She is the author of Spotlight on Wire (2011), Metal Jewelry in Bloom (2013) and Beautiful Leather Jewelry (2014) and her work has been featured in Art Jewelry, BeadStyle, Stringing, Wirework, and Step-by-Step Wire magazines as well as Showcase 500 Art Necklaces. Dianas Jasmine Tea Designs Etsy shop fulfills her vision for an intimate boutique of handcrafted beaded kumihimo jewelry, ideas to share and kumihimo supplies, so you can do the same.
You can find over 100 different kits and over 120 tutorials in different levels from beginner to advance. She first tried macram back in the 1970s when plant hangers and owls were all the rage, then picked it up again about 8 years ago and hasn't stopped since. Growing up in a self-sufficient home where she learned needlework at a very young age, she specializes in unique statement jewelry made using gemstones, crystals, and seed beads, with a passion for Vintage components. TO SEE SOME OF MICHELE'S WORK CLICK HERE! Ella Des is a self-taught bead artist from Belgrade, Serbia. I love to discover all of their possibilities! She resides in the Greater Seattle area, where she calls Fusion Beads her teaching home. Her work has been published in magazines and advertisements. She enjoys incorporating unique textures and fibers, when possible, like metal stampings, porcupine quills and horsehair. Over time she developed her own designs trying to combine ancient traditions with hints of modern style. braid and hundreds of tiny beads. or visit her website www.sosassybysusansassoon.com. To see more of my work, please visit www.etsy.com/shop/Nchantme. Born and raised in Denmark she now lives in Israel where she regularly teaches jewelery making and soutache workshops. For the past 30 years she has worked with many types of media (e.g., fiber, acrylics, cake frosting, counted cross stitch, needlepoint, and most recently, beads). TO SEE SOME OF MELISSA'S WORK CLICK HERE! You can visit her at www.csbeaddesign.nl or on Facebook - facebook.com/csbeaddesign/". Her website is, Carol Dean Sharpe (aka Sand Fibers) is a self-taught bead artist who is best known for her flat peyote cuff work. I returned to my roots art, creativity and traveling. Her passion is designing new pieces and trying out color combinations. In 2014, she came across a beading store and her love for beading was born. Inspiration struck and 25 years later I am still designing and creating beaded beads! Her work has been in juried shows and on display in Europe and Japan. After seeing beaded jewelry in a magazine, my interest in beading was re-ignited! Anna Lindell is a self-taught bead artist from the Stockholm area in Sweden, who loves to create lifelike designs and share her passion for beads with others. She is a self-taught artist who began with French Beading, before moving on to off-loom bead-weaving and she still enjoys both styles today. Since then, she has started to make other kinds of jewelry as well and has started her own company named Kronbruden, Miriam Shimon is an award-winning Israeli bead work artist with a penchant for working with Soutache. Since graduating, she is almost always seen with beads and fiber in hand, a source of great joy in her life. The BeadSmith Inspiration Squad is a carefully selected unit of highly trained and lethally talented bead artists from around the world who want nothing more than to inspire you to beading greatness! In addition to creating her own products under her Create Recklessly brand, Melissa serves as a consulting design for Faux Bone and is on the design team for Patrik Kusek's Woodland Chic.
She uses almost every beading technique and combines them within her pieces as well as materials. Now, I love making beaded jewelry. Follow her as "Doodlebeader" on Instagram, too!. June began working seriously with beads in 1999 when she needed some jewelry to go with a new outfit. Miriam Shimon is an award-winning Israeli bead work artist with a penchant for working with Soutache. Isabella believes that if you are interested in giving beads a try, she will help you create elegant and unique beadwork jewelry which will most certainly get you noticed. In regards to creating jewelry, I'm basically self-taught. The biggest source of inspiration is nature and plants, and her jewelry often has soft curves rather than strict lines. TO SEE SOME OF APOLLINARIYA'S WORK CLICK HERE! She has her own Etsy shop and web site, A self-taught bead artist living in Alberta, Carolyn enjoys the endless creativity derived from stringing and stitching little round shiny things with holes in them. Carol Dean Sharpe (aka Sand Fibers) is a self-taught bead artist who is best known for her flat peyote cuff work. Denisa has won or was placed in top positions in several beading contests. 
