Cameo Catholic Brooches

I was inspired to create these brooches using these beautiful porcelain cameos. One cameo depicting Our Blessed Mother with Baby Jesus and the other with Infant of Prague using a vintage raw brass setting and adorning them with crystals and flower.

I wanted to try something different besides bracelets and necklaces and I really loved the outcome of these pieces

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Bracelet

Thou who, with special mercy, 

 look upon those clothed 

in Thy beloved Habit,  

cast a glance of pity upon me.

  Fortify my weakness with Thy strength;  

enlighten the darkness 

of my mind with Thy wisdom;  

increase my faith, 

 hope and charity.  

Assist me during life,  

console me by Thy presence at my death,  

and present me

 to the August trinity

 as Thy devoted child, 

 that I may bless thee 

for all eternity in Paradise. 

 Amen. 

I truly enjoyed creating this special bracelet honoring Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Loved the black lace and I combined it with a cream color ribbon and the combination just appeals like an older bracelet. I love how it gives it an appearance of a bracelet that might of been worn many years ago.

I used a vintage medal of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and oxidized Italian medals including Our Lady of Medjugorje, Holy Child of Atocha, St. Therese, St. Raphael and others. Includes a vintage yellow Lucite embellishment and acrylic roses.

My Newest Store

I had been debating for a long time if I should open a web store besides ebay and today I took that step towards creating one and I'm so excited it's Faith Inspired Creations http://www.faithinspiredcreations.com/

I have also been so inspired to continue creating with vintage lace and right now most of my creations in my new store are created with such.

A couple with Old World images of Madonna and Child by Botticelli and one inspired by nature

Rosary Style Padre Pio Reliquary Religious Necklace

May Jesus comfort you
in all your afflictions.
May He sustain you in dangers,
watch over you always with His grace,
and indicate the safe path
that leads to eternal salvation.
And may He render you always
dearer to His Divine Heart
and always more worthy of Paradise.

Amen

by Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

When I see a picture of St. Padre Pio, it just brings me so much peace and joy and when creating a piece in his honor, I feel that joy that is indescribable.

On this reliquary necklace I created I used a unique medal with earth from San Giovanni Rotondo, St. Padre Pio's Shrine

Used a beautiful porcelain cameo of Archangel St. Gabriel from an antique card. I created this necklace Rosary style with beautiful wood beads

May St. Padre Pio shine his light upon your life

Roses and Pearls Crown for Our Queen of Heaven Virgin Mary Statue

For a very long time, I have been inspired in creating crowns for Our Blessed Mother and I have always loved to see the crowns of roses in Her images and today that inspiration, again, came to me


PEARL- Signifies God's righteousness- In Revelation, the New Jerusalem is spoken of having twelve walls with twelve foundations and twelve gates of Pearls (Rev. 21-14-27


THE ROSE BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF MARY The rose is regarded as the "queen of flowers", and often symbolizes Mary, the Queen of Heaven. Also an almost universal symbol of perfect love, its color, perfection of form, and fragrance, as well as its thorns signifies Mary's role in salvation history as the Mother of God the Savior who was crowned with thorns and shed His blood on the Cross for love of mankind. The rose, arising from a thorny bush, also signifies Mary, the Mystical Rose, "our fallen Nature's solitary boast", who alone of the human race was conceived without sin. It also may contain a parallel with the fiery thorn bush from which God spoke to Moses: Mary, immaculately conceived, was the means through which God became Man, The Word made flesh.)

While creating these crowns I was just thinking what Our Blessed Mother would love most and all it came was pearls, roses and crystals and that is basically what I used mainly in these two crowns, which are my first ones to create.

I used beautiful vintage acrylic flowers and paper roses as well as pearls, gemstone beads and Czech. glass beads.

They fit most 25" statues and only for indoor due to paper flowers

These are listed in my Etsy Shop Angelo's Treasures

http://www.etsy.com/shop/AngelosTreasures?ref=si_shop