need help with a back ground color

tigger · 06-29-2005, 09:29 PM

a friend of mine just had a birthday and i told her that i would make her legging and mocs. we decided on using fire colors but can't figure out what kinda background color to use. can ya'll please give me alittle help.

also, i was thinking of using clear (crystal) beads for the red, yellow, and orange. and cut beads for the background. is this alright????

thank you.

**Roobz** · 06-29-2005, 10:17 PM

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Cutbead Queen · 06-30-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by tigger

a friend of mine just had a birthday and i told her that i would make her legging and mocs. we decided on using fire colors but can't figure out what kinda background color to use. can ya'll please give me alittle help.

also, i was thinking of using clear (crystal) beads for the red, yellow, and orange. and cut beads for the background. is this alright????

thank you.

Wow, my birthday is in Nov. I would'nt mind a new pair of leggins and moccs.*LOL

I have had big plans to incorporate flames into my hubby's new grass outfit for about 2 months now. Check this guy's awesome artwork out, this is just one site that I found.

http://www.signweb.com/fabrication/cont/deuceswild.html (sorry I couldn't get the hyperlink to load)

Mike Lavallee is all over the web, just search him. He's a flame artist for hot rods. I even found a picture where he painted blue and purple flames on a hot pink car. I loved it, but my husband said hell no. So I had to come up with a color combination that was more.....manly!. His flame color combination is similar to yours and the background is "Hematite" which isn't black- but sort of silver really dark shinny grey, almost black. All in cutz.

Good luck!

Mato Winyan · 06-30-2005, 01:18 PM

I think the hemitite is what Ruby is talking about.....some places call it gunmetal. I love those beads!! No....... I take that back I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee those beads!!!

Cutbead Queen · 06-30-2005, 04:38 PM

I went through one of my favorite bead sample cards, the silver hematite is the one I'm using for hubby's background. I've attached some other hematite colors....I really like the purple it is more feminine.

Singing Otter · 06-30-2005, 06:05 PM

I have some in 14s and oh muh dayummmmmm they are gorgeous! I wish I could see the purplish (LOL don't say nothin.) shade on your attachment CBQ :(

Cutbead Queen · 06-30-2005, 07:54 PM

Sorry...everyone I know my pictures aren't very good. Check out this site, its one of my favorite ordering places off the net. It has better pictures then mine above and several other different colors of hematite. I know of at least 5 other colors of hematite she doesn't have.

This woman has over 900 different bead colors from Japan. In regular seed beads and hex cuts (loose - in tubes). Her variety of bead colors just amazes me.

The names she uses for some of her beads sound like lip gloss and nail polish colors.(purple-fushia luster)*LOL

http://cbbeads.tripod.com/fifteens5.htm#metallic

Singing Otter · 06-30-2005, 10:02 PM

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeads *drool*

She has some colors I've never seen (gold AB, metal rainbow, etc.).... doggone it.... now i'm gonna hafta buy some beads.

wyo_rose · 07-01-2005, 02:37 PM

OMG!! Thanks for that website, CutBead Queen!!!

She has the blue C/L dark fuscia and blue C/L purple luster beads I've been looking for FOR YEARS!!!!!

But I can't seem to find her Czech cut beads? And what are Triangle beads? Are they Tri-cuts? Can't tell by the pics.

wyo_rose · 07-01-2005, 02:42 PM

Oh, and fire colors go good on any background from black or white, to greens, blues, yellow.

Cutbead Queen · 07-02-2005, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by wyo_rose

OMG!! Thanks for that website, CutBead Queen!!!

She has the blue C/L dark fuscia and blue C/L purple luster beads I've been looking for FOR YEARS!!!!!

But I can't seem to find her Czech cut beads? And what are Triangle beads? Are they Tri-cuts? Can't tell by the pics.

Your welcome Rosie.

I just got a shipment in from her the other day and I was comparing the physical beads she sent me to the sample colors she has on her website and all the colors are very similar and a few even in my opinion, almost exact.

Unfortunately, she doesn't carry Czech beads at all, just Japanese. So no tri-cuts. I wish she did - her prices are very good. She only carries seed and hex (japanese cut beads - by the way I love them so many more colors then Czech manufactures and they really are comparable in shine.)

Her tri-angle beads are just that "Tri-angle" shaped beads. They are big too, I don't know how else to explain them only that they are not the "tri-cuts" we use in our kind of beadwork.

Have fun beading!

tigger · 07-05-2005, 11:00 AM

well she decided on a lime green color if we can find one that she likes and we are going to mix regular 11's with cut 11's. i will post a pic of them when i get them done.

