Color Of Candy-day 7
Chevron beads have been around for a long time, they are colorful beads cut from a glass cane and has a distinctive star design from where the bead is cut from the cane. They look to me like hard candy while Kayla thinks that the finished necklace has all these bright colors that resembles the United Nations’ flags. Kayla carefully hand selected the diamond shaped paper beads that goes into this piece.
Chevron beads are very inexpensive and Firemountaingems has a nice selection.
The beads complements each other and look nice with the gold plated findings.
We made it long enough so that it can be worn as double strand necklace.
Or as bracelets
A closer look at the necklace, you will see the similar pattern of the chevron beads with the paper beads, except that they are going in opposite directions.
First Blush – day 6
Leaf beads usually come in leaf colors; green, brown, gold, silver…….I just love these vintage leaf charms in blush pink. They are a part of my purchase from Pasadena Bead and Design Show two years ago. Kayla and I are looking forward to going again next week not as exhibitors but just to “see and look” what they have. I couldn’t seem to stop painting paper beads, why? Because I can now, match any color that I like in paper beads! Fort this project, I used pink blush acrylic paint, beige acrylic as primer, big round paper beads and nail art deco paint.
I love the shape of these big round beads, I can do so many things with them.
And here, is a short tutorial on it…..
I think this is my favorite color of pink, isn’t this what you call baby pink ? At first it give you a flat or matted color, but after applying two coats of Vibrance, it took on a glossy finish.
I think my newly painted beads is just the perfect beads to go with these vintage leaf charms.
I just strung them into a .8mm elastic cord and voila!
I See Zebras-day 5
Animal prints I think never go out of style and the zebra print is the perfect black and white combination. I use the big round beads and painted them white. Using the Nail Art nail polish I just randomly drew black lines around the bead.
They don’t have to be perfect zebra stripes, once you draw them on the bead they will look like zebra prints.
I put inexpensive black Chinese crystals in between beads.
Your biggest investment is your time, which makes this piece one of a kind!
Kayla took time off from her modeling duties, luckily my daughter Lyra was around and grudgingly agreed to put it on for me 🙂
Another extraordinary day!
Zebras In Pink Earrings-day 4
Last year I was obsessed with drawing petite doll faces when I joined Suzi Blu‘s Petite Dolls Class. You know how you do something in excess and just get burn out? That’s what happened with me but I did three dolls and one of them is the inspiration for this earrings.
I love doing the zebra prints because they are so simple to do!
My Petite Doll could have worn these 🙂
Now I understand why I have gotten so many requests for painted beads, makes the designing part more fun.
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