Over the years I taught myself to bead, from just stringing (with a bit of wirewrapping) beads, bead embroidery and then to beadweaving! That was the spark that renewed her passion for jewelry making and she has been beading every day since 2013. TO SEE SOME OF DIANA'S WORK CLICK HERE! She was born and lives in the Czech Republic with her American husband and two little children. You can visit her at, When a friend in my hometown opened a bead shop in the early 1990s I discovered seed beads and bead weaving. In 2012 the beading changed from a hobby into a full-time job. After having three children, she decided to be a stay-at-home mom and during this time she re-discovered the joys of various creative arts as a way to entertain not only her kids but herself as well. Anna loves mixing materials and techniques into story-telling beadwork, shes curious about everything and feels there is always new things to learn and people to meet. 
That being said, I am inspired by fine jewelry and I love to use some gold or silver in my pieces. Both can be great qualities in a micro macrame artist! Now, I love making beaded jewelry. She is fascinated by the translation of techniques between materials and shares this love with students in her workshops around the world. I learned to mix the best of both worlds, mixing shapes and textures that I can see in nature or in buildings, and as a Caribbean I like color and be risky with their combinations.. In general, the structures of my jewelry are simple with just a few types of beads in them. At the end of 2012 I began writing my first tutorial, Star of Kallista, and opened my Etsy store, I am a jewelry designer, a writer and a passionate traveler and adventurer. She began sewing with great enthusiasm and stumbled across soutache and beads in a sewing ideas project. You can find Betty travelling throughout the US with her husband in their RV and exhibiting her intricate pieces at fine craft shows during the summers. She stumbled upon beads entirely by accident back in 2003, whilst she was on long-term sick leave from her job as a management consultant. Martha Mollichella studied jewelry design and goldsmithing at the Art Institute of Rome where she graduated as an art teacher in 1991. Her passion is designing new pieces and trying out color combinations. Ask Amee K. Sweet-McNamara why her fine-art jewelry business is called "Amee Runs with
Barbara Lepakstarted beading in 2013, though her mum introduced her to the craft and joys of embroidery in her childhood, bronze and silver jewelry design elements are being hand cast by a small art casting company here in the United States.
She has been published in Bead Trends, Perlen Posie, Bead Unique and Beadwork magazines where she was one of the Designers of the Year 2014. In regards to creating jewelry, I'm basically self-taught. Shes been in the Battle of the Beadsmith since beginning, her work has been published in several magazines of which Bead & Jewellery Magazine is the most regular, and was featured with her Wicker Bangle design in one of Starmans ads during her time as a Starman Trendsetter. Visit her website: www.marthamollichella.com. She can be reached at [emailprotected]. I am a jewelry designer, a writer and a passionate traveler and adventurer. Leslie Rogalski (aka Sleepless Beader) is the creative director for The BeadSmith and a BeadSmith Inspiration Squad designer. The necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and headpieces are inspired by foreign cultures, special places, persons, feelings and much more. He has created many designs and kits to be made on his loom and is also a frequent guest on JTV's Jewel School. At the age of 29 I sold my successful bead shop in Bratislava, Slovakia. June Malone is an artist who has worked with a variety of materials and media. Examples of her beadwork designs are displayed on her web site: Patricia Parker is an award-winning seed bead artist who has participated in the Battle of the Beadsmith since 2014. About three years ago, I started blogging & posting pictures of my beadworkonline at, Laura studied and worked in the art and photography field from a very young age until being diagnosed with Lupus in 2007. Her attention was attracted by those little sparkling pretty things named seed beads and she just channeled being disciplined in music into a different form of creative energy. Leslie Pope, a.k.a. Having left my profession of 20 years as a Librarian I was searching for an artistic medium that I could build a crafting business on.
