What's Old is New Again

Happy Wednesday!

I am finally getting to the posting of my “What’s Old is New Again” blog challenge from Artbeads.

This set of elements gave me some challenges, which led to a bit of a creative block.

I am finally happy to show you my pieces.

The first piece I made was a necklace using the antique silver plated pewter heart pendant, rolo gunmetal chain, a sterling silver key charm, and resin azalea flowers.

I really love working with rolo chain, it is actually one of my favorite chains. In the past I have used the sterling silver, but this gunmetal one is great also and looks awesome mixed with the sterling silver.

In this piece I also included some white beads from a necklace that was once my grandmothers, some of my pink glass headpins and some silver chain.

The pink flower beads that are attached to the silver chain I doubled on a silver headpins along with the white vintage beads and glass headpins that I made.

The photo in the bezel is of my grandfather with a silver key charm and a Bahamian coat of arms from an old stamp set in resin.

I finished the back of the necklace with some soft pink, silk ribbon.

This necklace needed a pair of earrings to go with it, and this is what I came up with.

They are very light and fun.

I added single pink resin flowers on the rolo chain. There are three strands in different lengths and at the top one of my handmade glass headpins.

Also from Artbeads I got the cutest metal bicycle pendant and made this casual necklace from this piece, also complimented with some of my grandmother’s beads.

I love the mixture of metals in this piece. It is going to be great with jeans and a casual shirt.

Artbeads has a variety of these metal pendants with other themes and they make a quick, cute pendant on a necklace.

So here is where my real challenge came in……

I got some large transparent resin roses from Artbeads as well, and when they arrived there was no hole to string them or attach them. (if I would have read the description properly I would have known this before hand)

I tried to attach them to silver rings with epoxy and they didn’t hold.

Then it hit me …… add it to a mixed media piece!!

What took me so long to come up with that?!?!?!

I love how this turned out and I was sorry I didn't have anymore resin flowers to add to more mixed media pieces.

Here is a close up of the flowers. The rabbits look like they are feeding amongst the flowers.

After making this piece I thought the flowers would make great additions to an art quilt. So I guess I will have to order some more!

Hope you are all having a wonderful week!

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