Last year I made up a loom pattern for a suncatcher/wall hanging with a little hummingbird and a spray of flowers.  I adpated parts of two different cross-stitch patterns.  I simplified the colors down to 2 shades of each color used.   

The background is #11 off-white ceylon pearl seed beads, and except for the black beads, all the beads in the bird & flower are silverlined, to stand out from the background.  Some of the silverlined beads are matte-finished, like the clear ones used for the hummingbird’s belly.   

After finishing the basic design on the loom, I took it off and added the triangular section at the bottom & expanded the top for a hanging loop using square stitch, and finished it off with a fringe.  The hanger is a piece of floral wire with two rosette beads glued on the ends, painted with gold leaf paint.   
  

Celia Martin   
Martin's Eclectic Adventures      

Needed:  a full strand of embroidery floss 
         a 16 mm wooden round bead 
         2 feathers (color of choice) 
         6 inches of 1/4 in. satin ribbon 
         1/2 a pipe cleaner 
         scissors 
         Tacky glue 

Take the floss and fold it in half.  Don't take the little tab ends off yet.  Take the pipe cleaner and put one end of it through the top loop of the floss, and twist tightly.  Take the bead and slide it down the pipe cleaner to the top of the floss (over the twisted part of the pipe cleaner).  Wrap the other end around your finger and twist the end to make the halo.  Bend it over the top of the bead.  (The "face" side should face over the fall of the floss, not the open edge of the loop made.)  Take the ribbon and tie it around the floss near the top of the loop by the "head".  Make a knot, then a bow.  This is the bodice of the angel.  Take the ends of the feathers, dip in glue, and insert in the fold sides of the floss above the ribbon and below the bead.  These are the wings.  Now take the tabs off the floss, and snip the ends of the loop at the base of the "skirt" and comb out.  Tie a thread around the angel's head at the  "throat" to hang as an ornament, or hot glue a pin back vertically there to make as a pin.  You can also use fine wire to attach it to a wreath or a package. You can get beads in the craft stores with pre-painted faces, or you can draw faces on with a fine point permanent marker. 

If you try it and like it, enjoy!