Saturday, April 27, 2013

7th Bead Soup Blog Party 3rd Reveal - Hosted by Lori Anderson

(borrowed from Lori Anderson's blog)

It has been a long time coming, but the day is finally here to show y'all what I made with my bead soup form my partner Penny Mills.  Penny sent me some beautiful 10 mm aqua blue glass beads, some copper findings, clasp, and a aqua blue sea glass focal bead.


Here is what I created using most of the bead soup Penny sent.



I wanted to make these sweet little flowers with the gumdrop bead middles ever since I saw the Gumdrops in my Garden bracelet tutorial by Kerry Slade.  I did a brick stitch around the 10 mm glass beads with size 11 copper delicas and did a picot stitch out of size 15 rounds connected the gumdrop flowers with the brick stitch flowers by using the 4 mm bicones that were part of my bead soup. 


The focal bead I knew as soon as I saw it I wanted to try and wire wrap it in honor of my bead soup partner Penny, she is a wire wrapper.  It is very basic and not all that great, but I like it.  I had some copper chain so I suspended the focal from the chain, added the to sides of the beaded beads, then more copper chain with the toggle clasp.


For the bracelet I used the aqua blue glass beads, the 4 mm round copper beads, copper daisy spacers, 12 mm corrugated copper beads, 2 4 mm bicones, and a copper focal bead added a copper toggle clasp and there you have it a pretty little bracelet. 

I would like to thank Lori Anderson  our hostess, for without her genius, "The Bead Soup Blog Party" would not be. 
I would also like to thank my partner Penny for sending me a very challenging bead soup, it took a lot of thinking on how I was going to use her bead soup, but in the end I am very pleased with my choice.

Please click on Lori's name above for the list of the other participants in the 3rd reveal to see what they have done with their soups.

Thank you so much for coming by, y'all come back again, ya hear!

Happy beading Y'all,
Therese

65 comments:

  1. Pretty seed bead flowers! I love the necklace. You have made the necklace looked pretty and elegant at the same time.

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  2. Love the bracelet and the wire-wrapped pedant.

    Carolyn
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  3. Love what you did and wow those flowers are fantastic, they look so beautifully neat!

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  4. I LOVE the dainty flowers and the way they fit in the necklace, so pretty!

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  5. Oh, Therese, again you did magic with a lovely stash!
    The colors go very well with the copper and yout flowers look so neat. I really do adore what you make. And i like your wire wrapping. It fits perfectly to the necklace. I wish you a lot of fun wearing your jewelry set.
    Sabine

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  6. Really lovely Therese, I love what you've done with your soup. The colours are lovely aren't they?

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  7. Love, love, love!!! Perfect color combination and just in my style :-D

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  8. Therese I love what you did with your soup. Your beadwork is spectacular. Great colors.

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  9. Love your necklace and bracelet. Those seed bead flowers are so pretty. Beautiful work!

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  10. Great necklace! Those little flowers turned out so cute! Love what you did with Penny's soup!

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  11. Beautiful, I love the little beaded flowers, just so cute. You did a great job on the wire wrapping, that is something I need to learn.

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  12. Oh, how lovely pieces, I like both of them; so beautifull necklace with lovely flowers and the stylish bracelet.

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  13. Those are gorgeous. I love your wire wrapping and *adore* the whole necklace. The little gumdrop flowers are so cute and I love the stitched pearls.

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  14. Those little beaded flowers are a perfect combo with your wire wrapped focal. Very pretty and perfect for spring.

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  15. Look at you - wire wrapping! The seed flowers are adorable, and the necklace as a whole is terrific. It looks like a great celebration of spring!

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  16. gorgeous, what a wonderful mix of colours and textures.

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  17. Love the color combination and those little bead-woven flowers!

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  18. Wow! Absolutely stunning! Love what you did combining the flowers and the wire wrapped stone. Enjoy wearing your beautiful design!

