The Winner is Jennifer Foo from Middle Park, Brisbane. Jennifer created a regal and classy bracelet that is a perfect match for Charlize’s gorgeous dress. The delicate piece is made using Swarovski Crystals and Seed Beads.

Congratulations Jennifer, you have won a voucher to spend at our Empire Beads online store.

Keep an eye out for the next edition of Australian Beading – you could be the next winner to create a piece of jewellery for a celebrity. Thank you to everyone that entered!

The products included in this kit are Medium Resin Dime Turquoise beads, Resin Dime Dark Purple, Resin Rectangle Dark Purple, Resin Rectangle Blue, Resin Rectangle Light Blue, Seed Beads Light Amethyst, Seed Beads Teal Green, Seed Beads Silver Lined Clear, Jumprings, Eyepins and Tigertail Shiny Pearl.

The designers made a gorgeous Twisted Necklace, Bag Pin and a Bold Cord Necklace. Bag Charms are perfect for adding a personal touch to an ordinary handbag. These designs are all simple to make and you can end up with so many creations with the same range of beads!

Check out these designs for some inspiration on Page 64 of Creative Beads and Jewellery!

Empire Beads carries different shapes and styles in Amethyst including a Stone Chip Strand, Stone Cross, Stone Cube, Round Strand, Stone Rice Oval and more! You can wear it alone or combine it with your favourite pair of earrings. When combined with the right mix of jewellery, Amethyst creates a gorgeous, vibrant look.

Keep an eye out – we are adding new Semi-Precious stones to our already fastest growing range SOON!

Our WINNER is Tracey from Coffs Harbour, Australia. Tracey’s precise and intricate work has been made by crocheting a bead rope with four patterns finished with a beaded hibiscus flower and corralling. You can see her gorgeous work in Photo 102. Tracey has used a huge assortment of Seed Beads in different colours adding an earthy and tribal feel to this unique piece.

Anne from Australia and Sandra from the UK have been selected for our second prizes. Sandra’s stunning work in Photo 103 is a gorgeous handbag made out of Seed Beads and stitched in a triangle weave. Anne’s clever work in Photo 59 is a wild design created with Parawire and Findings.

Meg and Jane have been selected for another 2 bonus prizes of $20 (which we did not intend to give but the entries were so great!) Jane’s adventurous work in Photo 16 is a silver plated charm bracelet with handmade licorice allsort beads and Meg’s cute piece in Photo 147 is a policeman!

Thanks for sharing your amazing designs with us and congratulations again to our winners!

To enter, all you need to do is submit your designs on our Fan Page on Facebook. Show us some of your innovative and creative endeavours that you have incorporated into your beaded works of art! How have you let your imagination run wild?!

You have until the 30^th April 2011 to share your photos. We will select one lucky winner and 2 runners up who have explored exciting and innovative design options!

Patrick sees each jewellery piece as a small work of art with endless possibilities. His experience in thread work melded into jewellery making as it adds individuality to his creations. Patrick discovered he also loved sharing his passion with others and began teaching jewellery making in 2009.

The Empire Beads team loved one of his pieces in particular, this gorgeous design using our Seed Beads. Patrick has created this intricate, stunning design called White Goddess. It would look fantastic as a centrepiece to any outfit and truly is a work of art.

Check out more of Patrick’s creations on his blog site at http://patrickduggandesigns.blogspot.com/

We absolutely loved all of the beautiful designs you created with our lovely, sparkly Swarovski Crystals. It was hard to select a winner from such a vast array of talent and art.

The winners are Valerie and Mandy – Congratulations, you have both won a voucher to spend online at Empire Beads. Valerie’s gorgeous crown bracelet displays a huge array of Swarovski crystals including bicones, hearts, pearls and more!  Mandy’s design includes Swarovski pearls and bicones interwoven into a beautiful flower.

Thanks to all for sharing your gorgeous designs with Empire Beads!

We just loved all of the pieces you created with our beautiful beads, making it an extremely difficult selection process for the judges!

The winner is Vicki from South Australia. Congratulations Vicki – you have won a $150 voucher to spend at Empire Beads. Vicki’s “Your Heart is Mine” design includes a range of gorgeous Swarovski crystals.

Your heart filled creations were so hard to choose from – so we decided to give two runner up prizes. These go to Athena from Victoria in Australia for her stylish Swarovski ring and Leanne for her lovely earthy and natural Valentine’s design!

Thanks to all for sharing the love with Empire Beads!

The WINNER is Megan Thompson from Leopold, Victoria! Megan created an intricate, classy and stylish piece that matches perfectly with Halle’s stunning dress. The bold piece is made using a technique called chain maille with a combination of black and silver seed beads.

Congratulations Megan, you have won a voucher to spend at our Empire Beads online store.

Keep on the look out for the next Style a Celebrity Competition coming up in Australian Beading to have the chance to show off your unique beading skills. Thanks to all our entrants for sharing your interesting designs with us!

You have until the 17^th February 2011 to share your photos. Our team at Empire Beads will then select one lucky winner in Australia/ New Zealand and one in the UK/Europe who has clearly invented  a GORGEOUS piece that captures our hearts!

We LOVE the things you create with our beautiful beads so PLEASE take some time to share…Click here to find us on Facebook