Earring-focused blog Earrings Everyday has added a monthly design challenge for its readers—the We’re All Ears challenge—which of course means making earrings.
This month’s inspiration is a gorgeously vibrant photograph starring a pair of loving damselflies on an intensely green background:
Photo credit: National Geographic, Yeo Weng Sang
As luck would have it, around the time this picture appeared in my feed, I received some gloriously green lampwork beads from Beads and Botanicals that immediately announced their intention to take part in this challenge. To keep it simple and let the beads talk, I paired them with tiny Vintaj brass dragonflies (the closest I could get to damselflies) and an orange Swarovski crystal.
I’m very tempted to keep this pair! And I’m looking forward to seeing next month’s inspiration!
If you’re interested in seeing the other designers taking part in the earring challenge, go to today’s post on Earrings Everyday for the link-list (sadly it doesn’t work properly on WordPress.com blogs, so I can’t add it here).
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How pretty! Love those lampwork beads!
I can see why you’d want to keep them! Beautiful!
How sweet are these!
Yes, I would find it hard to part with these too such lovely colours!
Gorgeous composition.
Very pretty… I’d have a hard time letting go of those lampies too!
Yes, these beads do say a lot! Gorgeous contrasting colors!
Oooh, your beads talk to you, too? Man, mine chatter up a storm! Love what you did 🙂
OH! I love those beads, like dewdrops on the leaves!
Yep, I’d call that lucky too – those beads are gorgeous! And, so are your earrings. It was a fun challenge, wasn’t it?!
Do I adore these? absolutely!!! great work and a lovely design!
I can see why you want to keep them. I just love the lampwork beads!
Great pair of earrings! I can see wanting to keep them.
You have created some sweet damselfly earrings, Those green beads are perfection!
I’d keep them!
These are so charming!
Those beads are GORGEOUS! They were right to tell you they needed to play in this challenge.You’ve done a great job in being true to the challenge
Beautiful earrings. Those lampwork beads are just lovely and are perfect for this challenge.
Great earrings, I love the lampwork beads and the metal you used matches the brown from their legs.
Those are so fun! I’m in love with those lampwork beads (my favorite colors are swirled in there) and that pop of orange gives them a little something special. Nice job.
Perfect color combination! The dragonfly charms are just adorable!
Oh, I love it when my beads jump up and shout, ‘Pick me!’ 😉 These are great and I am so glad that you took part. I will have to look into the WordPress thing (I thought there was a drop down menu when you got to that link at InLinkz that allowed you to choose your blog platform. Hmmm.) Anyway…. Thank you for joining in the We’re All Ears challenge. Hope to see you next month! Enjoy the day. Erin
love the color mixing beads and dragonflies 🙂