Dazzle - Indian Contemporary Neckpiece

I know I know its almost a month and I have not been posting anything..Well, I am just busy being HOT these days. Summer is India is not much fascinating. The temperature goes high up to 45 degree C in the region I belong. So, its tough to go out and find some inspiration. No jewelry parties. No beads hunting. Long working hours which ends up in frustration and it kills creative thoughts.

The only inspiration for me are the flowers and trees I see when I am on my early morning walk. These colorful flowers asked to me create something on Jungle theme and yes I have been sketching designs now and then which is - colorful plus peaceful and of course Green.

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Anyway, somehow I managed to create few pieces of Indian Contemporary jewelry. As promised, it is a collection of mixed media wire jewelry and Yes, everything is shiny and glittery. Now let me show you the glitter folks :)

Wine Blaze - A brownish orange candy bead is finely wrapped with gold plated brass wire and small golden beads. Delicate golden diamond bead is settled on center on giant candy bead and it comes with a golden simple chain which has a customized clasp created with golden beads.

 

Moon Flare Necklace -  This long necklace of amazing blue beads carries a handcrafted wire woven pendent and neon beads. The focal has large white oval bead and a silver wire rose. Bright and ethnic, this necklace is perfect for an evening party.

Classic Neck piece - Dark green stone wrapped around with brass wire to give it a classic look. Wirework is performed with antique copper color beads and a golden diamond bead. Pendent comes with an antique handcrafted chain which has copper beads incorporated and a customized diamond bead clasp.

 Pourpre Bliss - A French and German word meaning mixture of red and blue shades resulting on a shade tilting towards pinkish red. It's an not so ethnic and not so western design with wire worked pink and silver pendent. The chocker comes with a butterfly shaped toggle clasp that goes perfectly with the pink focal. Wearing this is a total bliss for the queen.  

  

Joyous Nightfall - This long, shimmering flushy and glowing necklace created with glamorous blues and stylish pink beads. The golden drums are handcrafted wire elements that adds ethnicity to the string

Subtle Scarlet Necklace - A simple neck piece to match with Indian ethnic wears, created with cherry red stones and white giant bead beautifully weaved with golden wire swirls.

 

Look into my eyes - A rich blue cabochon is finely wire wrapped with glass beads. The pendent comes with a silver plated chain and customized blue clasp.

That's all for this hot summer day..I have been working on earrings and bracelets also - same into the Dazzle collection. Will be posting them soon. 

Let me know how do you like them.

Prakruti 

Bright - Shimmery - Full of glitter Indian jewelry

As I said in my last post Filigree wire jewelry collection , we Indians are fond of bright and shimmery things. Colorful things. The thing we can show off - looks like gold :)

Trying to meet these criteria of likes, I chose all the bright golden stuff from my stash and gold plated wires. Fortunately I had some giant beads having light golden designs on them and a lot of golden tiny flowers in different size. I don't know how it came out exactly, but I just started weaving wires and stringing beads into it.

Filigree - Wire Jewelry Collection

India has a a rich culture of jewels and jewelry, most of them in form of Gold Jewelry, Silver Jewelry and Meenakari. And apart from these forms, we love Bollywood kinda jewelry, very colorful and bright. We hate dull colors. That's reflected in our home decor to a typical Indian Bride's traditional outfit. Where as if you create wire jewelry, it neither involve the perfect and kinda typical Indian designs nor they are much glittery.

Aishwarya Rai Bacchan wearing traditional Indian Jewelry

Art of Using Color Wheel for Designing Jewelry - 2

Learning about colors is a beautiful journey. When you are able to use Color Wheel Magic, it can help you to create spectacular results while designing bead jewelry. In my previous post Art of Using Color Wheel for Designing Jewelry - 1, we talked about first four basic color combinations/ schemes of using colors. As promised here is remaining two basic color schemes I find interesting.

Basic color wheel

Art of using Color Wheel for designing jewelry - 1

I usually buy beads without any further planning, unless it is about a customized design. And as a result I end up buying bright shades of blue. I don't know why but I fall for blue beads at first site. And it leads me to end up designing so many blue pieces as said in my post The blue magic. If you are facing the same issue, here is the solution. On a boring night, I started exploring about bead manufacturing and that guided me to use of dyes and inorganic colors and from there I stopped on the funda of Color Wheel. Yes, the same, we might have studied in school - Color Wheel by Sir Issac Newton. And yes, you are right, it is no more science for me now, but a tool for color combinations in my jewelry designs.

Basic color wheel

Spring Collection - Holi Essentials

In India, we have festivals for every season. For spring we have - Holi, also known as "Basant Utsav" meaning "Spring Festival". The festival has many purposes, but most prominently, it celebrates the beginning of Spring. In 17th century literature, it was identified as a festival that celebrated agriculture, spring harvests and the fertile land. Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. So do I! Saying good bye to winter..

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Glass beads mania

When I say I love beading, it includes the most fascinating and adorable things in my beads treasure - glass beads, too. I have been using glass beads to create jewelry for myself. They are one of the first supplies I would love to buy when I shop for jewelry.

