Good Friday to you lovely people. We hope you are staying safe and the news is not getting you down. We spent the week making some magic with our
Whimsical Beadtastical Design Kit (Sold Out). If you love Dr. Seuss, this kit is right up your alley! We watched our friends make some delightful jewelry and we learned how to wire wrap a ring with a captured bead. Doesn't that sound…
Are you ready for winter to finally be over? At
Soft Flex Company, we are all excited for the leafy palette of spring. The cold blues and whites of winter are elegant and wonderful, but the grassy splendor of green is a welcome change. Today, we are revisiting one of our archive articles. Melissa J. Lee had some lush ideas for summer jewelry that we think are fantastic for St. Patr…
This week on Free Spirit Beading with Kristen Fagan, we paint a Cat in the Hat bead pendant and make a necklace with our Whimsical Beadtastical Bead Mix and Trios! Using your own hand painted beads is a great way to express your own personal style. Since Whimsical Beadtastical was inspired by Dr. Seuss it was only fitting to pay homage to The Cat in the Hat wi…
What a brilliant week of color! Making jewelry is so much more fun when you are conducting a symphony of splashy tones! This week, we dipped our toes in the spectrum of our latest design kit - Whimsical Beadtastical. Whimsical is a celebration of Dr. Seuss. His birthday was March 2nd. We love this wonderfully creative spirit. We crafted some stunning fringe designs that are…
Whimsical Beadtastical Necklace
Thanks for joining me on Soft Flex Company Facebook Live today. I made a fringe necklace using the new Whimsical Beadtastical Trio and beads from the matching bead mix.
Designer Sara Oehler
Supplies:
Whimsical Beadtastical Trios Beading Wire Pack
Whimsical Beadtastical Bead Mix
Hammered Metal Texture…
Would you like to become a better beader?
Making jewelry is an easy craft to pick up, but if you want to master your skills, you need to expand your technical knowledge. Today, we have collected five techniques we think are essential for becoming a better bead stringer. We will teach you how to crimp. How to open a jump ring. How to make handcrafted ear wires and more. If you…