Tropical Punch Flower Maker

This gorgeous flower pendant was created with some of the fabulous products in the Tropical Punch collection.

Tropical Punch Flower Maker

The new flower maker component allows you to customize your flower to reflect whatever color palette your heart desires.  I used these Tropical Punch products for my floral corsage:

Gold Flower Maker

Rose/Salmon Drop Beads

Lucite Mini Flower Bead Caps

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I chose the 12mm green crystal for my centre jewel.  It sits beautifully in the Flower Maker.

Tropical Punch Flower Maker

These two colors are a breath of fresh air.  Once I set my crystal I thought it might need more so I also added the bead caps.

Tropical Punch Flower Maker

The bead strands in the Tropical Punch collection are absolutely inspired.  I knew I would have no problem creating a necklace with components to set off my rose/green pendant.

Tropical Punch Flower Maker

Tropical Punch lucite chain is available in two sizes and several fantastic colors.  They are easy to add to the Flower Maker component with jump rings.

Tropical Punch Flower Maker

I added some strung beads and completed my design with many wonderful bright beads to compliment my main color choices.

Ready to wear!

 

The John Bead Outlet now has a classroom available for workshops.  It comfortably seats 12 students.  We are keen to share this space with enthusiastic teachers looking for a great location to host a workshop. We are going to have two unique options for the space.

ONE

We will have John Bead Outlet exclusively sponsored classes that will include class kits we create and sell.  Teachers will be compensated by John Bead to instruct these classes.

TWO

We will also support workshops which teachers market, promote and sell themselves.  These classes will receive sponsorship in the form of the space and instructors will be responsible for collecting their own fees and marketing these workshops.

We would like to feature classes that use items in our store; beads, crystals, wire, stringing, rosary making, costume making and more.

If either of these opportunities appeals to you, please send me a brief note with your class ideas.  Please include a few sample photos of your proposed class projects and some references to where you are already teaching.

Workshops/classes can take place between the hours of

Monday – Friday 11-7:30          Saturday – Sunday 11-4

Email:  Carmi Cimicata, Social Media and Marketing Manager

carmi.cimicata@johnbead.com

Just in time for summer, we are excited to announce that Tropical Punch, a hot product line inspired by the colors and flavors of Brazil, will now be available in our Outlet!
Our Tropical Punch product line translates the trendy colors of Brazil, the sensuous style of Brazilian women and also its coolness and joyful vibe.
We’ll be posting gorgeous finished projects on Facebook all month!

This fabulous necklace by Nancy Donaldson is a showcase for our new Metal Complex Stitched Nappa Leather collection.

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We have 15 fantastic solid and mixed print colours to choose from.  Nappa leather is available in two sizes; 3mm and 5mm.

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Nancy choose three stitched nappa leather cords to work with.

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12 gauge aluminum wire was used to secure the necklace shape and to add some additional detail.

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The necklace was finished with a magnetic closure.  This heart magnetic closure is also new to the Leather Works collection.DSC07273

This flat leather bracelet is so easy to make and allowed me to upcycle some buttons I removed from an old jacket.

These Edelweiss buttons were too pretty not to keep.  They’ve been in my button box for many years because of their unique shape.  They were originally set on a piece of decorative leather on my jacket and I knew that one day I would set them again.

  

I used two flat leather pieces for the bracelet.

You can see that I simply slid the buttons onto two pieces of flat leather I lined up.  Then I glued the leather into the hook and eye buckle.

These glue in components allow you to make jewelry so quickly.

The curved buckle clasp sits nicely on my wrist and my buttons are beautifully showcased.

Flat leather and components are 50% off this month in the Outlet.