Flowers ... Theme Challenge Reveal & Blog Hop

I joined in on July's Theme Challenge hosted by Art Elements. Team member Marsha chose Flowers as the theme and I immediately signed up. I didn't participate in last month's Silkies theme, deciding instead to concentrate on a new jewelry collection.
Well, that didn't go as planned and while I'm ecstatic to have had the best Biz month ever, my collection hasn't advanced as much as I'd hoped. In fact, I just finished up another custom order today before allowing myself the time to get this post started. If I could function on less than 5 hours of sleep, much more could get accomplished. But at this age I've acquired some smidges of wisdom and I know my limits.

A Rose from my Garden that I call Red Velvet. Circa 2015, Paris, France suburbs.

Time crunches aside, I did manage to get two pieces done, and truth be told, they're doing double-duty since flowers are essential to Bees, which are the focus of that collection mentioned above.

The first piece is a Brass Sunflower that I torch-painted last month before a bee came and attached itself to it. After contemplating that combo for a week or more, I decided to cover it in Resin to add some protection and also because I like SHINE😁! A small Czech Glass Light Amber teardrop acquired from a new fave shop, JJM Jewelry, is wrapped in rose gold wire to match the Bee.

I chose to make this a cuff but then I couldn't hard solder since the Flower was already coated, so used a ready-made cuff that I've had for about 4 years. Using 2-part Epoxy Glue I attached both pieces while still putting together a Plan B in the recesses of my mind just in case the glue didn't hold. But it appears that cuff & flower are firmly communing happily together. I will add some resin or glue on the inside for looks. I don't like seeing the glue just puddled there ...  but I will lose that beautiful torched color which is hard to see on these two images.

The second piece below is really just a put-together-the-components long necklace. Since the majority of my metal work involves metalsmithing & wire-wrapping, I felt guilty doing this so I added a Czech Glass Amber as 'stamens' and a Twisted Rondelle bead from same shop cited above.

I loved this flower cutout which is Stainless Steel, as is the Bee Lives Matter charm. The purchased Rollo chain is a nice long length for this relatively weighty piece.

Sorry for the blurry photos, I blame it on haste ....

I was going to include a small collage of other Flower-themed items I've done over the past few years or pics of my garden back home, but couldn't locate the files on this computer ... And don't want to waste any more time looking. After all, a couple chapters of Outlander Book 8 are waiting to be read.

This is a Blog Hop and I hope you'll find some quiet time to check out these talented artists and their Flower Creations.
Alysen

Per Marsha:

Please take some time and look at the wonderful things people are creating and contributing to this theme by visiting these artists blogs (if you are having issues leaving comments, please try using google chrome as your browser).

You can also see and participate yourself via social media by using the hashtags: #AEThemeChallenge and #AEFlowers

Here is a list of our Visiting Artists:
Alysen   Cat   Divya   Evie and Beth   Jill   Hope   Kathy   Linda   Louise   Martha   Melissa   Michelle   Rozantia

Sarah   Sarajo   Tammy

And our Art Elements Blog Contributors:
Caroline   Cathy   Claire   Jenny   Laney   Lesley   Marsha   Susan