Swarovski’s Exciting New Gem Colours

Have you taken a look at the new range of Gemcolours that are part of Swarovski’s spring/summer collection for 2013? These beads are gorgeous and offer an exciting new look for the traditional style of pearls. These polished and shiny crystal pearls appear like natural opaque gemstones giving you a fantastic alternative.

The 9 colours in the collection are coral, red coral, pink coral, ivory, jade, turquoise, lapis, dark lapis and mystic black. These beads are available in a range of sizes and can be used for a variety of jewellery and accessories. You could use just one of the colours in your design, or try combining different colour combinations for something really unique. (Click on the photo to take a closer look).

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It’s a very exciting time of year for us at Beads Direct. The voting for the Make Jewellery Awards has begun. We are very proud and excited to be nominated as Best Mail Order/ Online Shopping Site and Best Semi-Precious Stone Supplier!

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Britain’s Next Top Jewellery Designer

Fashion website www.accessoriesdirect.com are currently scouting new jewellery design talent for their Spring/Summer 2012 range and YOU could be just what they’re looking for.

YOU could WIN the chance to have your jewellery design commissioned by www.accessoriesdirect.com and sold alongside top up and coming jewellery brands like Lisbeth Dahl, Daisy, Kate Benjamin and Made UK.

To find out more, see our post Are You Britain’s Next Top Jewellery Designer?

Entry Form Now Available

If you’d like to be in the running, the entry form is available now. Download it here.

Good luck, we will be looking out for your entries!

Are You Britain’s Next Top Jewellery Designer?

Now you’ve learned all about running your own jewellery business, we want to give you a once in a lifetime chance to launch your jewellery making career.

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Celebrate good times…c’mon!!

Whoo we now have over 8,000 fans!! And we want to celebrate by giving away prizes!!

So, we’re giving away 8,000 beads… Read More

Competition Winners!!

All I need to say is ‘WOW’ you all did really well spreading the word about the Beads Direct Sale!!

We’ve been a bit naughty and chosen more winners and given away even more great prizes!!

Now you will probably want to know who the winners are…

Congratulations to;

Blog Winners

Elly Snare- Bead Table Wednesday

http://ebsnarejewellery.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/bead-table-wednesday-btww-108/

Jalena- http://lariata-mumms.blogspot.com/2011/08/mammoth-sale-on-beadsdirect.html

Debs http://bittenbyspain.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/addicted/

Facebook Winners

Sharon Ducken

Vicky Sugarbean

Geminishaz

Becca Smyth

Twitter Winners

Galadriel49

Lozzylozs

Forum Winners

Saroucha Lobbens

If your name is on the list above please contact me via email competition@beadsdirect.co.uk with your address.

Thank you to everyone who took part! If you didn’t win this time don’t worry we have plenty more competitions coming up!

Have a great weekend beaders!

Stacy xx

To be in with a chance of winning one of these items all you need to do is tell people how much you love the SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE!

Here are some great ways you could take part-

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This week I caught up with Chloe Menage from Bead Magazine to find out more about the British Bead Awards:

Give it a go…

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So Wimbledon is over, and Novak Djokovic won his first ever Wimbledon title, beating Rafael Nadal. But for some of us it wasn’t the Wimbledon tennis that really mattered. At the same time, the all important Beads Direct Wimbledon was running! Our facebook wall was flooded with some fab designs using the Wimbledon purple and green shades, or playing on other Wimbledon tennis themes – including the ever-present rain! But there could only be one winner….ok, except in the case of a tie! Read More

Thank you to everyone that took part in the competition!

We thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your fantastic articles about your favourite colours.

One of the first winners was Kristina. She looks into how easy it is to match grey with almost every other colour!

To read Kristina’s blog click here. We’ll be posting some more winners and entries soon! xx