Wedding Day Blues

 It will soon be wedding bells for the son of one of my dearest friends.  She asked if I would make her a cuff bracelet using vintage bling in shades of blue.

For her I would do almost anything but the difficulties of adding bling to a cuff had me thinkin'.  I was concerned that moving a solid cuff to get it on and off the wrist might pop off some of the elements.

 When I found this cuff that opened and closed with a spring AND reminded me of a trellis I was pretty certain it would be workable.

Blue isn't one of my top colors so I had to use some newer elements. The base pieces and the butterfly are newer.   I used three vintage pins, one I took apart to  use the pieces and used one on each side.  The other bits are vintage earrings.

 Started laying on the base to the sides of the cuff.

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 Layered elements on top of the base.
Side view with large butterfly.  I wanted the butterfly to go over the edge of the bracelet just a bit.

and this is how it looks on my wrist. gee I kinda like it .... sure hope she does.

Visiting with Ivy and Elephants and LOVE what they did with a gumball machine! Ya'll need to go visit and see all the pretties.

Thank you for your visit and your sweet comments. I appreciate them, always try to return them as well as follows.
Until next time, ya'll bee sweet (())