Linda's Crafty Inspirations: Playing with my beads...Bicones

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Playing with my beads...Bicones - French Rose Celsian

CZECH FRENCH ROSE CELSIAN BICONES

This will be the last post in the series about bicones. I wanted a slightly coppery color to highlight the rosy pink color of the bicones so I had to decide between two seed bead colors. I tried Metallic Chocolate first but it's much too dark. I think that the Montana Gold Luster beads are just right. They're close to the same color tone as the bicones and fire polished beads so the delicate color of the bicones shows up better.

I don't really like these beads with the "Ophelia Bracelet" pattern. It looks too boring. I like the "Venetian Bands" sample very well because there are more seed beads to give the design some character. My favorite of the three is the "Moon Ring Bracelet" sample. I have 100 of these bicones so I should have enough to make the Moon Ring and a Venetian Band as well as some earrings.

I bought these bicones from Red Panda HERE. All three of these bracelets are from Around the Beading Table. You can buy "Moon Ring Bracelet" HERE, "Venetian Bands" HERE and "Ophelia Bracelet" HERE.