What is an organic bead?

[SquareOneBeads]

I was hearing someone talk about making organics vs making florals and I was wondering what organics are? Also, how do you guys get the silver spots and streaks in some of the cosmic beads? I really think that is a cool effect.

Thanks,

Heather

[cghipp]

An organic bead is a dot bead that I have screwed up beyone all recognition, melted back down into oblivion and reshaped into a long bicone. It helps to add a ton of frit, random stringer and some silver foil, too.

Courtney

P.S. Really, I think it's a bead that ends up looking like it might have been found in nature. Ivory and silver foil plus just about anything else will tend to give this effect.

[shawnette]

An organic bead is a dot bead that I have screwed up beyone all recognition, melted back down into oblivion and reshaped into a long bicone. It helps to add a ton of frit, random stringer and some silver foil, too.

Courtney

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[DreamMuse]

Here is an organic bead that I just did.

I agree with the previous definition - a bead that looks like something found in nature. I would say that (most) organics tend to have random or uncontrolled patterns, as opposed to carefully placed elements like flowers or dots. (Though, I have seen nice swirly organics with a few nicely placed poked dots, but you get the drift *S*)

Silver and dark ivory are indeed often found in organics, because they do a lot of unpredicable things. There is dark ivory in my organic bicone, but no silver. (This time LOL)