BluPrint Blue Morning Expressions January Newsletter

Volume 8 Issue 1 January 2011

What's New in January?

Happy New Year! And it is Blu’s 8th birthday. He is celebrating with lots of bones and stuffed animals. It is very easy to please him!

In honor of his birthday, we are having a store wide sale. Most items are 35% off. You can get lots of one of a kind bead sets and free shipping over $50. Sales will go on all month, so check back often, there might be a few items that will be 50% off for a day or two. Remember to bookmark www.bluemorningexpressions.com for future reference.

New kaleidoscope canes: These canes are not ready for sale and have not been used for beads. They were inspired from Margie Deeb’s Color Pallet book for beaders. You might want to pick up her book (the link is on www.polymerclaycanes.blogspot.com) and give it a try. Even if you don’t use it for cane creation, the color photos and exploration of pallets is well worth owning. One of the pages is shown here:

Many new bracelets have been designed and two of them are finished. Each bracelet features polymer clay beads that you can find on www.bluemorningexpressions.com and incorporate into your own designs. They are designed with the charm bracelet lover in mind. Some feature flowers and pearls and Swarovski crystals as well as polymer clay beads. Each bead has been hand-wrapped and added to the chain. These bracelets are chunky, dangly and loads of fun!

New bead styles are in the making and should all be finished and up on the website shortly. As usual, they are scattered about in various stages of “finished” states. New earring pairs are in the making as well. Each bead is handcrafted.

Those who have made purchases and have a coupon code, don't forget to enter it in at the time of your next purchase.

As always, thank you for all your support and may you have a wonderful and prosperous new year.

www.bluemorningexpressions.com

Until next month,

Julie & Blu

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Dec 2010 BluPrint Blue Morning Expressions Newsletter

What's New in December?

Loose Beads: I have hundreds of new loose beads to choose from for all your beading projects. Most of them fall into the floral round category, but I do have a dozen or so kaleidoscope pillow beads for your larger projects. They work perfectly for lanyards and watch bands. I added a couple dozen coin floral beads for bracelets and watches and if you like a larger earring, they can be used as a dangle earring as well.

Swarovski and Lampwork Bead Sets: I created a dozen beautiful, dainty sets for the holidays. I still have another 5 or 6 to create and they will go up as soon as I can get them strung. A few of these sets are perfect for wedding sets or bridesmaids. They are all one of a kind and feature JMoore lampwork beads.

 

I managed to get a couple new kaleidoscope canes done and promptly used most of them to create more pillow beads. I have a handful of clay on my work bench that is begging to be blended and mixed into new canes.

There is a new mini tutorial that I used in a email newsletter that I am adding to the back of this newsletter. It is a beading tutorial for my rondelle beads and the earrings that I created with them as dangles. It takes a handful of Swarovski crystals and a couple rondelles, headpins, eyepins and earwires of your choice.

I have over 2 dozen new Christmas waterslide decals and want to start on new finished pieces showcasing penguins and snowmen. In the meantime, you can buy the waterslide decals yourself and create your own beads.

I have been at a standstill with the other websites for the time being as I work on my long time paintshop pro site and try and get that working right. It has been down for years and now I have to upload thousands and thousands of free graphics. I thought it was going to be a snap—HA!

All holiday items are up and ready to go, so feel free to shop and I have a little code for my newsletter readers to use to get instant savings. Put in the code bluprint (no E) or 40% savings on everything in your order before shipping. Minimum order is $5 and remember, free shipping on orders over $50.

www.bluemorningexpressions.com

Until next month,

Julie

Mini Tutorial

To create rondelle dangle earrings, simply take the rondelle bead and using a eyepin, string a crystal, a spacer bead/bead cap, the rondelle bead, another spacer bead/bead cap and finish it off with another crystal.

Wire wrap your top and add color coordinated crystal wire wraps to the eye of the eyepin.
Attach the dangle to a leverback or a french wire and you are ready to add sparkle to any outfit you are wearing.

Substitute a coin or a tab bead in place of a rondelle.

Here is a finished example.

Let me know if you have any questions, or need any help.

One of a kind rondelles are available at

www.bluemorningexpresions.com

Have fun,

Julie and Blu

November BluPrint Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 7 Issue 11 November 2010

What's New in November?

Over 100 new handcrafted polymer clay beads have been added. From floral rounds to kaleidoscope pillow beads, we have been incredibly busy this last month. Each bead has been created from original canes and patterns and are ready to be incorporated into your jewelry needs.

New rondelle earrings are showcased this month and my latest completed necklace is Southwestern Fantasy.

I used up all of my kaleidoscope canes in this last batch of pillow beads, so my next step is to make lots of new kaleidoscope canes so I can get back to pillow bead production!

There are plenty of flower canes in the works as well, and I want to try a couple new styles of beads that require me to use some new unfamiliar materials but look really cool. Stay tuned for those :) I have some Christmas bead ideas as well that need to be started.

I have over 2 dozen new Christmas waterslide decals and want to start on new finished pieces showcasing penguins and snowmen. In the meantime, you can buy the waterslide decals yourself and create your own beads.

I have been at a standstill with the other websites for the time being as I work on my long time paintshop pro site and try and get that working right. It has been down for years and now I have to upload thousands and thousands of free graphics. I thought it was going to be a snap—HA!

