Bead Peeps Swap and hop reveal

The Bead Peeps Swap and hop reveal is here and this bead swap and hop I am partnered with Lori Schneider of Bead Addicted whom I had already written about here. I sent her handmade/ hand altered components made of paper, resin, leather and even glass. I also sent her handmade clasps, rings and silk cord along with commercially available beads and buttons. I knew that I couldnt send a lot in an international parcel – so I sent limited stuff – but mostly handmade.

Here is what we sent each other

What I sent her & What she sent me

She sent me lots of goodies – some handmade, some vintage. I was so excited when I got the package as they had beads I was looking for for a couple of my projects so they quickly went into them leaving me with no picture of the full loot. But here is a picture of the remaining. The bugs are gorgeous arent they??

Here is what I made

Ambari bottle necklace

I have posted many of my bottle necklace designs as a part of my Ragamala Collection before and will post the second set shortly. In this piece I have used a picture of a Royal procession on the bottle, decoupaged and resinated it. I picked the colors green, blue, silver with a pop of red for the beads (inspired by the image) and finished the necklace with a suede cord. the Green-blue beads with a red line from Lori are perfect additions to this piece. Here is a tutorial, if you want to learn how to make this bottle necklace.

Emerald and Sapphire Bird’s nest necklace

I had made these little birds nests to be made into bracelets or key rings when I saw this blue bird pendant in the swap stash. I quickly made a looped necklace of beads and green beads and added in some of the interested dogbone shaped beads from Lori. To balance all the copper in the necklace, I smeared a little copper paint on the bird and sealed it. This made the dangle a bit brighter and more interesting as it brought out all the details. I completed the necklace with a copper wire clasp.

Run Free – Horses cameo necklace

My mom loves white horses and has posters of them while I am frankly scared of them. When I saw this vintage cameo, I thought that it could become a perfect heirloom piece, first worn by my mom, then me and hopefully passed through generations. I set the cameo on a scalloped brass blank, covered it with resin and embellished with a rhinestone chain border. I wanted to make it into a pearl necklace and ordered pearls too but it didnt really work well. For the purpose of this reveal, I made a necklace of fabric strips which I’ll change once I figure out the pearls. For Now, its colorful and jazzy.

Challenges:
Bead swaps often come with their own challenges with us not being comfortable either with the color palette or type of beads given. In this case, it was neither for I was most comfortable with greens and blues and the beads that I received. (Notice a similarity in color combo’s that we sent each other!). So my only challenge here was how best to use them! I am in the process of converting many more of these supplies into jewelry but they are not yet done as I want to keep all of them for myself and not sell what I make and hence taking my own sweet time 😀

So how did you find these pieces made for the Bead Peeps Swap and hop reveal? I think I stuck to the safe zone this time around but I really like the output. Special Thanks to Linda Anderson, our dear admin and host for organising such a wonderful swap. I am off to check out my partner’s blog and see what she has made. Do hop around and visit all Swap and hop participants to take in all their inspiring beady goodness.

I hope you found it interesting
Cheers

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