Currently Browsing: July 2011

The Answer Box: Your Treasure Chest of Knowledge

We’re always here to help you out with questions or concerns about a product, but sometimes it’s nice to hear the opinion of a fellow Artbeads customer. The Artbeads’ Answer Box is your place to ask questions of your fellow beaders, jewelry designers and crafters. Ask for product suggestions or get feedback on a design […]

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Christmas in July Learning Center Idea: Old World Santa Ornament

It’s never too early to start thinking about the most wonderful time of the year! Here’s one of our newest craft ideas from the Learning Center. Read the free instructions on how to make this darling ornament and be ready to celebrate. Start making it now and you could create gifts for everybody and not […]

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Ask Bailey Beader: How is Jewelry Wire Measured?

For all of your jewelry making questions, Bailey Beader is here to help. We want you to be able to ask us anything, no matter if you’re a beginner or professional. We all get stuck sometimes when we’re being creative. Here’s a good question one of our customers asked a while back about jewelry wire: […]

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Adopt a Seahorse Giveaway

This contest is now closed. We’ve found 10 lonely little seahorse pendants in need of a good home! These pendants from Unicorne Beads are part of a special collection, so you won’t find them anywhere on our site! That’s why we need to make sure we give these little guys a nice permanent place to […]

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Beat the Heat ICE Resin® Winners!

Congratulations to our two winners, Doris and Mary M! They’ve each won an ICE Resin® kit and will be able to choose up to $25 worth of mixed media components. We hope to see their creations when they’re finished. Thank you to all of our entries for sharing your cool ideas! We were so amazed […]

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Jessica’s Story – Preparing for Parenthood

We love to hear how our customers have become successful in their jewelry making hobby, and here’s a great story about how Jessica Sebastian got her start in jewelry making, in her own words: When my daughter Ellie was born, I was so horribly underprepared for the challenges of nursing her that it was truthfully […]

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Poet’s Darling Necklace

Pewter is a hot trend in jewelry right now. It’s the right economic choice for fashion and comes in all sorts of different finishes. This necklace features a cool color finish called gunmetal—a bold, dark color that creates dramatic style when paired with light colors like the sky blue hue of the stoneware pendant. Take […]

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Different Types of Chain

Every so often it’s important to remind ourselves of the basic elements of jewelry making. We can sometimes forget simple vocabulary and make up our own words and descriptions. If you’re a beginning beader, you might also feel overwhelmed with all of the new terminology you have to learn to become part of the “beading […]

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Beat the Heat ICE Resin® Giveaway

ICE Resin® is a cool way to capture unique elements inside a pendant or charm for a focal piece with your own added flair. What cool design would you make with ICE Resin®? We want to give you the chance to win a cool kit so you can create your designs. Two winners will be […]

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A Day at the Beach Learning Center Idea

Find a place for all of your summer memories with this charming necklace idea. Gather your favorite mementos from your trip to the beach and make them last forever in your jewelry. This free idea from the Learning Center is comprised of not much more than a blank pendant, your favorite collage elements and some […]

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