We're All Ears: September 2016

September is a crazy busy month in my world with an anniversary trip to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios at the beginning of the month and the three day studio tour that I participate in near the end.  With all that and more on my plate I wasn't sure doing all my usual jewelry challenges this month would work out.  (Seriously, I don't know how I'm going to be ready for the Art Wander... but I I always manage to pull it together... hopefully this year is no different!)  Anyway, I'm trying to still take care of myself as much as possible with exercise... plus I feel like I'm in training to survive Disney... and an idea for this month's We're All Ears challenge actually popped into my head on one of my morning walks.

This month's inspiration is all about sky scrapers and big city skylines.  Here are a couple of my favorite pictures.  You can see more great photos and read more about why Erin chose this theme over on the Earrings Everyday blog HERE.  

[Photo credit :: Vladimir Kudinov :: New York :: Unsplash]

[Photo credit :: Matthew Wiebe :: Unsplash]

So, what idea occurred to me during my walk?  Using a new Sizzix DecoEmboss die that I bought at Bead & Button!  It's one of the dies from their new Katelyn Lizardi line called "Modern Mosaic."  (You can see all the product line HERE.)  All the lines in the folder's design reminded me of windows in modern glass and steel sky scrapers.  I used the folders to emboss three sets of Vintaj Arte Metal blanks all using slightly different parts of the die and buffed the surface to bring out some of the silver underneath the blackened surface.

Check out the Earrings Everyday blog to see what everyone else made HERE!