Amuse the Muse - Ocean Inspired Beads - with Rebecca of Songbead

Hello all! It's the last week of our ocean-inspired beads roundup - and this week, I'm bringing you a selection of beautiful handmade polymer art beads. Enjoy!

Studio St James

Too Aquarius

Jewellery Quarter

Selena Anne Wells

Areto Beads Jewellery

Cheryl's Art

Pips Jewellery

Beads by Earth Tones

Robin the Raven

And now for the BeadBlogger Links - have a great week everyone!

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Check out Andrew's new bronze creations and find out what he plans to do with them!

Robot Love
Enjoy some fun amigurumi & learn about a few crafting giveaways.

Connie Gee's SAL
Connie has started up a free SAL. Join the Connie Gee's Stitchers group on Facebook to share your progress photos. Find out how to get started.

Silhouette Studio - Tedious Tasks Made Easy
Silhouette Studio conquers two card making issues. Two-sided projects don't align well with desktop printers. Many pieces mean tedious cutting & varied results.

Art Bead Scene
Meet Julie of Uglibeads, one of our fantastic new Art Bead Scene contributors (and FYI, her beads are the opposite of ugly!)

Table Transformation
Cherie transforms an old table into a fun piece for the living room.

Beading Arts
Make a teeny tiny little bead embroidered pendant! It's fast, easy, and a great way to try stitching with the smaller seed beads.

Rebecca is a Scottish jewellery designer; currently living in the capital city of Edinburgh. You can read more about her and her work at her blog, songbeads.blogspot.com and see more of her jewellery at songbead.etsy.com. She also has a supplies shop at thecuriousbeadshop.etsy.com.

Amuse the Muse - Ocean-Inspired Beads - with Rebecca of Songbead

Hello all! We're continuing on with the Ocean-Inspired beads for this month, and I have a great line up for you today! Why? Well, because it's The Art Bead Scene does Ocean-Inspired for this week! Including all of our fantastic new contributors - just wait til you see the deliciousness below!

Heather Powers - Humblebeads (back from vacation next week!) Oh the texture! The colour! Take me down to the sea immediately. 

Mary Harding - Mary Harding Jewelry 

I love, love LOVE how this looks like it's been dug up on a windswept beach. And just look at those colours! 

Rebecca Anderson - The Curious Bead Shop

Ok, I struggled a bit to get something handmade that would fit in with this theme (although I do have these awesome pressed glass fossil beads here) - but wouldn't these colours fit in pretty awesomely with any ocean-themed project? 

Michelle Ann McCarthy - Firefly Design Studio

These gorgeous charms are from one of our fantastic new contributors. Just delightful - so dainty. Perfect for some sweet earrings!

Michelle Ann McCarthy - Firefly Design Studio

Seriously - how cool is this? I would love to see this made up into a piece of jewellery - I can imagine a wonderful bracelet featuring this wee guy. 

Erin Prais-Hintz - Tesori Trovati

 A classic pendant from Erin. I'll say it again - look at the colours! The texture! Swoon!

Erin Prais-Hintz - Tesori Trovati

 These are pretty amazing - similar to Mary's pendant to me, they look like something that's been discovered on a deserted beach. Perfect!

Julie Wong Sontag - Uglibeads

Another of our amazing new contributors - Julie's work is so beautiful! These are perfectly sea-kissed beads! (And yep - the colours, the textures - you get the idea!)

Julie Wong Sontag - Uglibeads

These really do look like they could have been tumbled by the ocean for years. I love how that gives the beads a sense of timelessness, and hints at the story beneath the surface. 

Heather Millican - Swoondimples

And the third of our wonderful new contributors Heather - certainly no stranger to me and my jewellery! I love how Heather's use of words creates such a direct connection between jewellery and wearer. 

Heather Millican - Swoondimples

Just look at the smooth, dappled texture on Heather's pendants - so tactile. They seem almost to have been aged by the sea itself, not unlike Julie's beads above!

Heather Millican - Swoondimples

These are the perfect little triptych. What would you do with these? I don't think I could bear to break them up, do you?  

Claire Lockwood - Something to do beads

Our beaches here in the Uk are beautiful, but a far cry from some of those where perhaps we imagine the perfect beachy holiday! Wild, rugged and windswept - Claire's charms perfectly capture the cool, sun-bleached skies and the rustic, rocky coastline. 

Claire Lockwood - Something to do beads

 And last but not least, these fun and colourful (you know me and colour!) vintage sundress charms. Well, everyone's got to wear something at the beach, haven't they?!

