Friday, June 05, 2009

Love Out Loud CQ Heart: Embellished

Well, you know how it is when you get in a groove you just have to keep going till you finish and so after hours of nonstop work the embellishment is finished!
I was going for a more glam look, I wish that everything would look as good in photos as it does in person. This heart really sparkles!
In this corner is a glass vintage button with dangle earrings that have been re-purposed with a few other buttons pearls and beads. I loved the bird there too.
This motif I created starting off with the three 7mm sweetheart roses and then added ribbon stitch buds and added the fly stitch stems and some bullion tipped lazy daisy leaves. Then I added 4mm sweetheart roses as filler flowers. Then some clear Swarovski crystal beads and a couple of silver toned honey bees to finish it off!
This seam was my starting point, I zig-zagged vintage rhinestones and small bugle beads. They look really special on the dark purple velvet.
This upper corner I stared by adding the glass vintage flower button with clear leaf beads. Then I added sweetheart roses to the seam and clear bugle beads with purple single strand floss straight stitches on either side of the bead. Then I added a butterfly that is a re-purposed earring.

4 comments:

Bonnie said...

NICE!

Ruby said...

I see lots of sparkle! You did a great job! Makes me want to start a purple. LOL I have black and white, red,gold, and black and several blues started! Maybe,just maybe I should finish some??

Love your blog, Melissa. Thanks, R

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

Didn't you just start this one? It looks fabulous!

WandarArt.Stitch said...

Beautiful!!!!!!