Beading Ideas! - Five Ways To Increase Your Inspiration Easily
Are you in an imaginative rut? Inspiration all dried up? Or maybe you are only seeking some new ideas to keep both inspiration and interest up! If any of those apply to you, then you have come to the right place! If any of those apply to you, then you have come to the right place! Below, you'll find five beading ideas that could help kick begin your imagination and get you creating again!
I'm writing this list with beaded necklaces in particular in mind, but the beading ideas presented here might be easily adapted to most any project you have an interest in. That is one of the great things about bead craft as a hobby! Its sheer flexibility. You can spy a thought that is executed in one way (say, a ceiling fan pull chain), and with a little work and modification, easily transform it into anything entirely new and different (a bracelet, necklace, or even a matched set!).
1 - If you have fallen into the habit of making single strand designs, branch out into fun multi-strand or wrap designs for a fresh perspective! Multi-strand designs add layers of difficulty to your work, and can convert a more ordinary single-strand piece into something really extraordinary. It's a little trickier to pull off, but you can even try a "hybrid design," one that starts off (at the clasp) as a single strand, branches out into a double, or maybe even a triple, and then, since it winds its way round the neck, re-converges.
2 - Commit yourself to incorporating a color or style of bead you don't typically use into your next design. This can be as simple as looking through your existing stock for those beads you often "pass over," or taking a road trip to your local bead shop to see what's new!
3 - Try anything exotic! The ways about using a few decorative Czech glass beads or Swarovski crystals in your next piece? This could take you in all sorts of new and different directions! (note: this also can get a little expensive, so use with care!)
4 - Commit yourself to learning a new system (i.e., "African Net") this month! Anything that breaks up your "usual" way of doing things is bound to spark a slew of ideas! - There is an almost endless variety of techniques to be learned, and every time Christina and I think we "know it all," we discover something new to try!
5 - Instead of stringing your next piece, investigate chains, and find solutions to affix your designs onto gold or silver chains for a completely new look! - This takes the notion of "mixed medium" to the next level!
As the 5 suggestions above demonstrate, there're all sorts of things you can do, all sorts of new methods of looking at even existing beading ideas, to break out of a creative run, and they are really just the tip of the iceberg!
Beading Ideas! - Five Ways To Increase Your Inspiration Easily
Are you in a creative rut? Inspiration all dried up? Or maybe you're just looking for some new ideas to keep both inspiration and interest up! If any of those apply to you, then you've come to the right place!
Bead Innovative Ideas For Fun As Well As For Income
It is fairly simple to turn your beading ideas into salable products on a small scale, as you will likely give some of your creations away, have others on display around your home, or (in the case of jewelry) be wearing some of your favorite pieces out and about.
Learning How To Bead
I suppose there are more than a few people who would look at this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write it off as silly. After all, there's not much more to the mechanics of beading than there is to stringing popcorn to put 'round the Christmas Tree, right?
Resources Required For Beadwork
As you know, every hobby that we do will require some sort of materials and tools necessary to accomplish that hobby.
How To Design A Beaded Necklace Using Simple Procedures
If you are into the bead craft at all, you will definitely need to know how to make a beaded necklace.
Discovering The Waters Of Bead Shopping Online: Several Key Considerations
When you buy beads online, you run the risk of not getting exactly what you thought you would. Not to say that a company is trying to scan you, but they are going to present to you the best version of that item they have, and what you get may fall short of that.
Different Shapes And Sizes Involving Bead Work Assignments
Beadwork, quite literally, is anything made with beads of any type. What first comes to mind is jewelry, and maybe second is adornments on clothing.
Beading Works - 5 Simple And Exciting Halloween Decorations
Halloween is fast becoming the most popular holiday in the country, currently second only to Christmas, and the holiday actually outranks Christmas in terms of money spent on decorations, food, and drink (the reigning champion of holiday party spending is, and likely always will be, New Year's, but Halloween is a strong second!).
