Heart for summer sunset - BOTB15

This is my entry for the BOTB15 (world wild competition Battle of the Beadsmith)
My Inspiration for this necklace were the warm colors of the summertime especially the colors of the beauty summer sunsets. And the hearts are perfect for saying I'm in love with life, with summer and with Nature and its beauties!

I used mainly Size 15 and 11 Miyuki Seed Beads and Delica. I used also 3 little orange seashell (in Italy we call them St Lucy's eyes), 3mm and 6mm jade fire polished faceted round beads.
The focal red heart is one of my ceramic pendent (I painted it like a lace).

Dimensions: 13 in (33 cm) in length by 8.3in (21 cm) in width

Time to complete: 2 months

EBW August challenge "Sea Adventures"

August theme: "Sea Adventures", thinking of hot summer days, vacations, and traveling by the sea or under the sea. 
Voting will occur  here from August 9th through the 15th.
N. 16 is my seashell hair barrette. 

Sea Adventures

I created this piece in response to the Etsy Beadweaver’s Team August 2013 Challenge Theme: “Sea Adventures.” The voting for this challenge starts on August 9 and runs until August 15, so please stop in at http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com and vote for your favorite "Sea Adventures" entry.

Work in progress

Memories of summer - Black and Orange brooch

Made with a beautiful orange seashell and black fire-polished beads

Natural Seashell Tangerine Tango Bead Embroidered Pendant Necklace - EBWC

https://www.etsy.com/listing/102711238/natural-seashell-tangerine-tango-bead

I created this pendent for the July Etsy Beadweavers Team Challenge. The theme of this challenge is "Tangerine Tango", the new pantone color of the year. The idea of this theme is that the completed piece should have a predominance of that color.
“Please visit our team blog, http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com between the 9th and 15th of July and vote for your favorite entry.”


This necklace features a beautiful orange seashell in the center of the pendent.
The challenge theme provided the perfect opportunity to use it. The rest of the pendent was embroidered with a variety of cylinder and seed beads in the shades of tangerine tango.Pendant is backed with gray ultra suede and measures 5cm long and 4 cm wide. It hangs on a 60 cm of orange cotton cord and close with a beautiful metal toggle clasp.