Jewelry Making - Memory Wire

in art •  6 years ago 

My speciality is wire wrapping, I am a free-form type of designer. However, when you make jewelry for living, you must know many other techniques. I constantly experiment and learn. I break a lot before I make something. 😊

Today I was playing with memory wire. Honestly, I use this wire mostly for hoop earrings and simple coil bracelets, beach style. My problem is that I tend to like elaborate and complicated pieces. So today I ‘complicated’ a regular cuff bracelet design to the point that I spent all my morning on it. And when I finished and was ready to go out for my daily walk, it started to rain. Then I decided to play some more with memory wire, this time a necklace.... guess what? I got stuck on that one for a few hours. So it was a Friday-creation day. Let me show you what I made.

9BCB2526-5DB7-463D-A903-138E3D8A7ECB.jpeg

These are the elements. I didn’t take pictures of the memory wire assemble, as it was challenging and needed my two hands all the time. I used a lot of glass faceted beads, black and purple and some cool metal skull beads.

841B3FB9-A136-4EE6-9EBA-0958EF8EFF19.jpeg

The best part of this project is that I came out with an original buckle design, with my initials LB. I am very happy with that, I will make it in sterling and use it in the future as my signature. Cool.

D97D5DD0-8154-4478-8B91-262AF6224EC6.jpeg

And this is the necklace. I used quartz crystal chips and some additional faceted glass beads.

1116C759-E139-4358-87E2-FA0BE3D18173.jpeg

The photos didn’t come out so good because it was kind of dark in my studio, cloudy outside, and I never use flash.

blackdividersmall.png

Follow me and my stories smallbest.gif

PHC-Footer-05.gif

steemusabanner.png

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

These pieces are beautiful. I'm not such a fan of skulls but I love the design anyway. It's cool that you were able to put your signature there. It's a sign of a real artist :)

Thank you for sharing and I wish you a lot of fun with creating!

Have a lovely weekend!

gorgeous ... yes I love beads

Thank you sweety, I appreciate your support 💕


This post was shared in the Curation Collective Discord community for curators, and upvoted and resteemed by the @c-squared community account after manual review.
@c-squared runs a community witness. Please consider using one of your witness votes on us here

Thank you 🙏

Hello!

This post has been manually curated, resteemed
and gifted with some virtually delicious cake
from the @helpiecake curation team!

Much love to you from all of us at @helpie!
Keep up the great work!


helpiecake

Manually curated by @veryspider.

That necklace is absolutely incredible!

I wish my partner would wear more necklaces and bracelets so I could buy this stuff for her - just so I can look at it because its so pretty!

Unfortunately, she doesn't, though!

The initial LB make your item special with own signature, should incorporate it in all your jewellery 😊 and the necklace its so beautiful! So elegant...😍😍😍

Posted using Partiko Android

Really wonderful! Though I don't personally ware skull type jewelry but it looks really facinating. And the second one is dazzling.

Awesome bracelet @starjewel :) I love the use of skulls and the black and purple colors.

I like the cute little skulls 💀, beautiful work @starjewel. 👍

Posted using Partiko Android

That is incredible. I hope to see more around the skull theme.

Proud member of @powerhousecreatives