{"id":2068,"date":"2009-11-02T02:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2009-11-05T01:24:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T05:24:26","slug":"featuring-artbeads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Featuring Artbeads…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday morning friends!\u00a0 Thank you for stopping by sweetbeadstudio….<\/p>\n

When I began creating jewelry, I quickly found the online bead store – Artbeads<\/a>.\u00a0 This store is wildly popular among jewelry designers as a place that offers a HUGE selection of beads and findings as well as FREE shipping in the US (pssst…right now they are have a big sale on their pendants and charms!).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was so thrilled when I was recently asked to join their blogging team.\u00a0\u00a0 I will have the opportunity to design with some of their beads and in return I’ll share those creations here on my blog…what a great arrangement!\u00a0 And in case you didn’t know, Artbeads has quite an active blog<\/a> for the beading community.<\/p>\n

For my first contribution to the blogging program, I had fun creating with Swarovski Crystal.<\/a> I looked through the amazing selection in the pendants<\/a> category (on sale through Nov. 5th!) and chose a Cosmic ring.\u00a0 I’ve paired a flashy 20 mm Crystal CAL V<\/a> ring with a rustic wirework bail.\u00a0 I wanted to add a component that I’ve never worked with before, so I chose\u00a0 18×16 Black Diamond Cosmic baguette sew-on rhinestones<\/a>.\u00a0 To add to this classic color scheme, I also used Black and Morion Swarovski crystals.\u00a0 The necklace was oxidized and polished.<\/p>\n

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Now for some earrings created with beautiful Swarovski sparkle…. again I chose the 18mm Cosmic Baguette Sew-on Rhinestones, this time in\u00a0 Aqua<\/a>.\u00a0 These baguette sew-ons make the perfect connecting links!\u00a0 Shades of blue crystal dangle from a coiled sterling silver wire.<\/p>\n

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I really had fun creating this next piece….. “My Secret Garden” started with a beautiful soldered pendant from Esther’s Les Illusions Baroques<\/a> shop.\u00a0\u00a0 I pulled colors from this sweet focal piece and went to\u00a0 town with steel wire, pearls, crystal and handmade glass beads.\u00a0 A 12 mm Cosmic-shaped bead in Indicolite <\/a>was paired with coiled wire to create a hook clasp.\u00a0 I had never seen the color Indian Pink<\/a> before, so I chose them in 6 mm rounds.\u00a0 You’ll also see Swarovski crystal beads in Erinite, Chrysolite, Peridot and Light Rose throughout the necklace.<\/p>\n

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Please visit Artbeads (especially with this sale!) and find Swarovski crystals to complete your <\/em>next jewelry project!<\/p>\n

Have a great week! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Happy Monday morning friends!\u00a0 Thank you for stopping by sweetbeadstudio…. When I began creating jewelry, I quickly found the online bead store – Artbeads.\u00a0 This store is wildly popular among jewelry designers as a place that offers a HUGE selection of beads and findings as well as FREE shipping in the US (pssst…right now they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}