Sunday 18 March 2018

We’re All Ears March Challenge – Celebrate Contrast


 I am late to the party but still happy to participate in the Earrings Everyday blog hop this month. This month’s challenge is built the achromatic look of black and white


Black and White


The inspiration post had a link to a Buzzfeed article on mixing, matching and playing with clashing prints. I have to admit I did struggle with some of their ideas. They are definitely not for everyone

I had planned several styles of earrings for the challenge and ran short on time. I did succeed in making 2 pairs with the second being a variation on the first

Chroma Earrings

This style of polymer clay plumeria flowers has always been a favourite. I had them in several colours and sizes but am running short now. I used the last 2 pair of black and white ones for this challenge

Chroma Earrings

The dangling little beads are snow quartz that I tied onto fireline. They almost seem to float over the shoulders. The ear wires are gunmetal, keeping with the black and white theme

In the Night Earrings


I was so pleased with the first version of these earrings that I decided to make a contrasting version with lots of black and very little white. Again I started with the polymer clay plumeria flowers

In the Night Earrings

For this pair I used faceted hematite beads for the dangles. It felt like these earrings could have the same emphasis with fewer dangle beads than in the whiter pair. Just to give a little change I decided to add a gunmetal loop to the top. It turns these earrings into great shoulder dusters

Please come and check out what everyone else created at the Earrings Everyday site.

Both pair of earrings are available in my online shop

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful, both of them! They look like a day and night pair :) I just realized I had similar flowers in black and white but completely forgot about them. That's one of the benefits of blog hops, I guess, apart from seeing lots of beautiful jewelry!

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  2. Beautiful! I love the light strands of beads below the flower; they must move so prettily.

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  3. Very nice! The drops coming down from the plumeria beads are so fun!

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  4. Nice design and such lovely flowers!

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  5. I really like how the beads cascade down from your black and white flowers. Very fun!

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  6. How sweet! I am pulling all my clothes for the upcoming Bead Cruise and I have a lot of black and white, mixing of patterns like polka dots and stripes. These would be perfect cruise wear for your ears! Thanks so much for joining in the fun with me! Enjoy the day! Erin

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