Look what I found!

I just found my very own petria plant in my complex
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My fern castings

There is always an element of surprise in casting! You are never quite sure how it will come out but I am happy with the way my bits of plant and flowers cast! Bit of a bad photo but one can see what I am talking about!
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Alidra Alic

Here is another jeweller who creates beautiful orchid jewellery. I cannot tell whether her jewellery is cast but the detail on the orchid is beautiful. She also uses a plastic on her pieces that adds colour to them. Take a look:
http://www.klimt02.net/jewellers/index.php?item_id=7506

Other jewellers who have used flowers

As it would turn out some where someone has always tried out the idea you had in your head that you thought was unique and original! I found a man who casts beautiful flowers, including orchids! Wow they are lovely! Here is his link http://www.nicbladen.com/ . His name is Nic Bladen.
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Cast orchid

I am so pleased with the result of my cast orchid! I am very excited to put a touch of enamel on it! I need to start thinking how to create this into a unique piece of jewellery! I am going to research other jewellers that have flowers in their work. I far prefer this cast orchid to the other 2 I created by hand at the beginning of the year. I enjoy how it looks and feels as if it was real before it was changed into silver! I am so excited to see what else I can cast from the garden to create elements for jewellery!
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The orchid

I was looking up the meaning of an orchid and there were 3 common meanings: beauty, refinement and love!
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Casting my orchid

When getting changed to go out one evening I noticed my mom's orchid in her bath room and ever since then I have wanted to create an orchid for my hair to clip in! I think they are the most beautiful flower and their colours are so tastefully put together! Marlene was very kind an d bought me one of her orchid flowers that had fallen off her orchid and I decided to cast it!
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A bit of my process

I made wax sprues to attach the fern to the button where the silver will run in, in order to cast the fern.
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flowers to cast

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flowers to cast

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Trying the real thing

For the last 2 years I have made flowers out of silver and using my own templates and I am tired of doing this for now so I have decided to try casting the real flower to get a more accurate feeling of nature in my jewellery. So here are some of my photo's of the plants I want to cast!
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Earrings using fern design

I decided to make this pair of earrings with a oval shape. They are slightly different from each other and I like creating earrings like this, where each earring is not identical. If you look at flowers or leaves from the same plant they all look the same, nut if you look closely at each individual flower or leaf, they are all unique with slight differences. I am going to create a few earrings with this fern shape that each earring will be different.





Here are the earrings.......

more cut outs

Check out this blog site, the paper cut outs of leaves have the same feeling of my fern that is growing out of the metal! These leaves ahve been cut out of the paper but are still atached to the paper. interesting!http://www.paperphine.com/