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Mixed Media Jewelry

If you love combining your passion for art with your passion for jewelry making, mixed media jewelry is the perfect way to wear your art on your sleeve – or as a necklace, bracelet or earrings. Creating jewelry with mixed media techniques lets you make handmade jewelry that is as unique as you are. Paints, inks, and altered art can be turned into beautiful jewelry using just a few easy-to-learn jewelry-making techniques. Take your art jewelry to a whole new level when you create mixed media jewelry!

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  • Four Fun Ideas for Earring Making!
    When I first started learning how to bead and was learning basic jewelry-making, I loved earring making. I didn't realize it at the time, but making earrings a great way to learn new beadweaving stitches and jewelry-making techniques. Handmade earring
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  • Project Accessory: Bead Fearlessly!
    Dangles from an old crystal chandelier make the perfect accent for a braided necklace and belt! You might not believe this, but she's using match sticks to create a necklace! Some of us around here at Interweave were so excited by the new Project
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  • Free Project: Fabric Beads Make Fun Embellishments!
    From Jennifer: I love making my own beads out of just about anything. Earlier this summer, I started making fabric flowers that I turned into focal beads, and of course, embellished to within an inch of their lives with other beads. Cate Prato, our wonderfully
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  • Do Your Beads Tell a Story?
    As a writer, I love a good story, and my latest beading project has a great one behind it. There are many stories behind the Storyteller Beaded necklace I created with a resin pendant I made myself and my favorite beading stitches. When my sister and
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  • Use Mixed Media Techniques to Make Your Handmade Jewelry Stand Out
    Let's face it: selling beadwork and beaded jewelry can be a tough business. Go to any craft show and look at just how many vendors are selling jewelry. You'll find that there are more and more jewelry vendors selling all kinds of handmade jewelry
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  • The Secret for Perfect-Fit Peyote Stitch Bezels? Brick Stitch!
    There are a few reasons why you might want to make an open-backed bezel with peyote stitch for a cabochon. An open-backed peyote stitch bezel is great for a transparent cabochon when you don't want to glue it to a backing. Or if you have a cabochon
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  • 5 Tips for Getting Started with Wire
    When I was in high school, I got bit by the jewelry-making bug. I had been experimenting with making jewelry from beads, paper, fibers, buttons and anything else I could get my hands on. A friend of mine was doing a lot of wire-wrapping with polished
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  • Beading Thread I Love - Colored Fireline from Sparkle Spot Bead Shop
    A sample of colored Fireline from Sparkle Spot Bead Shop . This stuff rocks! I love everything about Fireline. Well, almost everything. Ever since I discovered how great Fireline is for making open-backed peyote-stitch bezels and making supple and strong
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  • It's the Perfect Time to Learn About Wire!
    With my son starting preschool in just a couple of weeks, I've suddenly gotten nostalgic for all things back-to-school. Going back to school every September was always exciting for me - I was anxious to learn new things and see my friends after a
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  • Bead Pick from Jewelry Making Daily's Tammy Jones: Glinter Silver Beads
    Tammy Jones is my bead buddy and the Online Editor for Jewelry Making Daily . I asked her to tell me about her favorite new beading or jewelry making product from the pages of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine. Tammy found these gorgeous new Glinter
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  • Handcrafted Jewelry, 2011
    Need a little spice in your life? Look no further. Mixed media (and Handcrafted Jewelry 2011) is all you’ve been waiting for and more. Discover 22 brand-new jewelry designs using simple techniques and fabulous materials!
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  • Get the Best of Both Worlds With an eMag
    Watch and learn exciting new jewelry-making techniques with Handcrafted Jewelry Studio eMag Living in a rural part of New York, I love how I can download a video or a digital magazine and start learning a new jewelry making technique almost instantly
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  • Tammy Jones' Top Picks for Gorgeous Resin Earring Projects
    Tammy Jones is the Online Editor for Jewelry Making Daily A note from Jennifer: Resin is my latest jewelry making obsession. It started a few months earlier after I purchased a gorgeous pendant from Andrew Thornton and then saw what some of my fellow
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  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Wire Jewelry...
