Welcome to Inside the Studio! Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive…
Our Wonderful sponsors for the September Challenge. We will have 2 Lucky Winners this Month! Bandana Girl Melinda Orr of Bandana Girl creates beautiful and wildly wonderful metal and tooled leather components. Melinda has reinvented/added layers to herself over the…
“The White Rose and the Red Rose” 1902 by Margaret Macdonald Hunterian Art Gallery Mackintosh collections 99.0 cm x 101.5 cm Gesso, painted, set with glass beads and shell; on hessian on a wooden stretcher About the Art This…
Congratulations to this Month’s winners! 2 winners were chosen randomly from all the challenge entrants. 1 winner was chosen randomly from the InLinkz blog entries. Our first lucky winner is Ann Schroeder. She has won $50 Gift Certificate from Humblebeads. Our second lucky winner is tres jolie design by sue.…
The color of the inspiration painting by Anne Redpath are bright without being saturated. The subject matter makes me think of both far off places (the ornate rug) and comforting spaces (the red slippers). Let’s see what inspired you…
Inside the Studio with Mary Harding Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive…
So, this is a bit of an add on to my Inside the Studio post last Friday. If you read that you’ll know that I’d just picked up a bumper load of beads after firing (I haven’t got a…
This tutorial is for a very simple design, but I though it might be handy if you have any lovely handmade buttons that you’re unsure how to use, or that you want to use as a bracelet focal. I…
Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive we offer a free prize each week…
Keeping things simple is often very effective. The bright red of the Czech glass flowers brings in that delightful POP of color and the shape recalls the floral pattern in the rug. The pretty copper clay leaves from Kristi…