Watercolor & jewelry: September Chain Challenge Project 8 - tree of life with Gemstone Orphanage

I was inspired by the colors in the September Gemstone Orphanage subscription box to paint a few pink flowers surrounded by all the shades of green. I used a tree of life pendant for the focal of my jewelry piece, which I made following Steve Caldwell's recently posted tutorial (link below). I added a little bit of extra pink to my jewelry using some leftover pink rounds from one of my previous Adoption Auction wins, as well.
Videos mentioned in this tutorial:
- Steve's Tree of Life pendant tutorial - • Everyone Needs to Make...
- My Watercolor and Jewelry Playlist - • Watercolor and Jewelry
- My live with Softflex & the Sunset Splendor kit - www.youtube.co...
- Unboxing this Gemstone Orphanage box - • Organizing the Sep 24 ...
- Unboxing 2 Gemstone Orphanage Adoption Auction wins - • Organizing my 2 new ge...
- Preview for upcoming (Sep 28th) Gemstone Orphanage Adoption Auction - • Meet the Orphans from ...
Check out Homestrung Jewelry for more info about how to subscribe to this bi-monthly subscription box - Gemstone Orphanage: www.homestrung...
Tool/materials -
Painting:
- Baohong watercolor block - amzn.to/3ZzXg1D
- Artegria brushes - amzn.to/3ZzXg1D
- Sennelier watercolor set - amzn.to/3ZzXg1D
- Masking tape - amzn.to/4ev0MPc
Jewelry:
- Casual Comfort tools - amzn.to/3ZwJlti
- Hobbyworker board - amzn.to/3zhU1S5
- double-flush cutters - amzn.to/4esfo1C
- micro flush cutters - amzn.to/3XAsLpZ
- tweezer-nose pliers - amzn.to/4daYwM0
- Softflex black craft wire - softflexcompan...
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[@colleensinkewicz1537]

Beki, my beautiful soul sister, this is so phenomenal.... you are an absolute treasure in our community. I so appreciate your art. Thank you so much for everything that you do ❤

[@debbycaldwell-homestrungje775]

Your tree turned out really well. I love watching you make jewelry. Thanks so much for this video.

[@paulinecolditz]

Beki! Wow! So so beautiful! Love the tree of life pendant you made. Pink and green, beautiful! Love your watercolor painting! It’s amazing all the different techniques you used in your painting! Nice Beki! Very fun watching! Yet again, a beautiful necklace and earring set! Thank you Beki🥰💕 your friend in NJ.

[@cathymike7559]

How beautiful love the jewelry set & the black outline on the painting just pulled you into it awesome Beki!

[@msharno1]

You're ability with wire is amazing...that tree looks like you've been making it for years!!! As for the pink triangles, I used 90% of the strand in wire wrapping and had to get them onto a 26 gauge wire...not so fun!!!

[@kendrabaker2696]

If you were going for symmetrical sides the one on the right does not match the left but pretty anyway