craftgrrl | A rediscovered "Silver Leaves Collection" sketch...

I just found a Silver Leaves design sketch that I did in...looks like 2004. I am pretty sure it's one I did when I first started talking to Erin about her wedding jewelry -- she ended up choosing to get simpler leaf pendants for herself and all her ladies, instead, and the sketch somehow got lost along the way. The one trouble with the sketch was that it used an Autumn color scheme, and the colors of the metals and leaves and stones just wasn't translating well into the colored pencils I was using at the time. So, I tried to see if it looked more indicative of what it could turn into, if I doctored up the sketch by blipping in photo fragments of actual leaves I've done, metal tones, and stones. I'm...still not sure it really shows the possible set to its best advantage, but oh well.

Anyway, here it is...the "Autumn Moments" necklace and earring set, done in copper and brass wire, with fire agate, fire opal, golden amber and garnet, with the fine silver leaves tinted in tones of gold...

I like it -- I think I'd have to do a version with the leaves kept silver-with-darkened-veins, and the stones in shades of earthy greens, though, if it was for myself.