Some faux bone beads I made following Cindy Lietz's tutorial on faux bone technique. The long beads are pipe beads and the larger round ones are drum beads. I used the drum beads in a necklace I designed for a competition. The little ones are spacer beads. The beads are sanded really well and then antiqued to give it that really aged , antique look and they feel warm and satiny smooth to the touch. If you would like to learn this technique visit
http://www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/polymer-clay-tutorial-faux-bone-faux-ivory-technique-video/7197/
This was a very exciting project for me. I made this necklace for the 'Jungle Fever' Competition in the Canadian Beading Magazine. There are three techniques in this necklace.The faux bone and carved drum beads are handmade by me from polymer clay. The pendant is in brick stitch. It was a challenge to build a circular brick stitch around the faux bone disc bead. The pendant gives the necklace an exotic touch. I used greenish, brown ceramic beads and added the shell leaves in green and brown for foliage, the 'drum' beads making it 'wild' and 'feverish' - Jungle Fever. For the earrings, I flattened the ends of the steel wire and used them as head pins- the flattened end gives it a tribal /jungle look.
