Week # 20 of the #2015PCChallenge

When I signed up for Katie Oskin's challenge I had no idea it would be so much fun. Over the last 20 weeks I have tried many new techniques and my skill has really improved in my work with polymer clay. Thank you, Katie.
I'm going to skip the commentary and just add pictures of my additions to the challenge for the last 6 weeks.

Ikat cane

Hieroglyphic Beads

Texture sheet impressions and pan pastels

Textures and Gilders Paste

Jelly Roll cane

First Sutton Slice

Sutton Slice Jewelry sets.

See what I mean........so much fun!

Have a great weekend.

It's time.....

.......for the long awaited and much anticipated Bead Peeps Swap 'n Hop!! Linda Anderson and her helpers have organized this hop as the first big party hosted by the Facebook group Bead Peeps. It involves swapping art beads  and other components with another jewelry maker and then each participant makes new pieces of jewelry using the goodies sent by her partner.  It is  a lot of fun and usually quite a challenge since we all have such different tastes and design styles! Our partners were chosen for us from a pool of about 200 volunteers who wanted to join in. Quite an undertaking but Linda and her team did a fantastic job and everybody was paired up very quickly after the deadline. The party part happens on May 2nd, reveal day. Every participant writes a post on their own blog describing their journey from receiving the beads until they have finished creating one or more pieces of jewelry using the art beads they were sent. So tune in and enjoy the eye candy. #BeadPeepSwap

My partner is Johana Nunez from Puerto Rico. I forgot to say that this is an international group with artisans from ALL OVER! It's such a neat way to get to know artists with similar passion for jewelry making. Johana sent me a lovely collection of her own enameled beads and components that I showed here. This is a quick picture of my gift.

And here is what I made from the beautiful goodies.

Copper bracelet with the large enameled bead from Johana as the focal and 4 beautiful matching lampwork beads from Rosemary of Rosemary's Glass Art. The clasp is one that I made.

"Sort of " asymmetrical earrings with Johana's enameled beads paired with 2 orphan beads from Petra of Scorched Earth on Etsy. Because these beads weren't the same colour I had decided to use them in a pair of asymmetrical earrings and while digging through my Scorched Earth collection  ( LOL, everybody has one, don't they?) I found these perfectly matching ceramic drops in the exact same colours!! How weird is that?  So they are asymmetrical because they are different colours but otherwise they are the same. I know what I'll call them. 

"The Same , but Different Earrings"

  

Johana included the sweet little Czech glass beads in a soft , pale pink which is a colour and style that I rarely use but I was determined to use them, especially those little pink flowers. Again it was time to dig through my hoarded beads. this time I found these gorgeous  pink mix lampwork beads that I scored in the Advent sale from Maryse at GlassBeadArt.

 My only concern about these didn't show up until I photographed and it's too late to change it now ( it's almost midnight!). The pink waxed linen thread must have picked up some errant remains of liver of sulphur from my hands and the thread looks "grubby " in the pictures . Honestly, I did wash my hands! Luckily I have enough linen thread to replace it. I think I might  have to wear gloves to work with it next time.A valuable lesson.

Next I made another bracelet to feature the wonderful handmade clasp made by Johana. It is in etched copper with a beautiful enameled flower on it. Sorry it's so difficult to see in this picture but it has the leaf veins delicately etched on it and the word "love" etched along one side ( the bottom of the leaf in this picture) .

I love it and since copper is my first love it was a no brainer. Also I'm really liking that gorgeous yellowish-green colour this year. I had this polymer clay Trilobite focal from Staci Louise Smith in my stash and some green lampwork glass beads made by Michaela Pabeschitz,  who was my partner for last year's Bead Soup Blog Party. I made the copper celtic knots and antiqued them in LOS.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I've made for this challenge . There were 2 other pieces that I wanted to use but I had a couple of accidents which made that impossible.

This sweet handmade birdie "flew" out of my hands and broke his tail off. I tried to fix him but didn't trust him to survive being part of jewelry. He'll just stay as my mascot in my studio. 

Remember these wonderful copper headpins with the enameled flowers on the ends. I wanted to use them as the top part of earrings with other beads hanging from them but I bent the copper too enthusiastically and destroyed them! I was devastated because I love these. Another lesson learned!

I hope you enjoyed my post and will hop over to  my partner's blog to see what she made with what I sent her. I can't wait to see what Johana comes up with. The picture below shows you what I sent to her.

After you've checked out the Puerto Rican and Canadian artistry I hope you will hop over to the other blogs to see what my jewelry buddies have made for the party. Enjoy! 

Here's the list of partners:

