Champagne Ring

Materials (for a size 5 ring):

32 3mm fire polished beads (light topaz AB)
Size 11 seed beads (transparent white)

90 cm fishing line

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Santa

This is a Santa head with faces on both sides. I don't have any white beads so I used transparent beads instead. It would look better with white beads. I used size 11 seed beads to make the little one on the right.

Materials:
23 3mm bicone or round white beads
15 3mm bicone or round red beads
8 3mm bicone or round light pink beads
4 3mm bicone or round black beads
1 4mm round pearl bead

50cm fishing line






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How to make a bell with beads

Start with making a beaded bead then add 4 "petals" to form a bell.

Materials:
29 4mm faceted bicone beads
1 6mm spacer bead
1 3mm round bead
1 8mm faceted round bead or jungle bell
1 2-inch head pin
50cm fishing line
round nose pliers
wire cutter


Make a beaded bead first then follow the video below:

How to make a Christmas Ring

This is a basic ring band making technique. Try using non-festive colors for a different look.

I made a mistake when adding the second layer of white beads. You should restring the green bead (missed in the instruction at ~4:13) and then the two white beads and add two more white beads for the first set. Afterward, just restring the two white beads and add two white beads.


Materials:
Size 11 seed beads - green, red, white opal
Fishing line about 30 cm in lenght

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!

A Beaded Christmas Tree

I made this Christmas tree in white. You can easily change it to a more colorful version by using green bicone and bugle beads and seed beads in different colors. I didn't use Swarovski crystal beads for this project. I used some crystal-like glass beads that are fraction of the cost of Swarovski crystals. The cutting of these crystal beads are not as precise as Swarovski but still do the job well.

Materials:
30 4mm bicone crystal beads (opal)
15 6mm bugle beads (white)
size 11 seed beads (silver-lined)
4 4mm crystal cubes (opal ab)
1 4mm crystal rondelle beads
Fishing line - approximate 15 cm for each layer
1 2.5"head pin

Beaded Christmas Wreath

Pretty easy once you repeat the pattern a few times. You can use 4 or 5mm bicone beads instead of rondelle beads as well.

Materials:
21 5mm Faceted crystal rondelle beads (dark green)
21 4mm Fire Polished beads (light green)
seed beads - size 11 (red)
seed beads - size 11 (gold)

Fishing line - 70cm

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