Beading Party With Christi Friesen: Exotic Blooms Kit & Polymer Clay

Beading Party With Christi Friesen: Exotic Blooms Kit & Polymer Clay

Beading Party With Christi Friesen: Exotic Blooms Kit & Polymer Clay Sara Oehler had a beading party with Christi Friesen. Christi is an award-winning artist, who works in mixed media. Her work has been showcased in numerous books, magazines, and exhibits. She is the author of over a dozen how-to books on creating with polymer clay. She teaches throughout the world, using humor and po…
How To Create A Flower Inspired Beaded Design For Mother's Day

How To Create A Flower Inspired Beaded Design For Mother's Day

How To Create A Flower Inspired Beaded Design For Mother's Day On Spill the Beads with Joyce Trowbridge, Joyce showed how to create flower inspired beaded jewelry. She made a cute pair of sunflower earrings and two different daisy flower bracelets using Rola Seed Beads, Bamboo Beads, Czech Glass Beads, Crystal Squaredelles, 2x2mm Soft Flex Crimp Tubes, Bead Stoppers, and .019 Soft Fle…
Beading Party With Cassandra Spicer Of Beads To Live By: Beading Therapy

Beading Party With Cassandra Spicer Of Beads To Live By: Beading Therapy

Beading Party With Cassandra Spicer Of Beads To Live By: Beading Therapy Sara Oehler had a beading party with Cassandra Spicer of Beads to Live By. Cassandra sent Sara some beads from Beads to Live By, and Sara made a beautiful pair of earrings with those beads and .019 Soft Flex Beading Wire in Purple Amethyst color. Casandra used some of her beads and wrapped them around the Butterf…
Make A Vintage Style Butterfly Shell Pendant Bead Necklace

Make A Vintage Style Butterfly Shell Pendant Bead Necklace

Make A Vintage Style Butterfly Shell Pendant Bead Necklace This week on Free Spirit Beading with Kristen Fagan, I explored how to fashion a vintage style butterfly shell pendant bead necklace. I combined an assortment of Czech Glass Beads, Ceramic Beads, Shell Beads, Seed Beads, .019 Soft Flex Beading Wire in Bone color, and a Butterfly Shell Pendant. This project combines the beaut…
Exotic Blooms Design Kit Reveal, TGBE & A Bouquet Of Jewelry Making Project Ideas

Exotic Blooms Design Kit Reveal, TGBE & A Bouquet Of Jewelry Making Project Ideas

We celebrated Kit Day this week. Kit Day is the day we reveal our previous jewelry making kit (Exotic Blooms) and release our newest kit (Turtle Love). If you love making themed jewelry, our kits are a perfect addition to your beading supplies. Every kit we sell comes complete with enough findings, beads, and wire to create a bunch of lovely jewelry. All you need are crimping pliers and cutters to…
Joyous Jewelry Making! Craftcation, Kumihimo, Kits, TGBE & More!

Joyous Jewelry Making! Craftcation, Kumihimo, Kits, TGBE & More!

We saw a little bit of everything this week. Kristen discussed her recent trip to Craftcation and showed us how to make an embroidered butterfly. Joyce showed us how to weather a metal blank and give it character. Rebecca Combs, of Design & Adorn, joined us for a beading party and showed us how to make a beaded kumhimo necklace. We checked out videos from our friends and watched them make jewe…