Green rivoli earrings

These earrings are really sparkling due to green Swarovski rivolis I used as center. I used 14 mm rivolis and the tone is peridot. I surrounded them with Czech superduos and different Toho seed beads. 

 

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. 

Light blue earrings are finished

Light blue bead embroidered post earrings with fused glass cabachons are finished and uploaded to my Etsy store.

 These are small enough to wear everyday. But as a small peace of fine bead embroidery they are perfect for some special evening. Backside of these earrings is covered with leather.

And the other pear of light blue earrings is finished also. But I don´t have enoug good photos at the moment to add these to Etsy.

 And a small picture about what I am working with at the moment.

Light blue

We have had some wonderful sunny days this week. A bit windy, but with beautiful light blue sky. And I have also some light blue beading projects on my table. There will be two pairs of light blue earrings.

First pair is with faceted transparent glass beads. Oval bead is bezeled with silver and white Toho seed beads (size 11/0). And these earrings have big faceted glass drops.

The second ones are with fused glass cabachons bought from this Etsy shop. I used the same Toho seed beads than above. These will be simple bead embroidered post earrings, similar to these.

I have had some weeks with very few beading time. I hope to be more productive next week . Then I can show pictures of finished earrings soon.

Brown bead embroidered necklace

AS I wrote in last post my brown bead embroidered dragonfly necklace in finished.

In the center of the pendant there is a Czech glass button with golden dragonfly motif. Background of the button is shining in orange and brown tones. I surrounded the button with different seed beads and some brown fire polished beads. I decided to add a spiral weave necklace from brown and light yellow seed beads and made a beaded T-clasp for closure.

 I used light brown leather to cover the backside of the pendant.

This necklace and my other beadwork items are avaylable in my Etsy shop.

Brown dragonfly pendant necklace in progress

I had a gorgeous Czech glass button with golden dragonfly motif and decided to make a bead embroidered necklace. At first I thought I´ll use more orange tones (as the background of the button is something between brown and orange) and some bronze color freshwater pearls.

 But when I started to work with it, the plan changed and it came out more brown and golden. And only a little orange. I used Japan seed beads and peyote stitch to bezel the button and surrounded it with seed beads and small faceted glass beads. I haven´t finished the pendant yet, because for a moment I got idea to add some fringes, but I´m not very sure about that.

So I decided to make the necklace next. This was again a tricky task - what would suit the best. At first I tried twisted tubular herringbone, but I didn´t liked it. So I tried spiral weave rope with brown and yellow seed beads and I like how it turned out and I´ll stay to it. Texture of this rope is more lively and it is very flexible.

Hope to show the finished necklace next time.

Brooches

I had some big flat round beads. Some are from glass, some are from colored shell. And I thought to make some bead embroidered brooches.

 

First one is with red shell bead. I nested it with 8/0 and 9/0 seed beads. Then added two black glass leaves, round glass beads and some more seed beads. Backside is covered with black felt.

 

The other one is with bright orange shell bead. At first I thought I will use black and orange combination. But then I found those dark green glass leaves and decided to use orange-dark green color palette. And I like how it turned out.

 This brooch has dark grey felt on backside.

Dark red Swarovski Rivoli earrings

Yesterday I added here a photo about starting with dark red Rivoli earrings. Today it was a nice shiny weather and I managed to make some better photos. These are technically the same as turquise Rivoli earrings.

 Only backside of the Rivoli is not coveres with beads.

Turquise Rivoli earrings

Couple a days ago I made a pair of Swarovski Rivoli earrings. These sparkling earrings remember a little flower to me. I used 14 mm Rivoli (tone light turquise) and 11/0 and 15/0 Matsuno seed beads. I used peyote stitch to make the bezel and herringbone stitch to surround it. The backside is covered with beads.

The hooks are 925 sterling silver.

These earrings are avaylable in my Etsy store.

New beginning

Making jewelry has been my passion for last five years. It started when I was at home with my older child. Now I can´t imabine my life without making any kind of jewelry. So I decided to start with new blog, where I show olny my creation related to jewelry making. All other crafts and experimenting will stay in my old blog.

I started my jewelry creation with simple wire wrapped earrings. You can see these in my other blog. For now I have moved to bead weaving and bead embroidered jewelry.

I try to post here pictures about my jewelry making process. And about finished ones as well:)

For start I add here bead woven butterfly pendant which I made several years ago, but this is still one of my favorites. I used Miyuki Delicas size 11/0 and peyote stitch to create this.