1. Grab your favorite place

Find the place you like best. A place that enables you to be and feel creative. I like the places best where I have natural light and easy access to a coffee maker, and that´s usually my kitchen table. :) Now you´re ready to begin beading. Chose a jewelry, for instance, to make a necklace, bracelet, or earrings. Even if you begin making a bracelet and it turns into a necklace, that´s just fine. The most important thing is to take action and get started!

2. Don´t reinvent the wheel

If you’re in a hurry to make a piece, don’t reinvent the wheel… Use techniques and materials you know well, you will be more relaxed and you might be able to further develop prior design ideas. Save artistic experiments for when there is more time.

3. Use beads that excite you

Trust your common sense. If you are really excited about trying some new beads, use them in your design. The positive energy might speed things up. And you´re still able to use your past experience and techniques to finish a wonderful piece.

4. Steal colors

Choosing colors doesn’t have to be difficult, if you know were to look! Inspiration can come from anywhere. Look at items you like, a label on a drinking bottle, what is it that you like about it?  Look at items you like, a label on a drinking bottle, what is it that you like about it? Does it have any color combinations that attracts your eye? This applies to ideas about shape as well. Check magazines, both pictures and advertisements. Remember that it´s the colors you´re interested in. Another good idea is to simply surf the internet for the latest color trends. Fashion has lots of great inspiration color-wise and there are special pantone’s sites that offers samplings of the hottest design colors.

5. Play and Have fun!

Use your bead stash as a painter uses a paint palette: pick out various beads, findings next to one another, try them together, move them around and imagine what you see. Usually I consider color themes and shapes first. Then I figure out how I´m going to assembly everything technically.

Get on with it!

Are you:

…in your favorite place?

…determined not to reinvent the wheel?

…excited about your beads?

…prepared to steal colors?

…ready to play and have fun?

If that is 5 “Yes!” Then you are, regardless of the amount of pressure, ready to bead your next fabulous jewelry!

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