Friday, September 19, 2014

We're All Ears: September 2014

I'm super excited by the inspiration photos that Erin Prais-Hintz chose (and took!) for this month's We're All Ears challenge on the Earrings Everyday blog.  She did a nice collage of some moss and lichen up close and personal and I love it!  I have always been fascinated by the super up close photos of the natural world that a macro lens makes possible and my husband has been making good use of the new lens that he just got, so this challenge feels right in my wheel house.

And not to get too far off topic, but speaking of my husband's recent macro photography craze, pop over to his blog to see a great butterfly shot HERE.


I really wanted to do something to capture some of the great textures from Erin's photos and the subtle greens.  I especially like the little dot like formations in the top right and the cool almost coral-like lichen in the middle right pictures.

I decided to break out my texturing hammer with all the interchangeable heads and play around with some copper blanks.  I added a little green paint into the depressions to give it a mossy look and then finished the design with some little green gemstone dangles.  I'm not entirely sure what the stones are since they've been in my bead stash for years, but I liked the mottled green and brown colors and thought they went well with the inspiration.


I'm pretty pleased with the effect I achieved with texture and a tiny bit of paint.  I'm definitely going to play around with variations on this technique in the near future!

Check out what everyone else created this month over on the Earrings Everyday blog HERE.

12 comments:

  1. A perfect time to use those little green gem stones. I like the effect you achieved to imitate the moss on your copper blanks! Wonderfully designed.

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  2. These are perfect for the theme. I adore the textured copper rectangles and you added just the right amount of green to the earrings overall. Lovely.

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  3. I love how you textured the copper blanks. Love the earrings!

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  4. Love these earrings, especially the texture on the copper! xx

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  5. LOVE textured metal, these are great Sarajo!!

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  6. Beautiful design and photograph! Love the textured copper components!

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  7. Great earrings, I love the amazing texture

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  8. Gotta love whacking away at metal with a texturing hammer! Something very cathartic about that. I love the addition of the green paint. The mystery beads are a perfect finishing touch. Love these!

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  9. The textured metal with the green is perfect. The earrings are great!

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  10. Yea for lichen! Those copper pieces are perfect! I know that I would have hammered the hell out of them but you gave them the exact right pint of texture. Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to play in the We're All Ears challenge! Enjoy the day! Erin

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  11. I would say you definitely hit the mark with those earrings...excellent work on the copper!

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