Tari Sasser - Creative Impression in Clay

And what trip to the beach isn't complete without an ice cream cone......Slurp!

And now for the BeadBlogger Links. Have a great week everyone!

DIY Crochet Bead and Wire Crochet Necklace
Learn how to crochet wire and beads into a fun, whimsical necklace. Here is the link to my video on how to crochet a chain stitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhM4u...

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
So many beautiful creations were made for the latest challenge, Endless Sky. Check out what all the participants made!

Review of Crafting Memories by Tammy Powley
Crafting Memories is the well-known craft author's first book of fiction and it's a very good read as career struggles mix with family scandal.

Yarn Review & Subscriber Giveaway
The Crafty Princess takes a look at a popular yarn used for knitting/crocheting baby items and has a YouTube subscriber giveaway in the works.

Mum's the Word
This free pattern from Connie Gee's Designs is suitable for cross-stitch, needlepoint, and beadwork. Use the small design to experiment with different flosses or techniques.

Beading Arts
Cyndi's been going to town making Shamballa bracelets! Here she shows you how to make smaller feminine ones using cords and cupchain. 

Art Bead Scene
Check out Rebecca's roundup of ocean-inspired beads for this week!

Rebecca is a Scottish jewellery designer; currently living in the capital city of Edinburgh. You can read more about her and her work at her blog, songbeads.blogspot.com and see more of her jewellery at songbead.etsy.com. She also has a supplies shop at thecuriousbeadshop.etsy.com.

Amuse the Muse - Ocean-inspired beads - with Rebecca of Songbead

Happy Monday all! Here's the round-up of ocean-inspired beads for this week - and it's a lampwork special this time around. Perhaps it's the correlations between glass and water, but I kept coming across more and more stunning lampwork glass on my searches!  

Sue Beads

Kreations by Karen K

Maya Honey

Made by Fire

Cone Designs by Sheila

Calypsos Beads

And now for the BeadBlogger Links. Have a great week!

Unusual Tool Video
Knit Notes is not just a book. It's a kind of tool for designers, so the Crafty Princess shows and tells it in this video.

Fun Freebies
Find out one of Connie's favorite freebie sites that also has quite a nice selection of charts for sale. 

Clutter-Busting With Patterned Duck Tape 
Can too much color clutter your craft space and crush creativity? Reorganize and coordinate your craft table for less than 5 bucks with patterned Duck Tape.

Art Bead Scene
Take a peek at Claire's Etsy pics to whet your appetite for this months challenge!

Sketching
Cherie shows her first step in creating art.

Rebecca is a Scottish jewellery designer; currently living in the capital city of Edinburgh. You can read more about her and her work at her blog, songbeads.blogspot.com and see more of her jewellery at songbead.etsy.com. She also has a supplies shop at thecuriousbeadshop.etsy.com.

Amuse the Muse - Ocean-inspired Beads - with Rebecca of Songbead

Hello everyone! It's July - how did that happen?! We've got a brand new challenge, a seaside still life, and so I thought ocean-inspired beads would be an apt theme for this month. Who doesn't love the seaside? A good thing we have a full month for this, because there are so many delicious beads out there on this theme! Here's some of my favourites from those I found this week:

Catalina Glass

Bo Hulley Beads (and pretty good for this month's challenge in particular, methinks, with it's coral/rust red tones)

Beads by Clare Scott

Glittering Prize

Catalina Glass

Lush Art Glass 

Bo Hulley Beads

And now for the BeadBlogger Links. Have a great week everyone!

Happy 4th Wreath: Stars & Stripes 4Ever
Make a star spangled Happy 4th wreath from paper. 3D stars in red, white & blue make this 4th of July wreath lightweight and easy to assemble with glue.

Connie Gee's Designs
Connie's added a new design to her Etsy shop called Peaceful Abundance and it is suitable for stitching on any cross-stitch fabric with any floss. There are also links to her free pattern pages in this post, so check those out too.

Art Bead Scene
Check out all the beautiful, gorgeous, inspiring, wonderful entries to our challenge this month! 

BIG Book News!
The Crafty Princess has some major news. She spills the beans in her latest crafting podcast.

Beading Arts
What could be more fun for summer than sporting a cute little Shamballa-style bracelet? Cyndi shows you how to make one in this tutorial.

Rebecca is a Scottish jewellery designer; currently living in Edinburgh, capital of her native land. You can read more about her and her work at her blog, songbeads.blogspot.com and see more of her jewellery at songbead.etsy.com. She also has a supplies shop at thecuriousbeadshop.etsy.com.