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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Gossiping Goddess / Cheeky Cherub Challenge Reveal

For some wonderful reason, Kaz from Cheeky Cherub Designs decided to bestow a heap of leftover lamp work beads on Lesley Gossiping Goddess Watt. In a very fun and generous move, Lesley decided to share some of her treasure with her readers for this challenge. I was one of the lucky winners! I received a heart and two coordinating round beads. I forgot to photograph them before I utilized them, sorry!

This year, we got a bigger Christmas tree than we have in years past. That meant the ornaments were a bit sparse, so I decided to make one out of the heart. I combined some coordinating beads, sari fabric, and cranberry leather, and made this beauty. I like how the fabric looks like the heart's wings! And it looks lovely on the tree. I'll get to admire it for years to come.




For the round beads, which are admittedly an unusual color, I managed to find matching beads, and made these adorable swingy earrings. I'm very pleased with them - they turned out much better than I'd initially imagined. I love when that happens!



Please make sure to check out what everyone else has done!


Rebecca Anderson - http://songbeads.blogspot.co.uk/
Sharyl Macmillan-Nelson - http://sharylsjewelry.blogspot.co.uk/
Caroline Dewison - http://blueberribeads.co.uk/
Purple Cobwebs - http://www.purplecobwebs.co.uk/

24 comments:

  1. I love your ornament Heidi - those milled wine colurs are perfect for the season and the sari silk adds a lovely touch of richness. The earrings are very pretty too with those lovely cranberry drops - very lush. many thanks for taking part in the challenge.

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  2. I am so glad someone made an ornament.... very lovely holiday design! The earrings are too with the rich red dangles. Love them both.

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  3. Great idea to make a christmas decoration and I just love the earrings.
    Merry Christmas!
    Claire

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  4. I love the way the silk reflects the colours in the bead, the same with the beads in your earrings, they all look like they were made for each other! Beautiful designs x

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  5. Wow, I love the ornament idea. Your color choices really brought out the best in those round beads for the earrings. Happy creating!

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  6. Nice work, Heidi! I love that you made an ornament, too.

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  7. That is the kind of ornament I would want on my tree (if I had a tree). Love the earrings.

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  8. Beautiful creations! I especially love the ornament, very unique.

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  9. Perfect ornament! I love the really long ones, I keep resisting buying these long old fashioned twisted tin ones since I already have about 40,000 ornaments on my treeS and scattered everywhere. Always feels like there is room for more. I'd say your ears lucked out in the ornament department too :)

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  10. What a great idea to make a ornament!! I love it and the earrings are beautiful too :-)

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  11. Heidi, what a great idea! Love the ornament, and I'm drooling over those earrings!!

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  12. The heart turned into a delightful ornament. What a gret idea! The earrings are sweet, too! Great work!

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  13. What a wonderful idea to make the heart into an ornament - beautiful! The earrings are very, very pretty :)

    I wonder if all our beads were sprayed with some 'forgotten spell' - nobody seems to have remember to take pictures before making anything with them :)

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  14. So pretty. I'm loving seeing what everyone made. x

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  15. Your ornament is ADORABLE! and I bet it looks awesome on your tree. As far as the earrings, it sounds like they just fell together perfectly. They're lovely!

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  16. Sweet! I bet it looks just lovely on your tree. What is the weather like with you at this time of year? I love that touch of sari silk - so you, and it just lifts that bead. Cute earrings too :-)

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  17. I've seen such delicious ornaments this year, I'm wondering why I haven't gotten in the swing! This will be fabulous for your tree, and what a joy to be able to see it again year after year!

    Those earring beads look like they are made of fine china! What a unique look and you've really made something special with those too!

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  19. These are really great concept of ornament making. I like all.

    Matta

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