**SingingDeer** · 07-09-2005, 02:02 AM

I was gonna suggest dark blue or black, but those hematite ones made me drool

thanks Cutbead Queen

06-29-2005, 09:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
tigger Pow Wow Committee Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: powwows.com Posts: 6,182	need help with a back ground color a friend of mine just had a birthday and i told her that i would make her legging and mocs. we decided on using fire colors but can't figure out what kinda background color to use. can ya'll please give me alittle help. also, i was thinking of using clear (crystal) beads for the red, yellow, and orange. and cut beads for the background. is this alright???? thank you.

06-29-2005, 10:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Roobz jingle jangle mornin' Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: åt home Posts: 1,024	. Last edited by Roobz; 09-20-2008 at 09:23 PM.

06-30-2005, 01:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mato Winyan Gangster of Love Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Indiana Posts: 5,497 Blog Entries: 4	I think the hemitite is what Ruby is talking about.....some places call it gunmetal. I love those beads!! No....... I take that back I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee those beads!!! __________________ "We see it as a desecration not only of a mountain but of our way of life. This is a genocidal issue to us. If they kill this mountain, they kill our way of life." ~Debra White Plume

06-30-2005, 06:05 PM	#6 (permalink)
Singing Otter Gotz ta be me! Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,391 Blog Entries: 1	I have some in 14s and oh muh dayummmmmm they are gorgeous! I wish I could see the purplish (LOL don't say nothin.) shade on your attachment CBQ :( __________________ Cowboy wisdom: A thong is like a barb wire fence, it protects the property without blocking the view.

06-30-2005, 07:54 PM	#7 (permalink)
Cutbead Queen Traditional Dancer Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 93	Sorry...everyone I know my pictures aren't very good. Check out this site, its one of my favorite ordering places off the net. It has better pictures then mine above and several other different colors of hematite. I know of at least 5 other colors of hematite she doesn't have. This woman has over 900 different bead colors from Japan. In regular seed beads and hex cuts (loose - in tubes). Her variety of bead colors just amazes me. The names she uses for some of her beads sound like lip gloss and nail polish colors.(purple-fushia luster)LOL http://cbbeads.tripod.com/fifteens5.htm#metallic __________________ Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." - Leonardo Da Vinci* "I found I could say things with my beads that I couldn't say any other way....things I had no words for" - Eva McAdams Eastern Shoshone

06-30-2005, 10:02 PM	#8 (permalink)
Singing Otter Gotz ta be me! Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,391 Blog Entries: 1	ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeads drool She has some colors I've never seen (gold AB, metal rainbow, etc.).... doggone it.... now i'm gonna hafta buy some beads. __________________ Cowboy wisdom: A thong is like a barb wire fence, it protects the property without blocking the view.

07-01-2005, 02:37 PM	#9 (permalink)
wyo_rose Teenah's Too Cool Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Fort Washakie Posts: 8,019 Blog Entries: 2	OMG!! Thanks for that website, CutBead Queen!!! She has the blue C/L dark fuscia and blue C/L purple luster beads I've been looking for FOR YEARS!!!!! But I can't seem to find her Czech cut beads? And what are Triangle beads? Are they Tri-cuts? Can't tell by the pics. __________________ Don't take life so seriously! It's not permanent.

07-01-2005, 02:42 PM	#10 (permalink)
wyo_rose Teenah's Too Cool Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Fort Washakie Posts: 8,019 Blog Entries: 2	Oh, and fire colors go good on any background from black or white, to greens, blues, yellow. __________________ Don't take life so seriously! It's not permanent.

07-05-2005, 11:00 AM	#12 (permalink)
tigger Pow Wow Committee Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: powwows.com Posts: 6,182	well she decided on a lime green color if we can find one that she likes and we are going to mix regular 11's with cut 11's. i will post a pic of them when i get them done.

07-09-2005, 02:02 AM	#13 (permalink)
SingingDeer ~~~ Jedi Color Guard ~~~ Join Date: May 2005 Location: Washington State Posts: 13,603	I was gonna suggest dark blue or black, but those hematite ones made me drool thanks Cutbead Queen __________________ "Liberty is the one thing you can't have unless you give it to others." ~ Wm A White "We could learn a lot from a box of crayons: some sharp, some pretty, some dull, some have weird names, & all different colors, but they have to learn to live in the same box." ~ Anon

07-28-2005, 10:49 AM	#14 (permalink)
kiiyaaniiasdzaa Jing-a-ling Shook-shook Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 434