tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29231479513268559122024-02-19T09:37:12.224+01:00AIF DesignLilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-88542098493758435822015-02-16T03:26:00.001+01:002015-02-16T03:26:46.903+01:00Necklace: SerenityFirst off I would like to wish everyone a late happy new year as this is my first blog post of 2015 :)<br />
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Secondly... :d<br />
I can now finally share my latest necklace I've created. It was especially created for a challenge held by the FB group "Beaders United", and we weren't allowed to showcase the pieces before they had been posted on the group page.<br />
The challenge was called "Bead Supportive". We pick any kind of non-profit organization to get inspired by.<br />
The organization that inspired me was "Respect" (respect.co.uk), which is a non-profit organization consisting of men and women whom are working together against domestic violence.<br />
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I was exposed at a very early age in my home to domestic violence, and it's definitely something I feel strongly about as I've grown to really detest violence in general.<br />
Instead of going straight towards the rather obvious and dark theme of the subject, I rather choose to use the feeling/s and experiences (from those around) I've seen and personally felt as well ones you/they get away from that situation.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-19044944374013169782014-12-17T01:50:00.000+01:002014-12-17T01:50:19.626+01:00My Reason for Being very InactiveI thought I would come out from the shadows on this part. I've been meaning to write this post some weeks ago but I haven't really been that much in the mood.<br />
Some of you probably have noticed that I haven't been much active on any of the social media platforms I'm usually hanging out on, of course there's a reason for everything.<br />
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A lot has happened during the the past 6 months. Both positive and negative.<br />
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Me and my now husband got married on 30th of August and then he was able to take three weeks vacation and we spent all that time with each other, just enjoying each others company. <br />
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A few weeks later I got to hear about my grandfather, which has been like a father to me during my childhood. I haven't really seen him since I moved to Belgium, and last time when we were up on vacation I wasn't able to see him. We had planned on meeting him on the Sunday before we would travel further to see my aunt (who lives 4 hours south east, if you travel by car), but he couldn't make it back to his home on time to meet us...<br />
Since a few years back he's been kinda sick; feeling very nauseous and throwing up saliva each morning. He's been going to the doctors for a while trying to find a reason for his symptoms, but nothing until that month after our wedding.<br />
I called my aunt and she said that the doctors had called back about the x-rays (which they did on his head), which they took some weeks before I called her this time.<br />
He has a tumor...<br />
They didn't know at this point if it's a bad one or a good one... He also got an appointment with a specialist in Umeå for a consultation, which he had to wait for for almost two months.<br />
Then my whole family had to play the waiting game.<br />
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Two weeks ago I called my aunt since I knew it was about that time she would have followed him to the specialist since I had spoken to her some days earlier as well.<br />
We still don't know if it's a good one or a bad one.<br />
The specialist said he had three options to choose from; he could just go on like normal without doing anything, but keep going to checkups and take medication against his nausea, but the tumor -might- grow.<br />
The second option was to have an operation to put in a "wire" that leads from his head into his stomach, since he has water in his head as well.<br />
The final option is to remove it, which the specialist himself recommended, and also is the option he choose. The operation is risky, and the specialist said he was gonna try to get it done in January or February, but it could delay till March.<br />
So we're all doing the waiting game. Again.<br />
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Since it's almost the end of the year I wanted to share a bit of myself with you, my readers, and keep you somewhat updated to what has been going on.<br />
If I don't blog against before 2015, which I'm pretty sure I won't. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and hope you all get a moment together with all those you cherish and love. Never take them for granted.<br />
I also wish you a wonderful beginning of the new year, 2015.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-58896973652306455262014-07-31T14:39:00.001+02:002014-07-31T14:39:21.287+02:00Update and the rest of my BOTB14 picsSo yeah, to my disappointment I didn't make it further to the next round of Battle of the Beadsmith. It was the very first time I participated in it and I wasn't really expecting my piece to go further.<br />
