March Moodboard

Here's my piece for the March Moodboard. I've chosen soft shades of olive greens, a little cream and barely-there pink.


If you'd like to join in with this month's moodboard please click here to see our inspirational mosaic and for details on how to take part.

Giveaway Prize - Sneaky Peak 5

Today's sneaky peak prize is these cute lock and key charms from Vintaj. Only 2 days to go! Happy beading!

Sarahx

Giveaway Prize - Sneaky Peak 4.

We had a lovely day out in Cardiff today and I got to go to Crystals and Ice. It's a fab shop packed with lovely beady goodies. I was a bit spoilt for choice, but I love rivoli's so I picked up this gorgeous 12mm aqua beauty just for you. I think it will blend beautifully with the beads from sneaky peak 2!
Happy beading!

Sarahx

Giveaway Prize - Sneaky Peak 3

Even though I bead and make jewellery myself, I love to wear pieces made by other beaders, so today's sneaky peak prize is a pair of my signature circular peyote earrings in the Rose Garden colourway inspired by the pink, green and creams of this months moodboard challenge. The circles are 1 inch and finished with sterling silver earwires.

Rumour has it that the husbeast is planning a trip to Cardiff tomorrow, which means a visit to Crystals and Ice, my local bead shop, I may just have to pick up a little something for the giveaway!

Happy beading!

Sarahx

Giveaway Prize - Sneaky Peak 2

Well we had a book yesterday, so it's definitely time for some beads! The next part of the giveaway is these gorgeous aqua beads, 3 tubes of miyuki delica's, 3 ceramic ovals and 2 ceramic daisy beads Hope you are getting excited for next Wednesday's giveaway!

Happy beading,

Sarahx

We are almost 1 years old! Giveaway Announcement.

Believe it or not, next week marks the 1st anniversary of Operation Tackle That Bead Stash! When I first started the blog, I would never have guessed that we be holding challenges and getting so many beautiful entries or that I would be posting my own free patterns!

Here are some of my favourite pictures posted over the last year,

Liz's first Wear It or Frog it piece, such simple elegance, I love it,



My 1st ever tutorial, simple but you have to start somewhere,



A delicious photo of gorgeous teal beads by Clair,

Liz's 2nd Goal project, The colours are so fresh and pretty,

And now a drumroll please.....

I am happy to announce that next Wednesday I will be posting details of our 1st ever giveaway! The rules will be posted then along with a full list of prizes that I will be gathering from my stash and the giveaway will be open for one week with the winner being announced the following Wednesday. I will posting some sneaky peaks of the prizes throughout the week and the 1st one is pictured below!

Happy beading!

Sarahx

March Moodboard

Welcome to the March Moodboard! A huge thanks to everyone who joined in with us last month, we had an amazing response :) This month we have a pretty spring colour combination for you - pink, cream and green. As always there are lots of different textures and patterns in the mosaic for you to take your inspiration from as well as the colours themselves...

You can email your photographs to me at thecrimsonmoon7@gmail.com or alternatively you can add them to our Flickr group pool. The deadline for entries is March 31st and as usual a prize will be awarded at random to one of our lucky entrants!

Up for grabs this month is a kit to make one of my Fairground Attraction pendants, including beads, thonging, findings and full colour instructions, in the winner's choice of colours...


We're looking forward to seeing what you create - enjoy the challenge, happy beading and don't forget...tackle that bead stash!