Inspiration Friday

Welcome to our newest version of Inspiration Friday. We thought we'd made a few changes, namely allowing folks to choose their own inspiration, and the biggie - we give you a lot more time! If you would like to participate in the next one, see the end of this post for complete details.

I love the idea of using an inspiration palette to base your design on. We all tend to stick with our own comfortable colour palettes, and this is just such an easy way to expand your range.


Our first submission is from Deborah Muss

 I call this Early Spring.  This field of lupins inspired me to make these glass headpins.  This necklace includes 35 headpins that I made in the BeadFx Lampwork studio & the chain & clasp are all from beadFX.  Along with my finished jewelry I'll be listing all shapes of glass headpins in my online store shortly.
Online store: www.msmussyjewels.bigcartel.com

Deborah Muss

Somehow I always end up leaving mine to the last minute - but I do like how these came together. The acorns are handmade from fast fire bronze clay.  The colour palette is based on the door tone palette from Design Seeds:

                                                                                  Source: design-seeds.com via Jennifer on Pinterest

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Deadline April 26th, 2012

Before the cutoff date, send your pictures to us, and we'll blog your inspiration source, and your finished project.  Feel free at that time to send us along any other info you want to include. We'll publicize your blog or etsy/artfire/etc site as well.

For example, I think I'll make mine from this one:

You can make your jewelry/beadwork out of any materials you wish. This can be stringing, wirework, lampwork, polymer clay - whatever you wish!
 


(Many of us use Design Seeds as in inspiration source. Feel free to use any inspiration source you wish. Design Seeds just happens to be among my favourites.)

Here's how to submit:

 * Send an email to jennifer@beadfx.com with a picture of your inspiration source (or a link to the source)
* include an image of your creation
* include any contact information you want us to include in the blog posting

Happy Creating!