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To make this bead mosaic, the first thing we have is a bezel This is from the
craft store and it's basically like a frame. It has a little bit of an edge all
the way around for you to put things inside of. Sometimes people put photos
and stuff inside them. So we got that little heart bezel to start with and
then we have a selection of beads. We have some silver seed beads. We have some
bugle beads. And we have some bicones, little crystal bicones here. And what
we're going to do is put some glue inside of our bezel. This is e6000. This
is a nice craft glue. And I don't want to put glue over the whole inside yet
because it might set up too quickly. So I'm going to do a little glue at a time,
do a section at a time. And that way we're not rushing, also, which is nice. So we've got
our glue in there and then what we want to do to start with, I'm going to make a
little flower out of these beads. And I'm going to spread the glue a little bit
flatter here. This will be our flower section in the center. And you can pick
these beads up with your fingers to make your mosaic and drop them in like this,
but you might get glue on your fingers. I think it's easier to use some tweezers.
This is really our bead scoop and it happens to have these nice tweezers on
the end and so I'm going to use the tweezers to set the beads in. And I just
put a green one in the center there and I'm gonna put these bicones around to
the side with, that one jumped, and they don't even really need to be arranged in
any direction. They'll just look like a little flower here when we're done. So
let's spread them out a little bit evenly. And there's our little center.
Already looks like something. That's cute. And now we can add a little bit more
glue and do the beads around the outside edge. I think it would be nice to do the
bugle beads as a kind of border, so I'm just gonna put a little bit more
of our glue in there and spread it around like I did before with the
toothpick. I just spread a little bit. You don't want to be too skimpy with the
glue because the glue is going to hold these beads in and the glue is clear
anyway so it doesn't matter if you have a lot of it in there. And then like I
said I like using these tweezers and I'm gonna set some of these bugle beads in
as a little border frame. I can push it into place there. These are kind of long
so they're not going to turn this corner that well, so I have some shorter bugle
beads that were in the mix, and I'm just gonna spread those around. Those can be
in the curved part of here. And already that's looking like a nice little frame.
Those there. Think I'll do a double frame and as long as I still have glue here I'll
go ahead and do the second part of this border. Because I still have a little bit of
glue showing. Another one of these blue ones in here. These are glass bugle
beads. They're kind of, they have a silvering to them. They're very pretty. So now I'm
going to do the same thing again. I'm going to put some glue down here. You can
see if you put glue over the whole thing and then try to lay in your whole mosaic,
you'd feel rushed. You don't need to feel rushed. Especially if you're going to do
a design that's a more complicated. This one's not very complicated, but you could
do a very nice mosaic in here and arrange each bead carefully, and then you
would want time to set your beads down. This has a little glue string. I'm
twisting that toothpick as I pulled that glue string up and it shortens the glue
string it makes it break off more quickly. A little tip. So now I can put
another bead in here and just push that into place. Having the glue wet like this
helps gives you room to move things around rather than if it was starting to
set up. Now I'm just gonna do the same thing on
the other side here. A little glue up here at the top. And I'm really doing
about a pea-sized, not even a pea, a small kernel corn size drop of glue there. Not
much. And spread it around a little bit. Want to come all the way over to here.
And we can repeat what we did in this top corner by putting a couple of these
smaller bugle beads up here. We almost have room for one here but I didn't put
any glue there. I'm just going to steal a touch of glue from here.
I'm going to smear it over here so we can put another bead over here.
And that toothpick is very handy for moving the glue around. And then I'll
just drop that one in there. That looks great. So you want to definitely
get a selection of sizes for these bugle beads. If you do a border like this,
especially if you have a curve, your bezel, maybe you'll get a bezel that's a
circle or a heart shape like this. You'll want to have these smaller ones to turn
corners. Or you could get a bezel that is from just a square frame and that would
be really fun to make a mosaic inside of. Now as I'm running out of room it's
going to be harder to squeeze the glue in, so instead I'm gonna take a clean
toothpick and I'm going to put some glue right on the toothpick. And then I can
use that to apply the glue inside of this bezel. Make sure I get the glue
where I need it. And like I said it dries clear so don't worry about it
showing. But that gives me room now with glue to put a little bit more
border here. And we have room for one more piece here. And
I'm not worrying too much about which colors I pick up. If there's two next to
each other it doesn't matter. They just all look good together. So our board is
all done and now what we're going to do is fill in the center with these silver
seed beads. And so I'm going to apply the glue just like I did before with the
toothpick. I'm gonna put some glue in there, squeeze out a drop there, and I'm
gonna put some over in the other side too. If I can get it to let go. The spin
technique is helping. And we just need a tiny bit at the bottom. And for this part
I am going to go ahead and put all the glue down that I think I need because
I'm not going to hand arrange all these seed beads. The seed beads are really
hard to set down in here. It's easier to kind of dump them in and then just
manipulate them into place. I just want to make sure I have glue everywhere that
I want the beads to stick. So now I can use this scoop part of my bead
tweezers and I'm just gonna drop these in. And then once I have them in the
mosaic I'm gonna push them into place. So I don't want them on top of my flower so
I'm going to move them out of the way of the flower. And I'm just gonna press them
down into the glue. Just look again and see if there's any spots you're missing.
We need a bead here and everything's still a little bit wet so I can just
move these around a little bit. If I need to push that one down, make them all the
same height, push them down a little bit. So if you wanted to you could turn all
these seed beads over, but I like the texture of the circles where they show.
They give it a little added shine. And now all we need to do is let this cure
and our bead mosaic is finished!