Bead Soup Collection - a few boxes left

 

 

A batch of Bead Soups have been served up in my Etsy Shop!

Come by for a taste!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeverlyAshGilbert

Bead Soup Collection on Etsy

A batch of Mouse Pads orders just came in and this one looked fabulous with some bead soups on my table! Bead Soup Collection - Velvet Cloak

Bead Soups on Etsy

The Last of My Bead Soup Collection

Bead Soup Collection

These colorful mixes were introduced at the 2005 Bead & Button Show and since that time have been used by people all over the world in bead weaving projects, for colorful embellishments in quilts, scarfs, mixed media projects, felting designs... even as bursts of color set in bowls around the house!

They are now discontinued (very time consuming and costly to create), and the few that are left are for sale on my website

 

Thank you!

 Bag of Color #23

 Bag of Color #24

 Bag of Color #25

Thank you for the amazing response to the last few Bags of Color - per many requests, I've added more!

Color Inspiration - Magenta Iris

Nature's paintbrush is so vivid - just a thin splash of bright yellow to balance all those luscious magenta hues. Even the dark purple iris bud in the background adds depth to her palette.



Boysenberry Bead Soup Collection

Color Inspiration - Sea Glass in Sea Foam Green

 One of my sea glass photos is the backdrop for a full page Martha Stewart Living paint ad in the July MSL magazine (pg 24 for those interested). The colors are tweaked and the image is zoomed almost out of recognition - but rather exciting all the same!

Seed Bead Soup Collection - Lichen

And on the heals of seeing it in print, how could I resist creating a palette for sea glass?

My colors are a little more subtle than what Martha did with the sea glass - well into the Cool Earthtones, with lavish amounts of grey tying the tumbled glass, clam shell and window ledge together.

Hmmm - just noticed that our entry walls are the color 4th from the right... so yummy!
Enjoy!

Adding a bit of Sparkle

A sprinkle of 'Spring Garden' (Seed Bead Soup Collection) adds dew-drop like sparkle to the felt flower pin

Bead soups are a bead artist's equivalent of a paint palette. A glorious way to mix colors together for a result that is better than the sum of all parts.

But bead soups aren't just used for jewelry!

Read about some ideas and share yours on my facebook page:
Beverly Ash Gilbert - Eye For Color

Favorite Color? (Blog Hop Winners)

COLOR
How can I choose a favorite?
Each day is a different mood
And each hue fills me with deep emotions
But for today - as I get ready to climb up on a ladder and paint our entry-way a deep, heathered teal...

I have to admit that the lovely range of colors between green and blue make me smile.

What is your favorite color... at least for today?

Thank you all for swirling through colors with me this last week.
I have loved being a part of this wonderful group of artists who have inspired me to run outside in this cold, rainy December and take pictures! (though admittedly my photos are a bit dark in this cool, grey light).

Here are the lovely winners* (Drum Roll Please):

Wednesday (December 7): Barb Mahle (Anonymous)
Thursday (December 8): Valerie (Hot Art)
Friday (December 9): Sally Anderson (Wild Sally Road)
Monday (December 12): ChrisD
Tuesday (December 13): Pamela (Bailey in a Box)
Wednesday (December 14): Mari (Mis Amores)

*Please e-mail me with your e-mail address so I can send you the
pdf of DIP INTO COLOR!

Your comments have filled my cup and as a thank you, I am offering a SPECIAL DEAL on my eBook: DIP INTO COLOR through tomorrow (6:00 pct). Take a peek here.


Thank you again - I hope your Holidays are filled with color and warmth and music!
Beverly

p.s. Would you like to learn more about color? Join my mailing list for periodic COLORFUL newsletters from my studio and from the ColorQueen team!

A New Bag of Color

I've just concocted a new Bag of Color - luscious Greens and Pinks to make a stunning Wander with Color necklace.

I put the new packages on-line last night... and only 2 left
Take a peek here!

Included are:

• 3 of my most popular Bead Soup Collection boxes no longer available anywhere else
  
• 2 Seed Bead Soup Collection tubes providing lots of depth of color
• In depth instructions for Wander with Color (the handout I use in my classes)
• Enough beads left over to make a Wanderlust Bracelet, Earrings...
  

New Colorways!

I've brewed up some new Bead Soup Collection colorways with names like: Spring Garden, Tequila Sunrise, Mermaid, Cherry Cordial... and so many more!

So many new items in my on-line store: www.gilbertdesigns.net
And read more in my latest Newsletter!

Come visit!!

Dripping Moss

Bead Soup Collection - Lichen (NEW!)

My parent's apple orchard is covered with various lichens and moss. How could I resist those gorgeous grey-greens?

Bead Soup Collection

A rainbow of color marches across my studio
Thousands of boxes of beads
Waiting to be labeled
And shipped all over the world

Brewing Color

Thousands of beads
Hundred of pretty little boxes
Mixing bead soups and playing with color

Making Bead Soups

New colorways brewing!

Photoshopping my Beadwork photos

just for the fun of it!