Lentil bead sets with stepped heart texture....

Pretty little heart bead sets....

These little beads sets are variations on a theme, often my brain wants to work this way, to compare and contrast similar ideas. They are all 19mm lentil beads, made with the same pale lilac glass and given heart texture with my stepped heart texture tool  but the surface decoration is all different - first enamels, then gold leaf and finally Double Helix Arke reduction silver glass. 

They are all so pretty and the pale lilac glass looks so different in each of these sets! Below is a process video on how I have achieved these effects. 

Have a great day, Jolene x

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Brass texture plates in stock...

Lampwork glass shaping texture plates listed today...

I have taken delivery today of the very first run of my brass texture plate designs. All pre-orders have been posted and there is a limited amount of these lovely glass shaping tools available on my website now.

www.jolenebeads.com

I have also set up a facebook page where I post up videos and pictures for bead making inspiration and to showcase the versatility of these beautifully made tools. 

https://www.facebook.com/brass.for.glass/

See you there, Jolene x

Sparking textured silver glass beads....

Sparking silver glass beads made with Double Helix Arke

This post is going to be a bit heavy with videos as I have not quite got the hang of photographing silver glass well just yet.

This first set is encased Effetre teal with textured dots of Arke and bright orange CZ's which I applied with the stepped circle texture tool. I have included a TiK Tok showing how it was done.

Below are two large encased Arke lentils - one made with the twisted square texture plate and the other with the stepped circle texture plate.

Finally a little video of the teal lentils showing just how sparkly they are"

Jolene x

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Making buttons beads with the stepped heart texture plate

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A short video showing how to use the stepped heart texture tool to make glass shank buttons.

You can find cure button beads like these in my etsy shop here 

The new texture tools are available in my web shop here

Jolene xx

Stepped flower brass texture tool

This stepped flower brass texture too; is one of  5 that I have recently designed. I have been making glass beads with the prototypes for the past couple of weeks. 

The idea behind them is that they can be used with any size mandrel to put texture on the faces of all of your favourite pressed bead shapes without squashing them completely flat. They can also to be used to make textured tabs from round and freeform bead shape

The texture tools are available to pre-order over on my website for October delivery.

I am running an exclusive pre-order promotion in my shop for a £5 saving when you buy 2 ot more of these brand new style tools with code

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This pretty heart bead shows the kind of texture that can be added to the surface of a large pressed heart bead - it measures around 30mm across. 

Jolene xx

Brass lampwork texture tools by Jolene Beads

There is something new and exciting over in my store today, the first chance to pre-order some beautiful new brass lampworking tools. There are 5 to choose from, each one has many layers of geometric shapes that step down to form a cavity so you can add texture to your beads without squashing them flat!

You can check them out over in my store here - www.jolenebeads.com/collections/lampwork-texture-tools

Jolene xx

When the postman knocks twice... #blogtoberfest13 Day 4

Then I get super delicious post...twice! Happy me :-D

The first parcel was from Bavarian Beads and contained my new heart and medallion presses. It was an extravagant purchase but it has been a very long time since I bought new tools. In my defence I did ask around to see if there was anything similar going second hand first buy alas, there were none :-D Aren't they beautiful!

And the next delivery was from the very lovely Yvette Goodridge, a trade parcel of seed beads for lampy supplies. What a fabulous riot of colour, I love them, looking all delicious all lined up in their cute little tubes.

Both parcels arrived yesterday and so I spent the afternoon in the studio playing and the evening in front of the telly playing and here is what I made.......

My first hearts, I'm loving the shape. The red hearts fit the press shape exactly, the striped hearts were made to fit the press and then decorated and then shaped by hand. The lufly snowy heart in the center has been decorated with 00 crystal clear frit. I'm finding the press pretty easy to use, these are the largest size, 20mm, in the Bavarian Heart S real 3D.

I'm a total smitten kitten with this press, the Bavarian Medallion XXL, which is a whopping 36mm. Just one bead made with it yesterday and I love how slim the bead is in profile. The bead is substantial but light and I found it a lot more intuitive to use than I thought I would. really looking forward to getting back into the studio later for another play with it.

It is a little bit cheating to show you this picture as I made the burgundy and green pendants on Monday. The pinky lilac one was last nights make using some very pretty seedies from my Y-beads swap. My daughter has dibs on it for her treasure box already this morning. All of these pendants are variations on a lovely tutorial on how to bezel a cab by Carol Passaro who also has a lovely selection of rivoli's in her Esty Shop. They are super blingy and a little hard to resist.



Have a lovely day, Jolene x