So she worked in marketing and PR, but eventually decided to leave the rat race and sail around the world with her husband. Rangashrii lives in Atlanta, GA with her son and husband and two very spoiled cats. She can be reached at. About ten years ago I came in contact with beads, during a small workshop at my job. You can reach her at. My designs are more about my desire to bring out the unique beauty of the beads and the woman, rather than having a signature style. Her work has been published in the Perlen Poesie and in Bead Art & Embroidery magazines. Joannes work is mostly inspired by the sea and by her home, the Mediterranean Island of Malta. Today Norma Jean has created more than 150 tutorials that have been sold all over the world. TO SEE SOME OF RANGASHRII'S WORK CLICK HERE! Her creations are inspired by a wide variety of things the colors and shapes of the natural world, works of vintage and antique beaded art, the encouraging comments of her family, and the many hours spent composing with needle, beads and thread. This was before the internet world we now inhabit, so, being a Librarian, I searched out every book about seed bead weaving I could identify. Her business is devoted to BEADS and FIBER and offers a wide range of seed beads, threads and supplies that support the creation of BEADED WEARABLE ART. Kerstin Kallin lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her husband and two small children. In addition to my bead-related work, I also work for 18 hours a week in health care for disabled people. Her hobbies are reading and gardening and she loves board games. Anne came to jewelry design via ceramics. This was before the internet world we now inhabit, so, being a Librarian, I searched out every book about seed bead weaving I could identify. Katie has reached the finals of beading competitions in the UK and internationally, winning Best in Show at the British Bead Awards in 2010. She aims for designs that are accessible for many different types of women, from the young college student who just wants playful adornments to the business woman who needs accessories that will go from business to dinner. Over the past ten years, she has taught numerous classes based on her designs in Georgia and Tennessee. I love to discover all of their possibilities! Kerstin Kallin lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her husband and two small children. You can find her designs and kits at www.shriidesignsllc.com or follow her on Instagram @shriidesigns. He and his wife, Charlene, (and their two cats) currently divide their time between their summer home in the beautiful Black Forest region of Colorado and their winter home in the desert of Casa Grande, Arizona. She was awarded Malta's National Artisan Award for 2014. A gypsy spirit: longing to see all the close and distant corners of the world and transform the impressions into beaded and written memories. Diana is a founding member and an instructor for The American Kumihimo Society. A self-taught beader whose unique designs has earned her a spot as a renowned teacher in her country as well as abroad and been featured in countless magazines and exhibitions. She began with stringing and beadweaving but has experience with many different jewelry making techniques including chain maille, soutache, bead embroidery, macrame, and wirework. Her Golden Bear design was a finalist in an international bead show in 2004. makes one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable-art textile-jewelry using a technique called Initially she created simple strung jewelry that matched the character of various outfits of hers. You can follow her blog at www.cielodesign.blogspot.com. TO SEE SOME OF SHARRI'S WORK CLICK HERE! I sell my finished beaded beads, jewelry, tutorials and kits through my Etsy shop. Smith Most Saleable Daywear award for her senior design collection of beaded knitwear. TO SEE SOME OF ISABELLA'S WORK CLICK HERE! You can follow her blog at, Betty Stephan's mom was a seamstress and taught Betty and each of her 4 sisters how to sew at an early age. Follow her as "Doodlebeader" on Instagram, too! I enjoyed the class but did not pursue beading until a few years ago. 
