Beaded Heart Tutorial

Sonyastyle shares a beautiful beaded heart tutorial with her readers. [link]

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Bead Design Studio Technique Guide

Bead Design Studio Technique Guide

Browse the pages of our Technique Guide to find a wealth of information, including the following:

• A fully-illustrated glossary covering beads of all types, findings, tools and supplies, and more
• A fully-illustrated guide to crimping, wirework, bead stitches (ladder stitch, even-count flat peyote stitch, and square stitch), and embroidery and bead embroidery stitches  
• A measurement converter (millimeters to inches and vice-versa)
• Common jewelry measurements

Download the Bead Design Studio Tech Guide

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Ear Vines - Free Pattern

Craftsy is an online community with online classes. Most of them are provided for a fee. However, you can find some free tutorials as well as patterns, projects and workshops. The Ear Vines is one of those freebies you can find. [link]

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Free Beading Projects + Book

*Diane Fitzgerald offers a free project from Diane Fitzgerald's Favorite Beading Projects, her new book now available! Get a PDF of her Fortune Teller Beads necklace at http://bit.ly/yDh1Cc

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Beading and Embroidery

*Jamie Cloud Eakin talks about bead shops, teaching, and her books in this short interview that includes a wonderful downloadable index of all the embroidery stitches used in her books! http://bit.ly/yEGFQC

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Bead Fantasies Necklace - Free Tutorial from Lark Books

Sabine Lippert’s Beaded Fantasies presents 30 of Sabine’s jewelry designs; all the projects utilize peyote or right angle weave, beading’s most popular stitches. The book includes plenty of beautiful photography, excellent instructions and how-to illustrations, a special chapter by Sabine about how she approaches design, and a gallery of photographs of beadwork Sabine admires. The book will officially publish on May 1. In the meantime, let’s give you a taste of it: Click here to download a PDF of the project Les Fleurs Necklace from Sabine Lippert’s Beaded Fantasies. If you look at the PDF, you’ll see we’ve included the book’s table of contents, which has teaser photos from throughout the book.

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Learn to Bead for Free - A Dedicated Website

A site dedicated to teaching and sharing about beaded jewelry. Learn how to make jewelry with free bead patterns, free ebooks and more. Categories are listed by theme as well as materials. Even a seasons jewelry maker could find a tip or two! [link]

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Free Beading e-Book

5 Free Beading Projects to
Learn How to Bead

Everyone needs a place to start and every beader is always searching for new beading ideas.

This free eBook is a complete beading for beginners guide with quick and easy bead instructions. Each bead project includes a fabulous photo and step-by-step instructions. Turn to pages 6 and 7 for illustrated descriptions of the essential beading techniques such as crimping, knotting, wireworking, oxidizing silver, and more. If you already know how to string beads and are looking for inspiration or quick bead designs to make for your friends, this free eBook will also suit your needs. Don't wait! Start creating these easy pieces and use the inspiration to create your own designs. Download your eBook today!

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Craftster Monthly Craft Challenge

Craft Challenge #71, Just Bead It, has been announced!

Your challenge this month is to create a project that features beads! Beads of all shapes, sizes, colors and materials are welcome. Just bead it!

Entries are due February 1 through February 8, 2012. Read all of the challenge details here.

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Enter to Win: Bead Sphere Tutorial

Bead Sphere Jewelry is offering one lucky winner from Craft Connection a free tutorial. Visit the Bead Sphere Etsy store to see all the offerings. [link]

Enter to win:


a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Lark Offers Freebies

An incredible giveaway (U.S. residents only, through Oct. 26) of a set of 11 Lark Jewelry & Beading 500 Series art jewelry gallery books celebrating the release of 21st Century Jewelry: http://bit.ly/qt89u3

FOUR free project PDFs from Maggie Meister, downloadable from http://bit.ly/pV9M3U

A free PDF of a jewelry project by Karen Rakoski from the book 30-Minute Rings made out of plumbing pipe (!):  http://bit.ly/opBdBp

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Handcrafted Jewelry Studio eMag

Discover handcrafted jewelry making like you've never seen it before with this brand-new, revolutionary resource!

Introducing the groundbreaking new eMag! Step inside an exciting new world of mixed-media jewelry making through how-to videos, extended photo galleries, and more—right on your computer screen. Click here to buy now!

