Mother

Mother's Day in Poland is on 26th of May.
Luckly on this date I am coming back home, to my parents house so me and my beloved Mom can celebrate  that important day!
Last time when we saw each other she told me that she loves my jewelry and she would like to get earrings inspired by Manasa shape with a Cloudy Wings colours :)
So combination those two:

Gives this :)

Yemaya-afro-american Goddess. She is the ocean, the essence of motherhood, and a protector of children.

Perfect name for those earrings.

I must admit, every time I make something special for someone close to my heart I am really, really nervous and work takes double time than normal ;)

But it is worth it! :)

Can't wait to see my Mom wearing them with all my love and gratefulness I put in <3

Safiyyah Jewelry Art
HANDCRAFTED WITH TENDER LOVING CARE

Les émeraudes and few older works.

When I find that one of my designs is pretty easy to repeat and I really like the result, I have a tendency to repeat it using different colours of my soutache strings and beads.

Every time, though I follow my own instructions, jewelry is different, has a different vibe.

Below you can see few of my works that I've done previously and one recent, in my faveourite colour- emerald :)

Lets start with barcelets, as you know it is not easy for me to create something else than earrings, so when I've made my first bracelet I was pretty shocked and with the result;)
So here it is: VENUS.

Was reserved straight away by my friend who asked me to repeat the design in green colour, so she can give one to her best friend.
And this is how ALOHA was born ;) I used glass and plastic beads and natural stones-kyanite.

During the X-mass I've made a lot of earrings for my familly and family od my boyfriend, cause I know how they love jewelry ;)
And this design I really, really like, so I think those two below are not the last ones that I've created ;)

MANASA- Indian Snake Goddess.
Soutache earrings with natural stones (hematite).

Eostre- Goddess of Spring.

Soutache earrings made of PEGA soutache strings and TOHO beads.

Then we have sweet, little earrings (2,5cm) that I find look amazing with casual and smart outfit.

FAYRUZ- in arabic means Turquoise.
Soutache earrings with natural stone (Turquoise).

and CANDIES:

and the last one, happy, spring rasta cutties:

These are just few previous works;)

Now news from this week, as I mentioned my b-day gift from Peppermint Flavoured Art is being used succesfully by me, and this is what came out of it:

Beltan sparks:

And Les émeraudes that I've almost finished today:)

Hope you enjoy it.

Safiyyah Jewelry Art
HANDCRAFTED WITH TENDER LOVING CARE

How good it is...

to have a best friend, sharing the same passions as you;) Kisses to http://peppermint-art.blogspot.be/
This is what I got for my birth day :)

As I don't have that much time recently, my soutache projects take more time, but slowly beltan spark turnes into the little fire ;)
I used Chinese soutache strings, glass and plactic beads and metal findings.
More pictures soon :)

I hope you still remeber about our little spring contest?
Details below!

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Happy Beltan everyone!:)

Today Celtic summer starts, lots of bonfires will light up the night.
Here in Belgium, as far as I am aware, you can't set a fire in a woods or fields or meadows, so the only place I can see some flames is my own house;)
So I share with you my little soutache spark, unfinished but energetic, wishing you a great night :)

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HANDCRAFTED WITH TENDER LOVING CARE

SPRING CONTEST!!!!

Colours always make us more beautiful.
Unite make up and jewelry and the result will be mind blowing ;)
Jovanka- make up artist and me decided to give you a chance to win both: wonderful cosmetics and jewelry. 

How to take part in our contest?
1. Go to the FB pages: mine and Jovanka's and click LIKE:
https://www.facebook.com/SafiyyahJewelryArt
https://www.facebook.com/JovankaMakeUpArtist?fref=ts
2. Subscribe Jovanka's YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwT9qrojY8FWava89gFkwA?feature=watch
3. Take a look at the 10 photos below and pick one that inspires you the most. This will be your base for the make up.
4. Put on the make up and take 5 pictures of it: one of the whole face and with an open eyes, one of the whole face with eyes closed, 2 of the close ups and one with the sign on a paper saying SPRING CONTEST.
5. Send it all to: jovanka.makeup@gmail.com

Pictures will be posted on our FB pages so people can vote and choose the one they like the most- that would be a special prize.
Except that me and Jovanka, we will choose 3 pictures that we like the most.
Little bit about the prizes.
Cosmetics are from Italian, exclusive company-NOUBA plus jewelry made by me.
SO:
-the 1st place: pair of earrings and bracelet, 3single eyeshadows, 1 double eyeshadow, golden eyeliner,  Noubamat pressed powder, 3 bronzers and 4 blushes.

 
-2nd place: pair of earrings,3single eyeshadows, Noubamat pressed powder, 3 bronzers and 4 blushes.

-3rd place pair of earrings, 3single eyeshadows, Noubamat pressed powder and 3 bronzers.

So as you can see there is something to fight for ;) 

Send us your pictures till 30th of May, results will be announced on the 1st of June.

Pictures for the inspirations below:  

 

Earthy set.

As a person who is closely related with nature, eco building subjects, eco-life solutions I decided to celebrate Earth Day(22nd of April) by making something that reminds me of our Mother.

This is how DANU set was created.

