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Announcing a brand-new size seed bead! We know that our readers love their seed beads, but we haven’t had a new size come out in a long time. Well, Bead&Button magazine has an exclusive preview on a new seed bead! Excitement is growing as beaders anxiously await the arrival of this new product. |
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Sponsored by: Shipwreck Beads |
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Free Project: Spiral rope necklace In this fun and colorful look, lentil beads add color and texture to a spiral rope necklace! Usually you see lentil beads at the end of a dangle, but they really stand up and get noticed in this project. Add them to a simple spiral rope for a lavish, jewel-toned necklace. |
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Tell us what you think – and win! Have you read the April issue of Bead&Button? We'd love to know what you thought of it. Take our survey and while you're at it, enter to win this collection of beads. The giveaway includes a 27 mm glass pendant, 11/0 seed beads, 6 mm Swarovski faceted Margarita flowers, 4 x 6 mm Czech baby bell flowers, 6 x 8 mm Czech faceted rondelles, 36 x 5 mm Nib-Bit beads, 5 x 7 mm Preciosa Pip beads, and 4 mm wide cap mushroom buttons. Total retail value is approximately $35, and no purchase is necessary to win. |
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Announcing the April Design Challenge! April showers bring May flowers is the saying, but why wait until May? This month’s Challenge is all about getting floral and fancy-free with your jewelry-making! Daffodil, daisy, dahlia, or carnation? Sunflower, orchid, or peony? We can almost smell the roses in your garden, the blooming buds in your windowsill pot, and the bouquet of fresh spring lilies! Make a single flower the focal star of your original piece or create an entire wrist corsage! Either way, we want to see what flowery masterpiece you create! |
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Still time to vote for the March Design Challenge! |
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In March, we asked our readers to do double duty: to design their own bead, and then show us how they used it in a design! SO many fantastic submissions, we need your help in choosing a favorite. The top vote-getter will win our Reader’s Choice Award! Voting is open till Sunday, April 7. Vote for your favorite today! → |
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| A Gallery of Spring beadwork designs |
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To celebrate spring, we have a slideshow of user-submitted photos full of freshness and flowers! Look here for inspiration when you’re ready to embrace color and create lovely, wearable bouquets of your own. These jewelry designs offer some great ways to use up the brightly colored beads in your stash, too. Check out the photos → |
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| Six signs of Spring for beaders |
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People from every region have their own heralds of spring. Here in Wisconsin, where our ofices are, songbirds announce the season and entice us out of our winter cocoons. But regardless where you live, spring brings new sights, sounds, and smells, which make our senses come alive. For the beading community, we have our own signs that spring has sprung, and Bead&Button’s Diane Jolie shares them with us! What a great list→ |
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Free project: Color-coated beaded beads We are so excited about the handmade beads that were submitted to the March Design Challenge that we decided to send you a project to make some for yourself! Disguise a wooden core with a covering of vibrant beads. Whether you make one or a dozen, you’ll love incorporating these beaded beads into your jewelry designs. |
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Come join us in Lake Tahoe! We are so pleased to let you know about this inspiring jewelry-making retreat is brought to you by the team behind the Bead&Button Show. Six wonderful instructors will each teach an immersive, technique-driven three-day jewelry-making class, sure to take your skills to the next level. Beaders like Cindy Kinerson and Sherry Serafini are among the instructors. It’s all taking place at the Granlibakken Tahoe Resort in the stunning mountain town of Tahoe City, California. |
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Free project: Flowering fringe bracelet Go ultra-feminine with pastels and pearls, modern with a monochromatic theme, or earthy with muted shades of contrasting colors. This bracelet boasts an abundant froth of flowers, but Lucite beads make it surprisingly lightweight! |
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