These Bead Art necklaces were inspired by Beth Stone Beaded Jewelry Designs, who creates both new and vintage jewelry with pearls, sterling silver and seed beads. Thanks to Beth's article in Bead & Button magazine I was inspired to take these a step further to create individual pendants, with more embellishment than folding, and a Bali silver ring. These pendants eventually evolved into the...

Inspiration comes to me at the strangest times. For instance, I can see a design like the one below and it inspires me to try something. My result was nothing like what inspired me in the first place and so I ended up with a new design that I really enjoy creating. There are only a few created at this time, but I am eager to create more pendants with more bead combinations.

BeadArtistic Pendants

One of the drawbacks to becoming busier is that I have less time to do the artistic work I used to do.

Recently, I started playing around with artistic wire and created two very interesting pendants with the same techniques I used above. I really like that these pendants are reversible and no two are identical.

Fleuri Art Domino Pendants

These wonderful designs were inspired by a Domino Stamping class taught by Sandy Forrest-Hartman. In Sandy's domino stamping class we created the dominos in the photograph on the left. While taking this class I wondered if it would be possible to somehow bring my flower, leaves, and butterfly photographs into my jewelry designs.

As an artist, I like to take newly learned techniques, expand them, and create a style that is all my own. I discovered almost any look can be created by using my own collection of nature photographs. I created an interesting texture to normal game dominos by utilizing my quilting supplies and skills. After some trial and error, I created the 'Fleuri' Flower Art Dominos in photograph on the right. I soon discovered I could put just about any image on the dominos and create a complimenting beaded necklace to match.