Mar 16, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery, Work-in-progress
At times I get inspired to pull a cluster of beads together, a ramble of colors which just speak to me usually when I have no time but to gaze absent-mindedly at colors and not think. Times like this I fiddle with the beads, relaxing, and then bag them to be made up...
Mar 11, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
While creating designs for the ArTTable, I was asked one year to be gust artist at the Melbourne Craft Expo along with a beading partner of mine at the time Leeza Silverman. For 3 days we sat beading a vase as part of my series ‘Sharing My Backyard’, there was no...
Mar 3, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery, Work-in-progress
Recently I did a post called ‘Inspired by Wattle’ .. well it was enough to inspire me into making a green and gold bracelet. Whilst I was writing the article I dug into the bead box and pulled out what I had that made me think of wattle .. green and gold...
Feb 2, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
The end result is beautiful! This is my final post in a series of ‘how to make a rainbow bracelet’. I don’t really do rainbow myself, I prefer to select a natural palette, more organic inspired. Rainbows to me are bright, colorful things with...
Jan 27, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
In my last post I showed you how I go about selecting beads for my highly ornate bracelets. This is the second post of three, where I will show you how I go about preparing the beads as wire charms to add to my bracelets. Post 1: The design stage. In my...
Jan 26, 2013 | Art & Craft Tutorials, That Creative blog, Tutorials - jewellery
I get a lot of compliments about the unique and interesting collection of beads I put together in my wire jewellery bracelets. ‘They are fun to explore’ is the common feedback. The technique in which I prepare my beads is common to all bead...