Bead Arts

About.com Jewelry Making
New Year’s Eve means it’s time to put your big bling pieces on, and Tammy has lots of ideas to make you super sparklie.

Art Bead Scene
The crew is on a short holiday break, but we hope you will come by the blog to celebrate with our special week’s worth of the Best of Art Bead Scene posts from this past year.

Jewelry & Beading
One of Cyndi’s designs was chosen for a new book on the Art of Jewelry ~ Wood. Come and see her necklace, called “Measure Twice, Cut Once”!

Snap out of it , Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean just had to repost these sweet necklaces that she made for the childrens’ teachers as holiday gfts! They are just too yummy looking snuggling up aganst the luxurious rose velvet pouches she packaged them in. Happy Holidays to the VIPs in our lives!

Katie’s Beading Blog
Katie’s getting ready for the next filming of Beads, Baubles and Jewels. This week, she shares a cool necklace idea using a chain bail and tassel.

Savvy Crafter
No clue what jewelry you’re wearing to the big New Year’s Eve bash? Hop on over to Candie’s blog for an easy and festive fix!

Keeping my eye on you

This is just the beginning of Rebecca Brown’s amazing work!

Do you have today off? If so, you might want to think about a little maintenance work:

Virginia, over at Art Bead Scene, has a great little tutorial on how easy it is to clean the tarnish off your silver! It involves baking soda and aluminum foil, which might sound like hocus-pocus, but I can attest to the fact that it works!

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About.com Jewelry Making
Still in need of some last minute jewelry gifts? Earrings are the way to go, and Tammy has some super easy projects to help you out.

Art Bead Scene
Elaine wraps up the Art Bead Scene 12 days of Christmas with a joyous rendition of a classic holiday tune, updated with our favorite beading goodies! Come sing along!

Jewelry & Beading
It’s not too late to make a super-easy sparkly pin for Christmas!

Katie’s Beading Blog
Visit Katie’s blog this week for links to a fun podcast interview, last-minute bracelet idea and the final (for now) installment of Ornament Thursday.

PearlEsq.
Track Robin’s travels to the traffic-laden trickiness of NYC and the tasty trinkets she turned up at Tinsel Trading!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean shows a new necklace for her chain maille gallery for her book, Links: all the great beads are made by Cathy Lybarger!

The Impatient Blogger
It’s the final installment of Ornament Thursday and Margot pulls out all the stops with four fabulous ornament ideas! Check out what this week’s roster of talented crafters has in store for you!

Thank you to Tammy Powley over at About.com’s Jewelry Making site! Tammy has compiled links to 8 different beginner projects, at least 5 of which would be fun for Christmas and other winter holidays. One of the projects is a simple ornament cover…once you try one of these and see how they work, the more complicated ones will not seem quite so daunting!

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Here’s a really quick and easy pin that you can make in a snap…

My tutorial is on Jewelry & Beading.

Thank you to Rings & Things for these cute and fast earrings from seedbeads:

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Make Art Monday

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About.com Jewelry Making
Tammy at About.com’s Jewelry Making site has a long list of ideas for jewelry makers to give and get this holiday season.

Art Bead Scene
As a thank you to our loyal readers, the editors of Art Bead Scene present 12 Days of Christmas: 12 free projects using art beads, running over the next two weeks. These projects are quick and easy gift ideas, perfect for the holidays!

Bead Arts
Cyndi is continuing the countdown to Christmas with a link to a new project every day! All with beads, of course.

Jewelry & Beading
Stunning jewelry and other artwork are featured in an interview with Penny Purdie, one of Cyndi’s favorite artists in the Swarovski Design Contest!

PearlEsq.
Check out the travels of Robin at Tim Holtz’ Holiday Hideaway!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beadng to be done!
Jean displays a little parallel chain style chain maille and borosilicate bracelet for her chain maille gallery on her site: Margot Potter has the perfect name for it!

Kate Ferrant-Richbourg provides the directions for these clever cuff bracelets. You can make them as many tiers wide as you want, which makes this an extremely versatile gift idea. If you’ve never done wirework before, you can still probably master these bracelets. You might want to check my archives for online help with basic wirework before you start though.

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Do you have any new members of the family to make gifts for this year? Here’s a darling idea from Michaels:

Very simple, very fast…and really cute! Just what we like at this time of the year

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Maybe you could make beads with all those holiday catalogs that every company insists on sending you?

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This card is so simple, but so cute! I’m sure you could make it a bit more elaborate if you wanted to, but I really like the simplicity of this design. Combine your card-making and your beading manias together…what could be better? Thanks to HobbyCraft for this idea!

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Make Art Monday!

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