I was talking to a great friend who suggested that I try and
go out of my comfort zone of roses and try something completely different! Why
not get inspiration from other designers of jewellery?
So I thought, ok! I adore everything Chanel in general, I don’t
know why but I do. Their designs are exquisite and their colour combinations
are just one of a kind! They scream luxury and beauty all at once.
As I was browsing through the wonderful world of the internet
I came across this blog with some fantastic pictures of Chanel items.
And this is the item that inspired me.
This is actually a necklace (though when I was referring to it I swear it was a bracelet!!) A short necklace with flowers (which as you all know are my
thing!). But it was the colour combination most of all that I wanted to play
with. I’m not a huge fan of gold, but this just worked!
So I experimented!
After about 3 hours of working with the clay I came up with
this piece! I'll show you the individual bits before I reveal my master piece! :)
The roses and the little flowers.
The large flowers
I added gold dust to the edges of some of the flowers and on
top of the roses to give it some sparkle and also the rhinestones in the middle
of the flowers which, at the time, I wasn’t sure about. But as I began to build
the necklace, it started to come together.
On most of my necklaces and bracelet, it is simply a single head pin through, however because this bracelet needed two chains to hold the larger flowers, a lot of the flowers have a quadruple connection. This keeps the structure of the bracelet and allows the flowers to be part of the bracelet rather than just decoration.
And finally, this is the finished design! I think its a great adaptation now. As I say, before I put it all together, I was really not sure. When I posted this on my personal facebook, I had a lot of positive comments on it. That is when I thought it would be a good idea to blog the journey!
I hope you like this entry and I hope it inspires you to go out and try something out of your comfort craft zone! Happy crafting!! x
