If you make jewelry you've probably wished for ways to help you organize,
sort and design your projects. Also if you like sparkly things you may have
tried to use flat back rhinestones but found them fiddly to manage. Today I have
for you a review of two products that just might help you in those endeavors.
Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another Friday findings video at
keepsakecrafts.net. The folks at BeebeeCraft contacted me and asked if I'd
like to review some of their products. I had never heard of them before or done
business with them so I took a look and I was impressed with the array of things
they have. They don't have top quality items like silver, a lot of
sterling silver or gold filled but they do have some very useful craft items at
good prices. So the first thing they sent me was this set of three bead design
boards, you've seen boards like this in the craft stores, this one is pretty
basic, it's got three channels for stringing beads for necklaces. I kind of
like this better than the one I have because mine comes all the way to the
end and then there's just these two little triangular sections for beads and
I like having these bigger sections here, and then there's more as you go back, so
it's a pretty standard design board. It goes to 13 inches so you could do a 26
inch necklace or even a little bit longer if you go around the ends, you
could use these straight ends for designing bracelets, and this board is
sixteen by nine. So it's a nice, just a good thing to have, and it's good to have more
than one of these. I've now got several and I find I have different projects
going so it's nice to have more than one. This one was the reason I requested this
as an item to review because I had never seen anything like this before, it's a
bracelet design board. Isn't this cool? I thought it was such a brilliant idea,
it's got all your measurements, your diameter
in millimeters. Now being an American... you know, when I was in school we were
told that by the time we'd grown up we'd be using the metric system and I
kind of wish it was true. Once I got into jewelry making I was like, "Why are we
using fractions of inches?" Oh my goodness, but we are and that's what we know. So
what I did was I took a little time with a ruler last night and printed these on
my P-Touch which I'll stick down. I just wanted to show you the board the
way it comes from the manufacturer, but I'll stick these down in these little
spaces just to remind me of what the sizes are. Now if you are designing a
bracelet with all round beads... hello... this is awesome, it will really help you. It
can get tricky though, if your beads aren't round, like if you have one like
this. How do you put it in there? You can kind of go like that, so it's a
little tougher to see and also to get an accurate measurement. I haven't put
together any bracelets based on these, you can be certain that these
measurements aren't going to be absolutely accurate if only because the
thickness of your beads is going to determine the size of your bracelet. I've
got these little lampwork beads here, you can see in order to get them positioned
you kind of have to carefully place them, but you know that's true on any bead
board. The ones with the channels they still kind of flop over and at least
this they kind of stand up here. And again if you have unusually shaped beads
like these tabs that have a hole going through them that way, and I like
to make bracelets with beads like this because they lie very nicely on the
wrist, because that hole isn't in exactly the right spot I'm not gonna get 100%
accurate idea of the size, but just like any bracelet designing you're going to
have to get close then refine your fit later. And it also
depends on the type of clasp you have, if you can accurately gauge how big that
clasp how much space it's going to take up. Again you can sort of get an idea but
I do love that all the beads sit in here so nicely. These ones, these furnace glass
beads are awesome because they're kind of flat so you can really put those in
here. You can also pop some beads in the middle and if you need to store them, if
you're thinking about using them. So I was really excited about this and I'm
excited to sit down and actually design bracelets with this and see just how
helpful it really is in getting an accurate size. I'll be interested to see
that, by the way this bracelet board is 13 and a half by 10 and a quarter inches
if you need to know that it will fit in your space. And honestly I didn't even
give this one a second look when I was choosing products. I just I was looking
at that bracelet board. I was all excited about that one. I have been doing a lot
of bead weaving in the weeks since BeebeeCraft agreed to send me these products
and I noticed that many of the beading teachers use these gorgeous bead, Bead On It
Boards they're called. It's a soft thing with a beading mat in the middle and these
soft edges all out of beautiful fabric and I said, "Oh I think I want one of those," and
then I went and priced them. So maybe not. So when this came I said, "Yahoo!: The
inside, the inner diameter is just over seven by nine inches and I have here a
little beading mat. If any of you have been watching my videos since the very
beginning this is actually what I recorded my first videos on. It's a mess
but it still works great, but you could actually just take a beading mat and
fold it and tuck it in there and now you have a fantastic surface to bead on for a lot
less. The only thing is you can't stick your pins in that soft edge.
What I ended up doing was I took one of my beading mats and I chopped it up and
I trimmed it to just a little bigger than the inside diameter because what I
didn't want was it to fit like this and have beads and needles go in this
crevice because you know they will. So I made it just a little bigger and now I
can kind of tuck it in there and this is awesome, it's just perfect for a bead
weaving product, project where you have a bunch of seed beads and you have them
arranged so that you're picking up your beads as you're working and if you need
to move it off your table you can just pick the whole thing up. I think I need
six of these. So that is the set of three bead design boards sold at BeeBeeCraft.com
for $17.76, and they do offer free shipping on
orders over twenty-five dollars to the United States. I was really pleased with
this. Now I'm going to show you another product they sent me and if this the
rhinestone picking tools. I've tried a few different things over the time that
I've been working with like flat back rhinestones mostly in polymer clay
and and none have been that great. I haven't been happy with most of them. So
what these are... you get ten in a box, I'm not quite sure why you need ten, maybe
I'll find out, but what you need to do when you get them is sharpen them. They
come unsharpened and they look like pencils here's a white Prismacolor
pencil I have. It looks like that inner white stuff is a little thicker on the
picker-uppers and they are not the same thing, I'll show you. This white stuff I
think it must be some sort of wax, it's kind of brittle. So I sharpened these in
a pencil sharpener, let's see I ended up cutting down quite a bit before I got a
sharpened tip that hadn't broken off on me yet. So here are some little Swarovski
rhinestones and here's some polymer clay, that's what I use the little
rhinestones for most, and look at that, it picks it up beautifully and lets you
place it exactly where you want it with as much or as little pressure as you
want to put. so you could really press it in if you were pressing it into a ball
of clay, sometimes what we'll do, like these are not hot fix, so what I might do
is press it and see I might... okay, in this case I might want the other one with the
more blunt tip. Do a neater job of it than I just did, but press it into that
ball and the ball rises up around it and creates a bezel. Well, that was a
pretty messy job but you get the idea. So I think having a couple different size
tips will be useful for picking up the little bitty ones, and that was very little
pressure, I just tapped it, and placing it exactly where you want. These ones are
hotfix so if I wanted to bake this the heat of the oven would actually activate
the glue. Since this is white, this white stuff I believe is wax, you'll want to... I
would make a point of cleaning it off before doing anything else with it, just
with like an alcohol wipe. And just to show you, yes, this looks very much the
same. No, it doesn't work the same at all, that kind of stuck to it but
not really. So it isn't the same thing at all,
it's something different. You can use these for polymer clay, for nail art, for
fabric, in fact you can even use them for seed beads or any other thing any little
thing that you want to pick up and put somewhere, put it in particular. Yeah, I
barely touched that, even on the squishy mat they picked it right up, place it
down precisely without wrecking everything else around it which is, like
I said, it's been a problem for me is finding a tool that will do that. You can
trim these with a craft blade, carefully shave it down to an exact shape if you
need it to be something precise, and these sell at BeeBeeCraft.com a set of 10
for $8.49. So I hope you found this video helpful and it's given you some ideas for
things that you can use in your crafting that are pretty useful and economical. So
thanks for watching, happy creating, bye bye.
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