Art beads are limited only by our imaginations - they can be used in a variety of creative ways. One of those is in Beaded Art Dolls.
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Cabachons can be used as heads, bodies or as part of the structure of the doll like in this example from Rebekah Hodous.
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Lidjia Fairbanks makes wonderful seed embroidered art dolls. She uses her own handcrafted ceramic faces as a focal point to bead upon to create her dolls.
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This beaded mermaid doll with a polymer clay face was one of the entries by KoiGirl for our Mermaid challenge last month.
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Let your imagination go and create something different with art beads!
1 comment:
these are just incredible - thanks for posting them.
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