3 New Earrings!
Vintage Flair Crystal Teardrop Earrings
Color Mixing, Wire Shapes, Rubber Stamps, & More
What does blogging mean to you? Lisa's sharing her thoughts on the beauty of blogging, check it out!
Art Bead Scene-Color Cord Mixes and a Free Bracelet Project
Are you looking for a place to start on a jewelry design to enter into our Art Bead Scene Monthly Challenges? Lorelei has been creating color cord combinations inspired by the art piece chosen by the Art Bead Scene team.
Beading Arts
Cyndi has worked out an easy way to hang odd-shaped pieces from wire!
Resin Crafts Blog!
Making textured, colored and rubberstamped pendants is a breeze with Jewelry Clay!
Snap out of it, Jean! There's beading to be done!
It it National Children's Book week! Jean has a giveaway on her blog for a children's book written by a famous author, Elizabeth King Gerlach, which Jean herself illustrated! Come over and sign up! It is adorable!
The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Using the Now That's a Jig!, Andrew made some fun earrings for a local musician!
New "Frame" Style Necklace Tutorial
You do not have to be a wire and bead expert for this Mirror Crystals and Wire Hoop Necklace tutorial. Just pack a little patience because it can take a fair amount of time to wrap, bead, wrap, bead and so on until you are finished.
Bead, Wire, Resin, & Jewelry Biz
Looking for a way to get more involved in the beading & jewelry making industry? Becoming a Jewelry Making Ambassador could be your next step!
Bead addicts, Jewelry Making Machines & Connoisseurs of Handmade
"Vase With Flowers in Window" by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, 1620 is a vibrant inspiration for May's Art Bead Scene Monthly Challenge. Here are some handmade art beads and components to inspire your designs for May!
Beading Arts
Cyndi has kicked off "Wire Month" on Beading Arts by sharing a quick and easy earring project!
Resin Crafts Blog!
It is amazing what a little acrylic paint can do on resin clay pendants. Carmi focused on creating the look of a ceramic pendant without the kiln!
Snap out of it, Jean! There's beading to be done!
Jean reviews a great book by Anna Elizabeth Draeger: Crystal Play: Fun & Fabulous Designs for Stitched Jewelry.
The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Trying to help out those who want sell their work in stores and galleries, Andrew sheds a little light on the process from the other side of the counter.
Jewelry News: Selling Sites, Ambassadors, Tools
Jewelspan is made up of over 200 jewelry artisan web sites. Each site can be customized to include shopping carts, blogs, and other features. Basically, it's a web host that services those who sell and make jewelry.
Cousin has another call out for ambassadors for its Creative Circle. It is recruiting 5 more ambassadors for this group. Those interested can apply through the Cousin web site.
Wire, Rubber Stamping, and Blog Hops
Tari introduces this month's Art Bead Scene challenge piece, 'Vaas met bloemen in een venste' by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
Beading Arts
Beading Arts is celebrating all things WIRE this month. Do you have a piece you'd like to share?
Resin Crafts!
Have you tried rubber stamping into resin clay yet? The results are fabulous!
Snap out of it Jean! There's beading to be done!
Jean participates Saturday in a terrifically fun blog hop all about hat jewelry, regarding Saturday's wonderful Kentucky Derby!
The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
The Inspired by Reading Book Club just finished their first book, "Paris to the Moon" by Adam Gopnik. Check out what all the participants made and find out what the May book is!
May's Featured Designer
Take a look at the amazing work of this month's featured jewelry designer, Cynthia Newcomer Daniel, and learn about how she got started with beading.
Wire, Fiber, Clay & Spring Time Inspiration
Here's something that goes especially well with beads...chocolate whiskey fudge!
Carmi's Art/Life World
Incorporating t-shirt yarn (tarn) with other fibers will result in some gorgeous necklaces if you use a kumihimo disk to braid them.
Resin Crafts!
Rubberstamps will get a new life in the jewelry studio if you work with Jewelry Clay!
A Bead A Day
What are YOU making for spring? Stop by A Bead A Day to share.
Art Bead Scene
Rebecca shares some handmade bead artists from her native shores of Britain with Art Bead Scene readers!
Snap out of it, Jean! There's beading to be done!
Jean uses DIY videos (see a cool example of one) to help her learn jewelry techniques, but long ago the best way to learn was from an expert teacher like Eni Oken. See jean's Wabi Sabi ring inspired by Eni!
The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Using glow-in-the-dark polymer clay, Andrew creates some unique floral-themed pendants!
New Bead Book Reviews
I am catching up on the book reviews, and that means I have three for you hot off the keyboard. First there is Bewitching Bead and Wire Jewelry by Suzanne J.E. Tourtillott. This is packed with 40 bead and wire projects.
Next up are two books by Nathalie Mornu: A Bounty of Bead and Wire Bracelets and A Bounty of Bead and Wire Necklaces. Both books have 50 jewelry projects.
Mini Jewelry Podcasts at Artbeads
I have no doubt that it takes a great deal of time and effort to put a podcast together, but I still can't help but wish there were some beaders and jewelry makers out there like there are knitters publishing video podcasts. There is one glimmer of this happening now, so I am hopefully to see more. Artbeads.com has started publishing short video podcasts called Artbeads Cafe, featuring Kristal Wick. Kristal often has a guest, and they discuss products available at Artbeads (of course), but they also talk about jewelry making techniques. Most of the Artbeads Cafe videos are pretty short, under 10 minutes, but I have really enjoyed them.