Bead Work Is By Far The Most Easy Things To Master
Beadwork stretches back to the beginnings of man, and is common from one culture to the next. As soon as someone took a vine, stripped the leaves off, found an old shell with a hole in it, and threaded it on, beading was born.
I'm writing this list with beaded necklaces in particular in mind, but the beading ideas presented here might be easily adapted to most any project you have an interest in. That is one of the great things about bead craft as a hobby! Its sheer flexibility. You can spy a thought that is executed in one way (say, a ceiling fan pull chain), and with a little work and modification, easily transform it into anything entirely new and different (a bracelet, necklace, or even a matched set!).
1 - If you have fallen into the habit of making single strand designs, branch out into fun multi-strand or wrap designs for a fresh perspective! Multi-strand designs add layers of difficulty to your work, and can convert a more ordinary single-strand piece into something really extraordinary. It's a little trickier to pull off, but you can even try a "hybrid design," one that starts off (at the clasp) as a single strand, branches out into a double, or maybe even a triple, and then, since it winds its way round the neck, re-converges.
2 - Commit yourself to incorporating a color or style of bead you don't typically use into your next design. This can be as simple as looking through your existing stock for those beads you often "pass over," or taking a road trip to your local bead shop to see what's new!
3 - Try anything exotic! The ways about using a few decorative Czech glass beads or Swarovski crystals in your next piece? This could take you in all sorts of new and different directions! (note: this also can get a little expensive, so use with care!)
4 - Commit yourself to learning a new system (i.e., "African Net") this month! Anything that breaks up your "usual" way of doing things is bound to spark a slew of ideas! - There is an almost endless variety of techniques to be learned, and every time Christina and I think we "know it all," we discover something new to try!
5 - Instead of stringing your next piece, investigate chains, and find solutions to affix your designs onto gold or silver chains for a completely new look! - This takes the notion of "mixed medium" to the next level!
As the 5 suggestions above demonstrate, there're all sorts of things you can do, all sorts of new methods of looking at even existing beading ideas, to break out of a creative run, and they are really just the tip of the iceberg!
Beading Ideas! - Five Ways To Increase Your Inspiration Easily
Are you in a creative rut? Inspiration all dried up? Or maybe you're just looking for some new ideas to keep both inspiration and interest up! If any of those apply to you, then you've come to the right place!
Bead Innovative Ideas For Fun As Well As For Income
It is fairly simple to turn your beading ideas into salable products on a small scale, as you will likely give some of your creations away, have others on display around your home, or (in the case of jewelry) be wearing some of your favorite pieces out and about.
Learning How To Bead
I suppose there are more than a few people who would look at this article's title, "Learning How to Bead," and write it off as silly. After all, there's not much more to the mechanics of beading than there is to stringing popcorn to put 'round the Christmas Tree, right?
Resources Required For Beadwork
As you know, every hobby that we do will require some sort of materials and tools necessary to accomplish that hobby.
How To Design A Beaded Necklace Using Simple Procedures
If you are into the bead craft at all, you will definitely need to know how to make a beaded necklace.
Discovering The Waters Of Bead Shopping Online: Several Key Considerations
When you buy beads online, you run the risk of not getting exactly what you thought you would. Not to say that a company is trying to scan you, but they are going to present to you the best version of that item they have, and what you get may fall short of that.
Different Shapes And Sizes Involving Bead Work Assignments
Beadwork, quite literally, is anything made with beads of any type. What first comes to mind is jewelry, and maybe second is adornments on clothing.
Beading Works - 5 Simple And Exciting Halloween Decorations
Halloween is fast becoming the most popular holiday in the country, currently second only to Christmas, and the holiday actually outranks Christmas in terms of money spent on decorations, food, and drink (the reigning champion of holiday party spending is, and likely always will be, New Year's, but Halloween is a strong second!).
Bead Work Is By Far The Most Easy Things To Master
Beadwork stretches back to the beginnings of man, and is common from one culture to the next. As soon as someone took a vine, stripped the leaves off, found an old shell with a hole in it, and threaded it on, beading was born.