    My first serious foray into the world of handmade jewelry came with a kit and book about making wire jewelry. (I hadn't yet discovered the joys of off-loom beadweaving.) I learned how to make jump rings, spirals and links and even managed to make
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  • Five Tips for Better Peyote Stitch Bezels
    I had an idea once for a piece of beaded jewelry. It was based on a piece that I had seen in an online auction catalog from one of the big auction houses, and it was a gorgeous diamond and enamel necklace from the early part of the twentieth century.
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  • Easy Ways to Make Your Own Clasps with Wire
    The recent price increase for sterling silver really hit me the last time I put together an order for sterling silver clasps and findings. It made me nervous to think that I was going to eventually have to pass on that price increase to my customers,
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  • Beading Threads - Why (I Hope) Nymo Beading Thread Will Never Go Away
    In the beginning, there were seed beads. And the seed beads were good. As a matter of fact, the seed beads were great. And they were numerous - so many colors and finishes and sizes of seed beads to choose from! A new beader (me) quickly fell to the spell
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  • Five Fabulous New Seed Bead Projects in the Beading Daily Shop
    Seed beads are beautiful. And not just because they're little and shiny - for me, the beauty of seed beads lies in the fact that you can do so much with them! Sure, you can string them all by themselves or stitch them together in a simple peyote stitch
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  • One Hour of Instruction from Jean Campbell for Ten Cents!
    If you're reading this blog, chances are you're already pretty computer-savvy. Maybe you use You Tube, Twitter, Facebook, and other electronic social media to keep up with beading and jewelry-making trends. You probably already know how easy it
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  • Handcrafted Jewelry, 2010
    Now you can get 25 amazing mixed-media jewelry designs in the new special issue of Handcrafted Jewelry. Make your mark with unique techniques and brand-new one-of-a-kind jewelry projects in resin, polymer clay, enamel, fabric, and much more.
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  • An Entire Year of Beadwork Magazine on CD
    I'm one of those people that have resisted buying any kind of e-reader because I like my books and magazines in print. I like the pages and the smell of the ink on a fresh magazine. The only thing I don't like about my back issues and books is
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  • Use Peyote Stitch and Herringbone Stitch to Make a Triangle-Shaped Cabochon Bezel
    Learning peyote stitch opened up a whole new dimension in beadwork for me. I felt like one of those cartoon characters who suddenly gets superhuman powers, then sits back and cackles and says, "Now I will RULE THE WORLD!" Maybe peyote stitch
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  • What's Your Favorite Bead-weaving Stitch?
    Hello Beading Daily Community! Some of you might already know me —I'm Jennifer VanBenschoten, and I've been a contributor to Beadwork magazine for a few years now. I'm incredibly excited to introduce myself to you now as the new online
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  • Beadwork, October/November 2011
    Whether you're looking for an elegant dangle necklace or glamorous stitched earrings, you'll be sure to find it in the October/November issue of Beadwork magazine.
