Some folks love to create complex bead weaving designs, often using only little tiny seed beads. They build amazingly intricate patterns and scenes that leave me in awe of their skill and in fear for their eyesight. Like the stunning example above from this…
Here’s yet another way to customize your jewelry and make it uniquely your own: create custom decorative ear wires. What’s great about using these for your earrings is that you can make the ear wires an integral part of the design, rather…
In last week’s video I showed how you can create your own textured polymer clay pendant bezels. Now it’s time to have some fun playing with filling them with the beautiful, but unpredictable, effects of Pebeo Prisme Fantasy paints. Once the paints…
It must be summertime, with beachy cocktails on the brain, if this is the best title I can come up with for this bracelet. 🙂 This beadweaving technique is one of the most basic, and often a starting point for more complicated…
There are so many different ways to make jewelry pendants and charms, and there are just as many different ways to dangle them from our chosen chain or cording. A jump ring though a pierced hole is probably the simplest way to…
You may have noticed that I adore interesting surface effects. And I haven’t found any effects much more interesting than what Pebeo Fantasy paints can do! After playing with these paints and admiring their organic end results, I decided they needed to be…
I’ve always been fascinated with things that are encased in clear resin or glass. Having them frozen in space and being able to study them carefully from all angles is just so amazing. In today’s video I show how to use UV…
If you haven’t yet seen the Pebeo paints and their amazing surface effects, you are in for a a treat! I’ve only begun to experiment and play with them, but in this video I share what I’ve learned and discovered about what…
This project began when I saw a similar ammonite piece on Pinterest. Although the photo showed step-by-step directions they didn’t make much sense to me, so I went ahead and developed my own way of doing it. I was pleasantly surprised that…
I decided to call this project “Post & Charm Earrings” rather than “Flower & Cat Earrings” because I wanted the focus to be on the design instead of the particular elements I chose. This project is so incredibly simple, but so versatile!…