Fabric & Lace Flower: Black and Silver

This flower I made for a bridal shower where the bride's colors are Silver and Black! I know she'll love it! I glued a pin-back on the back of it.

I made this one a little differently by making 3 of the larger flower blobs 2 of them the silver fabric and 1 is lace fabric. Then in the center I also did lace fabric strips but I also created a tassel using a thin black lace and silver metallic thread then attached that to the center gathered it up and then added a button to the center!

Blue Rose Brooch

Here is another Brooch for My Etsy Shop! I used some of the hand-dyed bridal fabric and put blue SRE rose and buds with some vines and beads and some fire polished flower Czech glass beads.

Burgundy Rose Brooch

Tonight I sat down for a few hours and made a new Brooch for My Etsy Shop! I tried out some bead embroidery and did my first bead embroidered rose! I love how it turned out and I really like how it has a similar look to bullion roses but with sparkle.

I used burgundy Dupioni Silk with black lace overlay, my new burgundy size 15 seed beads, some bronze stamped metal leaves, 3 vintage rhinestones, and a little feather.

Sneak Peek for Diane

Here is a little sneak peek for Diane!!! She ordered 2 custom brooches from My Etsy Shop one blue and one red. Since Diane and I have tatting in common I put a tiny little tatted butterfly on.

Just finished this one this afternoon! I love red too so I'm really loving this one!

Couple More Brooches

I wanted to take a size reference photo, because I usually show Wendy and her reaction is that they look smaller in person. So I figure I better take photos with something for size reference.

Here is my latest Rose Brooch for my Etsy Shop. It is on a shell pink Dupioni silk and the fabric never photos as well as it looks in person, it looks sorta beige with a soft pinkish tinge. The design is a melanie rose, a spiderweb rose and ribbon stitch buds with ribbon stitch leaves. I also added a pink rhinestone to the center.

I also made this brooch as a gift on champagne Dupioni silk with sweetheart roses, a spiderweb rose, a melanie rose with ribbon stitch leaves and 2 small pink glass pearls. I added a pink bow after I put the brooch together.

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Green and Purple Bouquet Brooch

Here is another brooch! My goal was to add 3 new brooches to My Etsy Shop, so I finished this one this afternoon. It may seem fast but really I just focused on doing them since I know I won't have time to work on anything in the coming next few days! On average it takes me 2-3 hours for each of these.
For this brooch I used a mossy green silk fabric, and then added darker dusty purle 7mm sweetheart roses and then some dusty pink 7mm sweetheart roses. I also added 4mm dusty wood rose sweetheart roses. Then I took some dark green silk chenille and added colonial knots all around for greenery and a bow!

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Soft Bouquet Brooch

I also made another Brooch last night before bed, so I just took photos and put it up in My Etsy Shop! For this design I tried to be more free with my placement and just started by putting 3 yellow sweetheart roses off to the side and then added feather stitching in variegated green thread. Then I added in some rose buds in 7mm ribbon stitch, with 4mm green ribbon stitch. I added a Melanie Rose in 4mm ribbon and then some bullion tipped lazy daisy leaves. After all this I felt the feather stitch area was a little weak so I added size 15 seed beads! Then I added a glass flower to the center, and it seemed complete.

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Rose Heart Brooch

Tonight I thought it would be nice to make another brooch for My Etsy Shop since I finished all my Christmas projects! I'm going to be making a few more too, are there any requests for colors? My natural tendency is for the pinks!
I made it by drawing a heart and filling in the shape with alternating darker/lighter pink 4mm silk ribbon sweetheart roses. Then I added 2mm silk ribbon leaves in ribbon stitch. I used Dupioni Silk overlaid with Lace for the background. The colors seem a big strong in the photo, they really are a bit softer, funny how the camera does that!

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Heart Brooch

I finished another heart brooch tonight, but the photo just doesn't do it justice! I also put it up in my Etsy Shop. I like how it has a more elegant Victorian feel.

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I put this pink bouquet brooch up in My Etsy Shop to see how it goes. This one is my favorite, I've been thinking of keeping it for myself too! LOL I'm out of supplies to create more brooches but I have ordered some from Ribbonsmyth.com. I bought some smaller size ones at WalMart to make some pendents with. I'm going to make a pendent for myself first and then 2 to place in my Boutique.

Brooch Packaging

Well here is my packaging so far! What do you think? The brooches are in a cellophane bag with this label. Here they are all ready to be taken to the shop.

SRE Brooches

Here are some more brooches I've been creating! My favorite one is the pink with the lace and bouquet with a beaded bow. I've been chatting with friends at Hand Embroidery and have come to the conclusion of $30 for the button cover brooch and $40 for the CQ heart brooch. I can always change the prices if they are either to high or too low. Now to create my packaging! The ladies also suggested going with my Honeybee's Boutique handcrafted original by Melissa with my Etsy link.
AND I've already have an order for 1 heart brooch and 2 round brooches from a sweet lady, Charita, who is in a couple of Yahoo groups with me! Just being able to create silk ribbon embroideries is the icing on the cake so getting paid for it is sprinkles on top of the icing.

Heart Brooch

This is a brooch made from the tiny crazy quilt hearts that Gerard has been sewing up. I embellished it, and I really love how it turned out. It is made by turning under and ironing the edges under and then gluing felt to the back and a pin backing to the felt.
This one is also going to go to the needlework store to sell as well. I need to have a price for this as well. I think it is going to cost a little more because more work and embellishment goes into them. The heart shape is harder to do than just a simple round button cover.

Brooches and Needlework Store

Yesterday Gerard surprised me and took me to a needlework store called 'In Stitches' to check out what embroidery supplies I could find! It's mostly yarns but there was a small section that had embroidery supplies. I bought these threads and some petite seed beads and bugle beads.
The lady who is the owner of the store saw my button cover brooches that I was wearing. I was wearing this one threaded on a ribbon necklace and this one as a brooch on my purse. Anyway she asked how I made them and I told her and she told me that if I'd make some and bring them in that she was sure they would sell since the ladies that come in are always looking for unique pins to put on their knitted purses! So these two 2 inch brooches are to take in to the store.
I have no idea what to price them though and was hoping for some help from you all. How much do you think they are worth? They are made with silk fabric and have silk ribbon embroidery and even some bead embroidery. Each took me about 2-3 hours to complete and the designs are completely my own creation.