Are you in need of inspiration? Looking for design ideas for those beads you've just purchased at your local bead shop? Look no further!

The BeadSmith Inspiration Squad is a carefully selected unit of highly trained and lethally talented bead artists from around the world who want nothing more than to inspire you to beading greatness!

Need inspiration to create with all of the new bead shapes you've been seeing in your favorite bead shops? Our carefully selected group of Beadsmith Inspiration squaddies have had a go at creating with many of them.....Click Here

Leslie Rogalski - BeadSmith Creative Director Seed Bead Specialist

Leslie is known for her passion and enthusiasm as a bead and jewelry artist, designer, and teacher. Recognized from regular appearances on Jewelry Television and Beads, Baubles, and Jewels, she also blogs, conducts workshops and exhibits at bead shows as Sleepless Beader and sells her original jewelry design kits at www.sleeplessbeader.com. The former editor in chief of Step by Step Beads and BeadingDaily.com, Leslie's projects and articles have been widely published in leading magazines and books and many books including the Lark 500 Beaded Jewelry Showcase. Her DoodleBeads(C) teaching method of drawing-before-your-eyes makes her workshops fun for all skill levels. Leslie has been a member of the several industry design teams, a former Swarovski Ambassador, and the author of 'The Business of Beading,' a regular column starting in 2014 in Bead&Button magazine. Craftsy.com launched her first online class, Essential Seed Bead Techniques, in July 2014. Leslie also sells her original finished jewelry at regional craft shows and to private clients. She lives outside Philadelphia, PA with her husband, illustrator Michael Rogalski, one fabulous daughter pursuing a career in musical theater, and two cats. She loves Disney World, pretzels, and really bad science fiction movies about mutant animals. Follow her as Sleepless Beader on Facebook, at www.sleeplessbeader.blogspot.com, and keep up with new designs and kits for sale, exhibitions, shows, and workshops at www.sleeplessbeader.com.

TO SEE SOME OF LESLIE'S WORK CLICK HERE!

Leslie Pope - BeadSmith Creative Designer Seed Bead Specialist

Leslie Pope, a.k.a. “Twisted Sistah”, has a PASSION for BEADS and FIBER! As a fashion design student at Drexel University, she managed to work beads into most of her collections, winning the J.W. Smith Most Saleable Daywear award for her senior design collection of beaded knitwear. Since graduating, she is almost always seen with beads and fiber in hand, a source of great joy in her life. Leslie became Twisted Sistah when she opened her traveling/web-based bead business in 2002 and hasn’t looked back since. Her business is devoted to BEADS and FIBER and offers a wide range of seed beads, threads and supplies that support the creation of BEADED WEARABLE ART. Her love for her craft is contagious, as her ever-growing list of happy customers will attest.

TO SEE SOME OF LESLIE'S WORK CLICK HERE!

Anne Dilker Kumihimo Specialist

Anne came to jewelry design via ceramics. A studio art potter specializing in home decor for 25 years, she started making porcelain beads and pendants in 2002. A need to showcase her beads as finished pieces, along with no knowledge of traditional jewelry making techniques, lead her to the use of textile techniques in her designs. The interplay between the soft textiles and the hard surface of the beads, stones and metals creates a juxtaposition that she finds appealing. And exploring the transition of textile techniques to jewelry design is one she finds endlessly intriguing. As a full-time independent artist, Anne is fully committed to assisting other micro businesses and is developing a business series specifically for jewelry makers. A line of silk and nylon suitable for use in jewelry is under development with a local mill and her new Artifacts & Spirit of the Celts lines of bronze and silver jewelry design elements are being hand cast by a small art casting company here in the United States.

TO SEE SOME OF ANNE'S WORK CLICK HERE!

Paul Ricks Ricks Beading Loom Specialist

Paul is the inventor of The Ricks Beading Loom, exclusively distributed by The BeadSmith. He has created many designs and kits to be made on his loom and is also a frequent guest on JTV's Jewel School. Paul frequently travels the country to present classes and demonstrations using his invention. The Ricks Beading Loom is the loom with only two threads to weave back in when your project is finished. The first chapter of 'THE RICKS LOOMATIKS' has recently been founded in New Jersey and more are being started every day! Paul is a retired Police Officer (Deputy Chief of Police - Colorado Springs Police Department) and also a former professional musician. He and his wife, Charlene, (and their two cats) currently divide their time between their summer home in the beautiful Black Forest region of Colorado and their winter home in the desert of Casa Grande, Arizona.

TO SEE SOME OF PAUL'S WORK CLICK HERE!

Amee K. Sweet-McNamara Soutache & Bead Embroidery Specialist

Ask Amee K. Sweet-McNamara why her fine-art jewelry business is called 'Amee Runs with Scissors' and she usually just laughs and says, 'Because it sounds a whole lot sexier than 'Amee Eats Paste.' Working out of her southern New Hampshire home, Sweet-McNamara makes one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable-art textile-jewelry using a technique called Soutache & Bead Embroidery which involves hand-stitching yards and yards of soutache braid and hundreds of tiny beads. She is inspired by curvilinear shapes and unexpected color-combinations wherever she discovers them; fine art, movies, architecture, advertising. Sweet-McNamara writes and teaches both private and group classes at venues across the country and is a proud member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.

TO SEE SOME OF AMEE'S WORK CLICK HERE!

Apollinariya Koprivnik Jewelry Design Specialist

I am 25 years old student of architecture, young wife, quite an easy going person and I am obsessed with beads. Natively I was born in Russia, I am a real Siberian..sort of 'beads are in my blood'. I am writing my Masters degree this year and cooperating with art store in our town, making tutorials and teaching people to explore beading and other techniques. Our small family lives in Slovenia, the city of Maribor, this beautifull country is full of inspiration. Nature, architecture, people... everything as a source for ideas. I am working in beading embroidery technique for three years, love to create interesting and rich color combinations, to try new shapes and to explore new materials and techniques. I never make a sketch for an artwork, the idea comes by itself, during the work. All ideas are spontaneous and always the material is the one that helps me to make the right decision.

TO SEE SOME OF APOLLINARIYA'S WORK CLICK HERE!

Eva Dobos Jewelry Design Specialist

Eva Dobos is a Hungarian Bead Artist best known for her numerous intricate beaded beads and rings. A self-taught beader whose unique designs has earned

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