Challenge: design French beaded wild sunflowers on the spot

by BeadFloraStudio // December 22, 2020 // No Comments

During the Fall, I found these wild sunflowers and wanted to record myself doing a flower study and design the French beaded flower on the spot. Step 1: Flower Study I start out by drawing approximately where the flowers and... Continue reading →

French beaded pumpkin

by BeadFloraStudio // October 1, 2020 // No Comments

The weather is changing and it’s flannel and pumpkin spice season. Initially, I wanted to make some beaded pumpkin earrings but as I was playing around, I decided to go with the mini French beaded pumpkin. I designed this using... Continue reading →

Bead Flora bead-a-long French beaded echinacea

by BeadFloraStudio // September 20, 2020 // 1 Comment

We are ready to dive into flower #2 for the bead-a-long. In the last three weeks, we made French beaded brown-eyed-susan. Join me in the French beading facebook group where I will update more frequent updates. I will update this... Continue reading →

Technique Project #5 Part 2, French beaded peach blossoms

by BeadFloraStudio // August 11, 2020 // No Comments

Last week, we worked on the petals for the French beaded blossoms using the technique I developed called the continuous split basic. This week, we will work on the stamen and also assembly for the beaded peach blossoms. To get... Continue reading →

Technique Project #5 French beaded Peach blossoms – continuous split basic technique

by BeadFloraStudio // August 4, 2020 // No Comments

Technique Project #5 – Peach blossoms PART 1 In this week’s project, I will be showing you how to to make small French beaded blossomed flowers using a continuous technique that gives you the look of using the basic frame... Continue reading →

Technique project #3, how to assemble French beaded flowers

by BeadFloraStudio // July 14, 2020 // No Comments

In today video, I will show you how to assemble a French beaded flower with a smooth and slim stem. One of the things that I do differently when assembling beaded flowers is using thread instead of wire. Thread is... Continue reading →

French beaded flowers Bead-a-long

by BeadFloraStudio // June 9, 2020 // No Comments

Last year was an exceptionally crazy year as my book was published, teaching at the Bead & Button show and among other things, I didn’t do a proper bead-a-long. There was a small one on the French beaded flowers facebook... Continue reading →

10 ideas for a French beaded wedding

by BeadFloraStudio // June 6, 2020 // No Comments

Do you want to incorporate French beaded flowers into your bridal bouquet or make other French beaded flower accessories for your big day but you don’t have the time to plan a wedding and make all the beaded flowers? Today,... Continue reading →

French beaded small sunflowers part 2

by BeadFloraStudio // April 21, 2020 // No Comments

How to make french beaded small sunflowers with designer and author Fen Li. Continue reading →

French beaded small sunflowers part I

by BeadFloraStudio // April 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

In this 3 part series, I will be showing you how to make these small French beaded sunflowers. In the first video, I will go over the design process along with showing you the different techniques that can be used... Continue reading →

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