Finally Friday

This is a great color palette isn't it? Love purple.

Here is what I made:

I was playing with 2 of the buttons I bought at the Sheep and Woll festival. Then I added beads from Humblebeads, Gaea, Vintaj, PinkBeach, and some glass seed beads from TwistedSistah.

These 2 necklace obviously fall into my current theme of In Circles :-)

Here is the palette for next time - 2 weeks:

How beautiful is that? I am freezing right now, it's about 20 degrees here in NY. 

Brrr... I would love to hang out in that hammock :-)

Hope you have a great Friday and I hope to see you link up your blog in 2 weeks for Finally Friday

~Shannon

ps: you do not have to use all the colors in the palette

Finally Friday - Cloud Tones

Design-Seeds - Cloud Tones

Here is what I was inspired to make this week:

the turquoise beads are vintage lucite, the brown beads are glass and the whitish beads are snow quartz.

I have hand wire wrapped each bead individually to make the chain.

The pendant is from Kabella, I bought a grab bag from them at a show and this was in there. I found a tiny brown glass flower and layered it, a blue glass flower and the pendant. I used a headpin and wire wrapped the three together and made a top loop to create this pretty pendant. It was the jumping off point for this pretty, simple necklace.

Here is the palette for next week:

Design-Seeds Autumn Dew

Make an item or choose materials inspired by the palette and write a blog post about it, post the item for sale, or post the item on your website. Add the link to your blog post, shop or website in the comments next week.

The only rule is that if you use the Design-Seeds palette you must link directly to http://www.Design-Seeds.com

Have fun and I can't wait to see what you make!

~Shannon

Also, I have come up with what I think is a great way to share what my readers are making. If you e-mail be by 6pm the night before (so Thursday night) I will happily share a picture of what you made and a link to your shop, blog, etc in my post. So make sure to send me an e-mail at formysweetdaughter@me.com before 6pm next thurs to have your item featured on my blog.

Fall Color Inspiration

I am guest blogger over at the Hudson Valley Etsy Team blog today for Inspiration Wednesday and here is the color palette I was working with for this weeks post:

Design-Seeds

Isn't it awesome?! I made so many pieces of jewelry this weekend with this palette as a jumping off point. I just love earthy colors and as you can see from the picture below I had a plethora of handmade pendants to choose from:

I hope you will stop by the blog to see what I made,

be sure to stop by on Friday to see the pieces I made for Finally Friday.

Have a great day!

~Shannon

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Finally Friday

Design-Seeds.com

It's Finally Friday reveal time!
Above is the inspiration palette from last week and below id the necklace I made.

I used one of my etched copper pendants, an egg from SecondSurf, lampwork beads from 

Unicorne Beads and tons of Czech glass - some vintage and some new. 

Vintaj chain, jump rings and clasp finishes this necklace off nicely.

Did you make anything inspired by this palette? If so be sure to leave your link in the comment section below.

Here is the Design-Seeds.com palette for the week:

I couldn't resist these rich beautiful colors!

Design-Seeds

You have till Next Friday to make something (anything) inspired by the palette. Stop back here next Friday and add your link in the comments below.

If you blog and use the Design Seeds photo in your blog you must link to Design Seeds.

Have fun and I can't wait to see what you have made!
~Shannon

Finally Friday August 3rd edition

It's Finally Friday time!

Here is the inspiration palette from the week:

Design-Seeds

and here are a couple pieces I made inspired by the palette:

Tons of etched copper pieces this week!

Here is the inspiration palette from Design-Seeds.com for next week:

Design-Seeds

You have till Next Friday to make something (anything) inspired by the palette. Stop back here next Friday and add you link in the comments below.

If you blog and use the Design Seeds photo in your blog you must link to Design Seeds.

Have fun and I can't wait to see what you have made!
~Shannon

Finally Friday - Summer Tones

I was really nervous when I first randomly selected this palette but I love the necklace I made so much I even wore it to work today.

These vintage lucite beads are so shiny and delicious looking I want to lick them.

