Craft Cove Blog

Friday, November 27, 2009

Crystal Bouquet

crystal bouquet


I've now finished the crystal bouquet I was making. It was a lot of work with the super long stems that then had to be bent upwards. But I think it looks great.


crystal bouquet handle


I've made it with 200 stems, but even more would be great.


This bouquet is available to buy from my website: Flower Cove

Custom orders are also available

Monday, November 16, 2009

Latest Beaded Wedding Bouquet

beaded wedding bouquet



This is the arrangement I came up with after making beaded flowers for a customer to add to her wedding bouquet. In the end she used all of my beaded flowers and some other crystals and things. It was an amazing arrangement, and I'll post a blog about that another time.

beaded wedding bouquet

I've used almost all the same flowers and stems I made for her arrangement, and there are nearly 60 stems all up in this arrangement. I've used tulle in the arrangement, for the collar, and for the handle. I've then done a clever wrapping technique with satin ribbon around the handle.

wedding bouquet handle



This bouquet is available to buy from my website: Flower Cove

Custom orders are also available

Monday, November 9, 2009

Beaded Flower Bouquet

beaded rose


beaded flowers
I've finished a beaded bouquet that has three roses in different stages of development, a bud, a medium rose, and a fully opened rose. There are small beaded flowers around it, and there's a red ribbon to finish off. The roses are all done in a lovely pink shade, and each one has a set of calyx leaves, and a few larger leaves on the stem. Each stem is wrapped in floral tape.

beaded rose bouquet

This flower bouquet is available to buy from my website: Flower Cove

Custom orders are also available

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Free Cross stitch patterns

I've discovered a wonderful site for free cross stitch patterns.

CROSS STITCHERS CLUB

These patterns could also be used for bead work. The smaller ones, or parts of the larger ones would be great for square stitch and loom work.

There are some amazing patterns.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

HUGE SALE FOR OCTOBER!




This month there's a massive 33% off ALL earrings listed in my Shop Handmade Store.

This includes a variety of chainmail pieces, some wire work earrings, and some 3d beadweaving.

Here are a few of the items on sale:

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