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It happened weeks ago, and the moment I found out that I didn't go through, I'm not gonna deny it, I felt really, really sad and even ended up shedding some tears. I haven't posted an update showing the rest of the photos I had taken due to a couple of reasons. This is one. I felt that I needed some time to think and reflect, pick myself up and just move one. The world doesn't end cause of one bump on the road, it just takes a moment to pick up the pieces.<br />
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The other reason to why I haven't posted anything is cause we're planning a wedding in a month (30th of August at 13.00 to be precise). <br />
Exciting, but very stressful. I have to admit that I also felt a bit sad over that situation (not the wedding itself, don't get me wrong! lol), I was expecting to have my side completely empty. That turned around tho as my aunt and uncle called me on skype about two weeks ago and let me know that my uncle is sending both my aunt and my mom down in time for the wedding. So yes, I feel a lot more happier and a lot more excited.<br />
For those that are following me on FB, Twitter and Instagram, you would probably have noticed the wip photos I've been posting of the necklace I'm gonna wear. If you're not already following me on any of those sites, just look up "AIF Design"; either with a space or not.<br />
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I've also began to upload a couple of Youtube videos on my channel after getting such a great response on the "make your own glass cabochons" tutorial that I just decided to make after I got a few requests on how to make them from people that have been seeing me post my own on the various social media sites I'm hanging around.<br />
I've recently finished a bangle patterns that I'm gonna film as soon as I get my wedding necklace done. Then I have a couple of other video tutorials planned. If any of you, my precious readers, have any suggestions and ideas on tutorials that you would wish me to make, you leave a comment in the comment section and I'll see what I can do :)<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-53829231852658143452014-06-26T13:40:00.000+02:002014-06-26T13:40:00.456+02:00Battle of the Beadsmith 2014As all of the BOTB entries have been posted in their facebook group, sorted battle-wise in folders I can now share my entry with you. I'm also gonna share a little bit of the process I went though to create these.<br />
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It took some thinking before I decided on making a pair of finger-less gloves. At first I was pondering about making a huge statement necklace, but that was going "maybe, maybe not", since I expected most of the entries to be necklace. Nothing wrong with that before you think anything, heh. A huge amount of stunning piece were sent in and I just feel in awe and honorable to be able to be a part of the contestants.<br />
The reason to why I decided on making a pair of gloves is that I wanted to try something different. Also, my own personal favorite accessory to wear are gloves.<br />
I first started on making the pattern I would use. I know how the essentials of constructing a glove works, and I've been sewing a couple of them years ago before I began beading.<br />
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Anyway. The graphic idea of the piece got into my head as I was listening to the book "World of Warcraft: Stormrage". And I decided to use the essence itself of the story to make a graphic impact.<br />
I decided on using black matte beads for the base color, and then pair it up with different shades of green. My purpose in using the black matte was to get the green beads to "pop", and I'm very happy in how the result turned out.<br />
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One thing that kept bugging me in the beginning was how to make the gloves close and be able to fit on most types of hands. After some time of pondering over that question the idea of making a corset binding on the opposite side of the thumb came to mind, and that is how I ended up making the "closure". And yep, it really works. So I'm really happy with that.<br />
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Before I even began the piece I used some of my contacts to trying to find a model for the photos. And hear, hear, I was really excited and happy when I got the call back from my mother in law that she had found one.<br />
During the very last week of the deadline she was free and I was able to take some awesome photos of her wearing them. And I'm so happy and grateful that she was willing to pose for me wearing my beady gloves. Without her, I really don't think I would have been able to display them as well as they are displayed in the photos ♥<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-48420882053865252992014-06-20T12:47:00.000+02:002014-06-20T12:47:53.228+02:00"Child of Night" up on EbayI decided to take a leap of faith and put up the necklace "Child of Night" on Ebay yesterday.<br />
If anyone is interested just follow this link -> <a href="http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/231263013567?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649">http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/231263013567?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649</a> :)<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-78808106541205283942014-06-12T17:20:00.000+02:002014-06-12T17:20:06.112+02:00Two Necklaces and my BOTB 14 is done!After I completed my Battle of the Beadsmith piece I decided that I wanted to take a little breather from anything bead related, but only for a short moment, really.<br />
