Beaded Gems

Art and design of elegant bead woven and handmade gemstone jewelry. Ideas and technique exploration.

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Classic Blue Pantone Color 2020

Classic Blue Pantone color 2020. The meaning of the color and the reasons to choose it. Seed bead color lists and stones to use in beadwork.

Classic Blue Pantone color 2020 symbolizes constancy, credibility, and trustworthiness in our seem to be a chaotic world.

Despite many negative online reactions to this choice of color for 2020, I feel very positive about it. And the reason is very simple. I’ve been working with this color and loving it for years.

“Classic Blue is “a boundless blue evocative of the vast and infinite…

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Christmas Tree Ornament Idea Using Disa Element

Christmas Tree Ornament Idea Using Disa Element - new quick and easy video tutorial!

There is more to Disa pattern design. Besides making bracelets, pendants, and earrings, you can also create Christmas tree ornament using Disa element.

This video tutorial will guide you through the steps to make it.

You will need 4 Disa round elements and one Christmas ball with a 2.5” (65 mm) diameter

Beads

11 o seed beads

15 o seed beads

Bugle beads size 1

3 mm bicones

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Hawaiian Sunsets Photography

Hawaiian Sunsets Photography - 10 amazing sunset moments captured on camera.

Watching sunsets in Hawaii is an amazing experience. The light and colors change fast, but for a person with a camera, it is not a problem. I like documenting colors. My Hawaiian sunsets photography is a wonderful source of inspiration for my future art and craft projects. (My first trip to Hawaii inspired me to create Kona Dreams)

I usually bring lots of sunset photos from every trip from…

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Beaded Bracelet Design With Ginko Beads

New Beaded Bracelet Design With Ginko Beads - Disa!

Who loves the Right Angle Weave stitch? The new Disa beaded bracelet tutorial is for everyone who cannot resist another RAW beading pattern. But there is more to Disa design than just a pattern to relax with.

Beads

The new Ginko beads captured my mind. I am sure this happened to any beading enthusiast before.

Ginko beads have been on the market for a while, but seeing them online is not…

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Disa Bracelet Pattern Tutorial

Disa Bracelet Pattern Tutorial

Beads

Following beads are required to complete Disa Beaded Bracelet Pattern Tutorial:

Ginko two-hole beads

3 mm firepolish beads

Seed beads size 11, and size 15

Disa Beaded Bracelet Pattern Tutorial Pattern Includes:

Step by step instructions

High-quality color graphical illustrations in the form of diagrams

Each diagram contains thread paths described in the text.

Suggestions for bead…

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How to Design Peyote Stitch Base Bracelet

How to Design Peyote Stitch Base Bracelet

Peyote stitch base bracelet is one of the best ways to explore your creativity while practicing the stitch. It is totally up to you to choose more comfortable or more challenging routes to implement your idea. The bracelet will be unique no matter what level of peyote technique make you fill comfortable.

Peyote Stitch Base Bracelets Design Collection

It is the best beading project to use…

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Starfish Peyote Stitch Beaded Bracelet Idea

Starfish Peyote Stitch Beaded Bracelet Idea

My Starfish bracelet design idea is for everyone who loves peyote stitch and never gets tired of weaving those rows back and forth. Even though all the elements of this design might look familiar to an experienced beader, layering three different stitching methods is somewhat new. The traditional flat peyote, the dimensional peyote, and the free-form techniques of the same stitch combined in one…

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Starfish Necklace Stringing Beadwork Design Idea

Starfish Necklace Stringing Beadwork Design Idea

Ocean-inspired jewelry is one of my favorite themes in fashion and accessories design. Starfish necklace design idea came to mind as soon as I started making new beaded starfish elements.

At first, I weaved several small starfish elements for the custom order bracelet. Many beading enthusiasts liked them and requested a pattern. When I published the Starfish beading tutorialfor beaded starfish…

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Starfish Earrings Beadwork Design Idea

Starfish Earrings Beadwork Design Idea

Starfish reminds us of the ocean, and the ocean tells us about vacation time.

