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.....
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Leslie Pope, a.k.a. “Twisted Sistah Beads”, has a PASSION for BEADS and FIBER! 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. In the subsequent years, Leslie has become a nationally known teacher and had her designs grace the cover and pages of several national and international magazines. Her role as Creative Designer at Beadsmith has allowed Leslie to extend her beading knowledge to a large audience via Facebook Live and YouTube videos. You can follow Leslie on Facebook and Instagram as “Twisted Sistah Beads”.
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Debora Hodoyer was raised in Sardinia, a beautiful island in the middle of Mediterranean Sea she became a passionate traveler and now, back from those beautiful experiences, concentrates on the valorization of culture, language, protection of the environment, archeology, traditions and ancient history of her island, which you’re welcome to come and visit.
Debora is also a bass guitar player, and her adventure in the bead world started with wire when she needed a hobby at a time she wasn’t playing bass so much. Her attention was attracted by those little sparkling pretty things named seed beads and she just channeled being disciplined in music into a different form of creative energy. Debora says that her jewelry is made of music, art, nature and something that comes from a remote past. Over time she developed her own designs trying to combine ancient traditions with hints of modern style. She now sells beading instructions in her Etsy shop called CrownofStones, and has had designs published as well as interviews in major beading magazines including Bead&Button , Beadwork , Perlen Poesie , Bead & Jewellery , Beading Polska , and DIY Beading Magazine , and Creative Beading books. Visit Debora’s Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/CrownofStones and Facebook page www.facebook.com/DeboraHodoyerCrownofStones/
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A self-taught bead artist living in Alberta, Carolyn enjoys the endless creativity derived from stringing and stitching “little round shiny things with holes in them”. This is both a frustrating and exhilarating way to fill in the spare moments of her very full days as a wife, mother of three young ladies, and musician. Creativity has always played a large role in her life, from sewing clothes for Barbie at a young age, to experimenting with a wide variety of arts and crafts; from earning a Degree in Music and playing several instruments, to making jewelry. Her creations are inspired by a wide variety of things – the colors and shapes of the natural world, works of vintage and antique beaded art, the encouraging comments of her family, and the many hours spent “composing” with needle, beads and thread. Her work has been published in Bead&Button and Beadwork magazines, and she has been a winner in multiple categories of BeadStar every year since 2011. Her first book, Beautiful Designs with SuperDuos and Twin Beads , was released by Kalmbach in 2014. Visit Carolyn’s Facebook page: Lady Beadle Designs or visit her website: www.ladybeadledesigns.com !
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Barbra Lepak started beading in 2013, though her mum introduced her to the craft and joys of embroidery in her childhood, and later on cross stitching (which she still loves doing.) Using the internet and some magazines she learned basic bead weaving techniques and just few months later started designing her own patterns, but it took five years before she made her very first tutorial. Earrings are her favorite piece of jewelry and you can see her doing those most often. Among her works you'll also find bead embroidery, soutache and bead crochet.
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Martha Mollichella studied jewelry design and goldsmithing at the Art Institute of Rome where she graduated as an art teacher in 1991. Circumstances led her to work in the commercial sector of an Information Technology company and for almost 18 years she was involved in creating new business plans, searching for potential customers, purchasing, managing, taking care of clients and much more. Then her life took a new direction. After having three children, she decided to be a stay-at-home mom and during this time she re-discovered the joys of various creative arts as a way to entertain not only her kids but herself as well. She began sewing with great enthusiasm and stumbled across soutache and beads in a sewing ideas project. That was the spark that renewed her passion for jewelry making and she has been beading every day since 2013. After many years of artistic studies, Martha’s passions have changed and evolved. She loves to create primarily unique pieces and small works of wearable art. Visit her website: www.marthamollichella.com.
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Rangashrii Santhanam is an award-winning designer who started beading in 2009. Her designs have been published in magazines such as Beadwork and Bead and Jewelry. She is inspired by nature and quite a few of her designs mimic flowers. She travels with her beads as much as possible. Rangashrii lives in Atlanta, GA with her son and husband and two very spoiled cats. Her hobbies are reading and gardening and she loves board games. She sells her finished jewelry in craft shows and to private clients. You can find her designs and kits at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShriiDesignsllc or follow her on Instagram @shriidesigns. She can be reached at shriidesigns1@gmail.com.
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