vintage sheet music

The assignment this week for Shades of Inspiration, is vintage paper. Oh, what a perfect theme to show you the finished piece of jewelry I worked on and posted about right after returning from our Christmas holiday. You may remember that the wrapped beads were inspired by Deryn Mentock's article in Belle Armoire Jewelry called Wrap It Up. Her online tutorial, further showing how to make these little jewels called wrapped links, was an excellent step by step for those of you who didn't get to buy the magazine!

I used vintage sheet music for some of my wraps, which I first covered with Golden gel medium. This will protect your precious vintage paper.

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Last night I finished a pair of earrings to go along with Nancy's necklace, using smokey quartz briolettes and gorgeous czech crystals bought from Z Beads in the West University area of Houston. Don't they look like ice cream with a chocolate swirl and caramel? They actually have a vein of violet and tuquoise colors running thru them. They are scrumptious!

I took a few more pictures making a prop out of some vintage journal paper I had rolled and tied with vintage dupioni silk. It normally pokes out of an antique vase I have in our spare bedroom. I bought this paper more than a year ago from my now very good friend Colette Copeland. I have used it alot in my art. When I turned the charm over, I was totally surprised. I had forgotten I had also used vintage sheet music on the back! Oh, I couln't have planned it better than that. Life is good.