It's spring again, and what better theme than flowers blooming in all their glory!



To enter all you need to do is post up a picture of your creation in this thread, and tell us of a little bit about your creation.

You can enter any bead, beaded or jewellery item. Don't forget that also covers/includes wire work, metal work, polymer clay, lampwork, accessories trinkets, and jewellery etc!

All you need to remember is that you can only enter one piece (or set) per challenge.

The closing date is the last day of May.

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I was teaching even-count peyote to a lady who had just bought some of the Myiuki 4mm cubes; she wanted to know if you could use the cubes to do even-count peyote. I didn't know - they'd only just come out at the time - but I thought you probably could. So I experimented, to see if it would work and I quickly had a cuff-length piece. But it looked a bit boring, even after I'd embellished the edges with multi-coloured picots. So I added some tiny glass flowers across the surface. Still not enough - so I added some tendrils between the flowers. It needed more - like some "fringing" with more of the tiny pressed glass flowers. No, not "singing" yet - ah, of course, fringing with crystals. Et voila.

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This is absolutely gorgeous. I am sighing and dribbling in a very disgusting manner. I love this style of beading and what a beautiful job you have made of this.

A couple of years ago we had a very, very wet summer (which you might just remember!) and quite a bit of flooding in the area. Having just bought Diane Fitzgerald’s Beaded Garden book and lost so many plants in the garden because of the rain, I decided to bead my flowers instead of growing them that year.

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The base is netting and the flowers are made from various techniques including peyote, brick stitch and herringbone with Russian leaves. It sat unfinished for quite a while until the perfect answer for a fastener came along in the form of the dragonfly button.

Its title simply had to be One Wet Summer - may there not be any need to make another version!

Gill

Stunning work submitted so far, really gorgeous, I'm in awe of your skills both of you

Sarah

All I can say is wow!!!! To both! I am so jealous of seed beaders!!

Oh wow. You have both made stunning entries. I love them both.

I would like to enter my White Anenome charm bracelet.

It feature's Elise's lovely anenome flower beads, green opaque rounds, clear AB fire polish rounds and silver leaves and hearts.

This was a commission I did last year for someone going to a wedding - I was asked to make something "nice and spring-like, with flowers" and this was the result. She loved it, and even better the bride has since been in touch to see if I can make something similar for her!

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This bracelet features one of our own Pixie's gorgeous flower beads.

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Such gorgeous creations!

Di

here is my entry, Its a charm bracelet stuffed full of 'flower buds' with the first one having opened in the middle.

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I love all of the entries so far, I am so in love with all of your seed beed work!

Here's a few bracelets that I have made a short while ago. A very simple but effective pattern.






Sorry Lucy

Hi Marilyn,

Please would you be able to choose just one bracelet to enter/have a picture of just one (just to keep in line with the challenge rules) though I do appreciate they are all the same design, maybe just your favourite coloured one?


Keep up the great entries everyone, they are all fab!!!

Flipping heck girls I am just gobsmacked wtih all this gorgeousness, what a treat to dip into and thankyou so much for showing them!!