Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

re: Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

jessica_beading — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:11:26 GMT

hi i'm starting to learn how to bead i'm only a child so are there any tips i could have

re: Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

CARMEN JULIAM — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:30:40 GMT

Hello my dear: every think is so pretty. I love every design, I try do it, but I´m begining in peyote stich and another stiches too.

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re: Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

SherryS@23 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:48:49 GMT

Nicole, I had a customer ask me to design an orange and blue necklace for her sister as a gift. I searched and searched for the right stones and finally came up with opaque orange glass, sodalite, and antiqued brass. I loved it and better yet, She loved it. I would never have worked with those colors if she had not suggested them.
Sherry

re: Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

Kelli@23 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:07:30 GMT

On impulse, I bought a large Venetian focal bead with many colors swirling in it: sky blue, berry pink, lemon yellow, green, gold leaf, all on a matte white background. Gorgeous, but as it turned out, difficult. If I placed beads of one of these colors against the focal bead, the other colors looked out of place. And white beads just looked old-ladyish. I finally decided to use mostly turquoise charlottes and accent them with white pearls and berry-colored pearls (red, white & blue). I made free-form netting. Each element I added changed the proportion of the whole thing, and so I just kept adding netting and finally a fringe of pearl drops UNDER the focal bead, until the whole thing became absurd. I can't say I really like the piece, but it does elicit comment. (Kelli P.)

re: Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

AllegraC2 — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:58:50 GMT

Award-winning colour combinations are eternally elusive... And then you think that the colours will look good together when you just put two to three beads side by side and then when the piece is done, you hate it! I personally love matte + shiny together. I found that green matte + orange translucent + purple translucent is a good combination.

re: Free Project: Caribbean Sunset Multistrand Necklace with Pendant

Coley J — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:45:03 GMT

I am not sure if this is necessarily difficult but I really love pink and black together as well as very light pink and very very dark navy. I love the contrast elements of it all. As I've mentioned before, love teal and brown together too. I think orange and blue would be way pretty - especially for summer. Hmmm.....thanks for the idea!