Decoupage Photo Frames

I have been away from beading this month. My sister hired me to make some crafts to handout as birthday presents: photo frames. I gave her one on her birthday last November and she loved it!
All you need to make some easy customized decoupage photo frames are:

• unfinished wood frames;
• acrylic paint;
• scrapbook papers;
• white glue (or decoupage glue);
• varnish (or sealer).

Here are the results.

Ear Stud Earrings Tutorial

We are back to bugles with these cute little ear stud earrings. They are very easy to make and look amazing. All you need for this project are sew-on strass, bugles, seed beads and ear studs. The tutorial is available in our YouTube Channel and in our Shop.

Your ears will look beautiful with these earrings!

Materials and colours used:

• 4mm topaz AB sew-on strass;
• 3mm matte metallic patina iris Miyuki bugles;
• 11/0 galvanized muscat Miyuki seed beads;
• 15/0 gunmetal iris Miyuki seed beads;
• 4mm ear studs.

Video tutorial

Bead Loom Bracelets - Free Patterns

I've been working on these bracelets this week. I have a wooden loom I bought sometime ago in a trinket shop that I had never used before. I had to make some adjustments to it so I could use small beads. It works for now but I intend to buy another one.

I used 11/0 Miyuki seed beads in both bracelets. The colours of the first one came out quite nice. However, colours on the second one don't pop-up much. I meant to use some opaque white seed beads but I only had transparent white among my stuff. I believe if you use an opaque light colour it will look really good. 

Feel free to adjust colours and use the patterns as you like. Be creative!  

"Peniche" Bracelet - PDF Pattern

Reference EA0134

Materials needed:

• 6mm pearls or rounds;
• 3mm bicones;
• ios by Puca;
• 11/0 Miyuki seed beads;
• 15/0 Miyuki seed beads.

"Évora" Necklace Tutorial

Reference EA0133

List of materials used in this project:

• 4mm Swarovski bicones;
• kheops by Puca;
• 3,4mm Miyuki fringe drop;
• 8/0 Miyuki seed beads;
• 11/0 Miyuki seed beads.

Video tutorial

"Blooming Star" Earrings Tutorial

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look 

at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince 

Reference EA0132

List of materials used in this project:

• 14mm Swarovski rivoli;
• superduos;
• 3mm Swarovski bicones;
• 4mm Swarovski bicones;
• 11/0 Miyuki seed beads;
• 15/0 Miyuki seed beads.

Video tutorial

"Perfect Two" Earrings Tutorial

The Perfect Two earrings tutorial is composed of 3 step by step videos. This design was created through a combination of a main component, a peyote embelishment and a top part. 

The name for these earrings came up from the two pearls perfectly aligned in the centre of the main element.

Reference EA0131

List of materials used in this project:

• 8mm pearly beads;
• 3x4mm glass rondelles;
• super duos;
• 8/0 Miyuki seed beads;
• 11/0 Miyuki seed beads.

The main component can be adapted and turned into other pieces of jewellery. By linking several of these components you can make a bracelet or a necklace, for example.

Video tutorial

The peyote embelishment wasn't something planned. At first, the main component was created with another purpose, not to make a pair of earrings but a bracelet instead. However, everytime I pick up some beads to create a design, imagination goes wild and sometimes the finish project turns into something else.

Video tutorial

The video on the element that forms the top of the earring was a tutorial requested by a subscriber of our YouTube Channel. That little flower was named Forever Spring component. You can see another use for this element on a previous post about the Forever Spring necklace. The piece consists of a composition of several of these small components.

Video tutorial