Wired PIPA Knot Earrings, Faceted Rondelle iolites

The color of iolites often hard to describe, it's a little blueish, it's purplish, and there isn't any day/lights, it's dark blue.

Commissioned piece, this pair of Wired PIPA Knot earrings are made with 92.5 sterling silver wires, adorned with faceted rondelle iolites and sterling silver round beads, featuring Swarovski Chaton Montes Crystals.

Measurement:
Weight: 2.5gram each side, total 5gram.
2.5cm tall, 1.5cm at its widest measure.

Comparing it with the previous pair of commissioned pieces, aren't they equally lovely?

Actual size of the earrings:

Tips: To learn the basic of making this design, the Wired PIPA Knot Earrings Tutorial is available for download at http://de-cors.com.

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

Wired PIPA Knot Earrings with Faceted Round Garnets, Completed.

Completed! After the 4th 3-hours installment of work. :)

I am capturing the picture of this pair of Wired PIPA Knot Earrings adorned with 92.5 Sterling Silver round beads and Faceted Round Garnets, featuring Swarovski Chaton Montes Crystals together with the leftover faceted round garnets, I supposed I could make two or three pair more of this design, and as soon as I announced that on de Cor's Handmades fanpage, I sold another pair of this! Thank you, Syin, for liking it! :D

Measurement:
Weight: 2.5gram each side, total 5gram.
2.5cm tall, 1.5cm at its widest measure.

Additional good news: the buyer of this design just placed another order that she would like me to make a matching pendant so she could have this as a set. :)

Gotta go back to the workbench soon! Will post more frequently!

Tips: To learn the basic of making this design, the Wired PIPA Knot Earrings Tutorial is available for download at http://de-cors.com.

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

Wired PIPA Earrings adorned with faceted round garnets

This is the outcome of the third set of 3-hours-worth-of-work at night after my little one sleeps. :D

The first set of 3-hours-worth-of-work was to craft out the earring base of both sides.
The second set of 3-hours-worth-of-work was to stay put and set sturdy the bases.
The third set was to adorn it with sterling silver round beads and the faceted round garnets beads, only managed to complete one side of the earrings in 3 hours.

Special thanks to Erin Paton (earringsbyerin) for the wonderful beads, it was a gift from her 5 years ago and it had been my precious collections, today I finally used them. Miss you much Erin.

I will be working on the other side of the earrings tonight, then will take a proper photo (the picture in this blog post was captured by my iPhone 5) and post it here again.

Stay tuned!

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

The Making Of Wired PIPA Knot Earrings

Classic PIPA earrings in the making. Commissioned.

Wired PIPA Earrings and pendant is my signature design, and it meant alot to me. This is the reason why i have just spent three hours working on just the base. ♥

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

Thursday Special: 50% OFF Selected Wire Jewelry Tutorial

DOWNLOAD THIS WIRE JEWELRY TUTORIAL WITH 50% DISCOUNT TODAY!

DURATION: 6th October 2011 - 7th October 2011

Product Code: DCH002

I have some urgent matters to attend to this weekend, so I am bringing forward the weekend special to Thursday this way. Will see how it goes, if the respond is better than setting it on the weekend, I will consider running Thursday special on weekly basis instead. :)

So here's this week's Thursday Special: 50% OFF PIPA Earrings Tutorial, available for download at de Cor’s Handmades official website – please take advantage of the 20% discount for second item too if you are intended to get more than just this tutorial.

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

PIPA Earrings, Wired Chinese Knot

Anya made these. :)

It never failed to put a smile on my face when I see my jewelry artist friend's attempt on making PIPA jewelry.

Wired PIPA Earrings was my first ever Wired Chinese Knot jewelry piece and its a signature design of mine, and now, Anya have made her first PIPA pendant into a great success. From her version of Wired PIPA Pendant you could probably tell how much attention she'd invested to ensure the outcome turn out to be as close to what I've taught in the PIPA Earrings tutorial as possible. Thank you, Anya, I appreciate your effort and attention. :)

So, a classic PIPA this is:

Then, a variation - knowing Anya, this is definitely a must do after she equipped herself with the knowledge on making the basic Wired PIPA Jewelry:

Totally stunning and classy, ain't it? I especially like how she'd planned her non-round frame, it remind me of how Erin made her's. It's not straight forward, and I am glad that she did not compromise on the little details.

I am actually hoping to see more pieces from Anya, I've seen how she'd made her ROSE ring (image heavy) by adapting Kiki's Adjustable Rose Ring tutorial, I know she would apply whatever she'd learned onto her own jewelry pieces. :)

If you are interested in learning to make Wired PIPA Knot jewelry, here's

   

   Code: DCH002

   Title: PIPA Earrings

   Category: Wired Chinese Knot

Hope you had fun viewing. :)

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

New Movie Clips for PIPA designs, Wired Chinese Knot collection, Wire Jewelry

I chuckle a little reading the title itself, ha ha. Movie clips? I wished. :P

Hey sorry if you have enter this blog because of this blog post title – I didn’t meant to frame you lol, for as much as I would like to compose some movie clips I am NOT THERE YET! But you know what? I will be one day!!! (I don’t know, I am sorta fan of Susan Boyle, she gave me so much hope when she sang “I Dreamed a Dream” on that stage. :P

So now, spare a minute and 39 seconds of your time to see what I’ve put together for your viewing pleasure. This Wired Chinese Knot, PIPA design is significant to me and the Wire Jewelry community as more than a thousand of wire jewelry artists have shown their interest and brought PIPA Earrings Tutorials home in the very same year it was published - yes, thousands of wire jewelry artists, have shown their very supportive spirit and opened-mind to accept this new approach, new adaption, new concept of Chinese Knot! So yes, year 2008 certainly meant something to me, praise the wire jewelry community for the ability to accept the new concept.
Back to this movie clip.

