Yummy Cupcake

Fun and easy . . .  a project that you can use up left-over beads from other projects.  Using same-color beads for both icing and cake layer look great too. 

Materials:
6 - size 11 pink seed beads
6 - 7mm pink bugle beads
6 - 4mm pearl round beads (cake layer)
6 - 3mm transparent bicone beads
6 - 4mm yellow round beads (icing)
1 - 6mm red faceted round bead (top decoration)
1- 10mm pink round bead (to put inside the cup to hold its shape)
1- head pin

50cm fishing line (8 lb weight) or similar beading thread (e.g. fireline)



My Daily Bead

A Beaded Square Pendant

I used faceted bicone acrylic beads here but I think round beads would work well too. It'll look much more beautiful and sparkly if you use crystal beads (and more expensive too). You can also use one color instead of different colors of beads. And if you use different colors for the 2 square pieces, you'll have 2 looks in 1 pendant! The finished size of this piece measures 2cm x 2cm.

Materials:
60 3mm faceted bicone beads - grey
32 3mm faceted bicone beads - aquamarine
24 3mm faceted bicone beads - green
Size 11 seed beads - grey
Fishing line (4 lb. weight) - 3 x 40 cm

A Green Christmas Tree

Made a green one today. Please check the last blog for instruction.

Gifts-making crunch time -- may be able make a few new rings and things as gifts and show you how to make them these two weeks. Stay tuned.

Happy Holidays!

How to Bead a Strawberry

Materials:
15 - 3mm red bicone beads
18 - 4mm red bicone beads
1 - 3mm green bicone bead
1 - 6mm red round bead
Size 11 seed beads: red, green and transparent

1 pc - 70 cm fishing line (for strawberry body)
1 pc - 15 cm fishing line (for leaves)
1 pc - 1.5" head pin

Round nose pliers
Wire cutter

How to make a Butterfly with Beads

Materials:
20 4mm fire polished glass beads (purple AB)
Size 11 seed beads (gold)
2 30cm fishing line
1 20cm fishing line

How to make a Puffy Heart - 2nd try

Puffy Heart is a difficult piece to demonstrate. I'm giving it a second try by using different colors of beads for each section of the heart. Hope the instruction is clearer this time. I accidentally deleted the instruction for the first section so I am re-using the video from the previous tutorial.

Material:
76 bicone beads(I'm using 6mm bicone plastic beads in this video. I used 4mm bicone swarovski crystal beads in the previous video)

100cm fishing line for the first 3 sections

50cm fishing line for the last section

A few beads to fill the heart if you want a puffier heart. Use 8-10mm round beads if you use 6mm bicone beads. 5-6mm round beads for 4mm bicone beads.

Section 1 (re-using video from previous tutorial)


Section 2


Section 3


Section 4

How to make a Spiral Wire Wrapped Component

This is a very easy and fast way to wrap wire around a round object. The pen does all the hard work. And you don't need a bead with holes to make a beading component.

How to Make a Two-Tone Square Crystal Ring

This is a smaller version of the Two-Tone Crystal Ring.



Material for this ring:
16 4mm bicone crystal beads (ice blue)
12 4mm fire polished glass beads (transparent AB)
White seed beads size 9
Light blue seed beads size 11
1 meter monofilament cord (fishing line)

A Ring Tutorial

This is an easy ring to make. Same instruction applies to Pearl Ring with Crystals. Instead of pearls I used fire polished glass beads here.

How to make a Rabbit with Beads

The rabbit is composed of two beaded balls. So please be familiar with how to make beaded ball first. I used 3mm firepolish beads for making the rabbit head, ears, body, hands and feet. Eyes and nose are made with 3 mm bicone plastic beads. You will need about 40cm fishing line (or nylon thread) for each beaded ball so that you have enough thread left for the ears, eyes, nose, hands and feet plus restringing the whole figure.

Ring with semi-precious stones - how to

This ring is very easy to make. The tutorial will show you how to make the ring on the first picture. I used smoky quartz chips and 6mm round orange color moon stone for the ring shown in the second picture.





Please check out the second video on How to make Sapphire Crystal Ring for ring band instruction.

How to Make a Sapphire Crystal Ring

Flower Ring

I love how this ring looks on my finger. I didn't have any 3mm crystal beads on hand so I used plastic beads instead. I think it'll look much better with crystal beads.

More how to make a Heart with Beads

A blog reader sent me this heart pattern - thanks! This pattern is a good example of using the "cross stitch" method (I'm not sure how other people call it but I usually refer it as cross stitch 'cos it looks like a cross). The "cross stitch" method is a basic pattern which you will see throughout this site. For example, the cross, the beaded bead and the two-tone ring . . . are all based on this basic beading technique.

How to Make a Puffy Heart with Beads

I finally got a chance to try making the Puffy Heart. I only have access to a diagram pattern that is written in a language that I can't read so it took me a few tries to get it right. It takes a lot of effort and patience to do but the result is rewarding. I would say this is an advanced project. But it's not that hard if you concentrate on what you're doing and understand the concept behind it. You can attach the finished heart to a key chain, a necklace, bracelet etc. I haven't decided on what to do with the ones I made yet. Will share the finished products with you later...

Please check out these videos if you have trouble following the instruction on this page.

How to make a Simple Heart with Beads

Valentine's Day is 1.5 months away. Time to start making some V-Day jewelry. I plan to make a few heart-making tutorial these few weeks. Here is the first one. It's very easy to make. Use small beads to make a charm or use bigger beads to make a pendant.

How to make a Snowflake ring with Crystal Beads

Beaded Bead Tutorial - How to bead a ball

This is a basic right angle weave technique. Many of my projects in this blog are based on this technique and the technique for making the cross. Try using different size, shape, color combination to achieve different effect.

Rabbit Pendant

A little rabbit pendant made with Czech fire polished glass beads. It's composed of two beaded balls. I will create a tutorial for how to bead a ball in the near future. Stay tuned!

Bead a Bead with Swarovski Crystal Beads

This bead was beaded using a basic right-angle weave technique. You can combine different beads to achieve different results. Start experimenting!