This week-Creativ Festival

I am looking forward to heading to Toronto this week to teach 4 sparkling classes featuring some fabulous Swarovski Elements crystals in all of the designs at Creativ Festival!

I am thrilled to be a part of this exciting event and even more excited to be teaching alongside some of my dear friends and fellow Create Your Style with Swarovski Elements Ambassadors Stephanie Dixon, Laura Timmons and Debra Saucier.  What a great time we will have.

If you are in the Toronto are please stop by, say hi, take a class or check out mine as well as many other fabulous demo's at the Swarovski Elements booth at the show.

Check out the Creativ Festival Blog for more information on mine and other fabulous classes at this great Toronto Event!

See you there!

Sparkles!!!


June

Mingling Sparkles and Inspiration!



I don't think it is a surprise to anyone that I love Swarovski Crystal Elements, is it??? 

Ok, so I LOVE them in a big way! 

So to have the opportunity to head east and be able to spend time with my fellow ambassadors at the North American Headquarters for some training and sparkle time, well count me in!!!!  YIPPEEE~~  I always love heading to Tucson each year to see all of these amazingly talented designers that I both adore and admire so to get the opportunity to see everyone twice in one year, just pinch me!!

Jamie North & June Beach

So looking forward to seeing all of the new innovations and sparkles.....promise to share what I can here but will definitely share the fun & the friendship that comes through in all that we do. 

The Amazing Diane Whiting, Brenda Schweder and Sandro Lupo!

Going to be so much fun!  Just to be in the same room with this much talent is pretty serious but everyone is just the most sparkling and wonderful personalities that you could hope to be associated with!  Sparkles to all of them!



 

 Lilian Chen, the amazing Kristal Wick with bunny ears courtsey of the fabulous Laura Timmons and June

Thought this bracelet that I made full of sparkling Swarovski  Elements says it all in tems of being with all of these wonderful designers......inspiring!  Isn't that just the way it should be?  Oh course!



Designed by June Beach



Wishing you a most sparkling and Inspiring day!!

Sparkles!

June

exciting times

Wow!!! Good friends, good times, great beads, great classes and much more!

Saw some amazing new innovations from Crystallized Swarovski Elements (really did you expect me to say anything else??LOL), despite how much I love my Crystallized Swarovski Elements, they really have some amazing new designs coming to all of us in the near future! Some pieces that I am truly chomping at the bits to get my hands on and create some new sparkling jewelry.....very exciting and very innovative! Looking forward to sharing more info in the near future. Their trend presentations are really like no other! Each piece is truly a piece of art......be still my sparkling heart!

Got to spend some time with all of my fellow ambassadors and I can truly say that I although I have found such kinship in some like Jamie North (love my Canadian friend and truly the best!) , Laura Timmons (talented, fashionable and a good Texas girl at heart...what is not to love!), Diane Whiting(my talented sparkle sister), Kristal Wick (just the cutest and yet amazingly, super talented), Linda Hartung ( this lady is so down to earth, amazing and gracious that I am in awe) ,

Linda & Kristal playing around at the Ambassador Reception!

Deb Saucier ( love this lady, what a hoot to be around!), Brenda Schweder ( so talented, seriously), Fernando Dasilvia ( he is well beyond.....fabulous, darling!), Val Hirata ( oozes talent and sparkles.....amazing, this bouquet is just a very tiny bit of her work.......), Sandra Lupo ( adore, I took some of my first bead classes from years ago from this talented lady) and Lillian Chen ( amazing, unique and totally original) just to name a few.....

I took a class with Jamie.....if you ever have the chance to take her Oh So Gorgeous bracelet class, well....jump at the chance( pssstt.....she is teaching it at Bead & Button in June)! She is fabulous and the bracelet is beyond beautiful when finished, take a peek at the pic below!!

Course our guys ( Ben & Kevin) totally connected while we were getting beady & sparkly happy with all of the fabulous goodies that were everywhere in Tucson!My classes & Demo went great! We had tons of fun and everyone finished their Vintage Tassled Rose necklaces! Love when that happens!! See smiling faces.......

A few of my sparkle sisters at the Swarovski Party!

What a way to end an amazing week...even though to be honest, I was truly sick the whole week and was working on numerous projects yet I loved getting inspired by all of these amazing creative designers! So many new ideas and designs sparkling in my head....can't wait to show you what I am dreaming about these days!

Lillian, Kristal, Laura and yours truly! Love, love, love these talented ladies!

Val, Diane, me, Deb & Lillian

Cheers and looking forward to a fabulously sparkling year! Can't wait to share all the new sparkling inspiration with you in the coming months! To my fellow ambassadors....you are all the best of the best and I am delighted to be in your inspired and totaly sparkling company......

Sparkles!!!

June

5328 Xilion Inspiration Design

You never know when or where inspiration will strike. For me, it was a combination of things, not just one specific moment.

First, I heard that Crystallized Swarovski Elements was phasing out one of my favorite crystals the 5301 Bicone and was replacing it with the new 5328 Xilion.

To say that I was curious as to why they would bringing out a new element would be an understatment but I have to say I LOVE the new & improved crystal which is still in my favorite bicone shape but has more facets to it and since I love wirework the old 5301 would sometimes be a little crunchy at the edges and the new 5328 Xilion was smooth and fabulous. I think, no I know, that I am in serious like with this new crystal!

Course I love any Crystallized Swarovski Element so I am a bit of an easy sell but when it sparkles more and is actually easier to use in a variety of designs then it is a huge win in my book!

So, I was challenged as a Create Your Style with Crystallized Swarovski Elements Ambassador to come up with a inspirational design and try out the new 5328 Xilion crystal........I thought, I pondered.......I wanted to do something that was sometime fun, yet would make a statement of sorts.

I have been working on improving my Adobe Illustrator skill set as I have been working as a Jewelry Product Designer in addition to my normal wife, mom, jewelry designer & Create Your Style Ambassador life, designing components (pendants, connectors, beads, clasps, etc....) so I thought it would be natural to design my piece using some of my new learnings with Illustrator.

Course sometimes what is designed on paper is well.....very different in how it looks when you actually have to make it, right???? Add to it that I love creating jewelry that looks relatively simple to create but is stilll a bit more complicated than it first appears. But here it is!

I was pleasantly surprised not only with the new crystal but also with how the design came out and looked pretty darn close to my drawing.

This necklace was fun to create and definitely makes statement when worn! I hope that you love it and are inspired to try the new 5328 Xillon crystal and create a statement of your own!

Sparkles!

June

Crystallized Swarovski Elements Ambassadors

Course I told you all about this a while back that I was more than honored to be a part of the new Ambassador program for Crystallized Swarovski Elements and the designers that I am in the company of.......well...Amazing!!!

So it is all up and live on the Create Your Style website so that you can go and check out my fellow ambassadors, read all about them, check out ambassador blogs and articles, designs, etc......( I will be posting in the months to come). Also, there is a great forum for those of us that love Crystallized Swarovski Elements in our home, apparel and jewelry. Check it out!!!

Enjoy reading about all the sparkling Ambassadors and I encourage you to join the Create Your Style community....you will love it!

Ambassador Sparkles to you!!!

June