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Helpful hints, tips and tricks from our resident "Bungee Beader"!
Ancient secrets to shoring up cabochons--use your scraps!
There are so many ways to use your LACY'S scraps! They can add texture, lift features up above
the rest of your beading, hold and stabilize those Big Beautiful Sparklies or the occasional odd-shaped elements...
well, ok, in the case of the Bungee Beader, they can be very odd, but they stay in their places with underpinnings
of LACY'S! (Ancient Bungee adage: why resort to hydraulics when LACY'S is lighter?)
Working on bling? Don't waste your beads as fill-in under that tiny bottom point! You can use even your teeny-weeny
scraps to support that cab and work smoothly as you stitch around. Don't bury those pretty beads!
Lacy's STIFF STUFF is too good to waste any scraps! So here are a few pictures
of what you can with your scraps:
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| Assorted tiny scraps - don't throw them away! |
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| Use them to build a base for your odd-shaped cabs |
Teensie-weensie bits can be used to stuff
under edges of rounded cabs, to increase stability of the cab while beading around it; can be glued down to create a "bump"
to bead over, creating texture or depth; really small snippets can actually be rolled together to even out areas...
| Scraps pieced together and stapled or glued |
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| Cavern (almost finished) |
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