Whimsy Wednesday! A Heart-y Post!

Hello Hello!
Welcome to Whimsy Wednesday!
I'm back in sync with the Fusion Beads March Blog Challenge of the Day! The challenge for today is to take apart existing jewelry and create something new with it! I picked up this damaged bracelet a while back because the raised hearts caught my eye and I wanted to see what I could do with it and some resin!
The bracelet is originally a gold-toned, soft metal.
Here is what it looks like with the resin hand-painted on!


Once the resin part was complete, I disassembled a few links from the bracelet and created earrings with them!
See?
Title: Brilliant Hearts
Ingredients: Upcycled heart links, painted with hand-coloured, non-toxic resin, Czech glass, metal, gold-plated surgical steel earwires (hypo-allergenic).

I love the flash of luminescence, texture and motion the faceted Czech glass beads lend to these earrings!

I have a second pair of earring creations to show you! These are part of a donation for a friend who is a breast-cancer survivor and is raising funds to further breast cancer research! Many of the folks in her family are or have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and so one of the fundraising events is at a V.F.W. Post. Why is this relevant? The night of the event just happens to coincide with NASCAR night at this particular V.F.W, and so naturally, wrenches have to be involved with at least one of the donated creations!
Title: Heart-Wrenching II
Ingredients: Swarovski crystal hearts (Rose), metal, lead-free pewter, sterling silver earwires.

Aren't these just fun? It always amuses me to combine Swarovski crystal in traditionally feminine colours with unusual and unexpected materials!

So there you have it! A heart-felt post! (ha!)
I hope the rest of your week is filled with joy and I'll see you on Friday!
Ciao!

Fini Friday! Wrenches, Crystals and Angels!

Hello Everyone!!
It's Friday!!! As you can guess by the blog title, I have an unusual batch of creations to show you today! This is part of what I love about what I create here at Sprite Creations... the diversity of materials and styles and techniques I get to play with! Wheee!!!
Ok!! First up! The wrenches!
Titles: As yet unknown
Ingredients: metal, silver-plated surgical steel earwires.

These are Custom Creations created for a friend of mine, who is a fellow motorcyclist (he would 'biker!).
I think they are just awesome!

Next up! Crystals and Snowmen!
Title: As yet unknown
Ingredients: Swarovski crystals (including vintage crystals), lead-free pewter, German wire, silver-plated surgical steel earwires.

All the shiny-ness that you see here are Swarovski crystals and the brilliant center shinies are vintage Swarovksi crystals! They remind me so much of big snowflakes... with the little beads reminiscent of snowballs!

Last and certainly not least...Angels!
Title: As yet unknown
Ingredients: 'sea opal' glass, lead-free pewter, Czech glass, antiqued copper wire, silver-plated surgical steel earwires.


So there we are! This will likely be all to be seen for Winter Holiday themed creations as a Sprite's World includes all seasons! Look for these in my Etsy shoppe on Monday!

P.S.There is one more BlogTalk Radio Interview on Tuesday, Dec. 20th at 3pm CST(USA). This will be chalk-full of Messages From the Faeries and we will be concentrating on Message #2. What is Message #2, you ask? You'll just have to tune in and see!