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AJE August 2014 CoM Challenge Reveal ~ Crimson Raven

Another month has flown by… and it's time for another Component of the Month Reveal! These monthly challenges really are one of my most favorite things about being a member of the awesome AJE team. This month is extra special since it was my turn to host… and I'm just bursting with excitement at finally getting to see the brand new creations everyone has dreamed up with my hand painted leather feathers!

For myself I chose one of the long focal feathers in black, grey, crimson, and copper… and here's what I've made…

I love long necklaces!

And I love these colors! There's something so incredibly beautiful and special about seeing the flocks of birds flying in the richly colored sun-setting skies of autumn—when you can only see their silhouettes mingled with black tree branches against the smoky grey and crimson red—that's what these colors remind me of, and so I've titled my new necklace "Crimson Raven".

For the focal I used a large Russian lace agate donut and a smaller donut in carnelian and wrapped them together with hemp. And then with a little more hemp and a dot of glue, I tied the feather in place. Two gemstone rounds—like the setting sun and rising moon—yes, that seems fitting for an autumn themed necklace, I think…

On either side of the feather I strung czech glass ovals with spotted brass spacers and iris grey seed beads.

And next I made a grouping of art beads, mixing up the arrangement just a bit on either side to keep things interesting. I used three of my own hand-painted speckle beads, a few of my tribal birds from my latest bead batch (the white gulls are in my shop already and weather permitting I'll have the ravens listed on Monday. :-). I added in a couple red creek jasper rounds, some hematite faceted beads, and a pair of lovely rustic black ceramic rounds from Lesley Watt.

For some reason finishing the backs of necklaces often takes me longer than any other part and after first contemplating several more complicated options, I decided to keep it simple—I ended my beaded front section with seed bead loops and used micro suede lace tied with hemp to finish it off.

One last bit of hemp cord to tie it all together and there you have it!

Time to hop! Follow the links below to see what everyone else dreamed up with the leather feathers they chose. Thank you all so much for joining me in this challenge!

Guest Artists

The AJE Team

Rebekah Payne <— You are here!

Caroline Dewison

On AJE Blog ~ Beaded Drop Feather Earrings Tutorial

I'm making these new earrings with my leather feathers on Art Jewelry Elements blog today!

Join me here to make your own!

Painted Feather Winners!

Lady's back to share in the excitement of the new painted feather owners…

And her buddy, Strider, has joined too. (This is his "What's with the black box you're pointing at me? Where's the food?" look. He's way too adorable!)

And now, for the painted feather winners…

Christine and KayzKreationz!

Congrats ladies!

And I want to say thank you to each of you who shared my giveaway and sale, and to all of you who gave ideas and suggestions. I'm cutting out a big batch of new feathers today and new colors are on the way!

Green in all different shades, was the overall favorite, so that's at the top of the list. Also, you suggested turquoise, teal, lavender, royal purple, chartreuse, pink, black and white… to name a few—all fabulous ideas!

Thank you! Stay tuned for more feathers in new colors!

The painting is finished… and a giveaway!

* * * This sale and giveaway has ended. * * *

Thank you to everyone who entered, shared and shopped!

Here they are! I've done five different color combinations so far… they're a bit tedious to paint, but I'm thrilled with the way these have turned out. I hope you are too.

They're listed in my shop here.

And now… are you ready for some fun?

My fluffy white horse, Lady sure is! (I think she was hoping my little trip outside to get these photos would involve something special for her—don't worry she and Strider will get apple cores and some burnt toast with their supper. Yum!)

I actually have two surprises today…

First off, everything in my shop ships to you for free when you use code FLYFREE through March 5th. (Yes, that includes all my international friends too!)

And second, it's giveaway time!

I'm giving away 1 mirrored set of these hand painted leather feathers to 2 lucky winners! You'll get to pick your favorite color.

The Rules:

 To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment in the comments section below and tell me what your favorite color combination is and what colors you think I should try next. Or tell me what you'd make with them—earrings? Necklace? How would you use them? I love to hear your ideas!

And you get extra entries by leaving additional comments for doing one or all of these:

1. Becoming a follower of Tree Wings Studio blog
2. Sharing my GIVEAWAY on your blog, facebook, twitter, or pinterest
3. Sharing my free shipping SALE on your blog, facebook, twitter, or pinterest

Be sure to leave ONE comment for EACH thing you do.

And don't forget to leave your contact info.

(Feel free to use any of the photos posted here when sharing.)

This giveaway and sale will end on March 5th at 11:59pm EST.

Giveaway winners will be announced on March 7th.

Good luck! Lady is rooting for you!

In Progress…

And ready for paint!

It's going to be a fun weekend!

These new leather feathers will be painted and ready to fly to their new homes in a few days… and I'm thinking maybe a little extra surprise is in order, like maybe a giveaway… What do you think?

Details coming soon. :-)

Happy Saturday!

Fly with Painted Wings ~ Rustic Leather Feather Earrings

Try to keep me away from paint… and you'll find it's impossible…

This time it is paint paired up my new rustic leather feathers.

What do you think?

I used purple-red, blue, grey, and gold acrylics and then hung them with matte amber rounds, a couple stacked bead caps—one bronze and one silver, and Kristen Steven's lovely oxblood beaded beads. I titled them "Fly with Painted Wings".

I think they'd be perfect with a long maxi skirt, a peasant style blouse, and a fringe-y scarf—all in earthy tones. And maybe long braided hair. But of course, blue jeans will suffice too. :-)

More painted feathers will be coming soon!
I'll try very hard not to keep them all for myself!

Having fun with leather

Remember this necklace?

I've had leather on the brain for quite sometime now and on Wednesday I spent the whole day turning those ideas into something real.

I started with a few shapes…

Cut out the suede…

And, ta-da! Feathers!

Okay, yeah, it was a bit more complicated than that and involved some detailed "drawing" with my wood burning kit—but lots of fun. I'm putting these first ones in the shop today and more will follow soon.

There are SO many things that could be done with them—they could be bead frames like I did for my necklace, beads could be stitched on, holes added for dangles and such, color added—too many ideas! What do you think? What would you do with them?

Already I have some jewelry designs I'm dreaming up. I don't usually have much time for jewelry making, but that's really something I'm working at this year.

And, it helps when you happen upon some fun new beads…

I got these beaded lovelies from the talented Kristen Stevens. Aren't they gorgeous? You know how much I love tiny detail, so of course, I'm going to have a blast playing with them—and with leather feathers! fun!

Happy Friday everyone!

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