Bead Table Wednesday, Tutorials

Bead Table Wednesday: Halcraft Pretty Palette Challenge and Wire Links

September 27, 2017

Today’s Bead Table Wednesday is doing double duty as a my submission for the Halcraft Pretty Palette Challenge for September.

Here are the beads Molly sent me for the challenge. I love these colors but went for the more subtle hues in the collection and saved the turquoise wood beads and purple seed beads for another project.

I created wire links and embellised them with dangles with pearls, Czech glass and stones from Halcraft. I added in some turquoise flowers to bring in the color from the challenge.

My focal element is a large copper gingko leave that I created accents by a Green Girl Studio pewter butterfly. I used one of my branches lentil beads and two butterfly wing disk beads in my necklace too.

You can watch the video here and to see how I created the wire links in the necklace.

Video Resources:

16 gauge steel wire, Now That’s a Jig and and oval puck: BrendaSchweder.etsy.com

Humblebeads Vip Party group – Trunk Show 7 pm EST tonight!

Halcraft Blog

Beads to Live by Retreat

 

Here is a close up for the jig set up if you’d like try it yourself!

Written by

The owner and editor of the Art Bead Scene, her website is Humblebeads.com. Heather is the author of three jewelry and bead books, Jewelry Designs from Nature, Beautiful Elements and the Bead-making Lab. When she isn’t busy making beads, she is planning her next Bead Cruise adventure or one of her popular retreats. www.humblebeads.com

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4 Comment

  1. Molly
    September 27, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    Heather, this necklace is gorgeous! I love the chain-making tutorial as well. Thank you for playing along! I love how your handmade Humblebeads work with the Bead Gallery beads!

  2. Divya
    September 28, 2017 at 1:21 am

    I love the Ginko leaf component and this is indeed a pretty palette. The beads gel well with each other

  3. Katherine T
    September 28, 2017 at 11:32 am

    I see that I need to get out my jiggy thing! Very nice. Thank you for the reminder.

  4. Sarah Baker
    September 28, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    Such a pretty necklace! I love that you made your own chain and how you paired together those beautiful earthy colors with the perfect focal elements and accents. Really gorgeous!

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