Bead embroidered brooches

Today I will show four bead embroidered brooches. I made these as a gift for kindergarden teachers.
First two brooches have oval syntethical turquise cabachons in the center. Cabachons are surrounded with round glass beads. Blue one:

 And brown one:

This one is made with round syntethical turquise cabachon. I surrounded it with fire polished Czech glass beads and seed beads. 

This brooch has also round syntethical turquise as a center. This is the first time I used superduos for bead embroidery. At first I finished the edge with gray seed beads. But I wasn´t very satisfied with it.

So I remade it and used turquise seed beads for the edge. I like this version much more. This turquise edge gives much more shine for the brooch.

All brooches have ultra suede on backside.

Beadwoven flower earrings

It has been a long-long break. Too long. I have been done some beading meanwhile, but not very much. And I haven´t got here to post anything for too long. 

So I try to show now what I have done meanwhile.This time I will show flower earrings, which I have in too different variantions. 

I started with these smaller beaded flower earrings with cat eye cabachon in the center. When I bought these small cabachons (I guess, they are 10 mm, max 12 mm in diameter, I´m not very sure anymore) I thought about flowers immediately, daisies. 

 The center is bead embroidered. I used different golden seed beads in size 10 and 11. Backside of the cabachon is covered with white ultra suede. These are post earrings and have surgical steel posts. 

 As I had imagination about daisies I searched for white seed beads. I found those pearl white shiny ones in size 11 and these were just perfect. These small flowers turned out exactly as I planned.

After finishing these earrings I started thinking about some kind a modification with shiny Swarovski Rivolis. And I had idea about white flowers with dark center - something black or gray or dark blue. I found lovely Rivolis in Black Diamond tone in two different sizes, 12 and 14 mm, that matched perfectly with my plan. 

 This time I used beadwoven bezel to surround the Rivolis. I used silver lined Toho seed beads in size 8/0. This time I wanted to make a bit more plentiful flowers, so I decided to make two layers of petals. Finally I connected two flowers and added sterling silver hook earwires. 

When I started to make photos of these earrings I found that it was very tricky task. It was so hard to get good pictures. I like to photograph my jewelry on white backgound. But these white flowers dissapeared on white backgound. So I tried different colors. I am most satisfied with that dark grey one where those layers of petals are the ost visible, but Rivolis look a bit too light. They are actually a bit darker, more like on the upper photo.

These earrings turned out really luxury, perfect for summer wedding or for soe special occasion.