GiveAway!

You can win my Purple Stage necklace, BUT to do so you have to follow the rules:

1. Leave a comment on this post.

2. Share this post on Facebook (you need to tag me - Sybille Sterk - so I know you did)
3. Like my page MagpieMagic Arts

(and, yes, I will check and, yes, it's okay if you already like it, as long as you're on the list of fans.)

For bonus credits (i.e. I'll throw another bit of paper with your name in the hat) you can:

1.  my shop on Etsy
2. Share this post on Pinterest.
You get one extra entry each for those two.

The giveaway will expire on Sunday, 14th December 2014 at midnight London time. Here's a time zone converter if you leave it to the last minute

I doubt it will make it in time before Christmas if you live across the pond, but hey you never know.

If you can't wait, there are loads more where this one came from. Check my Etsy shop to see them. :D

the view from the tower

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

Image taken at Hedingham Castle. I've changed the view through the window, added the water, the mist, the crow and the necklace... and changed the colours and played around with it quite considerably. LOL I like the fairytale atmosphere. :-) I think this would make the perfect book cover.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Also, on another little bit of news, my art will soon be available on displa.io. They print images on metal plates. The site isn't open to the public yet, but feel free to as for an invite, just leave your e-mail address in a comment and I'll send you one.

Put on Your Dancing Shoes

Tea Dance

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

After the Dance

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

  My own shoes and jewellery. Part of the Seduction series.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

 All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Always

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

The image without the poetry is part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images – use this code: SYST-00254

My own image and my own words:
always struggling against the odds
belief and hope our only armour
how else would we fight for Dulcinea
and hope to win a heart at the end?

See the rest of the poem Always

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Love Me, Do

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Picture of one of my necklaces. When I first saw this in a shop on Etsy I couldn't resist the whimsy of it. :-)

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0218

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Shift Your Attitude Necklace and More Cambridge Collection

 

 

A necklace with attitude - mix of vintage and new OOAK (One of a kind).  

For sale: £28 + P&P

Cambridge Collection 

A walk around Cambridge - exclusive print collection, get them on Redbubble. 

Train Leaving in the rain....

Spring Leaves in the park...

Rain One - my new umbrella and a puddle. :-)

Rain Two - my new umbrella again with another puddle...

Pink Ivy - ivy growing on a wooden fence with a special filter.

Pink Park - images from the park with the special pink filter again...

Park - moody rain shot.

Natural Mirror - my favourite shot of the day - reflection of trees in a puddle. I love the magical feel of this. This was also my entry for week 16 of the 1/52 project.

Moody Mill - the old derelict mill in Cambridge and the train station, with the pink filter. Love the end of world feeling in this shot.

Hazel - love the sumi-e feel of  these two shots.

Eggs - a sign I walked past on my walk.

It's so much fun to walk around and just shoot pictures from the hip. I've used the random setting on my Hipstamatic app to create the different effects and then took them into Photoshop to edit them and emphasise the feeling of each one.

Secret Heart

 

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This is an image I took for the 1/52 project although I didn't use it in the end but used a different shot. The shot is of the reflection of a heart necklace I made for a commission. The heart is made from bronze wire, a red bead and handmade barbed wire chain. :-)

The image is named after the necklace - everybody has a 'secret heart' they hide from most of the people in their lives, but it's that heart that makes them who they are. Meaning, we often don't really know the people in our lives all that well.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images use this code: SYST-0099

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Dragonfly

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This was a photo of a necklace I made for a friend a while back (the necklace is made from vintage chains, vintage beads and charms and mostly semi-precious beads although a few are crystal).  I wanted a mysterious, tragic mood for this image so it is heavily edited and colour adjusted to give a vintage 'film noir' feel.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images  use this code: SYST-0097

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Secret Heart II and more jewellery

I thought it was time to show off some jewellery again. This is 

 Secret Heart II

A commission that made its way across the pond yesterday. It's always been one of my favourite designs. I love the barbed wire chain and the caged heart. Sad, I know.

