The necklace is titled “Japanese Lanterns” and also features a polymer clay pendant created by me using an image transfer technique. The image depicted is of a vintage Japanese woodcut. I was drawn to the colorful graphics, but it sat on my worktable for weeks while I searched for the perfect gemstones to complete the necklace design. Beads I picked up had too much cherry red in them, and I felt it needed something in the Chinese red family of orange-reds, or possibly a chameleon bead that would adapt to more than one color palette. I knew I found that when I saw the Salmon/Peridot Czech glass rondelles! They are perfect accents and bring out the reds in the pendant.
Thank you so much!
- By Artbeads.com customer Lynda
www.scdiva.etsy.com
11 responses so far ↓
1 Bridgette // Oct 8, 2009 at 6:28 am
Wow, this necklace is beautiful! I especially love the pendant. I am huge into asian culture, so this necklace is one of my favs that I’ve seen in awhile =]
2 Tina Farthing // Oct 8, 2009 at 6:34 am
Lovely necklace! Congrats Lynda for being featured! Beautiful work as always!
3 Donna Jo // Oct 8, 2009 at 6:41 am
I absolutely LOVE the pendent… Are you going to be selling them on your etsy site?
4 DB // Oct 8, 2009 at 7:20 am
beautiful! congrats on the good work. i can’t ever seem to get image transfer to work for me.
5 Anne // Oct 8, 2009 at 7:53 am
Lovely pendant, Lynda. I am also a native SC gal and I do some beading myself, but not polymer clay. Do you have a tutorial for making the image transfers? I do not sell the things I make, so would not be a competitor. Your pendants have a beautiful finish; I’d love to know how you made them.
Thank you.
Anne Smith
6 Nancy // Oct 8, 2009 at 8:25 am
This piece is beautiful. I love the vintage Chinese scene. So unique!
7 Lynda Moseley // Oct 9, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Oh, my! What a lovely way to end a very bad work week. Thank you so much for featuring my necklace!
And thank you, ladies, for your kind comments!
Donna Jo, I would be happy to make a pendant for you with this image. Send me a convo at the etsy shop and we’ll talk, okay?
Anne, howdy neighbor! Are you in the upcountry or the lowcountry? I’m a lowcountry gal myself. I would be happy to give you some pointers on image transfers. There are some really good tutorials online, but I’m happy to help!
Thanks again, everyone!
8 Kokopelli // Oct 10, 2009 at 1:21 am
You definitely found the right color match for the Japanese scene! I love that pendant.
9 sharon // Oct 12, 2009 at 7:09 pm
love the pendant is it on your site for sale and ho much.
10 Lynda Moseley // Oct 13, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Thank you so much, Kokopelli.
Sharon, please email me at the shop and I’ll give you the details. Thanks!
11 Angie Cornelius // Oct 28, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Stunning, great job on the polymer clay piece, isn’t polymer clay awesome?
Masterful color combinations, I’m going to check out your shop!
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