I managed to get my hands on a wonderful model who was willing to pose wearing my piece, so I'm really, really happy with the end result and with the photos of course. I sent the mail to Steven (the person who is taking care of the "battle" arrangements etc.) and everything is in order. Now all of us just have to wait till we are allowed to show the photos, which happens after they're up on the FB group of BOTB. I'm really excited and curious what everyone else have created and I'm so looking forward to see all the pieces!<br />
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Enough of that! :)<br />
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I managed to complete two necklaces after I finished my battle piece and I wanted to share them with you...<br />
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A couple of weeks ago, in April, I decided to take a little short break from my battle piece and play around with some polymer clay and I ended up making a violet. Violets are one of my favorite flower. I think it has to do with the facts that my grandmother had a very small spot in her garden were she had planted some seeds a long time ago, and each summer they would pop up and bloom with a wonderful, vibrant violet color with yellow accents. I remember that I never picked them, but instead I used to lay down on the grass right next to them, smell them and just look at them.<br />
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I ended up linking the violet I made in clay so much I decided to make a rather simple necklace of it. I didn't want to take away too much focus from the flower so I used a lot of black matte seed beads with some iridescent green Swarovski crystals.<br />
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The second necklace I began to make after one day from when I completed my battle piece. The plan was to make this necklace for my mother on Mother's Day. Of course it was one week later (last Sunday of May in Sweden) than the day when I managed to complete it and send it with the post. But at least she got something, heh... Well, everyone in my family knew I was gonna be a bit absent and work on my battle piece as I told them so...<br />
The necklace I made for my mom is a very huge difference from what I normally do. I rarely work with suck opaque colors when it comes to beads, but as the focal piece is that tiger/cat cab (which I also made with polymer clay), the colors looked so good together with the tiger.<br />
Speaking of the tiger... or cat... Yes, I made it as well with polymer clay. I wanted to make something a bit more personal for my mother and I had asked her a couple of weeks ahead what animal she likes and her answer was tiger or lion. So I decided to try my hands more at sculpting and made the focal myself. I'm not sure how others see it, but to me, the "tiger" looks like a hybrid between a tiger and a cat. Maybe the eyes? *shrug* Always something to work on in the future, none the less :)<br />
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I'm also gonna mention that the beaded chain on both piece are inspired by Nancy Dale's "Wrap-bracelet" technique, which appears in one of the early numbers of "Digital Beading Magazine Australia". <br />
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Decided to share this little "sneaky peak" photo that I shared on instagram and FB about a week ago. Yes, the photo is blurred out on purpose and then I've been playing with the color filter etc. just to tease since a lot of battlers do these "tease" photos every year since the beginning of the competition, heh.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-11228205487475442302014-03-18T23:16:00.002+01:002014-03-18T23:16:36.125+01:00Polymer Clay, Bangle Obsession and BOTB 2014I thought I would make a little quick update on what I've recently been up to... :)<br />
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So yeah, I caught the polymer clay bug really big time these last two weeks, and I've been a bit obsessed with making a couple of bangles which I'm sharing in this post.<br />
I've been wanting to create polymer clay bangles for quite some time, but the thing that has always kept me at bay from it was that I didn't have any bangle bases to work with - they cost about 3-5 euros depending on where I buy them from and what sizes I want.<br />
So what made me finally create bangles?<br />
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I'm a member of a couple of different beading and polymer clay groups on FB and one of the polymer clay groups, which mostly focuses on sharing tutorials (free or those that costs moneh), a lovely lady shared her way on how to make bangle bases from scraps of clay. Yes, I decided to take pretty much all the scrap clay I had put a side and ended up creating a couple of different ones in rather unregular sizes - I only eyed them, I didn't measure them to 100% accurate, which wasn't needed anyway as the shapes ended up looking great.<br />
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Due to my recent, greater journey into polymer clay I've been thinking about creating another blog which only would put focus on my polymer clay creations. I'm just wondering if I should make the blog now, or wait till after this years vacation to Sweden, we'll see.<br />
