Beaded Valentine Day Heart

beadjewelrymaking Beaded Valentine Day Heart

Need a quick gift for a good friend?
What about tis nice beaded Valentine Day heart?

I don’t give away anything for Valentine’s Day but I will surely find an occasion on which to bead the heart for someone I really like :)

Though I hover a little between this rather elegant Valentine Day heart and the freeform heart pendant.
I guess that it will depend on the future recipient ;-)


Links:
Beaded Valentine Day Heart
via: Make Beaded Valentine’s day gift – Free tutorials found!

Here at unikatissima:
Heart Pendant
Entries with the tag ‘Valentine’s Day’

Braided Bead Rainbow

Alexis Braided Bead Rainbow

A long time ago I’ve found the instruction for the braided bead rainbow but when I wanted to present it here at some time the website didn’t exist any more.
So you can imagine how glad I was when I found it back accidentally! :))

So now also for you to make it ;-))


Links:
Braided Bead Rainbow (Instructions / Anleitungen / Schémas) (English, German and French)
=> scroll down to ‘Braided Rainbow English instructions’, ‘Geflochtener Regenbogen Deutsche Anleitung’ and ‘Arc-en-ciel tressé Instructions francaises’

Junk Jewelry

flickr abscraft Junk Jewellery

Such a pin from old plastic bottles and the like can look really cute, can’t it?

Now I’m debating with myself on whether I should collect these, too.
;-))

 


Links:
white brooch
via: Jewellery made from recycled stuff – a mini-round-up
via: art for housewives – pin cushions and junk jewellery

Beaded Stamp Pins

Aunt Mollys Beaded Stamp Pins

There are soo beautiful stamps, why not make a little piece of jewelry from them?
One way is the already presented lamination, another the beading of stamps.
And with a little more thought I will get other ideas as well ;-))


Links:
Beaded Stamp Pins (Bev’s Freeform Postage Stamp Pins)

Here at unikatissima:
Laminated Stamps Necklace

Wire Crochet

Seafore Wire Crochet

I presented already the beaded freeform wire crochet and the wire hairpin lace bracelet, but here at wire crochet you can find a lot of tips that you can use making the other items.
Just check it out :))


Links:
Wire crochet (C is for Crochet) – click on ‘W is for Wire Crochet’ in navigation bar

Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Freeform Wire Crochet
Wire Hairpin Lace Bracelet

Millefiori and Organza Pendant

Polymer Clay Central Millefiori and Organza Pendant

I have the tutorial about using Organza on polymer clay on my list for a long time already – but not yet tried.
After having no time to work with polymer clay for quite a long time now, I don’t want to buy some liquid polymer clay.
Nevertheless…

 

Links:
Millifiori and Organza Pendant

Polymer Clay Zentangles

Doras Explorations Polymer Clay Zentangles

When I saw the tutorial on how to make polymer clay Zentangles I thought: ‘Wow! What a great idea!’

Up until now I only sketched my Zentangles and made a lot of things with Fimo and I even thought about making the polymer clay letter cane ;-)
I still have some black and white polymer clay canes, perhaps I can make something with them.


Links:
Polymer Clay Zentangles (Let’s Zentangle !! Making a Zentangle with Polymer Clay) – with a slide show where the steps are very well described

Here at unikatissima:
Zentangles
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Entries with the tag ‘fimo’
Entries containing the words ‘polymer’, ‘clay’ and ‘cane’

Drinking Straw Jewelry and Ornaments

unikatissima Drinking Straw Jewelry and Ornaments

When I saw the drinking straw pin I thought: ‘Oh yes, I want!’ ;-)

 

unikatissima Drinking Straw Jewelry and Ornaments It is quite easy: I took two different coloured drinking straws, cut them (veeery carefully!) into spirals with an X-acto knife und knotted them (not too firm) together.
This way my little ball stays in form without glue, sewing or the like.
I wanted to cut them first with scissors but I got ugly edges, the cut must be made with a really sharp cutting tool.

I find it cute as well as jewelry as well as tree ornament ;-)


Links:
Drinking Straw Pin (curly elastic brooch)

Peyote Medaillon Beads

unikatissima Peyote Medaillon Beads

While surfing the internet I found this necklace and found it amazing.
I thought that it should be easy to made: you make the mdedaillons with flat round Peyote (see links below) just as for the bottom of the beaded bottle, but then you work the pattern back again.
This way you get a slightly thicker medaillon in place of a flat disk.

Unfortunately I’m not so good concerning colours and so I’m not really satisfied with my own medaillon (see photo).
Perhaps I should have printed and coloured in one of the graphs (see links below) to use this as template?!
One day I really will do this ;-)


Links:
Tutorials for flat round Peyote and graphs:
Flat Round Peyote Stitch Step by Step Tutorial (English) – tutorial
Flat Round Peyote Stitch – Beading Graph Paper (English) – graph

Hexagonal Flat Peyote Worked In Rounds (English) – tutorial and graph

Rundes Peyote mit variabler Perlenanzahl (German) – tutorial, click there on ‘Rund-Peyote’

Google search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Google image search result for ‘flat round peyote’

Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Bottle
Peyote Variations
Wrap a Rock

Entries with the tag ‘Peyote’