Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Ooops, I forgot
This one is old... made around February, so this baby is my third bezeling work. But it looks awesome.
Bezeling is fun!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Again, a new one. I only have light pastel colours of the big round bead variety, so this pendant became a pale bluish-purplish one. This will be remedied soon, I'll buy some big cherry red round beads and make something delicious looking.
Anyway. Made with the old, "boring" RAW technique and some lacing. I saw something similar on Kkriszta's blog, her doughnut had swarovski in the lacing. The lacing on mine on the other hand looks a bit lopsided for a reason. I decided that the normal, much used X pattern was boring. So... here it is. ^^
Oh and yes, the greens in the background are pickles. :)
Friday, June 12, 2009
This pattern was named Kepler's Star by Gwen Fisher. I have been playing with similar patterns, although not on this scale. So this was still a challenge. Mostly it challenged my patience.
This bracelet took me more than 7 hours to finish. It also used up 10 grams of 11/0 and 10 grams of 8/0 seed beads, which was pretty shocking. I thought 5 grams of each would be more than enough, because it was so... full of holes. Well, it wasn't. It ate beads and thread. (Note to self: next time use cheaper colours if possible.)
I used a daring shade of light Ceylon periwinkle 11/0 seed beads with metallic plum iris 8/0 seed beads and 3 pieces of 6 mm round crystal swarovski beads.
By some twist of fate I had two buttons that looked the same (although I have bought them in different shops), and thus the question of the clasp had been solved.
And today I went to the shop that sold the buttons cheaper and bought buttons (with the same designs as the metallic looking ones I showed in a previous post) in twos and threes. In case I try this pattenr again. But seriously... ouch.
And this one was pure horror to make. 8 hours of work. Requested by my mother. I'm never gonna make another with 5 different colours. It hurts my eyes and my brain.
This bracelet took me more than 7 hours to finish. It also used up 10 grams of 11/0 and 10 grams of 8/0 seed beads, which was pretty shocking. I thought 5 grams of each would be more than enough, because it was so... full of holes. Well, it wasn't. It ate beads and thread. (Note to self: next time use cheaper colours if possible.)
I used a daring shade of light Ceylon periwinkle 11/0 seed beads with metallic plum iris 8/0 seed beads and 3 pieces of 6 mm round crystal swarovski beads.
By some twist of fate I had two buttons that looked the same (although I have bought them in different shops), and thus the question of the clasp had been solved.
And today I went to the shop that sold the buttons cheaper and bought buttons (with the same designs as the metallic looking ones I showed in a previous post) in twos and threes. In case I try this pattenr again. But seriously... ouch.
And this one was pure horror to make. 8 hours of work. Requested by my mother. I'm never gonna make another with 5 different colours. It hurts my eyes and my brain.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Got tired of stamping my pictures, if anyone was wondering.
And the newest stuff:
I think I saw this pattern somewhere, but not sure. It just came to mind, and had to try it out.
This triangle pattern is oooold, but black and silver never goes out of style. I also attached a bunch of hanging beads to the bottom when the glue dried up.
And the newest stuff:
I think I saw this pattern somewhere, but not sure. It just came to mind, and had to try it out.
This triangle pattern is oooold, but black and silver never goes out of style. I also attached a bunch of hanging beads to the bottom when the glue dried up.
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