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  • Mixed-Media Jewelry-Making: Top 5 Resin Tips
    Danielle Fox, editor of Stringing and Handcrafted Jewelry is here today to share five resin jewelry-making tips and to talk about a recent project. . .our fabulous eMag: Handcrafted Jewelry Studio . This multimedia magazine features products, techniques
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  • Free Resin Jewelry Making Video
    Making mixed-media jewelry is a great pastime and can also help to keep you fashionably current. On top of that handcrafted jewelry makes a wonderful gift. Not only is it a gift from the heart, it also can be designed to be a totally personal piece, incorporating
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  • Our Top 3 Beading Library Essentials
    There is only one thing better than cracking open a new beading book, watching a brand-new beading DVD, or downloading a beading resource that you can't wait to use: sharing the experience with friends. Explore our top picks from the Interweave store
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  • Shhh, Don’t tell . . . Jewelry-Making Secrets from Kristal and Marlene’s DVD
    TV . . . It's a glamorous life . . . so they say! Marlene Blessing (Editorial Director, Interweave Books) and I recently had a taste of that life, and we're here to tell you a little about behind the scenes of that so called glamorous life! While
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  • Helen Driggs Shares More Jewelry Making Insights
    Here's more of my chat with Helen Driggs, Senior Editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . Q: What's your fave project in the upcoming April issue? A: I have to pick the Sagenite Pendant by Roger Halas. I love purple, and those notched bezels
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  • 5 Simple Steps to Make Your Own Bling Ring Jewelry
    I feel there's a very fine line between "normal" interest and obsession. In the beading world this line isn't thin, fine, or slightly fuzzy, it's darn near invisible! So, I'm sure many of you can relate to crossing over this
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  • Behind the Scenes with Martha, Kristal Wick, and Beaded Bracelets
    I don't know about you, but I LOVE behind-the-scenes pictures and stories. They're like a secret peek into something more...the inner sanctum, where the magic happens! I love bloopers and outtakes from movies. It's great to see that everybody
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  • Inspiring Springtime Handcrafted Jewelry
    Springtime is right around the corner (I promise!). We've all been buried a few times this winter in the cold white stuff, and the lush green grass and delightful floral breezes seem eons away, but now is the time to BELIEVE! I love making jewelry
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  • For the Love of Making Jewelry
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  • Kristal Wick's Picks - Top 5 Beadalicious Goodies
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily I have to admit, one of my favorite things about my job as Beading Daily editor is hearing your stories on Face Book and the Beading Daily Forums. I love reading how you started on this beady path. Your high
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  • Top 2010 Beading Daily Blogs
    It's always fun to look back on the past year, and see what was shaking! Beading Daily is no exception! I've gathered Beading Daily posts with the most comments and most popular (views) from 2010. It's been interesting learning about all you
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  • Welcome 2011 with Mixed Media Jewelry
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily When it comes to the world of creativity, are you schizophrenic like me? I started down the artistic path eons ago in stained glass, then moved into pottery, fused-glass jewelry, silk painting, and fabric embellishment
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  • Soldering, Metal Jewelry Making, and Singed Bangs
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily Lexi Erickson is no stranger to soldering, melting metals, and burned bangs, but then everybody has to start somewhere! Lexi has been teaching high school and college metals for over twenty-three years and currently
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  • Handcrafted Jewelry Studio: Our Revolutionary New eMag Is Here!
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily I'm really excited about our new eMag, Handcrafted Jewelry Studio . I am over the top excited! It's our first multimedia magazine that uses live links and video to illustrate all kinds of fun projects
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  • Win Some GREAT Jewelry-Making Goodies!
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily I like to pass along freebees and contests you beady peeps may enjoy. This is a new Facebook give-away from my pals Jess at Vintaj and Susan Lenart Kazmer at Objects & Elements. I'm a huge fan their
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  • 4 Simple Tips for Personalizing Your Jewelry
    Jean Campbell is the senior editor of Beadwork and a contributing editor to Beading Daily I recently packed up my 1998 Honda Civic and drove to Colorado to make a video on personalizing your jewelry. Seemed like that little old vehicle of mine was filled
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  • Snowmen Flannel and Holiday Jewelry Making!
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily One of my fave winter traditions is donning my snowman flannel sheets on the bed. Call me crazy, but I love winter and snowmen! Of course Mother Nature isn't cooperating with 70 degree weather today in lovely
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  • Handcrafted Jewelry, 2009
    Get out your tools and ready your creativity! Handcrafted Jewelry, a brand-new special issue from the editors of Beadwork magazine, is a beginner’s guide to mixed-media jewelry projects.
