The Beader’s calendar: May jewel!

The Spring in Bloom pendant tutorial by Vicky is the May jewel of the Beader’s Calendar by Beadingschool.

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You receive a luxury quality calendar to hang on the wall, with 12 projects you can bead during the year, designed by the Beadingschool Creative Team (Erika, Zuzi, Veronka), and our friends – designers: Heather Kingsley-Heath, Anita Schackmann, Chloe Menage, Ruxandra Puscas, and more!  On the first Monday, the tutorial becomes available for the month’s jewel, so today is the time for the second one already. If you don’t have the Calendar yet, you can get it here.  Once you check out successfully, you can download the Magnolia tutorial for April,  Casablanca tutorial for March,  Inception tutorial for February and the Hint of Light tutorial for January right away – just make sure to remain logged into your account. The Calendar will land on your bead mat very soon!

GET TO KNOW OUR DESIGNER!

Vicky is our friend from the Bead! Magazine – always making sure that you find beautiful jewels on its pages. She is also an excellent designer herself. I’d recommend to reach for Vicky‘s designs if you passed your beginner level and you are ready to level up.

We’re also happy Vicky is a huge fan of Beadingschool Academy! I am always smiling when she writes me after receiving the newest Box: her enthusiasm and happiness seem to grow with every Theme. You can see many of her jewels beaded and inspired by the theme boxes.

VICKY ABOUT THE SPRING IN BLOOM PENDANT

The inspiration behind this jewel is all the stunning components we receive in the wonderful Academy boxes. I often keep the boxes from previous themes on my desk, and when I’m looking for inspiration, I will rifle through to see what I have left. I had some stunning kite glass cabochons from The Dream of Sibylla box that I was desperate to use, and once I matched them with the copper and pink seeds, they just popped. I then picked out Amethyst ABX2 bicones, cream 2mm pearls, and last but not least, the blue/purple toned cushion cut fancy stones. 

The design starts with Peyote bezelling the cushion stones in a way that captures the stones tightly before adding bits of embellishment to enable us to join them together. Once all the five bezels are joined together, we add the kite cabochons and the bicones to really bring the design home. It was a design that came together perfectly, and I hope you love it as much as I do.

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MATERIAL LIST for one motif:

• 58x 2 mm round pearl
• 24 x 4 mm Preciosa bicone bead
• 4x 3 mm Preciosa bicone bead
• 4x 9×14 mm Kite Glass cabochon
• 5x 12 mm Cushion cut cabochon
• 15/0 Miyuki round seed beads
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads

Dahlia – the original colorway.

Calla – elegant like the starshine.

Nigella – refreshing aquamarine.

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