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Artbeads Contest

Artbeads is proud to announce their first ever ‘What Inspires You?’ jewelry contest! The theme of Artbeads.com’s first beading contest is to let beading artists share their inspiration with others. There are two categories, necklaces and other beaded designs for this contest. Voting will be open to the public to determine the top 3 winners in each category. A picture of the inspiration and design will allow the voters to see how each entry is represented.

The Grand Prize Winner in the Necklace and Beading contests will each receive a $500 Artbeads.com Gift Certificate, the 2nd Place winners will each receive a $250 Artbeads.com Gift Certificate and the 3rd Place winners will each receive a $100 Artbeads.com Gift Certificate.

This is a contest of originality, design, and vision. All entries MUST be an original design. At least 50% of the beads and components in a submitted entry must be purchased from Artbeads.com. Participants must upload one picture of their design and one of picture of their inspiration. This contest is open to beaders worldwide, aged 18 and older.

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Free Bead Tutorial

Lark Books is offering a free tutorial for the Helixa Necklace. This is a design offered in the book One Big Beautiful Bead. [link]

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Seed Bead Creation

 

A bead stringing project made from a variety of different sized beads.
Similar beads can be purchased at Art Beads

TOHO™ Bead Round 6/0 Higher-Metallic Blue/Purple Iris 8g Bag
http://www.artbeads.com/tbrd6-505.html

4.5-5mm Bright Mix Potato Freshwater Pearl Strand
http://www.artbeads.com/p-bmix2.html

Similar Silver beads
Miyuki 8g Metallic Galvanized Silver Delicas
http://www.artbeads.com/db0035.html

Disclosure: some of the materials for this bracelet were kindly provided free-of-charge by Artbeads.com blogging program. The author of this blog has not received any payment from above-mentioned company. This post represents only personal opinion of the blog author. 

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Shipwreck Beads - Weekly Giveaway Contest

Shipwreck Beads is always looking for new ways to say "thank you" to their customers. So for 2010 they are giving away 2 $250 gift cards EVERY WEEK for the entire year! So far this year they've given away $4,500 in Gift Cards! You can enter now [link]

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Spring Jewelry

Little girls celebrate Easter with Easter eggs, Easter baskets and candy. Big girls - we celebrate with jewelry!  Here is a new bracelet I made just in time for Easter with all the colors of spring!

This design will vary with different kinds of beads used. I will post instructions later. The beads in this piece are from ArtBeads.

4.5 - 5mm Pastel Mix Potato Pearl

TOHO™ Bead Round 6/0 Sand-Lined Crystal 8g Bag 

Gold-Filled 2mm Round Seamless w/ 1.0mm Hole (1/20 14K) 


Disclosure: some of the materials for this necklace were kindly provided free-of-charge by Artbeads.com blogging program. The author of this blog has not received any payment from above-mentioned company. This post represents only personal opinion of the blog author. 

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Beading Daily Website

Beading Daily is the place to be to learn new jewelry-making techniques, make friends in our forums, be inspired by new ideas, swap beads, FIND RESOURCES, watch videos, download free projects, discover the latest tools and materials, keep up with trends and fashion, get previews of our magazines and books, stay tuned to details for Bead Fest Shows and workshops, post your work in our Gallery, get great deals in our online store . . . whew, and that's not all!
It's free to be a member, so join the fun. [link]

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Online Craft Resource - Kalmbach

Kalmbach Bookstore has a ton of craft oriented products. You can choose from magazines, DVDs, free downloads and much more. The topics are sorted into Beading and Jewelry, General Crafts, Needle Arts and Paper Crafts. [link]

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Fiber Necklace with Glass Dangle

finished Fiber Heart Necklace

detail of fibers and wire

This recent creatiion was very simple to make. Using fiber pieces for the chain and a glass dangle, a few knots and a few wire wraps and it's finished. Some of the items used to make this necklace can be found at Art Beads the links are provided below.

50 x 30mm Northern Lights Swirl Heart Pendant   JC-HTNLIT  

  Black Cotton Yarn with 3mm Mystic Black Pearls   59100C-BLKMBK3   

 Hand-Dyed Silk Smoke and Fire w/ Metallic Pink Edges  RBSILK-RDG-PNK 


Disclosure: some of the materials for this necklace were kindly provided free-of-charge by Artbeads.com blogging program. The author of this blog has not received any payment from above-mentioned company. This post represents only personal opinion of the blog author.  

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