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Bead soup blog party reveal and giveaway

10 Sat May 2014

Posted by fulgorine in 8th BSBP, BSBP, Giveaway, My work

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art beads, bead earrings, Bead Soup Blog Party, beads, BSBP, embroidered pendant, floral necklace, giveaway, green and purple necklace, polymer clay, purple earrings

Welcome to my reveal for the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party. To continue the bead sharing, I’m giving away a set of handmade beads (keep reading to the bottom of this post for details). Here is the lovely bead soup sent to me sent to me by my partner Wendy Chamberlain.

bead soup with embroidered focal

My first thoughts when I saw the delicious mix of purple beads and silver caps was “Earrings!” (I LOVE making earrings.)

But I cried, “The point of the blog party is to use the focal and the clasp…”

“But look, the beads are all in pairs. Earrings!”

It was obvious to me that the pretty clasp and the pendant belonged together in the same necklace, so I decided to make some polymer clay beads inspired by the embroidery on the pendant. That way I could make the necklace and still have the mixed beads to play with for earrings. 🙂

green and purple necklace

I also used some green dyed lava cube beads that matched the colour of the leaves on the pendant and some silver seed beads.

embroidered pendant

I love the texture that the crochet beads give.

bead detailfloral necklace

And then I made some earrings… 16 pairs in fact!

purple bead earrings

purple bead earrings

purple bead earrings

purple bead earrings

Thank you Wendy for the wonderful beads, and thank you Lori for all your hard work organising the party. Now have a look at what all the other participants have made, I know I will.


Giveaway Time!

* EDIT – Giveaway is now closed. *

embroidered pearl beads
Luckily I was able to stop making earring before I used all the polymer clay beads I had made, so I am giving away a set of 8 ‘Embroidered Pearl’ beads. Just let me know in the comments that you would like to be included in the draw (join in even if you are international). I’ll announce the winner by 1st June 2014.

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