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  19. Such patience it must have taken to do all that bead work. I am in awe. And the colors are divine. BTW, did you notice that the colors match your blog wallpaper?

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  20. Lovely wire work on that beautiful focal bead. Great work!

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  21. Those seed bead flowers are so sweet and they balance well with the wrapped focal. Nice bracelet too!

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  22. Beautiful soup friend & your work with the seed beads is amazing! Everything just looks so very YUMMMY!

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  23. The way that you turned those beads into flowers is incredible. What a pretty necklace.

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  24. Great colour palette! I'm completely in love with your little flowers, the colours and the way you used them in your design.

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  25. Well now, look at you go!! wirework, that is great to see you stepped out of your element. You did I great job! I love the little beaded flowers you created around the blue beads. What I don`t get is how is that possible? I am obviously not a beader. Thank you for being my partner, I have had a nice time.
    Penny

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  26. I love the combo of seed beading with your big chunky wrapped focal. Your necklace has made my faves list to be published later today.
    kathy

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    1. Thank you Kathy, I am surprised and honored that you chose my necklace to be added to your favorite list.
      Therese

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  27. Wonderful. Really impressed with the quality of your work. Ya done good, girl! Kate Sharpe, Denver

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  28. Theresa! It's wonderful to see your work again. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the little beaded turquoise flowers.....

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  29. Beautiful Therese! I love how your wire wrapped the sea glass piece. What is so great about wire wrapping is how free form you can be with it!

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  30. such a beautiful set, you are very talented, I love the bead flowers.
    ciao dall' Italia

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  31. Oh, I'm so glad you made the gumdrop flowers with round beads, I was wondering if that would work. And I so adore that bracelet! Awesome job, my friend!

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  32. Great job - love those sweet litle flowers!

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  33. My favorite color palette this season, and I love that you mixed in the lighter copper tones to really make the blue-greens pop. And your wirework is terrific, Therese!

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  34. Really terrific pieces Therese. I LOVE those tiny flowers... they are a fantastic compliment for the copper. Your wire work is a nice touch too!

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  35. In love with your necklace!love the color combo and each detail you made.

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  36. Oh I love your beadwork! This has got to be one of my favourite necklaces so far. So delicate and fresh. Perfect!

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  37. Love your necklace Therese - it's just fabulous (as all of your designs always are!). I like your wire-wrapping, too. I think you did a perfect job on that. And your bracelet is very fun and looks like it would feel great on and go with so many things this season, too!! Fabulous soups!!

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  38. I love the combnation of different techniques. Nice beaded beads. So gorgeous!

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  39. I love your work with wire and seed beads! SUPER!

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  40. I love those colors! That was a lot of beads!

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  41. I am in love with the gumdrop/brick stitch flowers! Gorgeous!

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  42. Such beautiful soup and beautiful pieces. Love the wire work on the gorgeous focal.

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  43. Oh my, that necklace has to be one of my faves this go round...LOVE it! One of my colour faves for sure, and those little flowers are just adorable. I've been wanting to do that one as well; you did a great job of making complementary beads to go with them.

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  44. 2 great pieces. Your beadwork is amazing. And you did. Great job with your wire wrapping on the focal. Really love your bracelet,too.

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  45. Lovely cooking, Theresa! Like the comibation of wire-work with beaded beads!

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  46. Therese - your creations are BEAUTIFUL! I love those gumdrop flowers! THey came out adorable and they work perfectly with that necklace. Great use of your soup!!!!

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  47. The beaded flowers are aweseome!! Love what you've created!

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  50. *wiping my brow* WHEW
    I'm SOOOOOO sorry it's taken so long for me to get over here to see your reveal. I've FINALLY finished hopping reveals 1 & 2.

    Anyways, about YOUR soup. . .It's GORGEOUS! I adore those little flower accents you stitched around the beads. They are so cute. And, your wire wrapping turned out beautifully! Maybe one day I'll attempt it. Lastly, that bracelet is fab-u-lous! Your creations always make me smile. :)

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