Craft Cove Blog: handcrafted flowers
Showing posts with label handcrafted flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handcrafted flowers. Show all posts

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

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New Items added to Flower Cove

Some of my newest listings:



Hair vines:

hair vines
white pearl hair vine

Hair Flowers:

hair flowers
beaded daisy





Hair pins:

beaded flower hair pins

beaded hair pin


Hair Barrettes:

beaded hair barrette

Friday, September 4, 2009

Flower Website

blue fascinator



I have a new website that I've created to list all the flowers I make, and also to list everything to do with hair accessories.


French beaded flower


The new site is called Flower Cove, and it is a Weebly site instead of Freewebs, I may also eventually move all of Craft Cove over to Weebly as well. With Weebly I can use as many pages as I want, but with Freewebs I only have a limited number.


black fascinator


hair flower
beaded carnation
fascinator
Flower Cove has hair flowers, hair fascinators, hair vines, and other hair accessories, as well as French beading , Victorian beading , and other types of beaded flower stems, bouquets, etc. Not everything in Flower Cove is beaded. I have all sorts of fabric and ribbon flowers as well as paper flowers and quilling. For those who don't know what quilling is, quilling is the art of creating items with paper, most commonly very thin strips are curled into shapes, then glued into designs. Of the fabric flowers, there are folded flowers, flame singed flowers, rolled flowers, and many more. These are then made into hair accessories or other things.
beaded flower
fascinator
You can find it all here: Flower Cove

Monday, July 13, 2009

Care of Beaded Flowers

I just thought I'd mention a bit about the making and care of beaded flowers







Beaded flowers are often made with either the French Beaded method OR the Victorian Beaded Method.

Both of these methods require hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of tiny seed beads that are threaded onto wire.








They are then bent, twisted, and shaped into the individual parts of the flower. Then the parts are joined together and the stems taped with floral tape to create all sorts of different flowers.




To clean your beaded flowers:

The simplest and safest ways are a feather duster or compressed air.





If the flowers need more than that, you can use a damp cloth to lightly rub the beads.

If they need a more serious clean, you can dip the flower heads in warm soapy water, then rinse thoroughly. Every bit of moisture must be removed with a hair dyer on the lowest setting, or dried thoroughly in fresh air. Even a tiny bit of moisture left can cause it to rust.

With reasonable care your flowers should last a VERY long time, although some of the colours may fade with time.




Beaded Flowers are available from:

Flower Cove
Or email: craftcove@gmail.com




Monday, July 6, 2009

Beaded Flowers now available

an assortment of beaded flowers


Beaded flowers are now available from my web site. There's French Beaded flowers and Victorian Beaded flowers, other types coming soon.





beaded flowers
French beading

Victorian beading

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Victorian Beading OR French Beading!!


Victorian Beaded Lily
Victorian Beaded lily





French beaded lily
French beaded lily





Victorian beaded flower
Victorian beading





French beading
French beaded flower





I thought I would show the difference between French Beading and Victorian Beading.

I always thought they were the same thing, but I've since discovered I was wrong.

I made similar flowers using the 2 different methods to show the difference. I'll probably make some tutorials soon.


Victorian beaded flower
Victorian Beading is made similar to ladder stitch and has similarities to Right Angle Weave. Is is made with horizontal lines of beads and both ends of the wire go through the whole row. There are more or less beads added to each row, to create the shape of the petal. This method can also be used to make the 3D animals that I showed in a previous post. They were made by every alternate row being behind the other, in a zigzag pattern to create the back and front.

Victorian beaded rose



Victorian beaded rosebud

 Victorian beaded daffodil




Victorian Beading is also know as English or Continental Beading.
Victorian beaded flower



French Beading is done with rows of beads that are twisted onto a separate section of wire at the top, then the row of beads is passed down the other side, and to another section at the bottom, where it is twisted around again and then goes back to the top. This is shown in the lillium flower.

Another way of doing it is to twist a long row of beads together at the ends, shown in the rounded petal flowers.

French beaded rose
French beaded rosebud
French beaded flower


With French Beading all the beads are thread onto the wire before beginning, and the wire is left on the spool and not cut till the end.
French beaded flower

French beaded fuchsia


I can't decide which looks better.

What do you think??

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