Barbara Bechtel and Gardanne Glass Challenge reveal...

I'll start with showing what I did with Barbara's beads first...

I knew I wanted to make earrings with the 2 leaf charms she sent but I then I thought maybe that was too easy and obvious so made earrings anyways except...

I mismatched them in a sortofmatchingstillgoestogetherandisfun kinda way :) 

even when I don't feel like wearing a big necklace or I'm in one of those moods where wearing a bracelet bothers me or seems to get in my way, earrings are always my go to choice. They're just fun to wear, right! So I thought "ok I'm ganna make these even more fun with a little boho kick to them"...

The green polymer clay beads I got from another artist in a swap last year but I cannot remember who made them! I know I have it written down somewhere though but I do so many swaps it's hard to keep track. I need a better system. I thought they went perfect with Barbara's beads. 

I started with the key focal and knew I wanted to  somehow use a bit of some green sari silk I had left over from another design. I used an antiqued silver keyhole plate as part of the clasp since it seemed to fit the theme, wire wrapped everything with some chain and viola!

btw, I seriously am in LOVE with these faceted beads...

Now here's what I did with my Gardanne Glass balled headpins ...

 I really wanted them to be the focal. I really wanted another pair of fun, organic-ish, boho-ish looking earrings but still a little different and non-traditional...

I played around with them a bit, curly cuing the end bits and then wired up a pair of my lampwork glass fluted spacers in a sagey green color. 

The colors in both challenges are stunning and I had a blast working with these beads and head pins. You can find both of these wonderful artist's and their goodies on etsy at:

Gardanne Glass

Barbara Betchel- Floridity

and be sure to hop over to see what everyone else who participated created with these same beads:

Star Hitched Wagon

Pretty Things

and

Spice Box Designs

and also check out what the designers who participated in the head pins challenge created by hopping on over to Lorelei's blog for the blog list. 

A big thank you to Lori and Lorelei for hosting these challenge/hops! I had so much fun!

OH but wait! Didn't I say something about a little giveaway in my last post?

One lucky blog visitor will win these earrings!

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BUT

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Thanks so much for stopping by!