Bead Peeps Swap N Hop 2015  Partner List    Our Hostess: Linda Anderson from http//:fromTheBeadBoard.blogspot.com
Linda	Anderson	http://fromTheBeadBoard.blogspot.com
Marica	Zammit	http://www.beadlovelies.com
Linda	Anderson	http://fromTheBeadBoard.blogspot.com
Jessica	Hocutt	https://faithfamilyandadventure.wordpress.com
Kristina	Hahn Eleniak	http://www.peacockandlime.wordpress.com
Debbie	Jeffries	http://wordpress/debrasdivinedesigns/blog.com
Rosantia	Petkova	http://bairozan.blogspot.com/
Shalini	Austin	http://jewellerybyshalini.co.uk/my-blog/
Catherine	La Vite	http://drygulchbeadsandjewelry.blogspot.com
Annica	Larsson	http://zestyfrog.wordpress.com/
Lori	Schneider	http://beadaddicted.blogspot.com/
Divya	N	http://www.jewelsofsayuri.com
Mowse	Doyle	http://mowsemadethis.blogspot.com
Fay	Wolfenden	http://torchfairy.blogspot.com
Kathy	Lindemer	http://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/
Claire	Fabian	http://saraccino.blogspot.de/
Janice	Warden Bergeron	http://thejewelryroom.blogspot.ca
Natalie	Davidson	http://www.northshoredays.com
Deb	Fortin	http://www.studiok24.blogspot.ca
Inge	von Roos	http://ingetraud.wordpress.com
Karen	Mitchell	http://overthemoon-design.com
Robin	Reed	http://willowdragon.blogspot.com
Marie	Covert	http://thistledown-and-swaddlings.blogspot.com/
Alicia	Marinache	http://www.allprettythings.ca
Nan	Smith	http://www.wirednan.blogspot.ca
Johana	Nunez	http://artincendi.com
Kelly	Hosford Patterson	http://travelingsideshow.blogspot.com/
Lori	Blanchard	http://alainnjewelry.WordPress.com
Sue	Kennedy	http://suebeads.blogspot.com
Shai	Williams	http://shaihasramblings.com
Niky	Sayers	http://silverniknats.blogspot.co.uk
Melissa	Trudinger	http://beadrecipes.wordpress.com
Candida	Castleberry	http://www.spunsugarbeadworks.blogspot.com
Erin	Guest	http://www.renlish.com
Nicole	Rennell	http://nicolerennell.com/blog
Ien	Temaluru	http://ienmaginationsjewelry.wordpress.com
Robin	Showstack	http://heartsdesiresjewelryforyou.blogspot.com/
Sam	Waghorn	http://palemooncreation.blogspot.co.uk
Marianne	Baxter	http://www.simplyseablimejewelry.blogspot.com
Elsie	Deliz-Fonseca	http://ladelizchica.blogspot.com
Shai	Williams	http://shaihasramblings.com
Lee	Koopman	http://stregajewellry.wordpress.com
Jayne	Capps	http://mamasgottodoodle.blogspot.com
Marti	Conrad	http://marticsclay.blogspot.com
Tina	Bosh	http://bookbug-somanybookssolittletime.blogspot.com/
Eleanor	Thomas	http://woolywireetc.blogspot.com
Jeanne	Steck	http://www.gemsbyjeannemarie.blogspot.com
Gloria	Allen	http://www.wingsandbeads.blogspot.com
Rachel	Mallis	http://www.mintmonarch.com/#!blog/c1jlz
Andrea	Glick	http://zenithjade.blogspot.com/
Stephanie	Stamper	http://skwds.blogspot.com
Chris	Haussler	http://pixybugdesigns.blogspot.com
Betony	Maiden	http://www.beadwenches.blogspot.com/
Kari	Asbury	http://hippiechickjewelrydesign.com/blog/
Jenny	Kyrlach	http://anafiassa.blogspot.com/
Colleen	Foley	http://colleenfoleycreations.blogspot.com
Marybeth	Rich	http://forestofjewels.blogspot.com/
Marcy	Lamberson	http://www.StudioMarcy.blogspot.com
Dyanne	Everett-Cantrell	http://www.deelitefuljewelrycreations.blogspot.com
Ginny	Lones	http://www.Skippingintotheunknown.blogspot.com
Maria Rosa	Sharrow	http://willowstreetshops.blogspot.com
Loretta	Carstensen	http://designsbyloretta.blogspot.com
Dolores	Raml	http://craftydscreations.wordpress.com
Michelle	McCarthy	http://www.fireflydesignstudio.blogspot.com
Louise	McCormick-Glazier	http://jewelrytreasuresbylouise.blogspot.com/
Heather	Richter	http://desertjewelrydesigns.blogspot.com
Tammy	Adams	http://www.paisleylizard.com/blog/
Shirley	Moore	http://beadsandbread.blogspot.com
Seed Beaders
Susanne	Stelljes	http://pearlify.blogspot.de
Sheila	Prosterman	http://catswithbeads.blogspot.com
Pallavi	Asher	http://kalaabhushan.blogspot.in/
Jami	Shipp	http://celebratinglifewithdamamashipp.blogspot.com
Peggy	Kosier	http://www.kosydesigns.blogspot.ca/
Andra	Weber	http://andrasjoyfuljourney.blogspot.com
Catherine	King	http://catherines-musings.blogspot.com
Krafty	Max	http://kraftymax.com
Sierra	Barrett	http://giraffecanhas.wordpress.com
Lois	Sherwood	http://thiznthat5454blog.wordpress.com
Katy	Heider	http://onthepondcreations.blogspot.com
Rebecca	Robertson   (White)	http://morganafeycreations.121hub.com/
Heather	Richter	http://desertjewelrydesigns.blogspot.com
Brandy	Collier	http://bhjewelry.wordpress.com
Stephanie	Haussler	http://www.pixybugdesigns.blogspot.com
Lori	Blanchard	http://alainnjewelry.WordPress.com
Kathleen	Breeding	http://99bobotw.blogspot.com
Becky	Pancake	http://beckypancakebeaddesigns.blogspot.com
Renetha	Stanziano	http://lamplightcrafts.blogspot.com/
Tami	Norris	https://jewelrybytami.wordpress.com/
Ginger	Bishop	http://lilmummylikes.blogspot.com/
Peggy	Johnson	http://charmbarn.blogspot.com