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Monday, February 4, 2019

December/January challenge

Eye, Snake or Bird

Our challenge was to pick one of the above icons that have been so popular lately and oddly everyone chose Eye! We have some excellent entries this month.

Christine Mighion

Divine Eye earrings:

Tiny cast sterling silver skulls and bits of nature
• Free form cut crosses with natural peridot and amethyst gemstones set inside
• Hand carved blue turquoise flower, fire opal, peruvian opal, topaz, sapphire, ruby, green chrome diopside, and sunstone beads

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Elise Worman

I don't usually use icons like this in my work. I almost skipped doing this one, but we were given a month extension on the deadline.. so no excuses. Love the results! Forged sterling silver eye pin featuring a beautiful fossil coral.

EMW metalworks Etsy

Leslie Zemenek

Copper, bronze and silver winged eye brooch.

Jen Prox Weisblat

Winged eye necklace:

Quartz crystal embedded with tourmaline along with a rose cut peridot.

Monday, December 3, 2018

November Challenge-TEXTILES

Cynthia Kurth/ Schmuckburg

To give the silver a structure, I pressed it with various old lace doilies through the roller.
With some handmade stamps and the spinner rings, which also look like cords, there are great patterns.

Elise Worman/EMWmetalworks

The first, a fossil coral piece that reminds me of old Japanese silk kimono textiles. The second is a forged pendant with a dinosaur bone, here the ruffle in the silver reminds me of tulle. This was a great challenge!

Su Trindle/Quercus Silver

The Hem Stitch Brooch: It is the latest in a series of pieces which celebrate the fun I had learning to sew when I was young. It gave me a lifelong love of making.
Materials: Sterling Silver and resin.

Debbie Ritchie/ Fenton design

Copper and Sterling Silver mounted on a cedar board which has been burned and polished with stainless steel wool in the manner of shou sugi ban.

Andrea Ring/ Amuckdsign

An old snippet of lace from a dress forever captured in sterling and brass.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Monthly Challenge- Circles and Earrings

This month we took a simple design element, the circle and asked teammates to create a pair of earrings. It's always fun to see how many people can use the same design element and come up with completely different pieces from each other. Enjoy!

Kirsten Denbow

Kristen Baird-Rabun

I love this pattern. I call it Polka dots - but they are circles actually.

A drilled iron plate creates the pattern.

Cynthia Kurth

Schmuckburg

Beth Cyr Kroh

I loved working with the rainbow colors of these scallop shell beads. In these necklace and earrings, I framed the beads with hand textured sterling silver circles.

Suzy Louise

Wild Thistle Jewelry

Long sterling silver dangle earrings, layered circles, 14 gauge.

Mokume Gane earrings with dot pattern, sterling silver and copper.

Large sterling silver hoops with embossed circle.

Elise Worman

EMW metalworks

Laura Bracken

Bracken Designs

Andrea Ring

Amuckdesign

Su Trindle

These were made in collaboration with ceramicist Emily-Kriste Wilcox. Keeping them lightweight, protective and complementary to the ceramics was an interesting challenge. I made textured silver frames which are tab set front and back and oxidised them for a charcoal finish show off the painterly glaze on the ceramics.

Regina Ewer

Monday, April 2, 2018

March monthly Challenge-Cocktail Ring

For our March monthly challenge we made "Cocktail Rings" and I can tell that everyone had fun with this one!!

Kirsten Denbow

Dendritic opal with opals.

Cynthia Kurth

Blue Topaz in sterling silver.

Beth Cyr

It features a beautiful piece of Gary Green Jasper, a rough green sapphire set in 18k yellow gold and a teal colored diamond flush set in to the sterling tree bark textured element.The elements all work together to create a lovely harmony. Not your everyday ring, but definitely something special.

Elise Worman

Forged sterling silver fork tines with labradorite, green flash.

Nina Gibson

This lapis ring was made during a recent workshop taught by Joanna Gollberg on the Smith little torch. The ring band is hollow, made with a ring bender. And the lapis is a large, straight edged cab. It was a great workshop and my tool wish list is much larger now!

Anna Severina Fell

Druzy and sterling cocktail ring.

Leslie Zemenek

Pierced silver luna agate cocktail ring.

Suzy Louise

Wild Thistle Jewelry

Su Trindle

Curvy geomtric shapes and forms recur frequently in my work but I love the way this new stripes design changes the dynamic. These Graphico stripes rings are in the 'new@devonguild' exhibition which runs until 30th April at The Devon Guild in Bovey Tracey, here in the UK.

Debbie Ritchie

Sterling silver with prehnite and four peridot.

Evelyn Markasky

Dangerous cocktail ring - forged, formed, and torch fired enamel on a silver band.

Saturday, November 25, 2017

What's New!

Special gifts for someone special... you!

This week's new work from etsymetal...

Sarah Hood Jewelry Amity Jewelry

Quercus Silver Juju By Sarah

Renee Ford Metals Debbie Ritchie

Cynthia Del Giudice Lauren Meredith

betsybensen EMW Metalworks

Lichen and Lychee

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