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This year I'm also very happy to announce that I'm participating in "Battle of the Beadsmith 2014", and there about two weeks left until I finally can begin my battle piece.<br />
Gosh, I'm actually starting to get nervous as I really hope I can keep up with the time (have two months, but you never know!).<br />
I finally have somewhat of an idea what I want to create and I really hope I can stick with the plan and that it will turn out as I want it to *crosses fingers*.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-4958918785592555862014-03-13T14:53:00.000+01:002014-03-13T14:53:04.492+01:00Bead Embroidery Fractal Necklace II<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSnL2aIn0SmymcVT30kEKyHvsAaJzA8t-H6Tt0Q4Zyn-UfNhMg-3up3ophhyn07OCE2l9GfO6BU2oJ48BcdGVvFk056vLA7aWfhLdeNo-UqwqE-AY4FAyzWU40y7jXtnZZpTRfqpoTTi3/s1600/fractalnecklace2-+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSnL2aIn0SmymcVT30kEKyHvsAaJzA8t-H6Tt0Q4Zyn-UfNhMg-3up3ophhyn07OCE2l9GfO6BU2oJ48BcdGVvFk056vLA7aWfhLdeNo-UqwqE-AY4FAyzWU40y7jXtnZZpTRfqpoTTi3/s1600/fractalnecklace2-+004.JPG" height="640" width="412" /></a>So, yeap! I made another necklace using two of the fractal cabochons I created a couple of weeks ago. I decided to use two, since well, they are the same fractal I just decided to render them with different color scheme when I created them in Apophysis.<br />
The fractals are placed against a black background so I decided to stick to black pretty much throughout when it came to my bead choices. I just decided to use some similar colored beads here and there + the fringe to give it a little extra something.<br />
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When it came to the fringe, I didn't want something too basic, so I decided to make a few strips in peyote, herringbone, spiral stitch and raw. It was fun doing the fringe like that as I could just play around with each one of the shapes in the fringe one at a time until I got something I ended up liking.<br />
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This is the first piece I made, and I feel really encouraged to make more.<br />
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I'm including the piece I made a cabochon from. Saying that, I didn't use the whole image, but just a portion of it as I worked the resolution of ti really high and getting a lot of the details from it made the cabochon look a lot better. Sorry for the water stamp in the middle of the image, but I'm really paranoid as I've seen a lot of people making their own cabochons using other people's artwork and then make money from them! So yes, I would like to avoid that... A lot of work went into making the fractals, there are not just pieces that I tossed together but a lot of hours and ma thematic calculations went into making them.<br />
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So on to the necklace design...<br />
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I wanted to keep it fairly simple so I just used bead embroidery for the pendant itself, and then I added a St. Petersburg chain, which is one of my very favorite chains to make. And my stubborn arse wanted to make it very sleek so I used 15/0 seed beads for it, which, gah, made it took a lot longer to make.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-87244750246160902592014-02-15T15:46:00.000+01:002014-02-15T15:46:16.659+01:00Necklace: NovaeI just managed to finish up my latest necklace that I've been working on. For those that are following me on instagram, I've been posting some progress photos ones in a while as I've been progressing on this one.<br />
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When I created this piece I had both a plan and not a plan. As far as I had planned the design was where I wanted the dichroic glass cabochon to be and also where the five spangled glass cabs should go. I measured them out and glued them, bezel them and then I pretty much worked everything else free-form. I stopped when I had a shape I was happy with, which took a while as I kept on changing my ideas and trying out new ones.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-35418091843478571622014-02-11T12:56:00.001+01:002014-02-11T12:56:42.961+01:00My very first video tutorialSo I had a few requests on my instagram, after posting some photos of my own glass eye cabochons and people wondering if I could make a tutorial for them.<br />
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Well, after pondering some time, I decided to make the tutorial into a video one since I thought it would be a lot simpler then doing a step by step photo tutorial. Also we bought a HD cam almost two years ago when we went to our vacation to Sweden, so might as well use the darn thing instead of letting it stand still and collect dust.<br />
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I noticed that I mumble <b>A LOT</b>, lol. Something I need to work on it seems, heh :P<br />
Might do more vid tutorials in the future since this one got me a bit hooked up, lol.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-9993926284346836282014-01-28T21:14:00.002+01:002014-01-28T21:14:35.808+01:00Necklace: Child of NightAs most of you probably know by now, I'm a sucker for everything fantasy related. This time I also chose my source of inspiration to come from the world of film.<br />
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Anyway, this stone I bought just screamed "Underworld" at me when I got it in my hands so of course I had to do something related to that.<br />
