Tutorial - Face Cabachon

Stonebrashcreative has a great tutorial for shaping your own face cabachon. Check it out!

Basic Bead Stitches for Beaded Art Dolls

Rather than recreate tutorials that others have already done really well, I have searched for and listed them here for your convenience.


PEYOTE STITCH

First of all if you are going to use a face cabachon, you need to make sure it isn't going to fall off.
The peyote stitch is useful for attaching the face to the doll. It's also a nice filler stitch.

The shoes and mouth filler are Bocche stitch. The shirt is backstitch and the rest is peyote.

DOUBLE NEEDLE PEYOTE STITCH

RIGHT ANGLE WEAVE - RAW

I think this is very elegant as a filler stitch. To me RAW looks femine and peyote more masculine but are similar. You can also do so many fun things by varying the number and size of the beads.

The body is right angle weave using different sized beads.

The blue beads are RAW with Swarovski crystals in the center. The green around it on the leg is also RAW.

BOUCLE, BOCCHE, MOSS STITCH

Quick filler stitch, adds texture.

The skeleton face is done in Bocche stitch.

BACKSTITCH
Useful for basic bead embroidery stitches.



FRINGE
Can use for embellishments, or even better, hair!


LADDER
I use it to make tassels and little cobs of corn.


PICOT
Nice finishing stitch for edgings.

Hair Tutorial

Here is a quick and easy way to make cool hair. Choose a piece of fabric with cool color variations such as a batik. I used a fat quarter. Tear the fabric vertically trying to get 1/8 " strips. Fold the strips in half and sew to head. It works up really fast. (Although, I hestitate to try this with my own thinning hair!)

DOLL SWAP ANNOUNCEMENT

We're hosting a doll swap over in the 3D yahoo! group. We'll be swapping wee dolls, 4" maximum. (Don't you just love tiny treasures?) The last day to sign up for the swap is July 1 and swap dolls must be mailed by July 31. Dolls can be either two or three dimensional as long as the longest dimension is maximum 4 inches.

Come join the group and join in the fun!

CHALLENGE ANNOUNCEMENT - METAL/WIRE DOLL

We're hosting a challenge in the 3D yahoo! group. Come join the group and join in the fun! Pictures of your metal and/or wire doll must be submitted by August 31, 2009.

T Cut Accordian Journal

Take a piece of heavy paper that is 18 inches X 10.5 inches. Fold it in half one way and then the other. Continue folding until you have 8 squares as shown above.

You are now going to cut a T as shown above in the area with the black marker. As you can see this will create two flaps.















Fold the flaps back as shown above. These will be the front and back cover for the journal.
















Fold the top half behind. Now you are ready to fold your journal.

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Fold into an accordion and you are done :) If you want you can add signatures to it as well.