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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Bejeweled Bird

This fun and funky piece came about because I wanted to use some of the jewelry bits and pieces I'd been collecting.  When I found a bag of metal clip candle holders, I got to thinking of what I could do to combine them.  And I was curious to see if Glossy Accents could hold them all together.  The result was this blingy bird! 

The head is a washer with an earring attached for the eye.  The beak is the earring back.  The beads are glued to pieces of wire.
The body is the candle holder base.  I cut off the clip (which half of became the tail) and bent down the "petals" of the holder.  I attached a gold earring as the wing. 
Curled wires with feather charms accent the tail.  The legs are wire and the base is a wooden block covered with designer paper and distressed.  And yes, Glossy Accents worked beautifully to hold this all together!!
This is my last submission as a Design Team member for The Cheerful Stamp Pad's biweekly Challenge.  I've had a lot of fun playing with Vicki and the gals over there and hopefully can rejoin them sometime in the future!

This piece is entered into the following Challenges:

29 comments:

  1. This is stunning! What a jewel!

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  2. This is just stunning & very clever!!! Fantastic creation!

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  3. So clever! Love the way you used up older jewelry

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  4. That bird is so much fun! Glossy Accents is certainly the go-to stuff isn't it? =)

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  5. Wow, this is so cool. Looks like that needs to go into one of the Stampington magazines.

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  6. This is gorgeous, you certainly are very clever and artistic. TFS

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  7. Oh my goodness! Your little birdie is magnificent! Thanks for the Glossy Accent tip on ATT :)

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  8. Wow! You are so imaginative. Your birdie is just gorgeous!

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  9. What a fun and inspiring project :)

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  10. How cool! What a fabulous way to upcycle jewelry!

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  11. Oh how very cool and very clever!!

    Laura

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  12. Virtual high five!!! This is spectacular. I completely love what you've created here. What a wonderful conversational piece of artwork. Spectacular!

    Thank you so much for joining in our challenges at Top Tip Tuesday and Craft Us Crazy. :)

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  13. Love the wire technique! Very nice!

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  14. Gosh, great what you have made with all your bits and pieces. Fabulous. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine

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  15. This is so cool! It's so different from your normal style that I scrolled right past it on Cheerful Stamp Pad and thought "where's Cindy's project"...LOL! Funky fun...love it!

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  16. i really love this! so creative and beautifully done. it inspires me to think of creative ways to use many of the bits and pieces i have around... xo

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  17. Wow, this is so different and creative. Thanks for joining us at Top Tip Tuesday. Annette xx

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  18. This is really spectacular. Love this bird you've created here. Fabolous design. Thanks for playing at Top Tip Tuesday and good luck. Hope to see you back tuesday for another challenge. Bettina xx

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  19. oh wow this is brilliant,gosh what an amazing creation,just love this,to bits, bless you for playing at creative craft challenge too,hugs Cheryl xxxx

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  20. Oh wow this is so fab completly different thanks for joining us at Creative Craft Challenge this time.
    Jenny x

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  21. I love love love this piece, so cute.

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