Here it is once before the oxidisation process, just the bare bronze and then again, oxidised and packed, ready to go. This design takes forever and caused me some very sore fingers. Each part on it, except for the wire (different gauges) and the bead, is made by me. Each barbed wire link takes about 10 minutes to make. The wire heart took me most of an afternoon. Even the jumprings are handmade.

 Dragonfly Necklace

This was a present for my friend Helen back in October. I am so pleased with how this turned out. Different chains, different mostly semi precious beads and vintage chains and charms (apart from the swallow at the bottom. Click on it to see a larger version.

A Walk in the Woods

Christmas present for my friend Caroline over on Uniqart. I love wooden beads and seedpod beads and have accumulated quite a few of them (as you can see). I've used every singel one of them plus everyhting else that fitted with the theme including paper beads, fabric beads, Kashmiri beads, a little vintage bear bead, a glass heart, semi precious beads, mother of pearl, horn....

Viking Ships

Christmas present for my friend Helen... She loves blues and purples. The colours reminded me of the sea and the ships on it, hence Viking Ships. Wooden and glass beads, vintage and new, lava and kimono fabric beads, resin and semi precious, even a sead pod or two.

Pomegranate

Pinks and greens and reds... another Christmas present for my friend Liz. :-) Her favourite colours and all the beads I had in those exactl colours. LOL

Pink Eruption

Final jewellery Christmas present for another Caroline. :-) This was one of my silver art clay experiments I liked. I loved the heavy texture on it and thought it worked really well with the pink Calcedony.

That's it (for now anyway). I am always open for commissions, even with older pieces. Just send me an e-mail and ask, if there's something you fell in love with and just have to have. :-)

Sweetheart and Bangles II

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Sweetheart
Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images – use this code: SYST- 0032
All images my own, no stock used.
This is actually a necklace I made for myself. The locket and key are vintage. I just love the locket. It’s so special and I only got three. One I made into a necklace for my sister. :-) So this one is dedicated to my little sister. ♥

Bangles II

Also art of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images – use this code: SYST-0029
I wanted to create something really girly that shows how it sometimes makes me feel when I put on my jewellery, my makeup and just feel good.
All images my own, no stock used.

All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Hooray for Swaps!

I just got this wonderful water colour from my friend Caroline over on Uniqart 

in exchange for this:

I'd been hankering for one of Caroline's jellyfish paintings forever and I am so glad I've finally got one. :-) Hooray for swaps! :-)

Purple Magic Necklace

I wanted a necklace to go with my Purple Magic Bracelet (see bottom) so here it is....

Wild Wood Necklace

 

This is the necklace to go with my Wild Wood Bracelet.
Click on the image below to see details for the bracelet.

Necklaces and bracelets in this style are available for commission. Colour scheme can be to your requirements. Please contact me for pricing (click on the contact button in the top right-hand corner to send me an e-mail). I don't bite... :-)

Jewellery - Fly Free Necklace

 This necklace was made specially for a photo shoot by the Cambridge Evening News Style Magazine. The article won't be available until the end of the month and is in aid of British Jewellery Week in October.

Fly Free Necklace

The necklace combines many different materials - some vintage, some modern to create my unique Ecoglam style: wood, horn, bone, paper, coconut, semi precious (dalmation and sesame jasper, jade, turquoise, aquamarine, kyanite, labradorite), kashmiri, woven, metal, and seed beads, plus vintage and modern (bird) charms, vintage and modern chain in brass, silver plated and black.

Detail of the front with flying birds and wooden bird cage

Detail of the flying birds hanging

Detail of a silver and black bird

Detail of the vintage brass sqawllow and a silver plated dove

Detail of the bird cage pendant with brass charms and labradorite against black.

Detail of the bird cage pendant with brass charms and labradorite against a light background and natural light.

 The necklace is for sale, please enquire for details.