etsy metal: etsymetal challenge

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Showing posts with label etsymetal challenge. Show all posts

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

Etsy shop

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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.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Monthly Challenge- Chainmaking

Our October challenge was to experiment with chainmaking. This month didn't need to be a finished product but we do have two gorgeous bracelets that were completed. Chainmaking is such an intriguing challenge, there is so much that can be done. Enjoy and I hope we have inspired you to make some chain of your own.

Laura Bouton

This is a handmade curb chain with a little turquoise heart. Chain making is one of my favorite techniques.

Elise Worman

The photo is of a few sample pieces with different finishes on two different chain types I made. The double U shape sideways is a cast element from a wax I carved. I've been wanting to make this bracelet for a while, so thanks for this challenge! The second is hammered silver circles soldered together to make a unique statement chain with so many possibilities. Great challenge!

Cynthia Kurth

I am very fascinated by chain weaving, it's so great what structures are made of wire. The second pic is a great sampler of multiple chain types.

Debbie Ritchie

Andrea Ring

I tried to make some chains that would match earring designs I've been working on lately.

Michele Grady

This is actually 2 chains that are connected together at the moment. They can be worn as 1 long chain or as 2 individual shorter chains.

Monday, October 1, 2018

Monthly Challenge- Halloween

Happy October! We are starting the month off with a few Halloween inspired pieces, enjoy.

Cynthia Kurth- Schmuckburg

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Etsy shop

That´s why I love to be in the etsy metal team. I create things that I would never have done alone. In fact I don´t like Halloween so much. It's so easy to scare me.
And I´m really scared about spiders. And now take a look: I even made a spider with fat black legs on the backside - and enjoy it!

Elise Worman- EMW Metalworks

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I was inspired by Halloween to make masks. This was so much fun! These pieces are made from sterling silver and can be worn as a pin or a pendant. Most of the metal I used came from my scrap box.

Michele Grady- Michele Grady Designs

Black onyx skull set in handmade sterling bezel. perfect for Halloween or really anytime of the year!!

Andrea Ring- Amuck

For me the kick-off to Halloween is buying that first bag of candy corn as soon as the Halloween candies hit the store shelves!!

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

Thursday, June 7, 2018

May Monthly challenge

"FOUND"

Our challenge for May was to take a walk and pick up some found objects along the way. You never know where you'll find awesome supplies for jewelry!

Rusty Washer bezel set in sterling silver with a turquoise.

Whale bone fossil bezel set in sterling silver with rainbow moonstone.

Shell from NC set in sterling silver.

Elise Worman

EMWMetalworks shop

Elise already had some found objects she'd gathered and made three beautiful necklaces from her treasures.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

April Monthly Challenge- "SPRING"

For April we wanted to start getting ourselves in the mood for spring so thought about the themes of birth, growth, color, bugs and botanica. I have seven entries to share with you this month, enjoy!!

Amity Reed

Make a statement for Spring with these two necklaces by Amity! Purple Labradorite with butterflies and flowers hand sawn from the backside and Bumblee Bee jasper with flowers and bees on backside.

Amity Jewelry Etsy shop

Anna Severina Fell

Sterling silver ring featuring a lovely blue green Arizona Turquoise cabochon in a floral inspired setting with tapered hand stamped wood grain band.

Severin Metal Etsy shop

Elise Worman

Spring is my favorite season! As a gardener It is time to plant seeds and watch them pop through the soil and grow. I love to watch the garden come alive again after the long winter sleep.

Cynthia Kurth

Look what Cynthia "found" in her studio!! That's the cutest darn bug I've ever seen.

Schmuckburg Etsy

Debbie Ritchie

Here's a little flower with a springy green serpentine !

Fenton Design Etsy shop

Laura Bracken

These are pennies that I have enameled California poppies onto.

Bracken Designs Etsy shop

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