She Wore Blue Velvet

Color Spotlight - Blue

Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.

Shades Of Blue

Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect. Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness. In heraldry, blue is used to symbolize piety and sincerity.

Home From Above

As opposed to emotionally warm colors like red, orange, and yellow; blue is linked to consciousness and intellect.

Blue is a masculine color; according to studies, it is highly accepted among males. Dark blue is associated with depth, expertise, and stability; it is a preferred color for corporate America.

Blue Sky

Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.

Fun Drop Earrings

Leaves! leaves! Leaves!

I have been fascinated by these leaves for some time now, I finally got some at the last gem show. Then my mother picked up Alaskan Cottonwood and Aspen while she was in Alaska this summer. I love how each one is different, just look!

The first ones I made for my sister's wedding, it was a Faerie theme, so each bridesmaid had a leaf necklace. Then came the 24k gold Aspen leaf with aventurine and carnelian. Next was a Sterling Silver evergreen leaf with Thai silver and several different semi precious stones, then was the Copper evergreen leaf with some handmade lampwork beads I made in ivory, turquoise and silver, mixed with goldstone and turquiose, lastly a gunmetal oak leaf with picaso marbel and rose quartz. I simply love them.

Unfortunately there are people out there selling "dipped" leaves that are not actually dipped leaves but made using the lost wax technique. While I still believe they are beautiful, some leaves I bough on ebay recently are NOT real dipped leaves. I wish people were more honest. There is no way to really tell when you are looking at the skeleton leaves, but the solid leaves have a void in them from where the real leaf was and you can usually feel it when pressing on both sides of the leaf. If it is completely solid all the way through, you do not have a real dipped leaf, you just have a very pretty cast leaf.

FREE JEWELRY!

Free Handmade Jewelry Give-Away!!

Eclectic Jewelry Artisans will be holding a drawing on the Summer Solstice (June 21, 07).

You read right, free handmade jewelry will be given away to three lucky winners on June 21, 07 – the Summer Solstice. No purchase is necessary. All you need to do is sign up for our mailing list to be entered into the drawing. Visit http://EEJA.org and click on “Mailing List”.

Art Enamels

sea, originally uploaded by ignisdesigns.

I have several "Art" jewelry pieces that I am not currently listing for sale. I thought it would be nice to share them anyways. Art pieces are the most fun to create.

This piece is titled "Sea" Two rough cut panels of copper layered with several different colors of murano enamel, within each layer there are a few "chunk" pieces, giving an incredible depth to the piece. I really enjoyed making this piece, I even made a ready to wear pendant to match, it is listed here.

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Self promotion

ignis-postcards, originally uploaded by ignisdesigns.

So, I am working harder to get myself out there. More people need to be wearing my jewelry.

That's me, striving to make the world a more beautiful place! :-)

I am trying to come up with better ways, to promote my self. Good photography is important so I can accurately show the work. Nothing is better than being able to touch and try on jewelry, but that isn't always an option.

This postcard has a sampling of my work, I feel it accurately represents my work. Each piece is unique, so it makes it difficult as I have usually already sold something that has made it out for advertising.

Well enjoy,

Bridgette
Ignis Designs

What am I working on now?

So I have all these unfinished pieces... I have always worked on so many items that I cannot finish them all, I go back to my mother's house and find projects from when i was 12 in the garage.

Now, these aren't the product of artist block.

Some just don't need to finished- like the unicorn rug-hook project I found last time I was up there. Some just aren't ready to be finished, like a garnet necklace I am working on, I am sure is waiting for me to finish an enameled pendant for. Some are paused while I learn a new skill that I can add to the piece.

here are a few unfinished pieces: