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April 15, 2011 By ksthebea Leave a Comment

Article by Tiffany Hammond

Aqua Beads use glue technology and water to create fantastic bead patterns. Create your idea on one of the special bead trays, spray it with water and wait for it to dry. Your final designs can actually be used for decoration purposes and even used again.There are lots of colours and ideas and many of the kits include special themed shapes that can be incorporated into the designs. There are loads of different colours and bright designs to choose from, including 3D themesHow easy is it to create with Aquabeads?- Simply spray the beads with water to create lovely pictures. They’re safe, with no ironing required, and completely mess free.- Lay the beads out using the picture sheets and bead templates as a guide.Simple and easy for young children to follow, these templates allow you to place the beads in exactly the right positions required to complete beautiful bead pictures.Alternatively, older and more dextrous children can create pictures using their own imagination and style.Choose a picture, Add the bead,Spray with water and look what you’ve made!In practice, these can be quite fiddly to work with for smaller children and certainy need help from their elders. If you ensure you spray enough water, they do stick together well. Ideally suited for girls 5 years and older.There is a licensed versions of Aqua beads in the form of Shaun the Sheep where you simply choose a character you want to make and use one of the clever layout trays to place your beads in the right position and spray with water. Bring Shaun and his friends to live by adding crazy boggly eyes and display them in the 3D pop up farmyard.There are also a wide range of refill packs readily available from most Aquabead stockistsHave creative fun with Aquabeads Flower Tower Set, 3D Secret Garden,3D Superset and there’s even a compact portable carry me aqua bead set that you can take away with you.

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Bead Design, An Enjoyable Pastime Or Business?

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Article by K Snow

If you are the creative type who loves working with arts and crafts and are interested in making some money while doing something you enjoy, then you should consider taking up bead designing as a career. Not only can beads be used to design jewelry for classy formal parties and beach wear but they can also be used for designs on apparel and shoes. This increases the scope and possibility of developing further.

To start with, you could buy your first set of beads from a craft store round the corner. The good thing is that beads are relatively inexpensive as a raw material. Even though the choice might seem endless to start with, you may soon start to feel the need for more elaborate and up-to-date materials. Since the craft store does not specialize in beads, it has many other items to store in its inventory; there will be a limited amount of bead materials available.

You next stop in the search of more and better bead materials could be the online bead stores. These websites provide a plethora of options for the beads specialist and it will definitely be some time till you need to look for other options.

If you are looking at making bead designs for a considerable amount of time and not planning to give it up as a fad, then you should build and maintain a relationship with the online store since you will need to do a lot of shopping from there. Remember to check the store’s reputation before parting with any money; do a quick search online to see how others have been served by them.

Once you have figured the trick of sourcing the beads and your raw material parcel has arrived, you can now let your imagination flow and create designs for various items that can be adorned with beads. Skirt tops, long skirts, jewelry, head gear, handkerchiefs, spectacle chains and the list goes on. Unleash your creativity and discover that you can produce delicate designs to go well with a business dinner or bold designs using large, colorful beads for a beach party. Once you get comfortable with the bead options that are available, you may want to mix and match your designs with other related material like shells, buttons and the like.

The designs done, you can use the wonderful medium called the Internet to sell the designs you have created to other apparel manufacturers and even to end consumers.

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Beading Designs

April 15, 2011 By ksthebea Leave a Comment

Article by Karen Lincoln

Beads have become part of our lives, and these are used in various things such as the jewelry that we wear, or on other decorative things in our homes such as table mats, bed covers etc. The greatest part of using beads, is that you can get creative and create your own beading designs and decorate different things that you use. You can decorate a hand bag with beads, and thus making it really attractive. When you work with beading, you need to have patience, time and creativity. If your doing beading in a professional capacity, you need to be precise, so that your beading designs look neat and intricate.

If you’ve understood the simple basics of beading, you can work on varied beading designs, be it simple designs or more complex such as Peyote designs. Geometric and floral patterns are simple beading designs. Creating, animals or huge table cloths, is a lot more complex.

Majority of bead work is done with thread. However you can get innovative and use different materials with beads. Wires have become increasingly popular, mainly because its so easy and flexible to work with. Attractive hair pins and clips, with bead work is done using metal strips. To do this, you need to bend the metal as by doing this the beads don’t fall out. Create a loop by attaching the two ends of metal. You can use aluminum strips, which are extremely thin and workable to create dangle bead earrings. If you stick both ends of the strips by folding one on top of the other, you can make beautiful pendants.

Beads made of glass or wood, or transparent plastic can be used to make bracelets. Bright colors make jewelry more attractive. You can also use large beads to make a chunky bracelets which are quite popular with teenagers. It’s actually very simple to make a bracelet. Just thread some beads together, add a hook at the two ends of the threads, and you have an attractive bead bracelet. Using rubber instead of thread is also something unique and creative. However one thing that you need to be mindful of, is taking care not to stretch the rubber while your putting in the beads. Only when your wearing the bracelet, can the rubber be stretched. It’s advisable to make a rubber bracelet by using the rubber that fits the size of your wrist.

Floral designs are another common feature amongst beading designs. Various flowers such as daisies, roses etc can be made. Also, you can use smaller beads to create small leaves, adding to the attractiveness of the beading designs. These can be rather complex, and you need to be a little patient while creating these beading designs.

Beading involves creating loops of beads or parallel lines of beads. The square, the peyote and the loom are the patterns that are formed. Designs are made from these patterns, which are then used in a myriad of different forms to create beading designs. These beading designs look rather complex, which is not really the case. If you use a beading kit, you can learn to create various types of beading designs. Or you can also copy existing designs to learn different techniques. While beading is relatively simple, it does require some practice and a whole lot of patience.

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