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These components act as a bezel by providing a variety of channels for designing. Get your creativity caps on– there’s so many ways to use these, here’s a few tips to springboard your imagination.
Beading wire: stringing through Katiedids
Insert added dimensions to your jewelry by fitting beads into the Katiedids channels. Using stringing wire, you can fill the channel with beads and continue your piece. The Katiedid serves as an accent. The surrounding metal can really tie a piece together.
Wire Wrapping
Get your wrap on by using these channels as a base and wrapping craft wire through your beads and tightly around the Katiedid. This technique really adds depth to your design with the different textures between beads, wire and channel. Start by selecting your wire and beads. With the wide variety of colors available in craft wire, you can make some really funky pieces using this technique. Since you’re already in the wire wrapping mode, besides securing the beads to the channel, you can alter the channel itself by creating more loops, turning what could have been a drop pendant into a link or visa versa.
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On Dec 27, 2012 at 7:10 pm #
P amoroso says:These look very dressy but yet look like you could wear with anything.
On Jan 14, 2013 at 6:22 am #
Linny May says:I love this , all the Ideas useing the Katiedid components , i just picked up a few of them at my craft store because they happend to be on clearance , I hope that they arnt gonna stop selling them there because it’s the only place i’ve seen them , and now that i have them and ive seen them used wiith polymer clay and other ways … i can’t wait to play with them more , right now I’m trying to orgaize my beads right now so my acctual beading has been put on hold but i’m itching to try a few projects out
On Jul 05, 2013 at 1:06 pm #
D GILMORE says:looks easy, right? but what stops the beads/crystals from popping out?
and with the holes, don’t even think about using resin
and what if you wanted to use non-beads like mixed media
sorry, not impressed with katiedids
On Jul 05, 2013 at 2:15 pm #
Kate says:@DGILMORE: the Katiedids are channels that can add interest to your bracelets or necklaces, so you actually string the beads through the katiedid. As long as you keep the stringing material taught, that should keep them in place just fine.
These aren’t really made for chatons.. though I bet if you used some crystal clay, you could set the chatons in these channels and then use a wire wrap at the ends to connect the katiedid to the rest of your piece.
Just a thought!
On Nov 02, 2018 at 11:31 pm #
FrancesP O says:Interesting tool