I started with seed beading a major portion of the front/center. I ended up hating it. So, I removed all the beads. Unfortunately, they were stitched on one by one and it took forever (first to put them on and then to take them off!).
I did ended up somewhat following my original rough draft. Each of the beads are glass/crystal. I'm going to decide a pattern and fill in the remainder with tiny seed beads. The beads are very heavy. I will be backing this so I'm not terribly worried about this.
There's no flash in the above pictures, the sun light off the beads (this was taken indoors). I guess that is part of their sparkle ability.
I then took a picture in a shaded part of the same sunny room. I think the detail is a little better.
The round beads on the bottom are actually somewhat flat, so they don't protrude (giving too high of a profile. I wanted to use blues and greens as to not copy the ED design. But in the end, pink prevailed. I'm a big fan of "pink crown". I needed to work hard to not copy the design but to just allow it to inspire me. It is much easier to do a one for one copy than to come up with one's own ideas. If you note, the crown isn't straight across, that will make a difference once it is assembled. I did a few paper prototypes originally (when I started this years ago). I did also trim the center. After looking at Agnes in the "Sneak peek" posting I made a while back, the crown gave me a Glinda the good witch feeling when looking at the lines around her head.
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