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  • Customizable Stringing Styles for Your Jewelry Making
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily I don't know about you, but I'm an "over-the-top-funky-chunky" kind of jewelry designer. I love textures, 3-dimensional surprises, mixed media, big baubles, and bling. Having had years of experience
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  • Pick Your Fave: Embellished Metal for Jewelry-Making and Fiber Arts
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily As a teacher in the creative field, one of my greatest delights is taking classes from other teachers. I'm just like you, I pore over the show catalogs, bending the corners of the pages to mark which classes
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  • Kristal Wick's Picks: 10 Jewelry-Making Projects for Holiday Gift Giving
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily Finally! The weather has snapped from a season of sweltering 90s to fall 60s-70s with the cool evenings in the 50s. I'm sorry you sun bunnies but I must confess, I love winter. I love snow; I love sipping
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  • SLK's Resin, Bezels, and Bling, Oh My!
    Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily What can I say about Susan Lenart Kazmer (SLK for those "in the know")? I've had the pleasure of taking her classes, teaching, brainstorming, sharing trade show stories, and sipping the grape together
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  • Mixed Media Ring Jewelry: 3 Top Styles
    Jean Campbell is a contributing editor to Beading Daily My daughter is one of those young women who can pull off wearing just about anything. Her latest craze is cocktail rings; she wears a different set every day. Her rings du jour sprinkle over her
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  • Add Variety to Your Beadwork with Fabulous Beaded Fringe!
    Jean Campbell is a contributing editor to Beading Daily Confession: I collect beading technique swatches like Imelda Marcos collected shoes. My collection is a bit more dorky, a whole lot less expensive, and easier to house, but item for item it may be
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  • Bezel Your Beads: Frame Your Collected Treasures
    Bead shopping at home OK, has anybody gone shopping...in her own studio? I did. Inspired by Denise Peck's new DVD, Making Bezels with Stones and Other Found Objects, I went shopping in my studio for interesting goodies and found objects to bezel.
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  • Enchanting Jewelry-Making Inspirations: An Easy 5-Step Bracelet Watch
    Inspiration has millions of sources. Where to find inspiration? Nature seems to be the #1 answer, although I've found it in other quite odd sorts of places: a car wash, ice cream shop, the airport, even a mall (the tables in the food court had the
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  • Bake Your Beads! Add Polymer Jewelry Making to Your Skills
    Marlene Blessing is the editorial director Who knew that all those years of lovingly rolling yummy cookie dough into even little balls would prepare me for making polymer beads? That's exactly what I discovered this weekend when I finally stopped
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  • If I Had a Hammer: 5 Tips for Stamping Metal Jewelry
    When people ask what I do for a living, I usually tell them I'm a beader. It always gets those silent little brain wheels turning..."Did she just say she was a beater?" My out-loud spelling, "b-e-a-D-e-r", plus a quick air-sewing
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  • Top Tips for Aspiring Metalworkers—A Jewelry Expert's Dos and Don'ts
    I find metals exciting, intimidating, fun, alluring... most of the time. Dabbling in metals is one thing: jumping off the cliff and diving in, quite another. I asked our metal expert and managing editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Helen Driggs
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  • 5 Basic Steps for Making Personalized Jewelry Charms
    Who doesn't like charms? They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, themes, and mediums. You can buy them or better yet, make your own. But, be warned, making charms can become highly addictive. I started out doing a few for my pals and now I do them
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  • 4 Tips for Creating a Memorable Mixed-Media Pendant
    As a beadweaver, stitching an interesting chain is enough to keep me occupied as I while away the evening hours. I find that doing the same stitch over and over, without really having to pay attention to a pattern, is not only meditative, but serves as
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  • Wireworking Wonders with the Masters
