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. 

Black and white shibori hair barrette

This is actually my fist bead embroidery with shibori silk, but I haven´t posted these pictures yet. 

As it was my first project, I made a lot of pictures of the process. It was a custom order, so she could follow the process also when I posted these steps on my FB page. 

Customer wanted to have black and white hair barrette. So I started with 5 cm peace of white shibori silk ribbon, black glass cabachon and different glass beads. This hair barrette blank is specially for thick hair, that is why it looks like a bit different. 

I cuted shibori ribbon into two peaces, fixed it to black felt and started with cabachon ... 

... and continued adding different seed beads and some bigger black fire polished beads. 

 After finishing embroidering I glued it to a cartong so it is sturdy and holds it´s shape. Then I fixed it to barrette blank and stitched the edges. 

 Backside is covered with dark gray felt. 

I was satisfied with this barrette and so was my customer :)

Charcoal and pink shibori silk bracelet

Some tima ago I ordered two grogeous shibori silk ribbons made by  Deborah Weaver from ArtisticWeavers . At first I planned to make some hair barrettes and pendants with these ribbons. But when I got them and had ´so much´ pleated silk in my hands I couldn´t resist to do something a little bigger.

I had one pink colored agate cabachon and matching pink freshwater pearls (I think freshwater pearls go so well with shibori) which when so well with this lovely charcoal gray silk. So I started ...

 I used also different seed beads in pink, black and silver and some darker pink fire polished glass beads. It was so good to stitch, because the pleats of silk tell you where to add some more beads. Finally this peace became qiute ´coated´. Maybe in next shibori peace there will be the silk more visible.

 I didn´t used metal bracelet blank. So this bracelet is quite flexible around the wrist. But it is a little molded so it holds nicely. Finally I added flower-shape silver T-clasp for the closure.