{"id":6970,"date":"2009-11-30T03:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2009-12-01T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T01:01:09","slug":"mica-shift-polymer-clay-beads-softflex-trios-beading-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/mica-shift-polymer-clay-beads-softflex-trios-beading-wire\/6970\/","title":{"rendered":"Mica Shift Polymer Clay Beads and SoftFlex Trios Beading Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-11\/30-trios-wire-mica-shift-beads-2009-11-26-092.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Trios Wire and Mica Shift Beads\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <\/span>&#8220;Definitely would love more tutorials and ideas on wire jewelry designs.&#8221;<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> ~Cheryl-H<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Earlier this month I promised to show you some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/softflex-trios-beading-wire-stringing-polymer-clay-beads\/6687\/\">SoftFlex Trios Beading Wire<\/a> projects I&#8217;ve been working on. Well here are a couple of pieces of jewelry I made using the Antique Brass and Coral colored SoftFlex wire, as well as my double-sided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-mica-shift-technique-video\/6738\/\">Mica Shift Beads <\/a><em>(Watermelon beads is what I call them).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Today&#8217;s photo really does not do this necklace and earring set proper justice. They are much prettier in real life. But I decided to post the picture anyway to give you guys some more jewelry design ideas for the upcoming gift giving season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The necklace is a versatile choker design, where you can flip the double-sided watermelon beads to show red or olive or a mixture of both. In other words this piece provides <em>wearability<\/em> options that can work with a variety of different outfits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The handmade anodized steel clasp and jump rings make the choker adjustable to most neck sizes. And the over-sized, aged copper crimps <em>(my dad uses these for fishing)<\/em>, bring a funky look to their function of securing the wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because the Trios wire comes in such beautiful colors, I wanted to make sure the wire itself was featured. So I have large loops of it in each color crisscrossing throughout the choker, accented by golden colored glass beads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To use up the wire scraps leftover from making the choker, I made some earrings to go along with necklace. They compliment the necklace rather than compete with it for attention. To keep the earrings from looking too <em>matchy-matchy<\/em>, I did not use any polymer clay beads in the design, and also changed up how the wire is looped through the glass beads. The ear wires are made of non-reactive Niobium metal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Definitely would love more tutorials and ideas on wire jewelry designs.&#8221; ~Cheryl-H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19],"tags":[1855,1829,2757,2782,975,2704],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bead-projects","category-supplies","tag-softflex","tag-chokers","tag-earrings-hoops-piercings","tag-mica-shift-metallic-pearlescent","tag-necklaces-pendants-lanyards-accessories","tag-wirework-and-polymer-clay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}