Prima Bead product of the month - July!

Hello everyone!

Do you remember me telling you about the new Prima Bead Blog Team and how our first products to review were items from the new Stainless Steel Elegance range? Well with just two days to spare I have completed my first task using 7 of the 8 stainless steel products that were sent to me.  If you follow my blog you will know that my real passion involves weaving hundreds of teeny tiny seed beads into various weird and wonderful shapes, but as there wasn't a single solitary seed bead in the welcome pack I received from Prima Bead I had to change tack and blow the dust off my pliers. First of all I made a fun pair of earrings which I have called 'Inspirational Dangles'.

The ingredients for these joyful little earrings that swing and dance as you walk are:

• Stainless Steel circle link chain.
• Stainless Steel rhinestone lever back earrings.
• Stainless Steel 4 mm jump rings.
• Metal accent beads.

As I still had quite a lot of the circle link chain left, I decided to make another pair of swinging earrings but this time I snuck in a little bit of beadweaving too, using my free Gumdrops In My Garden pattern from Bead & Button magazine.

The ingredients for these cute summery earrings are:

• Stainless Steel circle link chain.
• Stainless Steel rhinestone earring posts.
• Stainless Steel 4 mm jump rings.
• FREE Gumdrops In My Garden pattern.
• Gumdrop beads.
• Cylinder beads.

And finally I used up the last of the chain, the third style of earring findings, the stainless steel round beads and a couple of lovely metal accent beads from the welcome pack to create a pin, ring and earring set which I've called City Nights.

The ingredients for this stylish urban set are:

• Stainless Steel circle link chain.
• Stainless Steel bail hook earwires.
• Stainless Steel 4 mm jump rings.
• Stainless Steel 4 mm round beads.
• Stainless Steel 3 mm round beads.
• Metal accents from the Jewelry Class in a Box.
• Ultrasuede.
• A few cylinder beads.

So the only thing I didn't manage to use this time around were the spring ring clasps but let's wait and see what the August product of the month is - maybe I will manage to incorporate them into something next month.

I had a lot of fun working out what to make with these beautiful Stainless Steel Elegance items and I hope that my little makes will inspire you to experiment too. The high quality findings were all a pleasure to work with and although sterling silver would normally have been my metal of choice, I would definitely work with stainless steel again as despite taking more effort to manipulate than silver, it has a lovely look and feel to it and I like the slightly edgy look it lends to designs. Of course being non-tarnish and hypoallergenic is a plus point too.

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See you next time!

Kerrie ♥