Using a glass cabochon from http://www.tanofcourse.co.uk/ and surrounding it with a leafy framework of glass beads, this is the latest work by Beadsage in his new collection of cabochon necklaces. They can be seen at http://www.beadsage.co.uk Tweet
Read more →I was sent a handful of cabochons by a very cornish lady called Tania Grey, with a great deal of trepidation, and even more fear, I ‘had a go’………………I must have a natural affinity with bits of glass, or I was a window in a previous life, but the first two seemed to have worked [...]
Read more →Well, I’ve spent the last couple of days making watchbands out of lots of swarovski crystals. It would have been fine had it just been a design for one of our ladies on the forum, but then came the request from the US……………..I now have to keep making them until I hit on the right [...]
Read more →I hate to sound precocious, but seed beading is an art………..and a craft………….and very, very, very, time consuming. I have no idea why this style of beading got me hooked, I am well known for having the attention span of a fly, but it is such a beautiful way to construct a piece of [...]
Read more →And so this tale of creativity starts Contact one of us if your looking for parts We have Jellybelly Jellybrain For all hand sewn bunting with added name Butterbeandesigns for colourful letters The likes of which Id say nobody betters Tip tops unique cards are very distinctive For all happy occasions she’ll have a card [...]
Read more →Finished the gothic cross – picture attached, and can now concentrate on this spiral. It was only when I had been doing it for a week that I discovered the normal time for making one of these is an hour an inch! Oh goody – should be finished by christmas then. Tweet
Read more →That’s it. I finished the peyote diamond bracelet with only 2 mistakes (unnoticable)! I have this thing about doing three projects at once, it came from painting oil canvasses and having to wait until one was dry……………………..life’s too short to watch paint dry! So, I had the diamond bracelet, a cellini spiral necklace, and a [...]
Read more →After spending the last six months learning beadweaving stitches and techniques, I have now gone solo by mistake. I am in the process of making a quite complicated bracelet, and followed the instructions to the letter – for about an inch. Clever clogs thought it would be a good idea to embellish the pattern a [...]
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