National Craft Month & Bead Blogger Fun!

March is National Craft Month! It's the perfect time to get out all your beads, fabric, finding, notions, glue and glitter! Yay!

I'd love to hear any special plans you have to learn a new technique, join a blog hop or just plain set more time aside to create!

For now, here's some inspiration from our bead and craft blogger friends, starting with all the gorgeous pieces created for the Art Bead Scene monthly design challenge, GORGEOUS!!

Enjoy!  :)

Art Bead Scene
It’s February’s Monthly Challenge Recap! Come and see what our amazing readers created based on Paul Klee’s The Rose Garden.

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Andrew hosted a Design Challenge on his blog! “Radiant Orchid” was the theme! Come check out what all the participants made in the blog hop!

Resin Crafts Blog
How to make a mold with a half doll body.

Anniversary Quilt: Middles and Ends
Cherie continues working on her quilt project.

Carmi’s Art/Life World
How to turn a group of brooches into a necklace!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean writes a poem about (what else?) jewelry making as she participates in a fun 30 word blog hop created by Erin Prais-Hintz

Cinnabar Chinese Lantern Earrings & Necklace
Eileen set out to make a set of jewelry for Valentine’s Day. When she went to her red bead stash, her eyes locked on some beautiful red carved cinnabar beads just perfect for the design she had in mind anyway!

Mixed Media Artist
Check out how you can use dryer sheets to “paint” a quilt!

Beading Arts
Cyndi is struggling to keep up with the Bead Journal Project this year, but that’s probably because she decided to do much bigger pieces!