Main idea for what I had in mind was to put some focus on blood, as the blood is very important on both the vampire and the werewolf side. I used a mother of pearl disc bead to give some hint to the werewolf aspect as well, as blood is most related to vampires in most sagas.<br />
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I wanted the piece to be wearable with just a simple t-shit and jeans so I made the chain longer, approx. 60cm (23.6").<br />
It's been a while since I've worked with gunmetal colored beads, but I really enjoyed going back to that as I'm personally a sucker for metallic colored beads in general, heh.<br />
I actually enjoyed working with this piece so much that I ended up creating a matching ring that goes with the theme, mainly using those 8,6,4mm round Czech glass beads in gunmetal. It really created a cool texture scalloping them like that :)<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-30290404124635608302014-01-27T14:39:00.001+01:002014-01-27T14:39:51.211+01:00Necklace: Grendel & Free-form ProcessThe inspiration for this necklace comes from the story and also from the 3D animated movie Beowulf. A lot of it is focused around the monster aspect of the story, therefore I choose to call it "Grendel".<br />
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I want to share my process with you, my lovely readers, my experiences when it comes to working with and creating a free-form bead embroidered necklace. I'm gonna also explain how I worked the free-form bead embroidered bracelet I posted some weeks ago and how I took what I learned from that and made it work for a necklace.<br />
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I then used that template and drew it onto the foundation. Why did I do this for a free-form piece? Simple, I wanted to see how far I could work to have it somehow end up perfectly on the wrist. That is the only guideline I had, the rest is 100% free-form. I chose a focal I liked then some smaller cabochons which I liked with where the design was going.<br />
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So for the necklace!<br />
I principal is pretty much the same. The only difference is that I cut out a 14cm in diamater circle and drew that out on my beading foundation. What's it circle for? The circle determines where the neck is gonna be on the necklace. What I did was also to measure out the center of it, so I would have some sort of idea where to go.<br />
I placed the focals I had chosen on places where I personally thought it would look neat and glued ONE piece down, and then I began to bead. When it comes to free-form and placing focal pieces such as cabochons, I always choose to glue them down one by one, and with that i mean that after I glue down one I let it dry and then I bezel it with beads (ex. peyote). After that I move on to the next focal. See, when I was working free-form I hadn't decided where anything would be at all and therefore I chose to place my materials down slowly.<br />
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You can probably see on my "Grendel" necklace that there are two separate pieces and not one solid. After I had finished the left side of necklace I began to look at the piece and experiment with the focal pieces I had on what I wanted to do for the right side, and I ended up making them separates. Just an impulse decision!
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-71158479885772739642014-01-04T21:21:00.002+01:002014-01-04T21:21:48.338+01:00Some New Polymer Clay Cabochons!Earlier today I ended up taking a little break from the necklace I'm working on, and I ended up playing with polymer clay.<br />
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For these ones I had a pretty basic idea that I started out with; I just wanted to make a sort of marbleized effect on some basic oval and round shapes. So what i did first was use some scrap clay and first put those in molds. Then I took the colors I wanted to work with and mixed them up and then ran them through the pasta-machine a couple of times till I had a nice surface I wanted to cut out.<br />
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So what then?<br />
The cabs really just looked plain at this point, and I ended up being in the mood to do something different with them. I took some of the new clay tools I recently purchased and ended up playing with different types of textures. And in the end... I ended up embellishing most of them with some 2.2mm Swarovski chatons - who can resist a little sparkle? lol...<br />
And yes, working and trying to place those small 2.2mm chatons was really just annoying sometimes, lol.<br />
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<i>I would also like to add in this blog post that I read every comment I get, and I appreciate them very much. Sometimes I'm in that mood where I'm not always in the mood to make a reply. </i><br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-27899171918642922042014-01-03T19:30:00.000+01:002014-01-15T18:52:15.268+01:00Video Slideshow and Free-form BraceletFirst off, I would like to wish everyone a happy 2014! :D<br />
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Second, I put together another video slideshow of the pieces I made following the period from this summer to the end of 2013.<br />