Visit her web site www.jasmineteadesigns.com, Facebook page facebook.com/JasmineTeaDesigns, and Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/JasmineTeaDesigns. With a history of exploring arts and crafts going all the way back to her childhood when she "helped" in her grandmother's ceramic shop, Sherri has a varied background. You can find more of Micheles beautiful designs in her etsy shop -, Rangashrii Santhanam is an award-winning designer who started beading in 2009. She aims for designs that are accessible for many different types of women, from the young college student who just wants playful adornments to the business woman who needs accessories that will go from business to dinner. Joannes work is mostly inspired by the sea and by her home, the Mediterranean Island of Malta. She decided to learn everything there was to know about beadwork including knitting and crocheting with beads. She has been published in several books and magazines, and won numerous awards for her work around the world. She has tried her hand at many different mediums including cross-stitch, cake decorating, candle making and stained glass. Paul is the inventor of The Ricks Beading Loom, exclusively distributed by The BeadSmith. Now she has her own online bead store where she sells patterns, kits and beading supplies. Visit Carolyns Facebook page: Lady Beadle Designs or visit her website: www.ladybeadledesigns.com! This is both a frustrating and exhilarating way to fill in the spare moments of her very full days as a wife, mother of three young ladies, and musician. I look everywhere for inspiration and then create from within. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband, has an Etsy shop, and has started teaching her designs. Creativity has always played a large role in her life, from sewing clothes for Barbie at a young age, to experimenting with a wide variety of arts and crafts; from earning a Degree in Music and playing several instruments, to making jewelry. The materials are often sterling silver, freshwater pearls and glass beads of high quality. Seven more (and counting!) Then her life took a new direction. She worked outdoors for many years in her youth which inspired her to use rich and vibrant color schemes in her graphics. After leaving a fulfilling and rewarding career managing an eyewear distribution company, Helena decided to fulfil her dreams to have a career in beading. Katie has also been published in numerous beading magazines, including, Christina Neit, aka Good Quill Hunting, is a born-and-bred Mainer and proud parent of four children. Sherri Stokey is an admitted jewelry junkyand slight perfectionistwith a slightly obsessive personality. She travels with her beads as much as possible. For the past 30 years she has worked with many types of media (e.g., fiber, acrylics, cake frosting, counted cross stitch, needlepoint, and most recently, beads). It wasn't until she was in her 50s that Betty combined this skill with the art of beadwork in the form of bead embroidery. She started to make jewellery in 1992. Her designs have been published in magazines such as Beadwork and Bead and Jewelry. She has her own Etsy shop and web site, ellad2.com. 
You can find her designs and kits at www.shriidesignsllc.com or follow her on Instagram @shriidesigns. Prior to her retirement as a VA psychologist in 2012, she beaded part time. Her work has been published in Bead&Button and Beadwork magazines, and she has been a winner in multiple categories of BeadStar every year since 2011. A predominantly self-taught artist, Helena specializes in tiny seed beads using many off-loom techniques to create colourful, exquisite beaded creations. Chris, Dave and their three dogs currently make their home near Denver, Colorado. Her hobbies are reading and gardening and she loves board games. She has been published in several books and magazines, and won numerous awards for her work around the world. Norma Jean Dell started bead weaving in 2008 and quickly progressed to creating her own bead woven designs and formed njdesigns in 2009. Now she is able to bead and develop kits full time. She travels with her beads as much as possible. She has always had a passion for art, but just began her beading journey in 2011. She studied Fine Art at Kutztown University and has been certified an Accredited Jewelry Professional by the Gemological Association of America. Her love for her craft is contagious, as her ever-growing list of happy customers will attest. Beadwork became her profession over the years; creating new designs of beaded jewelry using new beads in unique combinations is always an opportunity for challenge. She stumbled upon beads entirely by accident back in 2003, whilst she was on long-term sick leave from her job as a management consultant. That being said, I am inspired by fine jewelry and I love to use some gold or silver in my pieces. After many years of artistic studies, Marthas passions have changed and evolved. She has taught from coast to coast and continues to welcome invitations to both teach and design custom pieces. I design one-of-a-kind art jewelry. Currently she is a board member of the Bead Society of Eastern Pennsylvania, and teaches classes at the national bead shows.
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