Black and gold jewelry collection

As you can see from my blog I have done quite many beaded butterfly brooches. And some days ago I finished one with golden wings. I used black seed beads to surround the cabachons and lovely Toho gold lined seed beads (size 6/0) to finish the edge. These beads are so beautiful - they are gold lined and look a little like frosted, but they also have swome gray and green shine. 

Actually I colored these cabachons quite a long time ago and I had also these golden Toho seed beads waiting ... but somehow they just staid for waiting. Now one day I took these cabs and beads and started stitchong.

I like the color of these golden cabachons. They are like glowing in the center of black beads. Brooch is like others with metal brooch pin on the back and backside is covered with brown ultra suede.

As I liked the combination of these colors I made also one round shape brooch fot those who like more classical shapes. 

And after fisinhing these two brooches I took two 12 mm glass cabachons and colored them for matching earrings. I have used this design before for black and pink earrings last winter. These earrings are small and lightweight.

And here you can see earrings and round both brooch together. 

And here are the same earrings combined with butterfly brooch.

And I found that I have done also a pair of simple lever back earrings eith the same golden glass cabachons.

I made also matching black and gold shoe clips that I will show in next post.

Metallic gray buterfly and matching earrings

I finished this butterfly some time ago. Now I made matching earrings and made some photos. 

This time I used metallic gray color for glass cabachons. Cabachons are surrounded with different seed beads - transparent silver lined (size 8/0) and silver (sixe 11/0) Toho seed beads and black (size 9/0) Czech seed beads. The edge is stitched with transparent gray (size 6/0 ) and black seed beads. 

This butterfly a brooch again. It has metal brooch pin and backside is covered with black ultra suede.

I made also matching earrings. I used smaller glass cabachons and the same beads as in brooch. 

 Earrings have silver colored stud earwires. 

It´s tresury time:)

Two of my items were featured in Etsy treasuries. 

At first one very beautiful monochrome treasury from Estonian artists. As you can see here, gray doesn´t mean boring or old. There are many gorgeous items in shades of gray. 

Second collection is colorful and fresh, inspired from spring. 

Click the pictures to see both treasuries in Etsy. 

Sunny bead embroidered butterfly brooch

This bright yellow and red butterfly brooch is a real summer jewelry peace.

 I used two different tones of red and bright warm yellow to color these glass cabachons. This is the second butterfly where I didn´t used black seed beads to surround the wings. The first one is the one with teal and light green that landed on a hair barrette when I used gray seed beads. All others have some black seed beads also.  

But this time I wanted to make one really colorful and bright butterfly. Butterfly body is still black, as I didn´t had suitable brown beads. But I think black body makes nice contract with these yellow-red wings. 

Wings have also some glitter :) 

And backside again is covered with black ultra suede and has golden brooch pin. 

So much about colors  ...  next butterfly will be a monochrome one in gray and black.

Orchid violet jewelry set

Today I listed a new orchid violet jewelry set to my Etsy shop.  Again butterfly :) and small matching earrings. 

Materials are the same - glass cabachons and different seed beads. Backside is covered with black ultra suede and it has silver colored metal brooch pin. 

Earrings are simple lever back cameo earrings. Glass cabachons are exactly the same as butterfly wings so they make perfect set together. Cameos are small, 12 mm (0.5 inches) so they are light and perfect for everyday wear. 

And one more closer picture of earrings. 

White butterfly brooch and earrings

This time I shoe you white bead embroidered butterfly. This one has clear white, a little glittering wings. I used different silver lined, black and clear seed beads to surround glass cabachons I used for wings. 

And this butterfly has matching earrings. Small lever black earrings with white glass cabachons. 

And here is white and black butterfly attached to my new jewelry tag. As I like my butterlies so much I used butterfly motif to design these tags.

More butterflies

  I have some butterflies waiting to be finished. I got a new portion of brooch pins today, so I can finish them soon. 

 And one finished  bead embroidered butterfly brooch. This light green butterfly has also glittering wings.

