Beautiful Earrings!

Another submission from Nicola for our February Moodboard, this time a gorgeous pair of earrings made with fabric and buttons...



Thanks again for joining in with us Nicola! If you've been inspired by our colour scheme this month and would like to take part, see this post for details.

More February Moodboard Eye Candy

More submissions for the February Moodboard to show you today. First is this beautiful scarab brooch made by Lesley...



Colleen made this gorgeous bracelet...



And taking inspiration from one of the images in the mosaic, these amazing lampwork beads were made by Debs...





Thanks for joining in with us!

Valentine Heart Free Brick stitch Pattern.

With only 9 days to go to Valentines Day, I thought it would be a good time to share this brick stitch heart pattern that I designed a while ago. It would make a great pendant, brooch or you could bead a few and link them up into a necklace or a bracelet. I designed it using delica's but you could just as easily use size 11 japanese seed beads.

I hope you like it!

Sarahx

February Moodboard Eye Candy

I haven't even thought about what I'm going to make and we already have two pieces submitted to our Flickr group pool!

Nicola made this gorgeous bracelet using cat's eye beads and Swarovski crystals...

And Helen made a beautiful necklace using her own lampwork beads...


Please see this post if you want to join in with the fun!

February Moodboard

We had a huge response to last month's moodboard and saw some beautiful pieces made by our team and our lovely readers. I hope you will all love February's colour scheme and mosaic as much as the last one! This time I've chosen yummy chocolate brown and turquoise and there are many elements you can take from the images to inspire you...wood, metal, fabric, circles, spirals, stars, flowers, locks, time...to name just a few.

Clockwise from top-left: Time Spiral, Bright Turquoise Flowers in Brown Rings, Back to the Days of innoncence, The keyhole...

You can email your photographs to me at liz@thecrimsonmoon.co.uk or alternatively you can add them to our Flickr group pool. The deadline for entries is February 28th and a prize will be awarded randomly to one of our lucky entrants! We're looking forward to seeing what you create!

One more for the January Moodboard

This gorgeous ring was made by Donna who took her inspiration from the Purple Mitosis image in the mosaic, surrounding a rivoli with seed beads and amethyst drops. Thanks for joining in with us Donna!

And the winner is...

Whoa, hold on a minute! Let's have a recap of the mosaic and all the beautiful entries first ;) A the beginning of the year we challenged you to make something using this gorgeous purple and gold colour scheme and you didn't disappoint!

Take a look at the wonderful creations you all came up with...

Carol

Liz

Elisabeth

Nicola

Lesley

Samantha

Catherine (Mangetout)

Sarah

Maria

Jenjuddrocks

What fantastic eye candy! Well I won't keep you in suspense any longer...the winner is...

Congratulations Elisabeth! I'll be in touch with you shortly :)

Thanks to everyone who joined in with us, I hope you've all enjoyed our first month-long moodboard. Tomorrow there'll be a brand new challenge for February so don't forget to drop by!