Queen of Hearts Brooch

Last week a weird thing happened to me! I ran out of thread! It is so weird for me to let this happen cause nightly beading is like my ritual so how I did not see that I was totally out of my favorite fireline thread is completely beyond me. So in order to not be completely useless I sat down the other day and decided to plan out some pieces while awaiting the arrival of the threads.I started by drawing some sketches out for some new brooches but in the end I couldn’t help myself so I decided to start a piece anyway and use the wildfire thread that  I have.

For the piece I went with another Natalie Shau cover art for the Cradle of Filth. The picture is of a woman in royal regalia holding what looks like a human heart! Nice huh!!

I too cue from the colours in the paintings so I went with dark red and gold and using an assortment of different crystals. Michaels had 50%off all the bead gallery crystal which means that I obviously went a little nuts in there and ended up leaving with a whole bunch of beads which are now all piled up on my desk but it also means that I now have a good collection of red beads.

I am always amazed at how a subtle colour difference or a finish of a bead can effect a piece so much.

The way I had planned this piece was to have a hole on top and have a dangling bead hanging in the space but I when I cut around the piece, the top part was just too thin and it made more sense to cut into the piece and try to connect them again with the dangling bead when the piece was finished.Because the top parts of the piece were so thin I did sandwich a piece of thick cardstock between the backing and the Ultrasuede to give the piece more stability.

Once all that was done I finished the edge of the piece with a sunshine edge. The small inside corners were a little tough to do but I am glad that it was doable. I finished off the piece with a pinkish/red Toho teardrop crystal bead which was the only thing I had in my stash and up close it actually doesn’t look as pink as it does in the photo, but maybe I should put in an order for a red swarovski crystal next time I am going to order things

LIST OF MATERIALS USED:

• 35mm ROUND GLASS CABOCHON
• 10mm FACETED TEARDROP PINK/RED BEAD BY TOHO
• 10mm BLACK FACETED SEW ON GEM
• 3mm DARK RUBY FACETED GLASS BEADS
• 3x5mm RED FACETED RONDELLE GLASS BEADS
• SILVER LINED DARK PINK SEED BEADS SIZE 11/0
• GOLD SEED BEADS SIZE 11/0
• GARNET LINED RUBY AB SIZE 11/0
• SILVER LINED GARNET SEED BEADS SIZE 15/0
• GOLD COLOURED METAL SEED BEADS SIZE 15/0
• METALLIC BURGUNDY BROWN SEED BEADS SIZE 15/0
• WILDFIRE THREAD IN BLACK
• LACY'S STIFF STUFF
• BLACK ULTRASUEDE
• 1.5-INCH BASE METAL PIN BACK
•  E-6000 GLUE

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