Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 4

Here is the last blog post in the series of posts that I have written about Tracey Hotze's bridal jewelry, whose wedding is coming up the end of October!!  Wow, working with Tracey has been so much fun and she has been a pleasure to work with throughout the last several months!!  We started with 8 bridesmaids (including 1 Maid of Honor) and 5 usherettes, which is described in Part 1.  She also asked that I make her bridal jewelry, which was a lot of fun to get to the final set - absolutely beautiful pearl Y-necklace with matching earrings and bracelet, which is fully described in Part 2.  Then, Tracey requested that I create sets for the jr. bridesmaid, flower girl, and 3 programs girls, which is detailed in Part 3.  After receiving all of that, she requested that I make her a set for her mom, which is also shown in Part 3.

To see the initial posts, from the design process on to the final products, please see the following posts:

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 3 (designs of jr. bridesmaid, flower girl, program girls, and mother of the bride sets)

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 2 (design of bride's set)

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 1 (intro and design of bridesmaids and usherettes sets)

This final post is to show some of the completed sets and final pictures before all were shipped out...

Bridesmaid Set...

Flower Girl Set...

Junior Bridesmaid Set...

Program Girls Sets...

And last, but not least... the Mother of the Bride Set...

Anyway... that's all for now.  But Tracey has promised to send me pictures of the jewelry on all the girls from the big wedding day, so I will definitely be writing another blog post, with mainly pictures, when I get those wedding pics - can't wait!!  :)

Thanks for reading!!

Bridal Order for Brecora

I received a request from a bride, Brecora Broner, to make her some bridal jewelry sets for her 8 bridesmaids for her wedding in October with a peacock theme.  I happily agreed to work with her and was provided with her wedding color swatch and a picture of the bridesmaid dress.  The MOH has a similar blue dress, but with a green sash - the color of the green in the color swatch shown below.

So, after communicating with Brecora through email and getting an idea of what she was looking for, I started working on some designs...

She asked me to try to work these previous designs into the original design that she found in my Etsy shop, shown below:

So... changing out the light bronze Swarovski pearls with the antique brass color, and adding the new Swarovski pearl color, Petrol blue, I created the following bridesmaid set, which Brecora loves and agreed on as the design to make for the bridesmaids.

I think it's beautiful and very unique and according to Brecora, " I think the set is just splendid. You picked the vision right out of my head... Thanks for working with me. Working with you was way better then scouring the stores looking for a set to match. Whew! One thing to check off of the list."  :)

So, next, I started working on her MOH set, adding green glass pearls and gold rhinestone spacers...

And we ended up choosing the design below... with the earring with the blue pearl at the top.

Stay tuned for my next blog on Brecora's bridal jewelry... more pictures of the finished designs of the MOH and also a beautiful Mother-of-the-Bride jewelry set!!

Bridal Order for Shayla

I was contacted by Shayla's mom, who asked me if I could make a necklace and earring set similar to one that she had found online in another Etsy shop.  She wanted a set in white for her daughter, Shayla, the bride.  And she wanted a similar set for Shayla's sister, her MOH, with Tiffany blue colors mixed with white.  In order to guarantee the right match, I sent her some light turquoise glass pearls in the mail to see if they matched her wedding color.  They matched almost perfectly!!  Here are the two sets I created, using white Swarovski pearls, Swarovski silver rhinestone spacers, and Swarovski silver crystal balls...

The following is the email I got from them after they received their jewelry...

"Hi Angela....We both absolutely LOVED them :) She was so happy it rought tears to her eyes...mine too! We could not have asked for a more perfect necklace and earings to go with her dress. MOH was just perfect too...she can't wait to surprise her sister! I will send you pictures of her all done up on the wedding day... :) Thanks again - you are the best! Kris"


And then, several weeks later, I received pictures from the wedding with the bride, Shayla, and her sister, wearing their wedding jewelry, along with the following email...

"Hi Angela, Attached are a few pictures...The wedding was amazing and we all had the time of our lifes...
The girls LOVED their jewerly and it topped off the dresses perfect.

I am sending them in a couple emails...too big of files!

Thanks again

Kris"

Wow, just seeing these pictures and receiving emails about how much they loved their jewelry makes what I do so rewarding!!  So happy for Shayla and her sister, and to Kris - thank you for such kind words!!  :)

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 3

So continuing on with the 3rd part in the series of posts I am writing on Tracey Hotze's bridal jewelry, I will discuss some of the plans Tracey and I decided on for the designs for the program girls, flower girl, and junior bridesmaid.

To see the 1st 2 parts in this series on Tracey's bridal jewelry, please click on the following links:

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 2

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 1

So, after further communications with Tracey, I discovered that she has 1 junior bridesmaid (7 years old), 1 flower girl (3-years old), and 3 program girls (5 yrs, 8 yrs, & 10 yrs).

