Designers Share E-magazine

As the Summer 2016 issue is now out, several of our contributing designers blogged about the issue. Below you will find links to their blog posts so you can see what they had to say about it.

Amy Severino of AmyBeads

Andrea Trank of Heaven Lane Creations

Becky Pancake of Becky Pancake Bead Designs

Bobbie Rafferty of Beadsong Jewelry

Christina Miles of Wings N Scales

Christine Stonefield of Sweet Girl Design

Cindy Cima Edwards of Cindy Cima

Cynthia Machata of Antiquity Travelers

Cynthia did a whole blog series of her designs for the magazine, so I recommend you poke around on her Antiquity Travelers site.

Hope Smitherman of CraftyHope

Karla Morgan of Texas Pepper Jams

Kathy Lindemer of Bay Moon Designs

Renetha Stanziano of Lamplight Crafts

Sandra Washington of To the Moon and Stars and Back

Shaiha Williams of Shaiha's Ramblings

I do hope you'll take the time to check out what these designers had to say about their designs and working with these new bead styles.

Better Late than Never: Keychain Clasp Reveal

At the end of October, we revealed what a handful of our designers made with our Keychain clasps and their selection of some of our Chinese Crystal Beads. It was our "Keychain Clasp Lightening Round". Because of forces outside her control, Andra wasn't able to reveal her design at that time. However, things have fallen more into place and she revealed her design last week.

Andra's bracelet

You should definitely head over to Andra's Joyful Journey to see what she has to say about the bracelet, as well as see another picture of it. Lovely design! Thanks Andra.

ZnetShows Beads in Stringing Spring 2014

Design Team Member, Cindy Cima Edwards has done it again. She's been published in the Spring 2014 issue of Jewelry Stringing (Congrats Cindy!!) and used ZnetShows.com beads in her design.

Jewelry Stringing Spring 2014

This time, Cindy made this beautiful pair of earrings that are featured in the magazine's earring gallery on pages 48 & 49. She used Znet's cultured sea glass squares, glass pearls, and Chinese crystal beads to create her earrings.

Don't those just scream SPRING!?

In addition to Cindy's earrings, Anne Vaughn used some of ZnetShows' Chinese crystal rondelles for her necklace design on page 51. You'll just have to find yourself a copy of the magazine to see how she used them though.

You can find more of Cindy's designs on her Live to Design blog and in her Zimaj Etsy Shop.

What's New at ZnetShows

Have you checked out ZnetShows "New Arrivals" section lately? You really ought to. We've recently loaded it up with a sparkly array of new crystal items.

 These new Chinese Crystal Nugget Faceted Beads are such a fun shape and are available in a variety of shades.

For a more traditional shape, there's the 6mm Chinese Crystal Bicone Faceted beads.

Now go check out what other New Arrivals you've missed and let us know what your favorite is.

Gina Moody

Gina Moody is one of ZnetShows' wholesale buyers. She is an immensely talented lady who contacted us with some lovely examples of how she's used her ZnetShows.com Beads. You may have also noticed her instructional videos in the latest issue of Creative Spark. Here's just some of what Gina's made with her supply of ZnetShows' products.

Cascading Crystal Cube Necklace (the video tutorial is in the Glossi and on YouTube) 

Blue Crystal Cube Necklace (uses the same video tutorial as above)

Regal Lace Necklace (video tutorial on YouTube)

Rice Pearl and Crystal Netting

Christmas Wreath Earrings (video tutorial on YouTube)

Besides these intricate crystal and pearl pieces, Gina has also created a variety of items using ZnetShows' sea glass beads and metal components.

The above uses some of our Cultured Sea Glass beads

Here Gina made use of some of our base metal chain.

Even more cultured sea glass

You can find more of Gina's work by befriending her on Facebook, on her Gina's Gem Creations Facebook Page, or on her Gina's Gem Creations YouTube Channel.

Thank you so much Gina for sharing your talent and use of ZnetShows products!

On the Cover of Bead-It. . .Today

If you look on the lower right corner of the newest issue of Bead-It. . .Today magazine, you'll see some earrings with sea glass beads in them. These earrings were designed by Cindy Cima Edwards, one of our Design Team members!

Those earrings are in fact part of a set that includes quite a few ZnetShows beads. Cindy used some of our Chinese crystal rondelles, bling balls, and cultured sea glass rounds in the set.

We're so excited to have some of our cultured sea glass and other beads in this new magazine and even more excited for Cindy being featured. Congrats Cindy and thanks!!

You can read Cindy's response to the feature on her Live to Design blog.