Here's a little gallery to get those creative juices flowing....a few little things I've made up over the years from the brass stampings I carry. Easy and fun, you won't need to attend a jewelry making class to figure them out! Some of the stampings are carried on our home website at http://www.bsueboutiques.com. If you don't see what you need, give me a holler by emailing me at bsue1441@aol.com, or I can perhaps suggest other things we carry that would work. Please refer to this gallery and the photo number, if you are making an inquiry. THANKS!
Date(s): January 23, 2007. Album by Brenda Sue Lansdowne. Photos by B'sue. 25 - 48 of 54 Total. 18209 Visits.
25 Sideways view of the bracelet. Remember to click on the photo and it will enlarge!
26 This piece has a filigree back to which I hand-wired these pretty leaves and flowers. I centered it with a rose-colored 25x18mm stone which I mounted in a crown-style mount. Then I glued in little stones and pearls. I covered the filigree back with another filigree which I wired on, and then I wired on a pinback. It didn't take that long to make and was such a splashy brooch! I sold it on Ebay right away. Everyone loves pink!
27 Vintage Czech intaglio cameo is mounted to the centerpiece which is a belt buckle that has filigree ends. I gypsy-beaded the necklace sections and connected them with jumps, which is sort of a signature technique, with me.
28 Rolo chain is the base for many a B'sue bib necklace. This is our brass ox rolo chain. I simply suspended beaded sections on headpins, with pretty Victorian heart charms at the end, beaded up the back and VOILA...wowzer, what a great look. A necklace like this can be made in a couple of hours or less, if you are adept with a pliers.
29 Here are a couple of found-item collaged pieces. The necklace is made on one of the brass crescent base findings you will find in Bases and Cuffs on our websitea bsueboutiques.com. "any ideas of the bracelet?..." View Comments...
30 An easy charm bracelet using caged pearls, a favorite design component.
31 This necklace was made with a vintage French deco finding in the centerpiece, completely studded with vintage Czech stones. Then I beaded it up, gypsy-style, on headpins and added a toggle.
32 Nothing to it! Just string some pretty pear-shaped beads on headpins and attch to a chain section, bead up the dies and add a clasp. "How do you keep the chain ..." View Comments...
33 An example of how you can connect bracelet plaque stampings to make a bracelet. These are topped with rare old dresden enamels---at one time I had a motherlode of this material, but it's years ago sold through. You could substitute pretty stones in mounts, glued to the plaques, photo images in bezels under lenses, or brass plaques that you yourself might paint. Many are painting on the brass hearts nowadays and the look is scrumptious!
34 You have to be a little determined to work a button bracelet this full, but it's not that hard. I made this one with some beautiful imported Czech glass buttons and pretty dangly beads. Work the dangly beads FIRST, and attach them; attach the buttons last by jumps through their back shanks. This way they won't get in your way when you are attaching other things.
35 I've mounted some pretty stones into 18x13mm mounts and interspersed them among assorted heart charms in mixed-metal finishes. Don't for a minute think that you've got to keep all your plating finishes in the same family! It's cool to mix it up, adds texture and this way, too, you really can wear it with anything! "How cool are the things yo..." View Comments...
36 All you need is some of our Remembrance memory wire and a bunch of pretty beads. I love to make them 5 to 6 coils wide and use both large and smaller beads for texture. I used mother of pearl carved leaves and pretty peridot-foiled glass India glass along with a mix of fire polished Czech beads.
37 Another example of a showy bracelet made with memory wire. Just string them on, and roll the ends! I like to dangle a few beads from each end, too.
38 This is fun and super-easy. Just pick out a color scheme and alot of fun, interesting, different beads, both small and chunky. String them up on headpins, attach to seven inches of rolo chain, add a toggle and voila! What a great bracelet. You can make a bracelet like this in under an hour once you are adept with pliers.
39 Another example in watercolors, peri-green, palest pink and crystal, mostly India glass and lampwork beads.
40 Here's one in blues, magentas and purles with my fave toggle clasp (carried on the website at bsueboutiques.com)at the end. These are mostly all Czech beads.
41 What fun. The earrings here are collaged on a small brass base, but the necklace is a fun mix of Czech sitting cat beads and deep coral-colored carved lacquer beads from the Orient. Again, I've used my fave clasp at the end, and gypsy-beaded the back.
42 A close up of those cats!
43 CLICK ON THE PIC to enlarge----I know some of these pix are dark, but they are older photos I've scavenged out of my hard drive, of older pieces I've made. This one is made in the Renaissance style with a large filigree in the center and dangles. I've used my fave filigree-cone style bead caps sold on bsueboutiques.com to accent the beads in the necklace. "Although I do not make jew..." "I had an idea about design..." View Comments...
44 Another example of ways to mix style and texture in a charm bracelet. Check out those funky sun faces!
45 I've embedded scraps of old Mexican restaurant matchbooks under 18x13mm clear glass cabs (sold on our site) in pretty mounts (also sold on our site) and strung them along with vintage glass fruit to make a funky one of a kind necklace. The hardest part is choosing the right scraps to embed!
46 Here's a closeup of the embedded scraps! Click on the picture to enlarge!
47 A pretty collaged brooch made of broken jewelry and pretty bead dangles.
48 This one took a little more time, but not THAT much. First I suspended the beaded drops from a filigree to which I collaged and wired glass leaves and flowers and stones. Then I beaded up the back gypsy-style. The earrings are tiny collages made on small brass plates.
