Back on July 27th, Sarah of Saturday Sequins blog put out the call to those that wanted to participate in her Sequintastic September challenge, here are the rules:
The challenge:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to...
- Create an original work of art using sequins. What you create, and how many sequins you use, will be up to you!
- On the reveal date, share a photo of what you made.
- Then, visit the other participants and drool over all the amazing work.
Easy so I signed up and then I thought, what in the world was I going to make. Then I remembered a bead embroidery cuff that I had started, perfect I could fill in the spaces with sequins.
I had this jasper stone bead that I bezeled and around it I sewed Rose Quartz chips. I used Czech glass beads for the leaves and the other little flowers are made from pink fresh water pearls and black Czech glass roundels I sewed on the silver plated butterflies and that is as far as I got when I could not decide how I wanted to fill it in. I was going to do a checker board back ground with pink and gray seed beads, but I did not like how that was looking so I ripped that out. The sequins turned out to be the best solution.
Now to find the right color sequins for my cuff. Off to Joann's I go, because in my town there is not a whole lot of places to find sequins. I was lucky because they had one pack of pale pink sequins left and I also chose a silver AB square sequins too.
Here is the result of adding all of the sequins to the background of this cuff.
I used the silver AB square sequins behind the round pink sequins to give a little extra bling factor.
I used silver lined clear seed beads size 8 for the edging and a five hole slide clasp
I am very pleased with how this piece turned out.
Thank you Sarah for host another wonderful blog hop this year. Thank you to y'all for stopping by and visiting my post. Please hop on over to Saturday Sequins blog and see what the other participants created.
Happy beading Y'all,
Therese
Looks great, Therese. I like very much the color combination of browns and pinks.
ReplyDeleteAmazing piece with lots of work, I guess.
Sabine
oh so cool! I love the sequins, I forget about those!
ReplyDeleteWow! Now this is a bracelet! Beautiful colors and a fantastic job!
ReplyDeleteThe design pre-sequins is beautiful with its understated colors. But your sequins color made this a bold statement piece. Gorgeous Therese!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's always so fun to see the progression of a piece. Great use of chips around the cab, it gives it the perfect flower feel with the seed beading around the outer edge of the chips. I also really liked your two sequin use, the squares under the rounds. I would have not thought to use pink, but it came out perfectly!
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ReplyDeletegorgeous Therese! really love the colors in this, and the pattern is divine! so sorry I missed Sarah's hop this year!
ReplyDeleteTherese, I love the way you layered the pink sequins with the silver! Absolutely gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating again this year! <3
Love it Therese! Great cuff and awesome colors!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cuff Therese!!! Sequins certainly add quite a bit of pizzazz ... I love the finished look!
ReplyDeleteYour Joann's definitely had a more interesting selection of sequins than mine - those square sequins are really cool. It's like Joann's somehow knew exactly what you'd need. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd your cuff turned out so beautifully - I love seeing the in-progress shot too.
Gorgeous cuff, the colors you chose are absolutely outstanding. Just so pretty.
ReplyDeleteAs a rule...I am afraid of sequins....I think of all the gaudy costumes I had in dance recitals growing up!!! But this! This is so pretty!!!! I love what you did with these sequins!
ReplyDeleteLook at you, clever girl! I love love love how you integrated the sequins with the rest of the beading. I think I'm getting over my fear of sequins!
ReplyDeleteYour creative talent just keeps me speechless! Is there anything you can't do? Way to go, my friend!!
ReplyDeleteI love your cuff! The colors are beautiful. Those pink sequins are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLovely cuff! I really like the pretty bead flowers and the sequins added a great background. Also love the look of round sequins on top of square ones. Layering components really adds an extra dimension (not just literally).
ReplyDeleteFabulous Therese! I thought this Challenge would come up with some awesome results (using Sequins how could it not!). Your cuff is really cool :D
ReplyDeleteOh wow. . .there's something about this that just feels so vintage and 'old' (in a good way). It's really lovely!
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