Bead embroidered jewelry set

This tanzaniite purple blue butterfly is with a little different color combination compared to the first one. I used the same color glass cabachons, but different seed beads. This time I used 8/0 size gray silver lined Toho seed beads and smaller ones in black and silver. I stitched the edge with smaller silver and and a little bigger blue seed beads that leave the edge a little lacy.

This butterfly has silver brooch pin and backside is covered with black ultra suede. 

 I made two pairs of matching earrings to complete the set. 

One pair is bead embroidered and more luxury for occasional wear. This time I used bigger drop shape glass cabachons and the same seed beads as for butterfly. 

Earrings have silver colored nickel free stud earwires. 

 The other pair is smaller and suitable for everyday wear. I used small (12 mm) glass cabachons and dark gray lever back earwires. 

This brooch and earrings are listed in my Etsy shop.

Tanzanite bead embroidered butterfly 2in1 brooch-pendant

For this butterfly I used tanzanite blue rainbow frosted Toho seed beads, blue rainbow Czech seed beads and light pink calvanised Toho seed beads to surround glittering glass cabachons. For butterfly body I used again round and fire polished black glass beads.

I added black satin cord with silver colored lobster clasp to wear it as a pendant.

But this cord can be removed easily and butterfly can be wan as a brooch as it has a silver colored brooch pin on the back. Backside is covered with black ultra suede.

And this picture gives the idea of the size of this butterfly.

Pink bead embroidered butterfly and matching earrings

I love my bead embroidered butterflies and I have made some more. This time I show you the pink one. Color combination is the same as I used to make this jewelry set.
I used again colored glass cabachons. I used different Toho seed beads to surround the cabs. This time I didn´t used golden beads as in the necklace. I changed golden ones to light pink silver seed beads.

This picture gives the idea how big or small my butterflies are :) 

And backside is covered with black ultra suede. 

And here are matching earrings. I used small glass cabachons, the same size as the smaller ones I used for butterly wings. 

And here is the whole set. I will list this butterfly and these earrings in my Etsy shop.

Purple bead embroidered butterfly necklace / brooch

This purple butterfly is 2 in 1 - you can wear it as brooch or pendant, as you wish. 

To make this butterfly I used glass cabachons that I colored with the same nail polish as I used to make purple earrings and pendant and hair barrette. Dark purple tone and some glitter make this butterfly a little mystical. To surround the cabs I used different seed beads. I added some round and faceted glass beads to form the boby and added also  

 Backside of this butterfly is covered with black ultra suede. It has silver brooch pin, but it is also possible to wear it as a pendant, exactly like golden butterfly.

Golden bead embroidered butterfly pendant and brooch 2 in 1

I made this bead embroidered butterfly as custom order. My custom er saw my golden butterfly hairband and loved the butterfly. But she wanted it to be as a brooch. Later she asked, if it would be possible to have it as necklace. So I decided to make a 2 in 1 version. 

 I added brooch pin to the back of the butterfly. But also made two beaded loops that makes it possible to wear as pendant, but rope can be removed easily. Backside of this butterfly is covered with black ultra suede.

Bead embroidered butterfly hairclip

This is my second bead embroidered butterfly with glass cabachons. I colored these cabachons myself and used three different nail polishes this time - greenish yellow, transparent with some glitter and teal. 

I used different seed beads and round glass beads for butterly body. I used also lovely pale yellow shibori silk ribbon made by Deborah Weaver.  

This hairclippe is quite big. 

I used silver colored hairclip blank and covered the backside with gray felt. 

Headband with golden bead embroidered butterfly

Recently I happened to see many very beautiful bead embroidered butterflies in Pinterest. For example this and this one. So I wanted to try to make my own butterfly. 

 I used clear glass cabachons in two different sizes and colored them with golden nail polish. 

I used different Czech seed beads - black, black with bronze luster and golden ones. And some faceted glassbeads for butterfly body.

I attached my butterfly to a metal headband and covered the backside of beaded detail with black felt.