Afternoon all! Here we are at the end of the month and we have our last lot of April Showers beads – watery, shower-y, rain-y beads. Thank you to Liona and Claire for sharing their finds this week! Next…
Hello ABS-ers! I come to you today with a guest post from metalsmith and jewellery artist Marcie Abney Carroll of La Bella Joya. Recently, she has been experimenting with some new and rather lovely laminate layered pendants (I may…
Inside the Studio with Mary Harding 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…
Fantasy Flower Pendant – Pink Tones Fantasy Flower Pendant – Purple Tones Fantasy Flower Pendant – Red Tones Fantasy Flower Pendant – Orange Tones Fantasy Flower Pendant – Yellow Tones I’m going to blame my current flower fixation on…
The thing that keeps drawing me into this Degas painting are the swirling tulle skirts and the bright pops of coral. So when I saw these earrings from Ann Schroeder I had to come back for a closer look.…
So, today, I thought I’d share how to make these wrapped column earrings. Mine are wrapped with sari silk ribbon and feature a pair of ceramic droplets from Scorched Earth. However, you could wrap different types of ribbon or…
Happy Monday to you all! Is it a holiday with you? It is over here in the Uk – and in N. Ireland (the part of the UK where I currently reside) we not only have Monday as a…
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…
ABS April 2014 Monthly Challenge brings us the dynamic yet delicate ballet dancers painted by Edgar Degas in – Swaying Dancers. And below are art beads and components by a few skillful artists that I picked to go with the theme…
Regular followers of this blog will know that Kaushambi Shah has produced some fabulous pinterest boards for the monthly challenges, and has taken on the role of ABS Pinterest Curator. Unfortunately, Kaushambi isn’t able to post this month so I’m…