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| We hope you will enjoy our annual holiday projects newsletter and find inspiration to get those creative juices flowing for festive gift giving and spicing up your home for the holidays. Happy Holiday Beading! | |||||||||
EASY HOLIDAY PLACE SETTING NAME CARDS |
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Having special guests for a holiday
feast? Jazz up your table settings with beaded place
cards. We used size 11 seed beads, Kevlar (flat, strong beading
thread), size 10 beading needles, using the backstitch (see instructions
below). Make a tent out of card stock (we used some of my daughter's
watercolors). Draw the name lightly in pencil and bead with seed
beads using the backstitch.Keep them simple or embellish to your hearts content! We used lovely autumn leaves for the Thanksgiving card for Mike. On Sue's we used those fancy scrapbooking scissors to make a decorative edge and some larger glass beads to accent. You can also apply this same idea to embellish a special Christmas card. Add a star bead or a few seed beads for a flash of color to a store-bought card. If you're feeling especially creative, bead the entire Christmas card design from scratch! |
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ADORNING ANGELS |
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Create your own angels using these wonderful wing parts! Simply stack your beads of choice on a head pin (or an eye pin if you would like to attach a dangle to the bottom) add the wings and a bead for the head, finish with a loop at the top and, voila! It doesn't get much easier than that!
· Can you imagine a holiday center piece of a miniature tree alive with these little darlings? · Give them as earrings and be sure to make yourself a pair for holiday parties! |
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BEAD AND WIRE WRAPPED GOBLET STEMS |
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"STAY OUTTA MY DRINK!" CUP COVERS |
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MEMORY WIRE SPIRAL ORNAMENTS OR HOLIDAY WINDOW HANGINGS |
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a length of bracelet size memory wire containing 2-3 complete circles.
Tip: Be sure to use heavy duty wire cutters so as not to pit the blades, memory wire is quite hard. Form a small loop at the end of the wire. String the beads of your choice onto the wire until you nearly reach the end leaving enough wire to form another small loop at the top. To make the drop to hang on the bottom loop, use a head pin or eye pin, stack desired beads, make a small loop at the top and attach to the bottom loop of the spiral. To make a hanger for the top loop, you can either bead a hanger on Soft Flex or simply use a holiday ribbon that matches your beads. |
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LINKS TO PRODUCTS FOR HOLIDAY PROJECTS |
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Thanks for your interest, we'll get back to you soon with another update! Happy holiday
wishes from Jan, Krista, Liz, Gavin, Elizabeth, Alex, Zoya and Karl
at Embellishments Beads and Findings! |
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This is a quick stitch for a more detailed design. Using about a
yard of thread on a beading needle, knot the end. Come up through
the fabric from the underside, pick up 4 beads, run them to the
end of the thread next to where the thread is coming up through
the fabric. Position them according to your design, insert the needle
back down through the fabric right next to the last bead on the
thread. Bring the needle back up through the fabric between the
second and third beads, run the needle through the third and fourth
bead. Pick up 4 beads and repeat. (Tip: You can add more than 4
beads at a time when you're needing to cover a long, straight, row.
If making a sharp curve you may want to pick up only 2 beads at
a time.)
