A few months or so ago when I was stocking up on my reading
materials when I happened upon this book called “Fairest of All: A Tale of the
Wicked Queen” that had the most amazing painting of snow white’s evil queen on
the book sleeve. I should not have been surprised, I mean snow white seems to
be everywhere right now; in movies, TV series and now books. It’s like she has
been rediscovered again after 70 years.
I was tempted enough to buy the book just because of the
cover but I am not a huge snow-white fan. To me it’s not the most interesting
Disney cartoon. I am a huge “The Little Mermaid” fan, I think she is the best
Disney princess ever but my mom would beg to differ. To her the best Disney
cartoon will always be Cinderella!!
Disney really does have some gorgeous villains. For me
Maleficent has to be the most beautiful but Evil Queen is a very close second.The cover art for the book only shows half of the evil
queen’s face so in order to make a center cabochon for my necklace I made a
flip of the picture in Photoshop and then connected the two pictures together
to make her whole face.
Lately I have been thinking that there is probably an easier
way to make my cabochons than pouring resin, which is extremely time consuming
and the results are not always great. I finally decided to go with the clear
glass domes. I wasn’t really sold on the idea of using the clear glass domes
because I thought they would be too heavy for jewelry pieces but I was
pleasantly surprised to find these glasses are extremely light. This method
makes the cabochon making process incredibly fast and easy and I only have to
wait a few minutes for the glue to dry and I am ready to start beading. No more
hours of pouring resin and biting nails and wondering will they or won’t they
come out OK. The glasses do give a little bit of a doming effect and make the
picture look bigger but its not too much and it doesn’t distort the image.
I used a black and white palette again, only because it
really complimented the picture and since she has purple eyeshadow on, I used
hematite seed beads that have a little bit of purple to them. The frosted clear
beads are from a shop in New York and they are just exquisite. They are
beautiful and soft and I kept walking past them in the shop and in the end I
just have to have them. The only downside is that I have no idea what they are
made of and what they are called all I remember is that they were about 15
dollars a strand.
For the bezel, I decided to try out some of the techniques
that are in the Dimensional Bead embroidery book. The beadwork around this
piece is a duplicate of a piece in the book, which combines what the author
calls an outside window bezel and a wave edge.i tried to follow the
instructions in the book exactly as they were but my piece didn’t look anything
like what I was seeing in the picture and I really wanted to emulate the design
in the picture. What I ended up doing in order to get my beading looking more
similar to what I was seeing in the book was to add a clear seed bead in
between each of the frosted clear beads so that the black row of beads looks as
though its running in between the beads rather than sitting on top of them.
I didn’t have a
clasp to finish this piece off so I made the necklace loop long enough that I
could put my head through it but this method eats up a lot of beads and its
just not practical. I need to invest in some clasps I guess and learn how to
attach them :D
LIST OF MATERIALS
USED
- HEMATITE GREY METALLIC SEED BEADS SIZE 11/0
- CRYSTAL CLEAR SEED BEADS SIZE 11/0
- OPAQUE BLACK SEED BEADS SIZE 15/0
- 3MM FROSTED CLEAR ROUND BEADS
- 4MM FROSTED CLEAR ROUND BEADS
- 4MM HEMATITE FACETED GLASS BEADS FROM THE BEAD GALLERY AT MICHAELS
- 8MM HEMATITE FACETED GLASS BEADS FROM THE BEAD GALLERY AT MICHAELS
- LACY’S STIFF STUFF
- BLACK ULTRASUEDE
- FIRELINE 0.006 IN CLEAR
- FIRELINE 0.006 IN SMOKE GREY
- E-6000 GLUE
- CRAFTER’S PICK THE ULTIMATE GLUE
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