Marilyn, 2008, 62″ x 76″ patchwork, applique, beads and sequins

Artist: Andrea L. Stern
Business name: The Embellishment Cafe
Website & Blog:
Embellishment Cafe
Andi Beads blog

Beaded Fairies, Celestia, Regina and Luna, bead embroidery, hand painted faces, machine embroidered wings

How do you describe your work, Andi?
I work in a multitude of media but the main focus is always fiber. Each piece is made of discrete parts, whether it is an embroidery (individual stitches), quilt (individual patches) or beadwork (individual beads). I think I’ve always liked mosaics, the look of millions of tiny parts making a whole image. The Embellishment Cafe was …read more

Technique Tuesday!
I shared the steps I went through to make the beaded print block assemblage over on Jewelry & Beading last week. In case you’d like some more inspiration, you might want to check out Lisa Kokin’s site again

Make Art Monday!

I shared this little beaded assemblage about a week ago on Jewelry & Beading. It uses an antique print block as the base. It doesn’t seem to have any function that I can discern, so don’t ask me what it’s for

Belle Armoire Jewelry, published by Stampington, is now a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is January 15, 2008. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry with readers, we want to hear from you. Belle Armoire Jewelry covers a broad range of mediums, from art clay to polymer clay to found object to fiber to wire to beads and much, much more. Whether you are a creator of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches, pendants, rings or other jewelry, we welcome you to submit your artwork …read more

Rings & Things is offering a pdf tutorial on making an adorable ornament for your tree or wreath, featuring charms for the Twelve Days of Christmas. If you don’t have time to make this before Christmas gets here, don’t dismay…I think that the Twelve Days of Christmas actually come after the holiday, don’t they? And anyway, you’ll have it for next year!

Stampington & Co, publishers of Somerset Studio and Belle Armoire magazines among others, will be accepting entries for a few more weeks for a special publication called Haute Handbags, which will now be published twice each year! The deadline is November 15, so get out your supplies and get going! Here’s all the important information.
How do you carry it? That’s the question Somerset Studio would like to help answer through our new and exciting special publication titled Haute Handbags. Whether we use purses, clutches, totes, portfolios, sacks, bags, or attachés, there are many styles made with an astounding array of …read more

Belle Armoire Jewelry, published by Stampington, is now a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is October 15, 2007, and it is scheduled to be out on the newstands in March 2008. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry with readers, we want to hear from you. Belle Armoire Jewelry covers a broad range of mediums, from art clay to polymer clay to found object to fiber to wire to beads and much, much more. Whether you are a creator of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, …read more

I not only made a lot of new jewelry this summer, but I also added quite a few new tutorials to my jewelry blog, Bead Arts.

Make Art Monday!
I made quite a bit of jewelry this summer…some of it I’ve already shared with you. Here’s the rest!

Two-sided optical lens pendant
 

Breezy
 

Turquoise Shower

Thunder Moon
In my usual fashion, this month I worked on the moon for last month!  You can find links to more of the Bead Journal Project’s participants on Robin Atkin’s blog.
Click on “Bead Journal Project” under “categories” in the right-hand sidebar to see the past two months’ beaded journal page.