When Lorae' Angle-Nguyen's daughter needed customized dancing shoes, she stepped in and bedazzled them with rhinestones with spectacular results.
Multi-Strand Necklace
Recapture the glitz, glamor and elegant beauty of the Roaring ’20s with this necklace and earrings set by designer-artist Christy Lensch.
Pendant
Let this award-winning wirework piece inspire your next creation. Amid this seemingly tangle of wire is precise wrapping, reminding us that there is often order amid the chaos if we look for it.
Collar-Style Necklace
Morra Giovina took inspiration from the color lilac to breathtaking levels in her exquisite necklace, "Kabilia." No wonder it won First Place in the Seed Beads category of our 2022 Beading Contest!
Collar-Style Necklace
James Franco’s Nile Dreams embodies the beauty and mystery of ancient Egypt in a detailed and colorful collar necklace.
Bracelet
Ezartessa’s The Secret Garden uses seed beads to beautifully evoke a sense of fantasy and wonderment—just don’t eat the berries!
Pendant
Little cubic zirconias twinkle amid the golden vines of this award-winning metal clay design like stars seen through an arbor on a warm spring evening.
Single-Strand Necklace
Inspired by the artistic style of the Ashanti region of Africa, Natasha Downs’ Ashanti Lace puts a modern spin on a unique style steeped in cultural heritage.
Pendant
O Gnomeo, Gnomeo, wherefore art thou Gnomeo? Right here, on this whimsical precious metal clay pendant made by designer-artist Ann Holden!
Single-Strand Necklace
This award-winning design offers an eclectic combo of copper, jeweler's bronze, ParaWire™ and Zebra Wire™ in gold and silver finishes. This necklace and earring set is certainly All Mixed Up and spot-on with the mixed metals jewelry trend.
Choker Style Necklace and Pendant
Inspired by the movie "Men in Black," this award-winning piece uses fifty individual pieces of sterling silver soldered together to form the cage-like pendant of Orion's Belt. This impressive piece elevates the glass marble inside from dollar store trinket to wearable art.
Single-Strand Necklace
This award-winning design inspired by Lake Michigan captures a sunrise over the lake, with soldered sterling silver wire and lapis lazuli representing water and rays of sunlight.
Three-Piece Bracelet Set
Let these award-winning “spikey cuffs in wire” with their edgy spiked layers and intricate wire-wrapping inspire your next wirework project.
Collar-Style Necklace
Aristotle's Psyche
"Spark" Inspirational Bead Mosaic
Sabrina Frey set out to capture the majestic beauty of our American Eagle in beads, and we think her magnificent mosaic, "Spark," has done just that. According to the artist each seed and bugle bead was individually placed on its repurposed cabinet door background!
Ring
Nina Weidner portrays "Magnificent mountain scapes and throngs of trees highlighted by the moon's light, clear skies and starry nights" in her visually impressive ring, "Luna Peak." Petrified wood and deer antlers represent the mountains, while ocean jasper and a glittering diamond float across the oxidized sterling silver "sky" like clouds and stars.
Rattlesnake Sculpture
This "Diamond Back Rattler" is rendered with photorealistic detail in seed beads.
Single-Strand Necklace, Bracelet and Earring Set
Consult your inner oracle with this mystical set featuring twisted wire tendrils licking the smooth surface of gemstone cabochons.
Flower Earrings
Reminiscent of the Asiatic Lily, this beautiful earring set by designer-artist Christine Calhoun reminds us that flowers can be as striking as they are beautiful.
Interchangeable Bracelet, Earring and Ring Set
An interchangeable bracelet, rings and earrings made this labor of love (and pop culture) an easy victor for the Employee's Choice award.
Bib-Style Necklace, Bracelet, Ring and Earring Set
Gay Isber performed wonderful alchemy when she began Turning Crystals into WOW Water with her Bronze Medal tie winning piece in the Crystal contest.
Open-Ended Necklace
GLITZYstones and beads took her inspiration from the swan floating over the lake, and its elegant nature earned her the Whimsy Award in the crystal contest.
Bib-Style Necklace
Winning a Silver Medal winner in the crystal category, Jody Young really made a standout with her necklace, a wonderful mix of Crystal Passions® and Czech glass.
Costume
Sherazade (and love triumphs) took home the Grand Prize Silver Medal, an amazing labor of love and technique to create a story telling piece of clothing.