After years of creating french beaded flowers, I've finally found a way to make them reflect my personal style in wearable art. Here are 3 of the vintaj bronze and beaded flower necklaces I've made so far. What do you think?
"Through the Garden Gates"-- This piece reminds me of a secret garden...
This piece uses Vintaj components, size 15 japanese seed beads, some beautiful czech glass with hints of green and blue, crystal bicones, and a ceramic leaf pendant. Each side of the beaded portion is about 8 inches long, and the entire necklace is about 17 inches long (not including the draping chain portions).
"Vintaj Queen"-- This is the kind of necklace I think a queen would wear.
The flower is made with 15/0 bronze charlotte-cut seed beads, 15/0 topaz, and a smokey quartz bead. The charlotte-cut beads give a subtle sparkle. It's mounted on a Vintaj piece. The hexagons are beautiful pieces of smokey quartz, and the round beads are wood agate and smokey quartz. I actually don't remember what type of stone the oval is... if you recognize it, let me know.
"Vintaj Princess"-- This one is a little more delicate and princess-like.
This necklace features a small Vintaj piece with a 5-petal forget-me-not mounted to it. All the beads used for this piece are navy blue-lined topaz, so they give a bit of topaz sparkle. There are 3 topaz swarovski briolettes, as well as a topaz swarovski bicone in the center of the flower. The chain hangs beautifully just as it does in this picture.
