A Beaded Handbag Ready for Spring!

 

This is the latest beaded handbag I've made. I was itching to try out the new colors of the Martha Stewart micro beads I bought at Michaels. The only old color I used was the green for the "leaves", since the greens in the new set of beads were all a little on the minty side. I was surprised to see two containers of gold beads in the set. Looking a little closer, one of the gold bead containers was labeled "copper" and was a slightly warmer tone than the other. I used the "copper" beads on this bag but they look more like a rose gold to me.

As I was working on this bag, I noticed that I now have a large enough range of microbeads in shades of blue to try an ombre effect on my next bag. I'll probobly work on that next!

Tutorial instructions for making your own beaded bag can be found here.