Most of the pieces presented in this clip were composed in year 2008 itself – because it was a new concept back then in year 2008, I’ve put in fair amount of time and effort to invent/ re-invent of how Wired PIPA knot and other Wired Chinese Knot can adapt into designs, the key to have a design being widely accepted is to inspire people on how the design can possibly be or, vary, a.k.a. variation.

I plan to continue to present my designs/ collection in movie clip format if you would allow me, just let me know if you welcomed it by leaving me a comment here in my blog or a comment there in Youtube, rate it if you can, and if you have a Youtube profile, remember, remember, re-mem-ber to subscribe my video list so that I could subscribe yours too! Love these stuff! :)

Hope you enjoyed viewing!

Category: Wired Chinese Knot
Corra

Classic PIPA Pendant with Little Black Dress, JiaSha with Amethyst Earrings, Wired Chinese Knot

*Cough Cough*
A happy innovator I am, featuring JiaSha Earrings and PIPA Pendant. I put on my own little black dress to take this photo shoot for a preview for it’s owner, because this pendant is meant to go with a little black dress for a formal occasion.

Item listed and sold @ ArtFire!

Fine Art Jewelry, 100% Handcrafted.
Signature Design @ de Cor's.
This is a 2 in 1 design, you can wear it with the frame or without. This order is specifically made for a formal function and it is designed to go with the pendant owner's Little Black Dress, hence the pendant came with that beautiful a necklace featuring semi-transparent ribbon and leather cords.

Weight: 3.3gram
Earrings measure 3cm from ear wires, 1.8cm at its widest measure.
All metal are Sterling Silver (92.5)
Material: Cubic Zirconia, Swarovski Crystal.

Thanks for visiting! And hope you enjoy your week!
-Me-

{Prototype} PIPA Pendant

I hope you won’t find it too strange of me making prototype piece of my own PIPA design for my client. She choose her stones and she has preference about how those beads should be arranged, I want her to confirm her wish before I execute the project. :)
And so I’ve placed beads as per her request, this is how it looked like:

Hehe, so it’s a wee bit too overwhelming, and I am glad that I’ve made this prototype before I broke my silver – cause she felt the same too. I then proposed, that perhaps we could try:

The different about this two layout is – the latter have more defined tear-drop shape. :) So to those who know how to construct PIPA pieces, a little note to you: Attaching beads at the out-most layer might make the tear-drop shape a little rounder than it should be, and there’s nothing wrong about it, it is solely depend on one’s preference, and this should be an option you could offer to your buyer. :)

To learn to make classic PIPA, here’s the tutorial: DCH002 PIPA Earrings. The instruction is also available in my Etsy store and ArtFire store. :)
Hope you are inspired!
-Me-

PIPA Earrings for Mum, by Fee.

Fee posted her version of PIPA Earrings in JL site, and as usual I’ve got her permission to post it here for you to see. It had been more than 18 months since I’ve incorporated PIPA Knot with wires, and I can still be so fascinated with each and every Wired PIPA pieces. :)

Learn How to Make this:

Hope you enjoyed looking!

-Me-

Corina’s attempts on PIPA and LayerCoiled

I’ve got a mail yesterday that says:

LOL… Yeah Ms. Corina got my name wrong but I won’t mind it this time because she’d sent me a few attachments that truly made my day:

This is her result of trying out DCH001 tutorial.

  

And these….

Of course, are from my signature design DCH002 PIPA Earrings tutorial. Great execution making it into a pendant Ms. Corina!

Now I can’t wait to see how her “A” Pendant would turn out like! Personally I think she is very, very ready for greater challenges, perhaps I’d urge her to try out Rosabella Pendant tutorial soon. :)

 

So, pay a visit to Corina’s Etsy or ArtFire store to see what she has? She has something really interesting in her store – in case you have been looking for them! :)

 

-Me-

Emily’s PIPA earrings and pendant

Funny how these things turned out – especially it’s done by my own fellowship Malaysian, Emily. I guess things are really picking up here in where I live. :)

 

I am still not giving up yet – one day, people here will appreciate handmades. ^_^

 

Welldone Emily, and thanks so much for giving this a try and thanks for E-mailing me your pictures, am totally excited!

 

-Me-

PIPA Pendant, Year 2009

Technique: PIPA

The very last time I’ve created a complete PIPA classic was in Thursday, November 13, 2008. It is just about right now to revisit before June starts. :)

 

And It’s June now. Time to take a break, sit back and relax. :)

 

P/S I have been reading!

Take good care of yourself – and don’t get too much of sunburn!

 

-Me-

The Details

Most of my designs/creations were really tiny – and yet I stress a lot on my creation’s “details”. I am not sure if you are able to tell the difference between these photos and what have been photographed before – I know I am very, very happy now with these pictures because, I, finally, am able to present you what valued most for my designs and creations - the “details”.

 

 

   PIPA Earrings

 

 

ZHU Studs

 

 

Passiflora Studs/ Post Earrings

 

 

Snowflakes’ Earrings

 

 

Friendship Band - Bracelet

 

 

Beaded Rosabella Pendant

 

 

The Square Post Earrings

 

Seriously, I hope you would love these pictures – and their details. :)

 

-Me-