When you look at the existence of glass beads, they were present during Roman times as well as Egyptian time. They are ancient and yet trendy.

Reasons for buying beads

Like most of the women, I love shopping. Previously I was a shopaholic for apparels and accessories. Now, there is a dramatic change with that and I am a shopaholic for beads. The way colors for fabric attracted me, now colors of beads attract me. And when after spending on beads still I am the " I want something new", I make beads at home.Well, that's all together a different topic to discuss, will bring it on blog soon. But for now, I am in search of reasons to buy beads. Every-time I see new beads, I am definitely buying them. When I think about the purchase I have already made I always have self explanations. Plus, here I am attaching some of the designs which came out without any planning from my beads treasure.

So, here are few of my reasons to shop for beads,

Inspiration: Sometimes you buy beads just like that, without any purpose, but they become your inspiration for next design. I usually face "what next?" question. I can't decide what to create everyday. I just open my bead box and see those colorful beads. Their colors or shapes or size help me to decide what new designs should be created. 

ABS Feb Challenge - Blossom Necklace

Hello Lovelies,

This is very first time I am participating in an online challenge for beaders, Feb ABS Monthly challenge by Art Bead Scene. Usually these challenges provide some inspiration for participants for creating a piece of jewelry using art beads, colors to combine, materials to be used for making beads and the kind of objects can be used as art beads. Their purpose behind the challenges is to explore new ways to designs with art beads.

Knotting 101

When you put your heart and soul into some activity you enjoy it. And when you enjoy it, you try your best to make make it more and more interesting with new experiments. So do I. With my jewelry making hobby, I keep on experimenting new techniques. Usually I try to use objects, available at my home and try to upcycle it, though I do not hesitate buying supplies to make prettiest things for myself.

The BLUE magic

Hello lovelies,
Hope everyone is enjoying recent warm sunshine of February. I am so pleased with the weather since last couple of days, as it allows me to come out of my blanket a bit early and start falling for my beads earlier than before.

Today, I am to tell about my love for shades of blue. Starting from natural elements say sky and ocean to blue aster flower and eastern bluebird, everything that is beautifully blue never fails to amuse me. And this love for blue is reflected in my designs also. Here comes my collection inspired by BLUE MAGIC!!

Thread Art

Hi everyone,

As now I have a special interest cum love for everything that can make any kind of jewelry piece, here comes an experiment with threads. :)

I have already been buying bangles covered with silk thread, which look really rich and classy. Apart from this, I have been making a different kinds of jewelry cord by wrapping silk cord, helps me to get an Indian look to the necklace.So, why don't bank on threads - cost effective but awesome look.

Experiences with terracotta clay

Hello everyone!

I don't know if it happens to everyone or just me, but now it has become boring to work with beads and wires only. No doubt I keep on buying beads wherever I find, on roads, at Indian temples, tourist places, beaches etc.. Like a hippie I keep on buying beads and don't miss a chance to wear them. But today it's about clay :)

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Earrings to match with my casuals

Hello,

As you know, my craze for jewelry making started with a challenge to myself - to create jewelry that I can wear with some of my cool outfits. Here are few of the pieces I created for myself.

This one is to match a black dress with yellow polka dots. It created with glass beads and copper wire.

The blue multimetal pendulum made up of glass beads is one of my favorites.They are totally breathtaking when I wear and goes with many outfits.

And here comes another favorites of mine. (No need to say I am in love with all my handmade earring here and everything is my favorite!) These are made up of handmade lampwork beads and Czech glass beads combined with copper wire. The lampwork beads are purchased from an artisan I met during a jewelry show.

The long hammered wires tied with pink beads are made to match with my white silk top, that has pink lace on sleeves. The pink Czech glass beads used in the above and this one are from my mom's old collection.

The spring earrings were fun to create and fun to wear, too. The handmade lamwork beads are again from the same artisan I met at the jewelry show.I got some compliments about the cool design, but I am really afraid, they are not kinda sturdy. Please suggest some ideas about making them last.

And last, the shiny blue earrings are to match with my shiny blue dress for party!! It is made up with hammered copper wire and blue glass beads.

Hope you like them! Waiting  for reviews.

Prakruti

Welcome to my jewelry blog!

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to my blog! I am a marketing and branding expert by qualification on my certificates, but a passionate jewelry artist by heart. Though I have been learning jewelry making since few months, I would totally love to call myself "artist".

This blog is my new journey with beads and wires and clay and many other jewelry crafts and filigree stuff, started after my monotonous, two and a half year's Corporate career. At a cool coffee shop, after a dull day at office I thought about making matching earring for all of my new trendy outfits. And no need to say, I am an addict now. Addicted to colorful beads. Now when I have left my day job, the idea of acquaint myself with these beautiful beads sounds like a cool thing to do. All the filigree stuff at my place inspired me to create my personalized brand with name of Flaneur - represents my mindset at the time I started designing. So, my brand name Flaneur, a word originated in French, means a person, who strolls around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life.

 So do I. I do not have the big plans for anything now, but I just enjoy creating beautiful things.

Here I wish to discuss the aspects of jewelry making, recent trends, jewelry selling and learning new things of course.
 
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Prakruti