New Cabs in My Etsy Shop

 

As seen in February Bead and Button magazine!

Stone Patina Scarab

Blue Bells

Bottom of the Sea

Long Face

Shopping is So Much Fun

Shopping is so much fun!  I bought some new molds from MasterMolds on Etsy to use for polymer cabochons.  I think they are quite interesting!

 

I am still having fun with chalks and guilders paste!  So many colors and combinations! 

 

 

Finished the First One!

I finally finished the first bead embroidery project that I started!  My friend Meg from Bead My Love gave me a lesson in bead embroidery several months ago.  I make polymer cabochons and they use them in the bead embroidery kits that they sell. 

I cannot of course do what everyone else does and make a circle with a nice little circle of beads around it.  It was very pretty and simple with just beads around the cab.  I always have add some gypsy to my work!

Check out the bird dangling from the top.  I also added polymer tube beads on the bottom mixed with check glass rondelles.

Lots of fun going on here!

 

 

Hope you are enjoying your summer!

 

Boho Bead Embroidery

I think I have a bead embroidery virus.... I keep wanting to bead around everything! More polymer cabs keep coming out of my clay oven!  This cab is colored with chalks as the cabs in my last few blog posts. I also used the lovely dyed lace doilies.  Love boho... yes I do!

 

 

Vintage with a twist...

 

I drilled a hole in the center and beaded in it!

 

 Fringe is flirty!

 

So ready for Spring... one more snow they say!  I am hoping the bright colors will cheer you up! 

From Clay to Bead Embroidery

Lately my muse has been following handwork with a needle and thread and some beads.   I made some cabochons from polymer that I blogged about here. I decided to use one of the chalked cabochons to make a bead embroidered piece.

I have a love of old doilies and have dyed some in pretty spring colors.   I wanted to make something pretty to wear using a mixture of the bits and bobs I have on hand.

I came up with the idea of using the dyed doilies behind my cabochon worked in with some bead embroidery.

I love this and yes I did make it asymmetrical on purpose.  I know that drives some of you crazy but I like the offset as it grabs your eye.  It also gives it a tattered look. 

This is my first finished bead embroidery piece.  I really enjoyed working with these pretty colors.  They make me ready for Spring!