copper and hammer

I’m still working with copper wire and hammer….. this time I made some earrings…. I still have to work on my hammering skills!

Hammered copper wire earrings with black crystals and light blue glass beads

Hammered copper wire earrings with a light pink glass drop

Wire works

I’ve been working with wire this past weekend… here are the results of some exercises… btw, if you’re wondering what “Fiore” means, well… that’s my name. 😉

exercises with wire

necklace “wired love”…

Copper

Recently I’ve been actracted to copper wire, and when I found this lovely tutorial on how to make a Wire Heart Clasp, I decided to give it a try!

The nacklace and earings in the following photos are the results… I used thin copper wire and matte white round crystal beads to make a string with the rosary technique, then, with a thicker copper wire I made the heart shaped clasp and ring. I added a greyish/bluish faceted crystal roundel bead and a cultivated  fresh water nugget pearl for an extra accent.

I used the same materials for the earings except that I didn’t have the copper studs (and the wire used for the clasp was far too thick), so I made them out of two copper rings from this previous work… I straightened two rings and sanded one end and made a loop on the other…. et voilà!

…btw, I wear the necklace so that the lovely heart clasp is in the front. 😉

crystals and pearl necklace

crystals and pearl: detail

crystals and pearls earings