Creative Beading Magazine

Be inspired by Australia's favorite beading magazine, containing projects for beginners and beyond from Australia’s top jewellery designers and expert trends, tips & tricks.

INSPIRATIONAL Gallery • A gallery of inspiring projects made by our readers! To share your inspiring projects, please contact creativebeading@wpco.com.au

Gemstone Set • Larger gemstone beads in a curved design by My Little Bead Shop

Mermaid’s Treasure • Make a splash with this wire-wrapped, frosted sea glass combination.

Mona Lisa • A Right Angle weave captured 40mm x 30mm Glass Cabochon

Beading for Future Generations • $35 MILLION FOR THE LOT. THAT IS ALL THIS JEWELLERY DESIGNER IS ASKING FOR THE PIECES YOU SEE ON THIS PAGE.

Lace Chain Bracelet • An adaptation of the Japanese Hana-Gusari Maille pattern using Rolo Chain.

Button Splash • Add a splash of colour with buttons.

Lampwork Wonder • A longer design with Lampwork beads and curved tubes.

Metal Working Skills Where to Begin • With just a few basic metal working techniques you can begin to add hand crafted details to your designer jewellery. The first step is setting up a work space with a few tools so that you can begin using some simple metal working techniques.

Copper and Crystal Snow • Textured wire fun with larger seed beads.

Black Beauty • Chunky texture is enlivened by flashes of colour in this polymer clay set

Girls and their Pearls… • If you’ve heard of the saying ‘Boys and their toys, girls and their pearls’ you will instantly understand that pearls have always been a favourite adornment for women.

Pandora Look Set • Create this stylish pandora look-a-like set. This three piece set is a perfect ensemble for your classic attire.

Spring Leaves • A lovely Spring set to add to your accessories. Designed by Absolutely Beads.

CREATE YOUR STYLE WITH Swarovski Elements • Blending technical excellence with high-octane creativity, the latest selection of SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS is poised to set the world of design on fire. Light-filled and authentic, imaginative and innovative, they will inspire new expressions of creativity among artists and craftsmen everywhere.

Pearls and Wire • Freshwater pearls with the economy of aluminium wire wrapping.

Voodoo Chile

THIS SEASON‘S Fashion • From colours, to designs and on to the materials to use, there is a plethora of jewellery challenges to be had!

Triple Juicy • A triple strand necklace design by I Love You Beads

Beachy Mesh Necklace • Capture beads in mesh for a fresh fun beach design.

Uluru Sunset • Using sunset coloured Polymer Clay make a set of beads for a complete necklace, bracelet and earring set.

Amethyst Rose Necklace • Large amethyst nuggets centre a metal rose pendant in this design by My Beads.

Aztec Set • Blue Gemstones and a touch of red bring an Aztec design to life.

Ceramic Set • Beautifully crafted ceramic beads help make a magical design for you to create. The beautiful flowers create a vintage feel.

Three Beads Full • Capturing can be so much fun, there are so many different ways that capturing can be achieved each of our designs were captured using a different method. On the right are the beads that I shared with Kirsty and Kerrie from the BSV and here are the results.

20 Projects for under $20 each • 20 Projects for under $20.00 by Three M’s Fashion Jewellery

BASIC INSTRUCTIONS

BASIC BEAD GLOSSARY • The issues glossary takes a peak at different uses of Sterling Silver in Jewellery making. The number of components and findings is endless so we have selected a few, including some new ideas, that you will enjoy using in your next project.