DANU- In Irish mythology is the mother of the earth, the gods, fertility, wisdom, wind and of all the Celtic people.



Here I will show you step by step how I created the bracelet.

First the most important part- choosing the stones.
I decided that the main stone will be a beautiful amber.
As you can see on the picture of the final result I did not embroider around the main piece.
I thought it's big and beautiful enough to be left as it is ;)

Except amber I used aventurine and moss agate.

I started with the small amber and 3 colours of the soutache strings on each side. Everything secured with the pins and we can start our fun ;)

Then I added moss agate and aventurine.

As you can see brown strings I left free.
Then I added another amber and started to embroider little plastic RAYHER beads between green strings and brown one- under the aventurine and above last amber.

Next step: adding beads above the first amber.

Next step is adding viscose string around one part of our piece and 2nd layer of beads on our brown string.

And this is the final result :)
2nd part is exactly the same.

In the end the most important thing: attaching the parts to the main amber, adding clasp et voila- bracelet ready :)

Hope you like it!
Good luck with your jewelry!

Safiyyah Jewelry Art
HANDCRAFTED WITH TENDER LOVING CARE

KONKURS!!!

This time post will be in polish.

WIOSENNY KONKURS:
JOVANKA+SAFIYYAH.

Od dziś do 30.05.2013 czekamy na zgłoszenia.

Klikamy w filmik poniżej i stosujemy się do zaleceń;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBolN14ivHA
 
Regulamin poniżej oraz w filmiku.
1. Aby wziąć udział w konkursie należy:
-polubić mój fan page: https://www.facebook.com/SafiyyahJewelryArt
-fan page JOVANKI: https://www.facebook.com/JovankaMakeUpArtist?fref=ts
oraz dodać kanał JOVANKI na Youtube do sybskrytacji:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwT9qrojY8FWava89gFkwA?feature=watch
2. Zainspirować się jednym z 10 zdjęć z filmiku i przesłać na adres jovanka.makeup@gmail.com 5 zdjęć z wykonanym przez siebie makijażem. Jedno zdjęcie całej twarzy z otwartymi oczami, całej twarzy z zamkniętymi oczami, dwóch zdjęć zbliżeniowych oraz jedno zdjęcie z kartką, na której widnieje napis "Konkurs Wiosenny".
3. Przeze mnie i przez Jovankę zostaną wyłonione 3 osoby, które staną na podium. Dodatkowo jedna praca zostanie wybrana przez publiczność na podstawie ilości lajków.
4. Prace należy przesyłać do 30.05, ale im prędzej tym większe szanse na zdobycie dużej ilości lajków pod swoją pracą, a tym samym na nagrodę publiczności.
5. Werdykt zostanie ogłoszony 01.06.2013.
Zróbcie sobie prezent na dzień dziecka :)
6. Nagrody są wymienione w filmiku.

POWODZENIA!

Who wants to win a prize?;)

Spring is a good time to start over or make your plans grow ;)
It's a good time to experiment with colours.
As you know make up and jewelry are the things that highlights women's beauty, that's why
together with a great make up artist- Jovanka, we decided to give you a chance to win wonderful prizes.
More information tomorrow, so stay tuned!
In a meantime visit Jovanka's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/JovankaMakeUpArtist?fref=ts and discover the world of colour.

Soap bubbles :)

As I promised something new today on my FB page and blog.
I came back to Brussels this morning and the day was so beautiful that I couldn't resist to go for a walk.
In one of the shops I saw soap bubbles kit and I had to buy it ;)
Who doesn't love soap bubbles???

Well, seems like in Brussels most of the people! :P
Few of them even asked me very angry how can I do it?! It's only for kids?!
Love you Belgians and your love for fun in life ;)
Anyway...
Ice cream and bubbles were the inspiration for me today.
And i decided to do something different than usual, just for fun and to try new methods :)

I started with looking at the beads with sunny, summer colours ;)

Then I used Chinese soutache string to make something cornet like ;)

To get this effect I used special glue for fabrics.
I started to go around the first ring and then in the end I pushed it up to get a cornet shape.
The back is covered with felt.

Then I glue the beads and this is the final result.

So this is how my little bubble-ice cream cornet looks now.
For sure I will transform it into something else.

Hope you enjoy it.

Safiyyah Jewelry Art
HANDCRAFTED WITH TENDER LOVING CARE

sun!

Believe me or not winter is the worst time for creation. That's why since 20th of March I'm longing for the sun;) and finally here it is,over 20 deg and no clouds.
Now I feel double power to do stuff,ideas are jumping into my head like crazy.
Be prepared for a lots of news starting tomorrow;)
Now I am sending you kisses from amazing Krakow and see you tmrw in Capital of Europe again;)

Queen Beatrice

Recently my best friend started her soutache adventure as well and we both agreed that all we see is earrings ;)
Hello to Peppermint Flavoured Art <3

Every stone, every bead at the beginning is as an earring in our heads.
It is really hard to switch to something else and start making bracelet or necklace ;)

That's why it took me so long to make my first one.
Below you can see the first steps and the final result :)

And this is how it looks on me :)

And in the box:

I have created as well an tiny earrings that match with it :)

Hope you enjoy it!

Safiyyah Jewelry Art
HANDCRAFTED WITH TENDER LOVING CARE