September. I miss you. <sigh>
September Component of the Month is brought to you by Kristi Bowman of Dream Some Design. The colors in this amulet are WOW! It is white copper, I believe, and the style says primitive talisman to me… I wanted to bring out the subtle tones of peach/honey and aqua. Not my usual palette so I am happy for the challenge!
The linear and dot motifs helped guide me. I wanted to play up the linear quality, and decided to incorporate the wrapped chain links. They are copper and nickel parawire tumbled to a shiny finish. ( Thanks to Lesley for inspiration on these links.) The gems – jaspers and agates – repeat the dot/round motif nicely.
I wanted to give the piece another layer of meaning and keep in the primitive style. ( I mean that in the best way, naturally). I decided to stamp runes into copper discs and intersperse them with the gems. (The runes are linear in nature as they were originally carved in stone. This makes them easy enough to stamp with letter stamps… no curves needed. )
I liked the meanings here. I thought that made for a powerful sentiment, a personal talisman. I would love to hear your thoughts as well…
And dont miss the other pieces designed by my fellow Art Jewelry Elements team mates and this month’s guests!
Jenny Davies-Reazor 
I love the meaning you incorporated into this piece – very personal and powerful. And you did a great job with the color palette – love the whole thing!
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Well of course I would expect your design to be deep and meaningful and you never fail to deliver on that. I love the soft earthy palette and your bead placement and stamped and wrapped links really do give it a sense of the primitive. Me likey lots.
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Gosh I love this – not just the achieved aesthetic, but the meaning. You put so much thought into each piece of jewelry – that’s what makes you such a phenomenal artist!
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I love the way you think, Miss Jenny. The layers of meaning that you have woven into this piece make that pendant just vibrate with mysticism! I am enjoying the chain that everyone is making for this pendant too! So beautiful and unique! Enjoy the day. Erin
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Beautiful! I love your selection of colors and shapes to accent the focal and your incorporation of runes adds an extra meaningful touch.
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Beautiful work. Love the palette.
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Jenny that’s stunning! I love the feel of it, like ancient treasure, and I’m a real sucker for anything with runes on it, you rocked it!
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I love it, Jenny! The runes are great, and I love the stones you chose and the wrapped links are perfect!
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Jenny your color choices are great. The added ruins stamps gives this piece the extra touch of love. Very cool design.
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I love the rune links especially and also how you brought out the subtle colors in the goddess vessel.
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So cool the way you added the runes to your design and the mixed metal links to pull it all together. Sometimes it’s fun to go outside your color comfort zone and you did it beautifully here. I always look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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What a wonderful statement necklace! Not so much a statement in the sense of a large size, but that the runes make a statement. I love how you carried the dot and line pattern through everything that you did here. I love this necklace!
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The addition of runes was genious! I know what they mean to you and I have to tell you I am blown away. The colors the chain the texture are all a perfect compliment to the pendant!
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That is so cool — I love jewelry with meaning.
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I love your design and the thoughts behind it. It’s elegant, striking, personal, and makes a great statement.
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