    My, oh my, does this shindig look like a grand time! Playing with this winning bunch of wireworking masters couldn’t be more entertaining. Wonderful wire and metal techniques for all levels from beginner to intermediate will be explored October
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  • Tips for Mixing Media in Jewelry Making
    Mixed media is a buzz term these days, but really, we all do it throughout the day: If you’re a cook, you might put chocolate chips into your chili, letting the sweet, rich flavor meld with the salty spark of the chili-infused broth. If you garden
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  • Easy Beading–Create Style and Sass in a Flash
    Step by step and bead by bead– This may be the most challenging post I’ll ever write––to choose favorite projects from all my years as editor in chief of Step by Step Beads . After all, everything we (Managing Editor Jane Dickerson
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  • Make Your Own Fabric Beads
    Be inspired by art fabric– My friend Jeanne Williamson is an uncommon fiber artist. Along with having her work winning Best of Show at the Quilt National 2005, Jeanne is as prolific as she is creative. In addition to her large mixed-media pieces
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  • Make Jewelry That Says it All
    Make it personal Anyone remember a song called “What Are Words Worth?” by the Tom-Tom Club? They chanted about the power of words and their impact on others who hear or read them. Words and letterforms—even in foreign alphabets or as
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  • Show Off Your Cabochons
    Working with cabochons I used to have something called a worry stone. It was a small polished stone with a smooth indentation, offering a tactile path to serenity, like a kid who rubs the satin on a comfort blankie. I have the same sense of “ahhhh”
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  • 8 Easy Steps for Making Resin Jewelry
    Resin Bezeling Trick I do a lot of beadwork: tiny needles, thin thread, and infinitesimal beads. I do this at home, of course, but sometimes also in public. If you BIP (bead in public), too, you know the activity makes people very curious and usually
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  • A Treasury of Beadwork Back Issues in 1 CD
    Marlene Blessing is the editorial director o f Beadwork A Treasury of Beadwork in 1 CD A challenge was put to the editors of Beadwork to choose their favorite sources of inspiration from the entire year of 2007. This is the year presented in Beadwork
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  • Must-Have Metalsmithing Tools for Jewelers
    What if I did more than think about making metal jewelry? I’ve been guilty of what-iffing everything to death lately. . . . What if I would have pursued that med-school degree? What if I had stayed on the coast? What if we got rid of our mortgage
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  • Top Beading Daily Projects from 2009
    Beading Daily Readers' Favorite e-Projects from 2009 This is my first post for 2010, so Happy New Year! Before the holidays I buzzed around the forums chatting with you about what projects you like on Beading Daily . It became clear there were leaders
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  • Bead Fest Wire Classes for Every Jewelry-Maker!
    My Bead Fest Wire class wish list Hey, everyone! Although I have been working on Beading Daily blogs for months now, most of you don’t know me. My name is Erin Carey and I am the Beading Daily intern at Interweave. I have helped with most of the
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  • 6 Top Tips for Making Mixed Media Jewelry
    If you’re like me, you just know when you’ve picked up a good craft magazine. Your mind whirls with ideas. Your fingers twitch in anticipation of creating. Perhaps your heart even skips a beat or two, just like when falling in love . . . or when you find a free piece of dark chocolate on the give-away
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  • Make Your Own Summer Memories Charm Bracelet
    Have you ever really stopped to look closely at someone’s charm bracelet? Have you ever wondered what inspired them to pick certain charms? Maybe they picked them up on vacations they’ve taken. Maybe they have a theme throughout the bracelet. Or maybe it’s an eclectic mix of hearts, stars, or flowers
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  • Say What You Want: Add Words to Your Beads
    As anyone who has every seen me at a bead show knows, I find beads with words irresistable. So when I saw that the new free project from Cloth Paper Scissors involved adding words to beads, I knew this was a project I'd have to try for myself.