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I've also been in the mood for quite some time to create a free-form bracelet with bead embroidery, I've just been lazy. Meaning I have figure out the basic size so it would actually fit around a wrist.<br />
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Since it's a new year and due to the facts that I had completed all the creations I wanted done I ended up taking one of my templates I have for creating bracelets that goes over a metal cuff. What I basically did was putting the template around my own wrist and eyeball how many extra centimeters I would be needing to add so it would look good and fit perfect together with a slide clasp.<br />
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I mainly measured out the center of the template and choose a focal I wanted to work with, in this case an Abalone cabochon. Then I fiddled through the glass eye cabochons I'd made myself some weeks ago. Yeah, I decided that to me, it's more affordable to buy clear glass cabs and then create my own eyes in PS since I have the skills for doing that + I have a really freaking awesome photo-printer, lol.<br />
For the pictures, I also got to use my brand new photo-tent that my sweet bf bought me last month. I don't have a table really where I can put it in my little studio, so I put it together for the moment at one of the living room tables, where it won't stay, obviously :p<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-33501369149507830952013-12-24T13:41:00.002+01:002013-12-24T13:41:30.016+01:00Merry Xmas & Happy New Year and a GIVEAWAY!I know I haven't been blogging a lot lately, my apologies. But yes, been very, very busy and I really haven't taken the spare time I have to blog, rather I prioritized my beading :)<br />
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My little way of saying thank you to everyone out there that love and support my work. Of course I would love to give each and everyone something, but that isn't possible.<br />
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So, what will you be able to win and how?<br />
<i>The necklace in the photo I added in this post is what I'm letting one random, lucky winner get.</i><br />
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<i>All you have to do is like my FB Page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/AIF-Design/180688462037899?bookmark_t=page" target="_blank">AIFDesign</a> like the correct photo and share it. When I've reached at least 100 likes I'll draw a random person from my like list.</i><br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-34363160712498854472013-11-08T15:59:00.001+01:002013-11-08T15:59:07.715+01:00Necklace: I BelieveSo the latest piece I created is this little necklace I made using, well mainly bead embroidery as usually.<br />
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At first I ended up picking out a filigree with a fairy motif that I've been having in my stash for ages, I think it was ones of the very first materials I ever bought, and then it just ended up staying there as I never found a purpose for it. So I ended up playing around with that and the rest of the focal pieces I had chosen to work with. Some I actually decided not to add when the piece began to take form.<br />
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I just <b>ADORE</b> the seed bead color I chose for this (<b>Toho #284</b> - gold lined aqua), but sadly it's so darn hard to find it from any supplier. I think I ordered the 20 gram I still had stored away from <b>Beadaholique.com</b>, that I ordered through <b>Amazon</b>. I've found another carrier of the color in EU that I'm gonna order from when the time comes. Sadly, I haven't found anyone what so ever that carries the color in other sizes then 11/0, and I need 15/0 as well! Ah, well...<br />
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For the chain I decided to make a <b>St. Petersburg</b> chain (one of my very favorite chain stitches), well two, as I wanted to attach each one of them to the upper parts of the pendant and create a V shape.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-47889287983015659842013-10-25T18:51:00.003+02:002013-10-25T18:51:40.999+02:00Necklace: Innocence & Nicole's Bead BackingA few months ago I purchased one of the fabulous cabochon packs from "<a href="http://www.wirwarkralen.nl/" target="_blank">Wir War Kralen</a>". The main reason really to why I purchased from them (haven't ordered from them before) is cause I saw that they have "Nicole's Beadbacking". Lots of ppl from the US. have been saying how great it is and how much more affordable it is compared to Lacy's Stiff Stuff, which is the beading foundation I use in my pieces.<br />
At their site you could choose to either order an A5 or and A4 size format, which is great since the A4 is a lot bigger then the biggest piece they sell of lacy's. Nicole's Beadbacking also comes in a variety of colors, which of course is the plus point; no more dying or permanent marker drawing. <br />
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So going over to the necklace I made with the Nicole's Beadbacking...<br />
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First off, the design concept for this one pretty much came over time, after playing around with the different materials that were included in the cabochon pack. I knew I wanted to make another necklace, so I first drew out a 14cm in diameter circle on a paper and calculated the center of the circle. Then I began to play around with the cabochons I had, placing them on various places and I also ended up adding some materials that I already had in my stash for some time that really fit with the rest.<br />
