The theme was "What’s Old is New Again!" and the challenge was to incorporate vintage or antique components into our pieces. Hey, I can do that! ;)
This time around I decided to do something completely different, and ordered a selection of resin cameos. I also got a length of some antiqued brass chain, and a fun hook and eye clasp. As usual, the ordering process was smooth and I received my new shinies speedily. It took me a bit to figure out what to do with them, as I don't normally work with undrilled pieces, but after some finagling I figured things out, and I'm quite happy with the results.
One of the cameos in an antiqued brass frame, with a combination of new and old chain for stringing, a hook and eye clasp in the shape of a bumblebee, and the tassel made from more vintage chain and a bit from an old necklace:
Another cameo, with more new and vintage chain, accented by an antique glass pearl from another old necklace:
The third was strung with several different styles of vintage chain, draped and layered:
The fourth, another of the smaller flower cameos on vintage chain with vintage copper colored glass pearls and glass beads:
And the fifth I did as a choker with strung freshwater pearls, more vintage chain, and some antique crystal beads with the original black filigree bead caps.
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2 comments:
Hey Victoria, saw your beautiful necklace featured over on the artbeads blog - congrats!
Thank you! I saw that and it gave me a warm fuzzy. I'm incredibly honored that they pictured one of my pieces, with all the incredible work that was submitted for this challenge.
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