Necklace Cranberry

While waiting for a large seed bead and crystal delivery from all over the Internet my bead choices were rather limited. For this simple necklace I ended up reusing some opalescent plastic beads from my old bracelet. I have combined them with medium blue Japanese seed beads size 11/0 and  few transparent Czech seed beads with neon yellow lining. I absolutely love the colour combination, it looks so vibrant and modern. I just regret that the crystals are plastic and don't have as much shine as I would like them to have. Well, I would just have to make another one.

Today's tip: Japanese seed beads are much more consistent in size than the Czech seed beads.

Pattern from: beadsmagic.com

Necklace Flame

As it's my first bead-weaving necklace ever I didn't really know what to expect. I'm rather good with crafts, I can work my way with needle and I've got an eye for a detail, so I wasn't worried at all. It probably took me around 6 hours across two days, but after I put the clasps I couldn't be happier! There it was, my first beaded necklace. I used entirely 11/0 Czech seed beads for it. Silver lined gold beads were the ones which I had the most at that time, that's why I chose them as my basic colour. I was very surprised how shiny it became on the thread, in the baggy it looked much more toned down, slightly brownish. Finished necklace reminds me of Indian jewellery.

Today's tip: Never underestimate your silver lined beads!

Pattern from beadsmagic.com