Check out the latest project on the Bead & Button web site: Delight in Crystal Rings, designed by May Brisebois. How cool is it to be able to use your beadweaving skills to make a ring?
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Bead & Button has a new bracelet project with a free downloadable pdf file available. Pictured is the Dress Up Chevron Chain with Flowers designed by Yvanne Ham.
While this bracelet looks like it is loaded with details, I have found chevron to be one of the easiest of bead weaving stitches to learn. So, don’t […]
There is a dollar off special going on right now for copies of Wire Work magazine:
You’ll learn techniques from plain loops and wire wrapping to making your own chain. Plus you’ll get wire information and basic techniques. Discover how easy it is to take your jewelry making to the next level.
Wire jewelry is a […]
The Bead & Button web site has a new free netted donut pendant project available (pictured). Gemstone donuts, called this obviously because they look like a donut, are interesting, but other than sticking a leather cord around them and making a knot, it can be tricky to come up with different methods for incorporating them […]
After allowing me to post some free projects here, Kalmbach publishing, which includes magazines such as Bead & Button and BeadStyle, has decided to start posting free projects regularly on their sites. I guess my readers showed them what a great idea this was!
The lastet project at the BeadStyle web site are these chandelier earrings.
Now, […]
Here’s another free downloadable jewelry project for you from Kalmbach’s BeadStyle magazine, the Janurary 2007 issue, which is out on newstands right now.This one is called “Quick Knots Yield a Delicate Necklace,” and along with the necklace, there is also instructions for matching earrings. The necklace incorporates techniques of knotting to create stations of pearl […]
Since I’ve been on a clay kick lately, I was particularly impressed with this polymer clay photo transfer project for the January 2007 issue of Art Jewelry, “Transfer Your Favorite Photographs to Jewelry Using Polymer Clay.”
And here’s the link; just click on it to download this free project: artjewelry_polymer_01071.pdf
Here’s an interesting side note I got […]
Last week, I posted the first of many jewelry projects furnished for us for free from Kalmbach. Now that I think I’ve gotten the technical part figured out and I have gone back and forth talking with Kalmbach about how to handle this new relationship, we’ve settled on free weekly projects.
Each week, I’ll have a […]
Along with a free jewelry project for you to download, this post announces a new relationship with the Jewelry and Beading Blog and Kalmbach Publishing Co., who are known for a large number of jewelry and beading magazines such as Bead & Button, BeadStyle, and Art Jewelry.
They’ve offered my readers free projects from their magazines. That’s […]
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