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June Jewelry Making Contest
All you have to do is reply to this discussion, and please add your photo (click the "camera" icon to upload images) then tell us a little bit about your piece and what inspired you. I can't wait to see what you have been creating. Thanks for sharing your inspiration! I will announce the winner, selected from all entries made from now until the end of June.
Happy beading and jewelry making! If you have any questions, just ask!
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I made this lovely Ladybug bracelet last month after a month of rain and gloomy skis. I wanted bright colors and nature to invade me! It is bursting full of color and the promise of summer around the corner.
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I found a great focal bead at my local bead store. It had streaks of black, peridot and silver. Since I love to make Kumihimo bracelets I combined black 8/0 seed beads with one strand of peridot seed beads. That makes a nice round bracelet with specks of the peridot seed beads. I really like the way the Kumihimo bracelet section sets off the focal bead. It is finished with silver crimp ends and a toggle clasp.
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Everyone's jewelry is sooo beautiful! Thank you for sharing! My husband and I lived about 20 miles away from Mt Rainier in WA state. I was sitting in the yard on day and decided to capture what I felt was the essence of the mountian. This piece is called Blue on Blue.
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Ah, yes....living in the Pacific Northwest myself, I can see snow-capped mountains on a clear day (Mt. Hood, Ranier, St. Helens, Adams) so I can relate to being surrounded by so much beauty and natural inspiration. Lovely, thanks for sharing! :-)
Michelle said:Everyone's jewelry is sooo beautiful! Thank you for sharing! My husband and I lived about 20 miles away from Mt Rainier in WA state. I was sitting in the yard on day and decided to capture what I felt was the essence of the mountian. This piece is called Blue on Blue.
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Great design and use of color! Thanks so much for sharing your inspiration with us! :-)
Kelly Ann McGown said:I made this lovely Ladybug bracelet last month after a month of rain and gloomy skis. I wanted bright colors and nature to invade me! It is bursting full of color and the promise of summer around the corner.
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Gorgeous, Bev! I do looove the sparkly little peridots standing out against all the black--thanks for sharing your great design! :-)
Bev said:I found a great focal bead at my local bead store. It had streaks of black, peridot and silver. Since I love to make Kumihimo bracelets I combined black 8/0 seed beads with one strand of peridot seed beads. That makes a nice round bracelet with specks of the peridot seed beads. I really like the way the Kumihimo bracelet section sets off the focal bead. It is finished with silver crimp ends and a toggle clasp.
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This is a design for the June design contest.
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Permalink Reply by Lorri Ely on
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Very pretty and unique, Tanisha! I love carnelian and it is really set off by the peridot crystals. Thanks for sharing!
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This necklace is design idea came to be from my friend's garden of all the beautiful flowers and color. I created this 1 strand with a divided middle using green oval flat beads, carnelian chips, 4mm bicone peridot and light topaz swarovski crystal and gold filled round bead spacers.
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Permalink Reply by Leigh on -
I have to add my dragonfly necklace to this contest - I wanted something lightweight and sparkly without being over the top and this is what I came up with. I had these briolettes for some time and wanted to use them in something - I especially love the sea glass green color for spring/summer - and had the little teal patinaed dragonflies - what says spring more than that? It is my new favorite piece and I have been wearing it so much
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Oh, it's fabulous, Leigh. Very spring and summer inspired, and I love the little dragonflies!
Leigh said:I have to add my dragonfly necklace to this contest - I wanted something lightweight and sparkly without being over the top and this is what I came up with. I had these briolettes for some time and wanted to use them in something - I especially love the sea glass green color for spring/summer - and had the little teal patinaed dragonflies - what says spring more than that? It is my new favorite piece and I have been wearing it so much
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Auntie's Jewelry Videos
You are probably already familiar with the jewelry and beading supply vendor called Auntie's Beads. They are ads all over the net as well as many magazines. What you may not know, though, is that they also have tons of free jewelry making videos. In fact, in the company's on-line video library, they include over 100 video tutorials. Most deal with beads, of course, but they also include some wire jewelry videos, mixed-media, and lots of basic techniques as well.
You can either access the videos at the Auntie's Beads web site or via YouTube.com. I've stumbled across these a few times on YouTube and have always been impressed with the quality of their videos. Sometimes, it just helps to be "shown" rather than "told" how to make a piece of jewelry.
Auntie's Jewelry Videos originally appeared on About.com Jewelry Making on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 07:01:05.
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If you love working with pearls but get frustrated because of those tiny holes most of them have, then you will love to hear that Beadshop.com has some new pearls with super big holes in them. Yes, you can use a bead reamer and make holes larger, but that is not only a pain in the you know what, but a good way to destroy perfectly good pearl beads if you aren't careful.
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Big News for Pearl Lovers originally appeared on About.com Jewelry Making on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 17:48:44.
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