We’re All Ears: Flower earrings

When I say that February’s We’re All Ears Inspiration is absolutely gorgeous – it is an understatement, but I cant a find a better word than that.  Erin has enticed even the reluctant of us beaders to participate in this anniversary edition by choosing the Malaysian artist and photographer Lim Zhi Wei (a.k.a Limzy) whimsical flower girl prints (for a calendar) as our inspiration. These stylised photo illustration have made me realise how I can make illustration fun for my Fashion communication students and my head is spinning with possibilities – however none with respect to making jewelry – sigh!
Though I am more of a leaf than a flower person when it comes to  jewelry design, I do love them and use a lot of them in my accessories, cards and arrangements that I make for family. I chose rose as my inspiration – I didnt know about birth month flowers before this but mine turned out to be roses. No wonder I am so attracted to them.
Let me say that I am by no measure doing any justice to the inspiration with my design; but I really wanted to take part because I loved it so much. So here one altered Lucite flower earrings and one paper flower earrings from a wedding set I made. Will post the full set soon – it was a gorgeous 10 piece wedding flower jewelry set maybe with mulberry flowers

paper flower earrings
Earrings made with mulberry flowers – red roses and pearls

Peach Flores Earrings – These long chain earrings are created using Peach lucite flowers altered with gold acrylic paint and alcohol ink, Sealed and wire wrapped with a wire bead.

lucite flower earrings

wire wrapped flower earrings

 
Our Inspiration
 
 
I love these illustrations and hope to do a similar exercise with my students some day. Do visit the Earrings Everyday Reveal page to see what others have created with this inspiration in mind
 I hope you found it interesting

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  1. Terri avatar

    Your rose earrings and fantastic! and the Peach flower earrings capture the fun of this challenge!

  2. Little Treasures avatar

    I on the other hand am a flower person 🙂
    Your roses are gorgeous and I love the inspiration you had!

  3. CREATIVE KHADIJA avatar

    So nice! live it 🙂

  4. Tammy Adams avatar

    I'm more of a leaf than flower person. Luckily I found the art very inspiring. Your flower earrings are delightful. I especially love how you wired the centers on the orange ones.

  5. OksanaB avatar

    so very beautiful! Love the bright colors! Great job!

  6. Cinnamon Jewellery avatar

    I love the mulberry flower earrings, they are so vibrant! That's a clever idea to use the flower girl prints as inspiration, they are gorgeous.

  7. Alice avatar

    beautiful earrings.I like the peach flowers as i'm not as fond of roses.

  8. Bijoux Gems Joy avatar

    Your rose earrings remind me of the rose girl from the photo. And your peach earrings are a riff off the flamenco girl to me. Both sets are very pretty and look fun.

    Mona

  9. Dr Sonia S V avatar

    Both your earrings are so Very Pretty !

  10. bairozan avatar

    I love both – the passionate mulberry roses and the altered lucite flowers! I think the wire bead totally changes how the latter look!

  11. Divya N avatar

    Thank you all so much 🙂 I am humbled by all these wonderful comments

  12. motidana avatar

    Lovely earring Divya ! 🙂

  13. Kathy Lindemer avatar

    Very clever of you to use lucite flowers and alter with gold acrylic paint and alcohol ink. All of the earrings look great.

  14. Katherine Thompson avatar

    I agree with Kathy Lindmer great job!

  15. TesoriTrovati avatar

    You can not be unhappy when wearing flowers, can you Miss Divya? I love both pairs, but the peach flowers just look like fun to me! So glad you joined in the spring-y fun at We're All Ears. Can spring be far behind?! Come back on March 6th for the next inspiration! Enjoy the day. Erin

  16. Divya N avatar

    thank you for your lovely comment Erin. We Indians love wearing flowers. Spring is almost over for us – another 2 weeks and then summer it is!!

  17. Divya N avatar

    I saw it on a post on Jewelry making Daily a long time ago- just dont remember when

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