Jewelry & Beading

January 29th, 2008

How to make a beaded assemblage

Technique Tuesday!
One of my earlier tutorials on the basics of bead embroidery will be very helpful here! When you’re going to embroider a piece of fabric and then glue it onto a structure, use either ultra-suede or buckram as the foundation, depending upon how heavy the beads and bits are going to be. Here’s how […]

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January 28th, 2008

Beaded print block

Make Art Monday!

Here’s a little beaded assemblage that I made using an antique print block as the base. Don’t ask me what it’s for…I don’t know!
Tags: Bead Embroidery, Beading, beads, handmade-beaded, Mixed MediaShare This

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December 27th, 2007

Articles in Jewelry Crafts January/February 2008 issue

I’ve got two articles in the issue of Jewelry Crafts magazine currently on the newsstand. The first is a spin on an Art Nouveau classic design, called Princess Hyacinth. Here’s the princess:

She’s a pretty one, isn’t she? She’s the work of Alphonse Mucha, a brilliant printmaker who lived from 1860 to 1939. […]

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