Bead Embroidery Pendant V

On this pendant I used pink Jade cabochon, cupchain, 3mm crystal beads, 11/0 seed beads and a pearl.
I have a big collection of bead embroidery. I am still making more.
I love how fast I can create a pendant.
I have a lot of cabochons that I keep buying, but I had no clue what to make with them.
Now finally I am using my cabs.

Dewdrops Pendant

This beautiful pendant is a pattern from Feb/March 2014 issue of Beadwork Magazine.
I absolutely love this pendant.
After I was done making it, I realized that I made a mistake on placing the clear teardrops, they should be facing the other way, oh well,  I liked it, so I didn't take apart.
This is a Leslee Frumin's pattern.
This pattern calls for 15/0 seed, 11/0 seed, 3mm crystals, 6mm pearls, crystal teardrop 11x8mm, 3mm crystal bicones, 4mm crystal bicones and crystal teardrop 6x9mm.
The pattern also has a pearl necklace, but I like to use different chains.
I have bought more beads to make another color pendant.

Sea Glass Pendant

Another bead embroidery pendant!!!
My friend Shirley lives in Hawaii, and a while ago she sent me lots of sea glass that she collected on a beach there. So my friend Donna's  birthday is next month, so I thought to use a green sea glass. I have white, brown and green sea glass.
This pendant I kept it simple, one row of cupchain, followed by 4mm Chinese bicones. and #3 blugle beads for the bail.

Bead Embroidery Pendant IV

I am having so much fun creating these pendants. This is a glass cabochons, next is a row of seed beads, then a row of  cupchain, then 8/0 seed beads.
This is going to be a present for a friends birthday, so I hope she will like it.

Bead Embroidery Pendant #3

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I used a button for the center of this pendant, cut the shank off and filed it.
I bought the button at Hobby Lobby, they have a nice collection of fancy buttons.
I used 4mm bicone around the button, followed by 4mm crystal pearls.
This pendant is very light.

Valentine's Pendant

Another bead embroidery pendant just in time for Valentine's Day.
The cabochon is a resin, I framed it with 3mm bicone crystals and 11/0 seed beads, and a round of crystal cupchain, and the last row is 4mm bicones.

Princess Kate Bracelet

This is the bracelet I was talking about in my previous post. But it was so difficult to photograph.
You can't see how it shines and it looks like a diamond bracelet, it is very luxurious. I love this bracelet.
The materials are tilas, 11/0 seed beads, #3 bugle beads and cupchain.
This pattern is from the Potomac Bead Company YouTube channel.
UPDATE: I had the link for this bracelet, but is has been removed. I am so sorry!!
I hope you like it as much as I do.

Snake Skin Bracelet

This bracelet was made using SuperDuos and 11/0 seed beads.
This free pattern is from Aunties Beads and you can get it here.
I hope you enjoy making this bracelet as much as I did. I thought to be very easy.
I am sorry for the poor quality of the picture.
I actually gave this bracelet to my friend Shirley for Christmas and I had to take a quick picture before I sent it to her.
I do enjoy working with the SuperDuos.
Right now I am working on a bracelet with Tilas, Cupchain, Bugle beads ans Seed beads.
That will be my next post, I am almost done.
Check back later this week to see how beautiful it is. I am in love with it.

Lapis Necklace

I bought several pendants to make necklaces for Christmas presents. This one I kept for myself, a simple strand of 4mm Lapiz Lazuli beads strung on beading wire.
Something to wear with jeans, even though I only wear jeans on the weekends, and then I am to lazy to wear jewelry. The pendants I bought were Moonstone, Jade, Pink Quartz and Lapiz.

Turtle Shell

This pendant is another bead embroidery one, I bought several oval shaped cabochon at JJ Beads in Huntington Beach, CA. The colors are gorgeous.
I used Preciosa cupchain, 8/0 seed beads, 11/0 seed beads and a freshwater pearl. I am really loving bead embroidery.

