Thursday, September 29, 2016

Beaded bead earrings - Adore

I present you a new beadwoven earring design from me - "Adore" for which I used Toho Demi Round beads for the first time. They are thiner than ordinary rocaille seed beads and look very interesting in a design. 

The earrings have a beaded bead as central element made of different bead shapes : two-hole CzechMates MiniDuo beads, 4 mm fire polished beads, Toho 11/0 Demi Round beads, seed beads size 15/0, pear shaped drops.



The "Adore" tutorial is available in my ETSY shop and CRAFTSY shop.

Enjoy beading!
Iulia

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Orange Sapphire beading tutorial

Did you know sapphires can be orange as well?? Well, they do! 

My new beadwoven earring design and tutorial - ”Orange Sapphire” - with CzechMates Crescent beads, fire polished beads and Japanese seed beads 15/0.



”Orange Sapphire” beading tutorial is available in my ETSY shop and CRAFTSY shop. 

Happy shiny warm autumn and happy beading! :):)
Iulia

Thursday, July 14, 2016

List of bead patterns with two-hole Superduo beads

List of beading patterns with two-hole Superduo beads.

This list will be updated everytime I create a new design with Supeduo beads.

Click on image to follow the tutorial link.

"Luxor"


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"Rich Lace"


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”Wheel of Time”


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"Flower Power"


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"Golden Age"


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Monday, July 11, 2016

Wonderful Gift beaded earrings

I beaded two new variations of these wonderful hoop earrings.



For the first pair I used:
  • pastel white Czech superduo beads,
  • 4mm chalk white blue Czech fire polished beads 
  • bronze 11/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 221)



For the second pair I used:
  • aqua travertine Czech two-hole superduo beads
  • opaque olivine white luster 4mm Czech fire polished beads
  • bronze 11/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 221)

The TUTORIAL is available in my ETSY shop or CRAFTSY shop.

Enjoy beading and have a wonderful week! 
Iulia

Thursday, July 7, 2016

List of 2-hole cabochon bead patterns

List of beading tutorials with 2-hole cabochon beads. 

I will keep this page updated. Everytime I create a new beading pattern I will add the tutorial to this list.

Click on image to follow the link

"SUNSET"


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"FLOWERS AND DROPS"


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"HARMONY"


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"PYRAMID"


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"DIAMOND BAND"





Wednesday, July 6, 2016

"Mademoiselle" little experiment

Hello everybody!

I used my beading pattern "Mademoiselle" to make a bracelet in a new colorway: blue, khaki and gold. Here is what I got!



I added gold seed beads on tops and the beaded bracelet looks wonderful with tiny gold sparkles. The original design used only one color of seed beads. You can see below the difference. There's so much space to experiment in  this design!


For the new blue/khaki bracelet I used:
chalk blue luster two-hole Superduo beads
permanent finish galvinised gold size 11/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 557PF)
opaque matte olive iris size 11/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 614)

If you're interested in making this bracelet, visit my ETSY shop or CRAFTSY shop to get the tutorial.



Enjoy beading and have a wonderful week!
Iulia

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

NEW BEADING TUTORIAL - Flowers and Drops

Hi all!

My playing with 2-hole cabochon beads and two-hole Kheops par Puca beads continues!!!

I present you my new tutorial - the beadwoven bracelet "Flowers and Drops". I chose a very colorful, juicy and summerly cholor scheme for this beading project which I like very much: gold, purple, olive green and mint green.


For this bead pattern I used:

6mm 2-hole cabochon beads, 
6mm two-hole Kheops par Puca beads,
4mm fire polished beads,
and seed beads size 11/0.



The TUTORIAL is available in my ETSY shop or CRAFTSY shop.
Enjoy beading and have a wonderful week! 
Iulia

Monday, June 20, 2016

Flower Power bangle in a new colorway

Hello everyone! 

When I started making this beadwoven bangle I had very few copper 11/0 seed beads (actually dark bronze, but I like to call this color copper because that's what is looks to me :)). But I had already chosen the colors I wanted to use for this project and didn't want to make any other modifications to it. However, I wasn't sure if that quantity of seed beads I had was going to be enough to make the entire bracelet. 

I started beading and I was hoping and hoping and hoping ...  and only a few cm before the end I ran out of copper seed beads, I was almost there ... I had everything I needed to finish the beaded bangle except for the little copper seed beads! There was no other choice but to put put this beading project aside until I would make an order for the materials I needed. 

But then I thought what if I would just add a magnetic clasp? That's what I did and there it is - my finished "Flower Power" bangle in a new colorway!


The colors I used are: 

dark bronze 11/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 222)
rainbow light topaz/sea foam lined 11/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 952)
aqua travertine two-hole Czech Superduo beads

There's a BEADING TUTORIAL available for this bangle in my ETSY shop or CRAFTSY shop.

Have a great week and enjoy beading!
Iulia

Friday, June 17, 2016

Harmony - beading tutorial

Hi all!

I finished a new beadwoven bracelet and wrote a tutorial for it. Let me present you my newest beading design - a bright beaded bracelet in purple, bordeaux and gold - "Harmony".


For this beaded bracelet I used 2-hole cabochon beads, two-hole MiniDuo beads, seed beads size 11/0 and 15/0. This beading project is for an advanced beginner to intermediate beader, not very complicated to work but requires basic knowledge of beadwork techniques and some skill.

Here is a close-up of the bracelet.


You cand find the "Harmony" tutorial in my ETSY shop of CRAFTSY shop.

Enjoy beading and have a wonderful day and weekend ahead!

Iulia