Beadin' Path Beading Challenge

Toward the end of August, Lorelei announced her Beadin' Path Beading Challenge.  She worked with The Beadin' Path and came up with a sampling of lucite beads, lucite chain, focals and even a few findings.

The colors are fun and the style is funky.  Lorelei told us to "think COLOR .. think CHUNKY .. think FUNKY .. think FUN!"

I wouldn't have put these colors together on my own, but I decided to take the challenge.  I even had a few ideas in my head as I ordered the kit.

Of course, all those ideas flew away when I received the beads.  I took the red beads and started making Infinity Prisms from a pattern by Gwen Fisher and Florence Turnour of Bead Infinitum.

I added a bit of orange and black to the red beads

I had intended to use one of the black lucite flowers, but while scouring my stash, I found these large copper beads.  It was meant to be.

After making all of the red beaded beads, the blue buttons called to me.  I used them as the center of a few flowers.

I made two necklaces using these flowers.  The first combines the blue cylinders, Marsha Neal silk, steel wire and a connector from Staci Louise Artisan Accents.

I *love* the finished piece.

The second uses a few more Staci Louise components.

I wanted to use the blue links, but after a bit of trial and error, I discovered that I liked a few beaded links better.

After some thought, I decided that I *needed* to tackle those lucite fowers.  Those flowers motivated me to join this challenge, so they had to be used.  I tried a few different things and finally settled on something simple.

When I first saw the blue links, I wanted to add a few beaded links of my own to the chain.

The final product, finished with silk from  Marsha Neal:

I'm not so sure about the silver clasp, but I didn't have time to bead something.

Lorelei, thank you so much for the challenge.  I had a great time.  :)

Please take time to visit Lorelei's blog to see what everyone else did with these awesome beads.