Jr. Bridesmaid:  Tracey decided that she wants her junior bridesmaid (who is 7 and wearing an ivory dress) to have a similar design as her bridal jewelry, with the exception of having the "Y" teardrop dangle, and to have less Swarovski silver rhinestone spacers.  So this is what I came up with... (Instead of silver rhinestone spacers between every 3 pearls, here we have a silver rhinestone spacer between every 5 pearls).  I sent Tracey a pic and she loved it - just wants the extension dangle a little shorter.

Flower Girl:  For her flower girl, who is 3 and wearing an ivory dress with dark brown sash (just like the flower girls in my wedding last year!!), we decided to go with Swarovski ivory & dark brown pearls, with clear Swarovski crystals between each pearl.  Initially, Tracey asked me if we should include dark brown pearls at all or just maybe have a few throughout the necklace, so I created the following design with a dark brown pearl between every 2 cream pearls.  I sent to Tracey and she asked me to do the dark brown and ivory pearls every other, and here are the designs...

Tracey chose the one directly above, with dark brown and ivory pearls consecutively strung with the clear crystal bicones between each pearl.  I like this one best, too, as this is the design I used for my 2 flower girls for my wedding back in 2011.  :)


Program Girls:  For the 3 program girls, who are wearing dark brown dresses with gold sashes, we decided to go with Swarovski bright gold pearls and dark brown pearls.

I still need to add the extension chains (gold for these) and I made a couple designs for Tracey to pick from for the earrings.  Only different between the two shown is that one is a little longer, with an additional crystal on top.

In the next post, I will be showing the final pictures of the bridesmaids and usherettes designs, boxed up and ready to go, which I have already shipped to Tracy.  I should have all of the program girls', jr. bridesmaid, and flower girl sets completed and ready to go, so I will have pics of these completed sets.  Also, I hope to have a good start on her mom's jewelry.  She has requested that I make something similar to the following for her mother's bridal jewelry...  I am pretty sure this is the RAW (right angle weave) stitch, which I love doing, and so I don't think it will be difficult to do.  And then I will create some matching earrings to go with it.

Stay tuned for more and feel free to leave comments!!  Including Tracey's bridal jewelry, I am currently working on 4 bridal jewelry orders simultaneously (2 of them are in October, 1 in Aug, & 1 in Sep), and so I have plenty to blog about! LOL  I want to write about and show pictures of these other bridal orders, as well... just not sure when I'm going to get to them.

Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 2

This post is a continuation of Bridal Order for Tracey - Part 1, one of my biggest bridal orders so far, which I am currently working on for Tracey Hotze, who is getting married in October.  This part of the series of posts I am doing on her wedding is concentrated on her bridal jewelry set.  For her set, she wanted a teardrop, or "Y", ivory/cream pearl crystal necklace, along with matching earrings, to blend well with her gorgeous bridal dress.  See following picture...  Wow, I love this dress!!  :)

So after several email conversations and creating designs based on what Tracey had in mind, I worked towards making her the perfect set.  I also looked at some of Tracey's favorites that she had on her Etsy profile, and tried to incorporate certain aspects of those designs into my own designs, based on the "look" that Tracey had told me she wanted. Based on all of that, here are some of the designs that I originally came up with...

As a side note here... All of the pearls, crystals, and silver rhinestone spacers used in these designs are from the Swarovski collection, as they are the best in quality, shine, sparkle, everything... at least, in my opinion.  :)

Based on some of the designs that I found in Tracey's favorites, there was some chain in a couple of them, but mainly showing up in the back, as a long extension chain and dangle.  But after sending these pics to Tracey, she requested more pearls and less chain, and she really liked the silver rhinestone spacers, as they match the silver sash around the top of her dress, above the waist, very nicely.  And I just love using these silver rhinestone spacers, as they bring out some awesome "bling" in the jewelry, if used the right way.  So, I came up with some more designs using a combination of Swarovski pearls, crystals, and rhinestone spacers.

So for the next design, I added in some Swarovski crystal balls to add even more bling!!

Then, I created the following designs using Swarovski clear crystal bicones alone and then combined with the Swarovski silver rhinestone spacers.

Tracey decided against the use of the clear crystal bicones and just having pearls and silver rhinestone spacers, so I created the following, inserting a silver rhinestone spacer between every 5 pearls.

Tracey loved this look, but asked me to make it with more silver rhinestone spacers, with one between every 3 pearls instead of 5 pearls, as shown above.

And here we have a winner!!!  :)

Only change I made was to remove one of these chain sections so that we just had one extension chain dangle, which I think looks better myself.

And here is the bridal set presented in the free silver gift box, that I included in Tracey's order.  I also included free gift boxes for all the other sets, which will be shown in my next blog.  :)

Stay tuned for more on Tracey's bridal jewelry, including the designs that I have yet to make for her program girls, flower girl, and junior bridesmaid...  :)

Thanks so much for reading... and please feel free to leave comments!!