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Beads!!!!! => Bead Embroidery and Bead Weaving => Topic started by: Enchantra on May 01, 2016, 03:29:11 PM
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Submitted this one yesterday to the FMG Competition for Seed beads.
Stabilized Chinese turquoise
Stablized kingman turquoise (The rectangle cabs used as inlay in the mask)
Azurite
Malachite
Faux opal
Lots of Japanese and Czech seed beads
Czech pressed glass
Silver plated charms
Gourd (Yes I carved it and inlaid it myself)
Dentalium shell
Dyed magnesite nuggets
Nickel silver wire
Title: Arizona Moonrise
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WOW............................... :drool:
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Wow is correct..... :notworthy:
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And another GOLD winning piece by our resident bead queen!!! :WEEEE:
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Steve had it ight -Wow!. Do you sketch these beforehand? There is very nice flow in this.
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Wonderful creation!
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Beautiful but I don't think it would fit in my cleavage.
Jim
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Jim, you kill me!
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Steve had it ight -Wow!. Do you sketch these beforehand? There is very nice flow in this.
No, I don't Sketch them out. I just grab stones and arrange them and I see the piece as I want it in my mind. I have only sketched out a couple things in the past - metal clay pieces mostly where I would be using the resulting drawing for templates.
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Beautiful but I don't think it would fit in my cleavage.
Jim
Jim, it barely fits on mine. :LOLOL:
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Would you ever consider doing a tutorial on how to do a (much simpler) version of something like this? I am mightily impressed. This is simply stunning work.
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You always amaze me! I don't think I would ever have the patience to do such work.
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Would you ever consider doing a tutorial on how to do a (much simpler) version of something like this? I am mightily impressed. This is simply stunning work.
The Facebook page for this forum has a tutorial I posted several months ago showing how to do a peyote stitch bezel around a cabochon. That is probably the best place to start.
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You always amaze me! I don't think I would ever have the patience to do such work.
It's not so much patience, as it is just ambition to get it done. This piece had a good 72 hours into it.
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WOW! What a beautiful piece of jewelry. I would never be able to do something like that.
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wow that is super nice looking work amanda
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WOW! What a beautiful piece of jewelry. I would never be able to do something like that.
I used to think that myself when I saw such large pieces created by other artists. Over time I taught myself various techniques, and then one day I realized I was doing the very thing I thought I couldn't do...
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wow that is super nice looking work amanda
Thanks. :icon_sunny:
It took some time to do, and half the time was spent just on the mask focal and the beadwork surrounding it.
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SEVENTY TWO HOURS. Holly molly that is a bunch of hours but looking at the piece I could see me not finishing it for ........ eternity maybe. But I am one of the "instantly is not fast enough" crowd but I will admit I have taken that long or longer to do a carving which would take a Chinese carver one day to do. But carving does not require matching colors, size of beads, how many beads to get from here to there and probably a dozen other things.
I will leave it to you Amanda.
Jim
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No problem Jim!
I've been told I have infinite patience. Maybe that's why I can make it through creating one of these pieces.
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Would you ever consider doing a tutorial on how to do a (much simpler) version of something like this? I am mightily impressed. This is simply stunning work.
The Facebook page for this forum has a tutorial I posted several months ago showing how to do a peyote stitch bezel around a cabochon. That is probably the best place to start.
Thank you! I will check it out.
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A museum piece !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It took home a Silver Medal! :icon_sunny: :thumbsup: :toothy10:
http://www.firemountaingems.com/resources/gallery-of-designs/G56F?WT.fmg_linksection=1V5BJM3PTDKVG&WT.mc_id=CPBCWINNER
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Stunned, Arizona Moonrise is my fav. Crazy amount of work in those. There is not enough I can say about the pieces, simply amazing.
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Silver! I am impressed. How many people were you competing against?
Must of been a lot with Fire Mountian gems
Did you win anything besides bragging rights?
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Congrats!!
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:WEEEE: :WEEEE: :WEEEE:
Another winning creation! You just keep 'em coming, Amanda! :occasion14: