Our challenge was to combine metal clay with a faux bone ring blank. I've had some faux bone sat in my drawer now for probably a couple of years - never touched - so this challenge finally got me to give it a try. I really enjoyed it - apart from cleaning up after sawing it as it does generate lots of little tiny white bits!!
As Tonya's blog described, I did the challenge in the run up to the wedding at our home. During that time we were just hoping that all our flowers would keep flowering and stay looking good for the wedding - and so I made two flowerings - (flower-rings) for this project - ones that would keep flowering!
The first one is an interchangeable ring - where you can make multiple components and swap them in and out as you choose.
A lot of the fauxbone things you see, utilize the "bone" like coloring, adding browns and blacks etc to create the look of an "aged" piece - but if there is one color I avoid and don't like, it's brown!!! So I decided to brighten up the faux bone with some pretty colors!
Yes - it is a large ring! Here are some variations:
The second ring I made for the challenge was a flowerpot!
Each flower is "planted" into the flowerpot and left to grow!
Happy rings that I hope will encourage the wearer to "keep flowering"!
Tonya's blog shows a brief synopsis of how to create the flowerpot ring. Full step by step instructions with around 70 photos will be available from Whole Lotta Whimsy shortly. I hope these will inspire you to give faux bone a try! I'm certainly glad mine finally came out of the drawer!!
Every Wednesday Tonya posts another Master Muse challenge on her blog - and the next few are all faux bone rings - so pop by and see how others interpreted the challenge.
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3 comments:
Love um!! Yep I also have my faux bone just waiting for me to have time to use it. All very inspiring. Thanks. My favourite is the flower pot!!
Just darling, Ruth! Love the color punch.
Super cute rings!
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