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  • Transform an Ordinary Wire Bracelet into a Pretty Pendant
    Have you ever used one of those wire bangle bracelets with loops around the edges? They're usually silver and come in several diameters with 16 rings or loops. Typically, people will attach beads or charms to the rings using wrapped loops. I did this myself with my Gypsy Magic project for Creative
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  • 3 Easy Mixed Media Jewelry Ideas
    My 13-year-old announced at the dinner table the other night, “There’s too much junk in the basement. We need to give it away or throw it away.” Wow! I thought. This coming from a boy whose bedroom floor is a sea of candy wrappers and Gatorade bottles? Maybe change IS coming?
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  • New: Enter the Semiprecious Beads Contest
    When you're starting out, it's easiest to string one or two types of beads together. Combining three or more can be tricky. You'll need to juggle multiple colors and possibly different shapes and sizes. Because of the design skill involved, I thought it would make a great Beading Daily reader
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  • Beading Techniques, Tools, and How-To Articles
    Check these pages for instructions, illustrations, related articles/magazines/books, and occasional videos on how to create jewelry, whether you favor bead stitching, stringing, or wireworking. You'll also find links to selected articles on selling
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  • Michelle's First Trip to the Tucson Bead Shows
    Beading Daily editor Michelle Mach shares photos and news of her first trip to the Tucson Bead Shows, February 2-6, 2009.
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  • Learn a New Jewelry Technique Next Year (or Just Get Organized!)
    Last year I wrote about beading resolutions. One of my main goals was to try to use a bead loom. And I'm a little embarrassed to admit I didn't quite get around to it. (I did manage to do some loom weaving with yarn, go figure!) I'm not too upset--I learned a lot of new stuff that I didn't
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  • Fearlessly Creative: An Interview with Kristal Wick
    Kristal Wick is one of those folks who sparkle with creativity-- just take a look at her colorful new book, Fabulous Fabric Beads! I was lucky enough to catch a few minutes with Kristal before she took off to the International Quilt Show in Houston. I asked her about her signature beads, her love of
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  • Learn to Create Wire Jewelry on a Budget
    One of the things I love most about jewelry is the diversity it affords (no pun intended!). Sure, I drool over the Tiffany’s catalogs, and gawk at the windows in the Diamond District when I’m in New York City. But my favorite pieces of jewelry contain no gold and no precious stones. Instead
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  • How to Create a Quick Cab
    I seem to spend a lot of time in waiting rooms. Pediatricians, orthodontists, veterinarians, tutors . . . music studios, hockey rinks, gymnasiums. Hanging out in those dull places makes me think I’d like to make a few changes. Replacing the in-ceiling fluorescent lights with adjustable true-color lights
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  • Contests
    Contests, Galleries, Giveaways, and Challenges Try your hand at these bead-related contests, galleries, giveaways, and challenges sponsored by Interweave Press. Entries are listed in date order. While we strive to keep this page up-to-date, be sure to
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  • Music to Bead By
    Silence is (not) golden Silence is not really golden--at least for beaders. Seventy-four percent of nearly 1,000 beaders who voted in the latest poll bead while listening to music! Rock was the first choice (27%), followed by classical music (24%). Pop
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  • Ladder Stitch Beaded Bead Bracelet
    Ladder Stitch Beaded Bead Bracelet a.k.a. "Lazy-B Ranch" Bracelet I made this Western-inspired bracelet for the December 2007/January 2008 Beadwork challenge. At the time I designed it, I had just attended a local rodeo and was absolutely fascinated
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  • Polymer Clay Taught Me Patience: An Interview with Syndee Holt
    When I was new to polymer clay, one of the first books I bought was Polymer Clay for the First Time by Syndee Holt. No one I knew had ever heard of polymer clay, let alone used it, so I relied on Syndee's book to unlock the secrets of Skinner's
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  • Bead Journal Project
    Inspired by the Quilt Journal Project , bead artist Robin Atkins invited beaders to participate in a year-long bead embroidery journal project beginning June 2007. Each month, more than 200 participants create one beaded page per month for one year. Here's
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