Sue Beads Challenge

I was one of the lucky ones picked to participate in Sue Kennedy's blog challenge. She provided the participants with these cool enameled flattened flower shaped components.
When I first spotted them on her blog, I thought that there were a million things to make with those! But then I got them and was stumped for a good while.

I am so excited to see what all of the other participants create with their components. It's a really talented group:
Courtney,
Pam Ferrari,
Mary Harding,
and Kim (Will post a link later when I find out if Kim's pieces will be shown at Sue Beads blog.)




The RESULTS:



I eventually got the idea to layer them with some pretty colorful vintage tin. I received blue components, and the color goes perfectly with the floral pattern on the tin. I centered these layered components on some shallow bezel links from Vintaj Brass Co. I linked them all together using screw rivets from Objects and Elements. Kept it simple with some brass rollo chain around the back. I love how it turned out.

 

I also made some matching earrings where the flowers are dangling with faceted yellow jade rondelles and red lampwork headpins from Gardanne Beads, on some etched brass link chain.

Be sure to hop around to the other blogs to see what everyone did with their Sue Beads Components! This was a really fun challenge, THANK YOU SUE!