Description
In the e-book, ‘Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets’ (published by Vivebooks, an imprint of Rainbow Disks), award winning bead designer, Katie Dean, teaches you how to make beaded wedding bouquets using the traditional craft of French Beading.
This ebook has now become a full online course, combining the projects and instructions in the original ebook with the sequel. That sequel taught more advanced French beading techniques. It also offered more flower and foliage designs. Plus designs for corsages and buttonholes to add to the wedding theme. Altogether, this online course is one of the most comprehensive guides to French beading available anywhere.
You will be learning through video demonstrations and written instructions. All the projects are available in PDF format which you can download and print if you wish. You get lifetime access to the course once you are enrolled. So, you can learn whenever you are ready and work at your own pace. Follow this link to enrol in the course now.
The Structure of Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets
The online course includes over two hours of comprehensive videos demonstrating all the techniques you will need to make these beautiful flowers.
The opening chapters give you advice about choosing the flowers and style for your wedding bouquet. Katie then provides step-by-step instructions and diagrams to show you how to make individual flowers. These include rose, lily, gerbera, stephanotis, gypsophila, orchid, ivy, leaves and fern.
Katie then goes on to share her designs for four wedding bouquets. Each one is in a different style (pomander, hand-tied, teardrop, cascade). The book gives step-by-step instructions for creating each bouquet.
The last chapter gives ideas for other wedding accessories. So, you might like to try floral tiaras, hair ornaments, corsages and table decorations.
Experience
Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets is suitable for all levels – even those with no previous experience of French Beading. The very user-friendly format allows you to navigate easily between projects and technique videos and instructions. So, it couldn’t be easier to learn this beautiful craft.
Katie has been creating stunning custom-designed beaded wedding bouquets and wedding accessories for brides around the world since 2004. So, don’t miss this opportunity to let her teach you how to create your own ever-lasting keepsakes for your special day.
More Ideas
If you enjoy French beading, then you may also like to try some of the other French beaded flower patterns from my website. You can find them all at this link.