My Starfish earrings beadwork design idea is about vacation days near the ocean. Even though the ocean is just 1.5 hours away from me, I don’t get to go there often enough.

Small starfish featured in this earring design is part of my Starfish Pattern Tutorial. It is 1” in diameter, which is perfect for earring detailed…

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Portland Craft Fair. Jewelry Design and Display

Portland Craft Fair. Jewelry Design and Display

Every year in spring I either participate in Portland craft fair Gathering of the Guilds or visit it to see the exhibition and shop around.

In 2019 I was just a visitor and had more time to look around. In this video, I walked through the aisles of the Portland Bead Society section.  This section of the show features artists who create jewelry with beads, and artists who make beads using…

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Starfish Beading Pattern Tutorial

Starfish Beading Pattern Tutorial

Starfish Beading Pattern Tutorial

Starfish Beading Pattern Tutorial contains ten pages plus the cover page.

Step-by-step instructions are written with beginner skills in mind! However, the beader should be familiar with Peyote stitch, reading the diagrams, and weaving the thread ends into the beading structure.

Beads

Following beads are required to complete Starfish Beading Pattern Tutorial: 11/0…

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Starfish Beadwork Design. Custom Order Jewelry Set

Starfish Beadwork Design. Custom Order Jewelry Set

Custom designed jewelry is fun to create! I get an order and feel like a Santa Claus making a “wish come true” jewelry.

It starts with an idea! I never had a problem having a few ideas. Usually, I have too many to handle. But there are so many other components of successful jewelry design, that I am starting to doubt it is just pure fun and some work involved.

Let’s see how many elements play a…

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Peyote Stitch Starfish Beaded Bracelet

Peyote Stitch Starfish Beaded Bracelet

Peyote stitch Starfish beaded bracelet is a part of the custom order jewelry set featuring starfish.

If you follow my blog for a while, you are familiar with peyote stitch base bracelets I’ve been making for past several years. Starfish bracelet is one of the variations of this beadwork idea. It has a peyote base and embellishment layer. I described this idea in details in one of my earlier…

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Starfish Earrings Bead Embroidery

Starfish Earrings Bead Embroidery

New pair of earrings arrived at my gallery – Starfish earrings. Two long earrings had to look like starfish as per client request. Must be the statement earrings, I guessed!

What I knew I had to Do

I had a picture of cheap looking starfish earrings that were embroidered in one color and size of seed beads. I’ve seen something similar before. It never crossed my mind that I would repeat the same…

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Flat Even Count Peyote Stitch Video Tutorial

Flat Even Count Peyote Stitch Video Tutorial

This flat even count peyote stitch video tutorial will help you understand the basics of Peyote Stitch beadweaving technique. I demonstrate making two beaded samples using two different sizes of seed beads, and compare them at the end.

Beads and Supplies

You will need:

Even number of seed beads – 8

One “stop” bead

Beading Thread

A beading needle

Instructions for sample one:

Attach the “stop” bead

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Lapis Lazuli Necklace Embroidery and Beadweaving Design

Lapis Lazuli Necklace Embroidery and Beadweaving Design

I noticed that some beading artists choose either embroidery or bead-weaving and stick with it for the major part of their beading career. Did you notice?

I am one of those people who like to explore and combine all kind of experiences. Using a variety of techniques makes it harder to achieve perfection, but it certainly pays off when it comes to design execution of the idea.

My blue necklace…

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Diamond Duo Tutorial Bundle

Diamond Duo Tutorial Bundle

$21 value!

Diamond Duo Tutorial Bundle consists of three pattern tutorials in PDF format:

Crystallina Pendant

Tyna Bracelet

Sunna Bracelet

Explore different techniques and make new jewelry accessories using Diamond Duo beads.

Crystallina Pendant Pattern Tutorial

Crystallina Pendant Bead Pattern And Tutorial was inspired by a geometry of a snowflake.  Use it to create pendants,  holiday…

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