All holiday items are up and ready to go, so feel free to shop and I have a little code for my newsletter readers to use to get instant savings. Put in the code bluprint (no E) or 40% savings on everything in your order before shipping. Minimum order is $5 and remember, free shipping on orders over $50.

www.bluemorningexpressions.com

Until next month,

Julie

Volume 7 Issue 10 October 2010

 

What's New in October?

New bead shape! Rondelles have now been added to my bead selections. I started with a couple of different floral rounds that I thought might be too big. They did seem that way when I was sizing them by feel. I went ahead and left them alone and once I was able to work with incorporating them into earrings, I discovered that the size was just fine.

I originally did matching sets of 6 or 8 but then I sat down and did smaller sized and created pairs. I am not selling these pairs as loose beads, I went ahead and created earrings from them. I will write up the freebie tutorial on how to use these beads and I will showcase the sets at the same time I am adding them to my finished pieces for sale.

I have 5 sets of these to create, all of them are different colour combinations and basically all designed similar. They each use a trio of Swarovski from my stash!

These remind me of something fruity, like citrus Lifesavers!

 

I have been busy with other obligations this month and the best I was able to do was to produce 15 new sets of beads. I have a couple sets that looked promising while I was working on them, but then something happened along the way and I am considering them irregulars. That happens! It’s not that there is anything terrible wrong, just that they have some unintentional distressed features. I discount these beads in my store.

I have canes ALL over my work bench and I am working frantically to get them all cleaned up so I can start some new ones! I want/need to create a lot of new flowers. I get bored with what I have and I start to look for new canes. I am at that stage now.

www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com has been updated and all the bracelet patterns are up. I have a couple of the tapestries up but have not finished all of those yet. I added a few more wolf patterns and I have added a free pattern section. I will be putting up free patterns on the site.

Fans of clip on earrings for big girls will find www.cliponearringsboutique.com restocked with earrings just for them. I added 20 sets of dangles with Swarovski, glass pearls, Czech faceted rounds and lots of iridescent and sparkly things. Also added were one of a kind sets of millefiori glass hearts, diamonds and chicklet beads.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,

Julie

September BluPrint Newsletter Blue Morning Expressions

What's New in September?

Earring Pairs have been something that I have putting off for a long time now. I am happy to inform you that I have created over 50 pairs and most are under $2.50.

I had a blast making these and for some reason I just couldn't stop!

I stocked up on a ton of Premo! Clay while it was on sale and I have to admit that I will be using this for a long time. :) I can never have too much clay.

I have been really busy lately with designing websites and writing articles for the local paper, that my bead time has been a little lacking. I am trying to do at least 20 new sets a month using all my latest canework.

I will start the fall colours and get the new lentils out. I created this necklace from a set of lentils that I couldn't bear to part with.

Lots more beads on the workbench and I have had the chance to create some jewelry pieces for a change. I forgot how much fun it was to design and string new bracelets and necklaces. I took a few to the office and sold out immediately. Now, I am working on redoing the designs. Selling out is NOT a bad thing!

I will be creating many more lentil flower beads and round floral beads. There are also kaleidoscope canes that I have in the works for my latest rounds of pillow beads.

The new beads are available on www.bluemorningexpressions.com now.

www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com has been updated and all the bracelet patterns are up. I have a couple of the tapestries up but have not finished all of those yet. I added a few more wolf patterns and I have added a free pattern section. I will be putting up free patterns on the site.

Fans of clip on earrings for big girls will find www.cliponearringsboutique.com restocked with earrings just for them. I added 20 sets of dangles with Swarovski, glass pearls, Czech faceted rounds and lots of iridescent and sparkly things. Also added were one of a kind sets of millefiori glass hearts, diamonds and chicklet beads.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,

Julie

August BluPrint Blue Morning Expressions Newsletter

What's New in August?

July ended with a host of new beads. I added a new bead format to my bead collection. I had created a bunch of new canes and then I created a bunch of new floral rounds and from there other things grew.

Earring Pairs have been something that I have putting off for a long time now. I am happy to inform you that I have created over 50 pairs and most are under $2.50.

I ended up with a lot of new canes as I was exhausting my old Fimo to make way for the new Fimo since they changed the formula. As it turned out, Premo! went on sale big time and I ended up completely restocking 5 full bins of that. I forgot how nice those colours were and how much more vibrant they were.

I used up all the blends that I did as I was creating the new flowers and now I need to finish making all my beads! I finished 26 sets of floral rounds and I have done a dozen pillow beads but I still am working on floral lentil beads. I did a couple sets but then I got sidetracked and haven’t gone back to finishing those yet.

The new beads are available on wwwbluemorningexpressions.com now.

www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com has been updated and all the bracelet patterns are up. I have a couple of the tapestries up but have not finished all of those yet. I added a few more wolf patterns and I have added a free pattern section. I will be putting up free patterns on the site.

If you have purchased bracelet patterns from me in the past and did not receive the 10 colour and under updates, please let me know and I will get those to you. I have updated the patterns to make it easier on everyone.

Fans of clip on earrings for big girls will find www.cliponearringsboutique.com restocked with earrings just for them. I added 20 sets of dangles with Swarovski, glass pearls, Czech faceted rounds and lots of iridescent and sparkly things. Also added were one of a kind sets of millefiori glass hearts, diamonds and chicklet beads.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie