Friday, September 19, 2014

September We're All Ears Challenge Reveal







Hello!  Welcome to the September reveal of the We're All Ears challenge hosted by Earrings Everyday  Every month, Erin is our hostess and she chooses a great inspiration photo for all those who participate to create from.   This month,  the inspiration was macro photography.   Check out her post here to learn more about this type of photography and why she chose it to work with this month.

I  wiggled for joy when I saw this month's photos.   Trees!  Bark!  Lichen!!  How could Forest of Jewels not love those pictures?  I was excited to take my favorite design themes and work with them this month.   I decided to focus on the trees and the colors in the photographs to design my earrings.



I wanted the earrings to be linear to reflect the main photo in the collage above.   Brown was a focus color, but I also wanted to bring in the soft green and beige from the other photos.   The rod shaped beads are fossil stone and I highlighted those with small green aventurine rounds,  and small round sesame and red jasper beads.   The top half of the earrings are larger green aventurine lentils and the sesame and red jasper beads.



I am so in love with the delicate fluidity of these earrings.  The colors really reflect what the forest looks like outside my window.   It was a pleasure to work with different types of natural gemstones.   My love of stones are what got me into designing my own jewelry in the first place.

Thanks again to Erin,  it was a great challenge and I look forward to next month.   Make sure you stop by the challenge page to see what everyone else has designed!
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11 comments:

  1. Gorgeous design, lovely earthy colours xx

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  2. Lovely earrings! I love their long and fluid look!

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  3. Lovely. Long and dangle-y works for me!

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  4. Sweet earrings. I love the length.

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  5. Great color choices. Especially loving the long dangly-ness of them.

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  6. Beautiful, earthy colors! Love the long but dainty dangle style

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  7. When I saw the name of your shop, I thought the same thing! You were meant for this challenge! :) I love adventurine and jasper, and the fossil stone is a unique addition. These will be fun to wear!

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  8. Nice mix of gemstones and bead shapes!

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  9. Long lean and lovely Miss Marybeth! Thanks for taking the time to play in the We're All Ears challenge! Enjoy the day! Erin

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  10. I would say this theme was right up your ally! I really love the earrings and how they are straight but yet fluid...excellent work!

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  11. love them! I love linear, too :) And moving linear is gorgeous. Great colorway!

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