Here is the next palette:

Design-Seeds

You have till Next Friday to make something (anything) inspired by the palette. Stop back here next Friday and add you link in the comments below.

If you blog and use the Design Seeds photo in your blog you must link to Design Seeds.

Have fun and I can't wait to see what you have made!
~Shannon

Finally Friday - Late Edition

I know, I know it is actually almost Saturday.
I am finding it hard to keep up with everything on my plate at the moment. So my posts will probably be going up at night after my daughter is in bed, that is what seems to be the best thing for me.

So on to the reason for my post tonight.
I am bringing back Finally Friday!
Did you know that since I stopped doing these I haven't made more than 5 pieces of jewelry and when I was doing them I was making 5+ pieces a day?! Yup. I love these inspirational posts so I want you to try it with me.
Here is the inspiration for the week.

You have till Next Friday to make something (anything) inspired by the palette. Stop back here next Friday (probably night) and add you link in the comments below.
If you blog and use the Design Seeds photo in your blog you must link to Design Seeds.
Have fun and I can't wait to see what you have made!
~Shannon

Finally Friday

It's Finally Friday time!

Here is the palette for this week:

Gotta love Design Seeds, these colors are so beautiful. I will admit I struggled with this palette, I almost never create in these colors and I don't think I have ever created with all of them at the same time.

Till now :-)

Here is the necklace I created for this week:

It all started with these Czech glass flowers and my fused copper rings

Repeated 3 times

Then I added this beautiful lampwork glass bead Pinkbeach from and spacers from TierraCast 

Then this porcelain pendant from Nancy Schindler and layered with a vintaj butterfly

I threw in some teardrop glass beads, vintage lucite beads and my own forged copper clasp

Here's the palette for next week:

The rules:

Look at color palette.

Be inspired.

Gather supplies inspired by that color palette.

Create something wonderful.

Anything, jewelry, clothes, a painting, even a big 'ole mess.

Take a picture.

Post on your blog.

Link palette to Design Seeds.

Add link here in comments.

Play again the following week!

So did you make anything inspired by this weeks palette? Be sure to add your link below.

Thank you for stopping by, I really do appreciate you reading my blog and I hope you will join in next week.

If you liked today's post please share it with your friends,  pin any of the pictures on pinterest, tweet or share on facebook and google+, but most importantly leave me a comment below.

~Shannon

Finally Friday

Hello, it's Finally Friday time!
Here is the inspiration from Design-Seeds:



I chose to make this post a twofer. Okay, it was a happy accident. I designed this bracelet Saturday and was hoping to make some other things for today's post but had a horrible week at the salon and never got around to making anything else.

I am a member of the Allegory Gallery Design Team and I used beads from the package of beads I was sent- the prettiest yellow colored glass cubes.

Leaf chain from Lima Beads

Etched copper I made

Lampwork Glass bead from Kreations By Karen K

Jasper and Vintaj Natural Brass

The Allegory Gallery Design Team:

Peggy Li

Sally Russick

Penny Neville

Cindy Cima Edwards

AJ Reardon

Amy Cousin

Genea Crivello-Knable

Brenda Salzano

Shannon Chomanczuk

Charlene Sevier

Jess Prill

Rebecca Anderson

I also made this lovely pair of earrings:

Lampwork beads from Cheryl's Art, forged ear wires and soldered copper rings made by me

Here is the inspiration for next week:

   

The rules:

Look at color palette.

Be inspired.

Gather supplies inspired by that color palette.

Create something wonderful.

Anything, jewelry, clothes, a painting, even a big 'ole mess.

Take a picture.

Post on your blog.

Link palette to Design Seeds.

Add link here.

Play again the following week!

So did you make anything inspired by this weeks palette? Be sure to add your link below.

Thank you for stopping by, I really do appreciate you reading my blog and I hope you will join in next week.

If you liked today's post please share it with your friends,  pin any of the pictures on pinterest, tweet or share on facebook and google+, but most importantly leave me a comment below.

~Shannon