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For the first time I felt that I wanted to make a bead soup and use it as a primary material in the bead embroidery. Now, if you've seen any of my previous pieces you can pretty much see that a lot of them are color blocked in some basic way (basic in my opinion lol). I wanted to jump out of that comfort zone again and give myself a little bit of a challenge. I'm a bit of a perfectionist in the way my head works, so just starting to mix all the different seed bead colors in a bunch really scares me. What is worse is when I began to pick up the beads is that my brain is telling me pick up that color then that color after etc. when what I should really be thinking is "nothing" and just pick up the beads in random order.<br />
Well, I followed those guidelines I put out for myself, noticing that I was actually struggling with it as I was working. Still I think I did a pretty good job, so I'll give myself a little pat on the back, heh.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-17540172327781813842013-10-08T19:52:00.002+02:002013-10-08T19:52:42.317+02:00Necklace: Lady of Time & Glass EyesI realize I haven' t been blogging very often lately; I have to admit that I haven't really been in the mood. I've also been doodling off on a few larger pieces which I don't really find worth blogging about as it's nothing major.<br />
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I really felt, after I had finished it that I wanted to make a necklace of it, but I was stuck on what kind of necklace I wanted to make. So after picking out some matching materials and laying them out on a circle template I played around with the placement of the materials along with the face until I saw exactly what I wanted.<br />
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I'm absolutely in love with the Khaki iris (#2035) beads by Miyuki since I decided to stack up on that color in different sizes and shapes. I thought the color was a perfect complimentary color, not only for the polymer clay face but also for the other main materials I had chosen to work with.<br />
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Something that has, or is still going around are those gorgeous eye cabochons - I just LOVE them myself and I've purchased a couple of them from some sellers on Etsy.<br />
I've been wanting to try to make my own, but I haven't really had the required mats until now. I found a few sellers on Ebay whom are selling those clear glass cabochons for a very nice price/bulk so I decided to get myself some of those.<br />
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And now I've also got my photo printer working, and got my hands on some Canon photo paper so I decided to play around in Photoshop to make my own. Printed them out and glued them. I actually though that the ink on the paper would get smeared out from the glue, but it doesn't. I think it might have to do with the photo paper, not sure. Anyway, it was a success and thought I would share a photo of them.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-50588169045526655662013-08-19T14:00:00.000+02:002013-08-19T14:00:02.030+02:00Polymer Clay Cabochons & NecklacesOkey, so I've been taking some interests to those fabulous polymer clay cabochons with flower motives that I've been seen going around the web, and being used in different types of jewelry and accessories.<br />
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So yes, I finally took some time and decided on making my own. As I did I also thought I would use the Premo Poly Clay instead of the FIMO, which I've always have been using so far. Darn! I love Premo, and I wish I had a lot more. I found the Premo in Perles & Co.'s webshop, as the reason to why I have a load of FIMO is cause that is the most common brand they carry in hobby stores over here.<br />
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I'm sharing a few pictures of what I've made in polymer clay way...<br />
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I've also used two of the ones I created so far. They ended up as pretty simple necklaces. I didn't want to make something too complicated, as I know that too much can distract from another pieces; in this case I wanted to put focus on the polymer clay cabs so I kept it pretty simple design wise.<br />
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Currently I'm also working on a little different project where I also ended up using one of the yellow/green gradient flower cabs I made and posted in this blog-post. But I'm not gonna post any preview piccies of it, so I'll just wait until it's completed :)<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-55382557357617559622013-07-23T18:51:00.002+02:002013-07-23T18:51:20.989+02:00Playing with SoutacheI think it was last year I bought a couple of soutache braids in a few different colors, and I ended up making a pair of earrings that I... Well, lets be honest; I wasn't too happy with them as the braid ended up looking a bit "bulky" and I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to lines and curves; they have to be perfect!<br />
