Wild at Heart

Good morning everyone! I have been making some animal themed earrings recently and have uploaded a few of them onto Etsy. Please take a peak if you're interested! Here are three of my more recent pieces, hope you like them. My personal favorites are the elephants, I think they look great with the tiger's eye and gold bead combo!

The swallows and the elephants are earring sets in co-ordinating gift boxes, and the seahorses are an earring/necklace set in a gift box. More details can be found using the links below.

Swallows:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/233925093/antique-gold-swallow-earrings-with-pink?ref=shop_home_active_1

Seahorses:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/234604093/blue-beaded-seahorse-earring-necklace

Elephants:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/235534705/beaded-elephant-charm-earrings-gift-box

That's all for now folks, happy crafting!

Emma x

Nearly There!

Wow I can't believe it's been nearly A YEAR since I last updated this blog! Such is fourth year of university though it seems: so much work, so little time! You will all be glad to hear that I have still had time for crafting, and I have a whole box full of handmade jewellery to share when I finally finish off my last few exams. I'm taking a momentary break from the joys of DNA profiling techniques to share some good news with you...I'm now selling my jewellery on Etsy! My mum and I have a joint account but at the moment it's only some of my jewellery on there. I'm still populating the shop with things, so bear with me, but one of my most recent additions is shown below.

So here they are: some antique gold dragon earrings! I'm a massive The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit nerd so I saw these charms and just HAD to have them! I've combined them with some faux gemstone chips that I had in my stash and made a coordinating brown/gold gift box for them.
The full product details can be found on Etsy here:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/233179568/antique-gold-dragon-earrings-with-gift?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=antique+gold+dragon+earrings&ref=sr_gallery_1

That's all for now, better get back to the books! Happy crafting everybody :D

Emma x

Wire Flower Earrings

I found a tutorial video on YouTube (see 'Easy Wire Wrapped Jewelry Tutorial : Flower Earrings') for making wire flower earrings and thought I'd give it a try. It's a lot more fiddly than I first anticipated but I thought I didn't do too bad for my first try! I also made a co-ordinating box from some 10" square colour cardstock.

I decorated the box with some floral paper that I added glitter glue to, to highlight some of the detail. To finish I added some lace ribbon, a message tag and some silver liquid pearls.

Blue and Purple Spiral Earrings

Here are some simple spiral earrings that I made from coloured wire. You make the spirals by twisting both ends of a length of wire (in this case 4" long) in opposite directions and then wrapping them into spirals using flat nosed pliers. To make the top spiral, you only make one end into a spiral and simply curl the other side into a loop (just over 2" of wire needed in this case). I then attached these together using silver jump rings and attached them to silver hook earrings. I made a blue pair in a co-ordinating gift box...

 ...and a purple pair in the same style but with one extra spiral:

Wire Cage Bead Earrings

Here's a couple of pairs of spiral beaded earrings that I made, they're actually surprisingly easy to do! I found a video tutorial online (see "How To Make Wire Caged Bead Earrings" on YouTube) and here's my finished sets...

A silver and blue pair:

And a gold and maroon pair:

Handmade Earrings and Gift Boxes

Afternoon folks! I've found a way to tie in my paper craft skills with my new found interest in jewellery making: creating boxes for my earrings so I can give them as gifts. The boxes are about 5cm squared (made from 6 inch pieces of card) but you could make them whatever size you want, provided you have paper big enough. Here's the four that I've made so far:

A green, pink and red one...

A brown and peach one...

A blue and red one...

And (finally!) a powder blue and pink one...

All the papers and the wee sentiments I used are from Craftwork Cards, but the Kraft card and Mirri board are from docrafts. I made all the earrings first and then made the boxes to match because I have far more choice in papers than I do in beads! I hope to make some more over the Summer but it's getting into exam time now (eeek!). That's all from me today, happy crafting!

Simple Gold and Pearl Earrings

Here's a wee pair of earring that I made for my sister. They're just simple gold stud and hook earrings with a pearl bead drop...

She was looking for something simple that she could wear during the day so the drop is only about 3cm. Not the most technical thing I've ever made but I'm a bit of a beginner jewellery making-wise!