Courtney Denise Lipson

Renowned for her micro-mosaic artwork, Courtney Denise Lipson has a defined style that combines texture and color using seed beads and metalwork. Experimenting with many different creative mediums over the years, Courtney has only recently discovered her passion for jewelry-making,''It's what I do for fun and what I do to make a living. I'm blessed to have the chance to live the life I want doing what I enjoy.'' ...read more

Eriko Page

A self-taught polymer clay artist, Eriko trained in handicrafts and arts in Japan where she ...read more

Gulten Dye

Gulten has been honored to work with celebrity clients and her jewelry designs have been featured on television and in magazines. Her dazzling jewelry set featuring clever combinations of SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS graces the cover of the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads 2012-2013 Comprehensive Catalog ...read more

Heidi Kummli

Heidi hopes that through her work she can share the beauty that surrounds her and give the wearer a sense of oneness with the world, the earth and ...read more

Jamie Smedley

Southern Oregon designer-artist, Jamie Smedley, has eccentric clothing and jewelry full of fantasy, but thinks of herself as a mixed media artist most of all ...read more

Jody Young

Jody Young has a unique approach to art, combining natural elements, colorful beads, gorgeous components and an amazing talent that is now earning her recognition as a fine artist. Jody's pieces, known as the design line Bead Art-Worth, feature her distinctive raised textured beading technique, as seen in the cover art for the 2010-2011 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Comprehensive Catalog. ...read more

Juan Carlos Chavajay

The cover piece, Ruk'uk Kaj, Mayan for Heart of the Sky, was created by award-winning jewelry artist Juan Carlos Chavajay for the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads 2008-2009 Jewelry Maker's Catalog. Inspired by Mayan culture, which views the crystalline splendor of stars and planets as the very heart of the sky, the intricate piece blends indigenous colors of traditional Guatemala with the intense sparkle of Swarovski® crystals. ...read more

Katherine Song

Swarovski crystal designer-artist, Katherine Song, is Fire Mountain Gems and Beads featured catalog cover artist for the 2007-2008 Jewelry Maker's Catalog with her elegant crystal necklace, Silktree Mimosa, created exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. ...read more

Laura McCabe

Accomplished beadweaving designer-artist, Laura McCabe, is Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' featured catalog cover artist for the 2008-09 Best Sellers Catalog with her spectacular neckpiece. ...read more

Louise McClure

Mixed-media designer-artist, Louise McClure, is Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' featured catalog cover artist for the 2006-2007 Gemstone and Precious Metals Jewelry Maker's Catalog with her multi-media necklace reminiscent of her visit to Grants Pass, Oregon and Fire Mountain Gems. ...read more

Marlynn McNutt

Known as the Beading Queen to her fellow co-workers, Marlynn McNutt is Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' featured catalog cover artist for the 2003-2004 Jewelry Maker's Catalog with her turquoise and coral masterpiece. ...read more

Sandra Lupo

Sandra teaches wire techniques in jewelry-making in her home state of New Jersey, conducting classes regularly at the Newark Museum Arts Workshop. She also teaches annually at many Northeast bead festivals. As a SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Ambassador, Sandra has been an instructor in Tucson, Arizona in 2006-2010. She enjoys meeting new and former students from near and far. ...read more

Sherry Serafini

Bead embroidery artist, Sherry Serafini, is the featured catalog cover artist for the 2004-2005 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry Maker's Catalog with her incredible bead embroidery neckpiece, Oceans, created exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. She speaks of Oceans as ''one of the few pieces I did that was so free and elaborate, the shape of the stone inspired me." ...read more

Tammy Honaman

Tammy Honaman has been making jewelry for over 15 years, working in a variety of media, including metal clay, wire, sheet metal, polymer clay, glass and beads ...read more

Tatiana Van Iten

Mixing various seed bead techniques with free-hand design and ''found'' fossils, jewelry artist Tatiana Van Iten created the fascinating cover piece for the 2005-2006 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Best Sellers Catalog. ...read more