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I've seen that there's a very good book out there now, that got released this month; <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soutache-Bead-Inspirations-Anneta-Valious/dp/1454707577/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1FLKYIMCHGPZZ&coliid=I2V5EGUKQA0HLN" target="_blank">Soutache</a> by Anneta Valious. I'm probably gonna end up purchasing it when the budget allows me to, heh.<br />
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I have no idea what it was that suddenly awoke the interest to play around with soutache again, maybe I needed some variation from what I've been doing? *shrug*<br />
Anyhow, I suddenly remembered that I purchased a wonderful polymer clay cabochon on Etsy by the lovely Alexandra Chereches. Her Etsy shop is opened pretty recently, but she sells a lot of beautiful creations where she incorporates the stunning polymer clay cabochons she makes herself. She also has a few cabochons for sale. You can access her Etsy store by clicking <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyAccesories" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
I thought that the cabochons would look very good if I used it with soutache braid so I went and played around with the few colors I have of the braid until I ended up with a result that was pleasing to my own eye.<br />
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I'm probably gonna play around some more with soutache, not gonna wait as long as I did last time to pick up the braids tho, but I actually enjoyed working with this technique so there will most likely be more to come :)<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-57705425941116312292013-07-20T00:34:00.002+02:002013-07-20T00:34:45.991+02:00Hair Clip: Siren's Song & Rizo BeadsYeah, I just couldn't help myself...<br />
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I still had the materials out on my bead mat from my previous piece; Necklace: Siren's Song. The materials were really shouting at me inside my head that I should create a hair piece with them, in the similar style as my necklace. I haven't create too many hair pieces, and I ended up choosing to make a hair clip. I kinda had a silhouette in my mind that I wanted to bring to life - using a few of those mother of pearl discs that I included in the necklace.<br />
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I liked how the cube beads layered up and gave a lot of shine and a different kind of texture, the way I placed them in the necklace, so I wanted to keep that in the hair clip.<br />
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In the necklace I also added those (relative) "new" Rizo beads, just to experiment, and really see what sort of texture they could bring into bead embroidery. I know, the Rizo bead has been around now for at least some months now, but I'm always careful when I buy a new type of bead (don't ask me why, I just am), I mean... Questions starts to pop up in my head: What can I use them in? What colors should I pick? How many grams should I buy? etc. Sometimes I just go on instincts when I buy my beads and sometimes I actually has a plan when in comes to bead colors. I must admit I had exactly the same dilemma when those Twin beads were out last year. I only bought a couple of different colors and some of them I ended up using, some of them I still haven't touched. See were I am going with this?<br />
I've always found it handy to have a big stash and I still do, but what if you would end up getting that question in your head when you're about to buy beads; Will I ever end up using them? I mean, having beads stashed away that you'll never probably gonna use is just taking up unnecessary space.<br />
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Lilithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13908936132838172365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2923147951326855912.post-50909264468602528612013-07-06T12:45:00.000+02:002013-07-06T12:45:04.960+02:00Necklace: Siren's SongYesterday I managed to finish up my latest necklace piece and get a pretty decent photo of it...<br />
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I wanted to try something a little different when I created this necklace. Looking back at some of my previous designs I noticed that I've barely created any piece at all that contained a lot of stop stitch; when I've seen other bead artists creation I've noticed that the stop stitch provides a lot of texture to a piece and that is what I wanted to accomplish.<br />
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I also got my hands on some of those new Rizo beads and I wanted to try and see how they would look in bead embroidery if I would just basically stitch them down to the foundation. The result is pretty neat and it definitely created a whole new type of texture, almost like fish scales. Think I need to get my hands on some more of those and in different colors cause they really put me in the mood to experiment a bit more with 'em.<br />
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I also spent some hours at creating myself a new logo I could put on my photos ones they are ready and approved by myself to be put out on the internet, heh. So yeah, I actually had some fun going back to PS to play around and doodle with different ideas and then put them together into something I felt could last for quite some time.<br />
I created two different versions of the logo; the smaller version with less text and then a version that contains a bit more and is bigger.<br />
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