Week 31 and Week 32 of the Earring Challenge

These past two weeks I have been very busy with so many different projects to finish. I just caught up with my weekly earring challenge and, I am really happy with how they turned out.

These earrings are hammered sterling silver flowers with heat treated copper centers. I just love the all the great colors I can get from heat treating the copper. The copper centers are riveted with sterling wire and spacers to suspend them over the silver flower. They have handmade sterling silver ear wires. 

Week 30 of the Earring Challenge

This week technical difficulties caused a big delay. The colored pencil patina on these failed the first time and reapplying, then drying took all week. I’m working on a few similar pairs in blues, purples, and yellows. With so many color possibilities to explore I just have to make more.  

These earrings are sterling silver wire with three small flowers. The flowers are copper with a colored pencil patina that has been sealed with a gloss.