Starlight

I made this pendant before Christmas, I have been super busy, I was called for jury duty and had to go for 2 days, luckily I was not picked to be a juror, and school started on Monday, so it is crazy.
I found this free pattern on Around the Beading Table website, and you can get the free pattern here.
It was so easy and quick to make it.
I used crystal pearls, superduos, seed beads and druk beads.

Druzy Pendants

Druzys are a passion of mine. I absolutely love them!!
I purchased several druzy pendants and made the above pendant.

And of course I made this one too.
I found matching beads for both pendants, they are gemstone beads.
I get so many compliments when I wear them.
The pendants are heavy, and I wire wrapped each bead. It is time consuming, but I don't mind the work.
I still have a few more pendants, but that will be later.
I bought some in Brazil, some at JJ Beads in Huntington Beach CA and some at the GemFaire.

Comet Pendant

I have been making bead embroidery pendants. I am inspired by my blog friend Liz E. and this is her blog:
http://www.beadcontagion.blogspot.com/
She does a lot of bead embroidery, so I thought I would make a pendant from this dichroic glass that I bought. I don't remember the source since I have a tendency to buy beads for a later project.
So I used seed beads and fire polished beads.
I had made another pendant for the cabochon challenge in 2013 and made a similar one.
It remind me of space.
I am still learning how to make bead embroidery, I still have a long ways to go.
Hopefully I will master it with time.
I hope you will like my latest project.

Falling on the Edge of October Design Challenge

This blog hop is being hosted by the wonderful Rita from: http://www.jewelschoolfriends.com

The hop was limited to  35 participants and Rita mailed the Sparkling Rocks to all of us.

Thank you Rita for hosting this blog hop .

I was waiting anxiously for my bead and of course I am so impatient that I asked a friend to purchase some additional beads from Maryse's Etsy store and the picture is right below.

Unfortunately I did not receive my "sparkling rock" and I thought that I should drop from this hop, but since I already purchased some beads, I so am improvising.
I made the earrings below using the "sparkling rocks and I used crystal spacers and freshwater pearls.

Since this hop is all about the fall and the orange tones, a season I absolutely love, I decided to use some orange beads to make 3 bracelets.

I used freshwater pearls, crystal spacers and the orange beads.

These are chinese crystals, glass beads and a pumpkin bead.

These stone beads were given to me by a friend, and again I used one more orange bead.

I hope you have a chance to visit Rita's blog and see what  all the other participants have created.

Rita's blog is: http://www.jewelschoolfriends.com

Thank you again Rita for letting me participate in your blog hop.
I am looking forward to the next blog hop at the end of this month.

2nd Annual Bead Hoarders Blog

This blog hop is all about using our stashes of beads that we are saving forever, and create jewelry.
Our host is Lori Anderson from: http://www.prettythingsblog.com/
Thank you so much for hosting this blog hop!! Over 100 people are participating, wow!!
Please visit Lori's blog to see what all the other artist created!!

The above bracelet has Swarovski  beads, seed beads, chinese bicones and superduos.

This is a brooch and I turned it into a necklace.

This is a jade pendant and jade beads, I love how this necklace looks.!!

These beads were given to me so long ago, I had forgotten about them, they are all different gemstone beads, I strung them in between seed beads. Simple, but elegant.

This necklace is a long one, I used druzy beads in two colors, citrine beads given to me from a friend, freshwater pearls and  gemstone beads with crystals.

This necklace was given to me by another friend, she had made herself and  i re-did all the wire wrapping, this necklace is also a long one. Thanks Linda for giving it to me.

We had some rainy days, so I apologize for the bad quality of the pictures. I ran outside to take pictures when the sun come out. That did not last too long.

I was good and I did not buy any beads for this hop.

Thanks again Lori for hosting this blog hop, and this is where you can visit  her  blog http://www.prettythingsblog.com/

I hope you enjoyed looking at my pieces.