Belle Armoire Jewelry is published by Stampington as a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is October 15, 2008. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry with readers, we want to hear from you. Belle Armoire Jewelry covers […]
Technique Tuesday!
I used 12″x24″ gallery-wrapped Frederix canvases to mount my Bead Journal Pages. Each page is 6″x4″, so this left plenty of space around each.
Materials and Tools
3 gallery-wrapped canvases
Golden’s acrylic paints
Sponges
Waxed paper
Beading thread
Beading needles
Arrange beaded cards as they will be on the canvases. Mine are arranged by month: otherwise I may have grouped […]
Make Art Monday!
If you missed out the first time, you simply must consider joining in on the fun for this next year! The Bead Journal Project is accepting registrations now, until August 15, to start in September 2008. Go register now, if you’re interested in bead embroidery, and while you’re there, check out […]
What’s Up Wednesday!
Altered Couture
A hand-me-down sweater … a raggedy old skirt from the thrift store … a plain T-shirt … Using just a few tools coupled with your creativity, all of these items can be transformed into fantastic works of wearable art! The publisher of Belle Armoire and Somerset Studio invites you to submit your […]
Entry period: August 1-December 18, 2008. Read the complete rules.
Beadwork editor Marlene Blessing writes, “I know plenty of you have been inspired by altered books (don’t let those collage artists have all the fun) and by stories (from trashy novels, to historical epics, to books of poems). Whether you alter an actual book, re-create a […]
April’s Grass Moon
I am finished!! The year-long project known as the Bead Journal Project is drawing to a close, and my journal pages are all completed! You can see the entire set of them on Why Not Art, my mixed media website. I decided to make April’s page lush and crowded, the way I remember […]
March’s Chaste Moon
For this month’s Beaded Journal Page, I had the work do double duty. There was a challenge in one of my favorite forums (Bead Arts forum) to create something “hidden in plain sight”. I chose to work braille words into my journal page, using a different size (but same color) beads. […]
Make Art Monday!
I don’t always post these pieces here on Layers Upon Layers. Most of you know that I also write the Jewelry & Beading blog here at the b5Media network, and that’s where all of these usually appear. But I couldn’t resist sharing some of the lastest pieces with you, because they’re really […]
What’s Up Wednesday!
Stampington & Co, publishers of Somerset Studio and Belle Armoire magazines among others, will be accepting entries for a few more weeks for a special publication called Haute Handbags, which will now be published twice each year! The deadline is May 15, so get out your supplies and get going! Here’s all […]
February’s Snow Moon
I used a number of different patterns for dimensional snowflakes on this addition to my Beaded Journal pages. Some of them look kind of fuzzy in the photo, because they stick straight up and I can’t control the aperture on my camera for depth of field adjustments. Next camera, that’s for sure!
You can […]
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