Flowers, flowers... and more flowers!

Recently two jewellery designers:  Bobbi (from My Wired Imagination) and Diana (aka Lady Mockingbird) made some wonderful flower jewellery as variations of a couple of my flower tutorials.  Their beautiful creations inspired me to revisit my flower designs... 

BLUE FLOWER TRIO

Kyanite Sterling Silver Wire Flower Necklace

VIOLET DAISY

Amethyst Sterling Silver Hammered Flower Pendant

My daisy flower was inspired by Bobbi's flowers where she has fixed a Swarovski sew on bead in the centre of the flower. It got me thinking how I could do this with a coin bead. These are Bobbi's wonderful flowers linked together as a bracelet.  I love the sparkly centres and the clever way she has joined the flowers together.

  

Flowered Link Bracelet

by Bobbi (My Wired Imagination)

And here is a beautiful copper flower pendant from Diana.  I love the way she has coiled the petals and the copper goes so perfectly with the green centre.

Copper Flower Pendant

by Diana (Lady Mockingbird)

Thank you to both designers for sharing their flowers with me.  I urge you to take a look at their jewellery designs in their Etsy shops by clicking on these links:
- My Wired Imagination
- Lady Mockingbird

Encircled Flower Pendants

An alternative version of my Five Bead Flowers - these flowers have circular petals and are secured within a circular pendant.

The iolite and the peridot pendants are up for sale in my Folksy and Etsy shops but the garnet pendant is mine... all mine! However, if that one is your favourite too, fear not as I will be listing it soon as a 'made to order' item in both online shops.

Instant download of new tutorial now at de Cor's

Good news! My latest tutorial 'Five Bead Flowers' is now also available for instant download from Corra Liew's website.

Here is the direct link to the tutorial:

http://www.de-cors.com/product_info.php?products_id=95

New tutorial from K S Jewellery Designs - FIVE BEAD FLOWERS

This tutorial has been a long time coming and I am happy to present to you my seventh tutorial entitled FIVE BEAD FLOWERS. I just can't stay away from flowers and this tutorial shows you how to create beautiful flowers using five beads and soft wire which is shaped, hammered and coiled.

This tutorial is currently for sale at Jewelry Lessons, my Etsy shop and my Folksy shop and costs $5.00/£3.00.

Here are some of the Star Flowers I made in preparation for this tutorial. Now I have lots of flowers to incorporate into pendant and necklace designs - watch this space!


... and here are some of the variations I tried based on the same design process.

Lilac Amethyst Five Bead Flower Pendant

I've been working on this design for a couple of months on and off, in between all the other busy things that go on in my life, trying to work out the best way to secure the beads and petals. Then a few days ago I had a 'Eureka' moment and voila... my 'Five Bead Flower' design is ready to be shown to the world!

Lilac Amethyst Five Bead Sterling Silver Wire Flower Pendant

I've got lots of variations of this design to show you but just need to find the time to take the photos. My next project will be to turn this design into my next tutorial. Watch this space for further information about that...