r/beadsprites

I FIXED IT AND COMPLETED IT!

It’s all our favorite characters that represent my mom, brother and I. Plus all her favorite stuff. My favorite is probably dumbo and ms. Jumbo.

This is the first time this has happened to me.

This took me 4 hours to do. I ran out of the colors I needed and ordered more. It’s been on my desk for over a week waiting for the rest of the beads to come. They came TODAY. I was going to finish it TODAY. I hit my chair on my cup and the cup knocked over on my beads. 😭😭😭😭😭

Recent commission from a coworker. Wasn't sure if I could make this work. Somehow pulled it off. This is supposed to have a full stressed out cat, but I did just the head to ensure the final piece didn't turn out too big.

Just got a 6000 count bag of Yellow from Perler. Immediately it looked like a darker, duller shade. I reached out thinking it was a dye lot problem for a return and replace and got the message below from a representative. FYI .

"I'm so sorry for the confusion and issues. I reached out to my product development team with your photo below and they confirmed that the color on the right still in the packaging is the current yellow and we do not have the other shade. We can do a return for you if you'd like or send you a replacement but it likely would be the same yellow that you received already."

Followed the instructions on the official site for this floral shelf. Needed a place for these tiny things.

I made a pixel art with Zelda references for my partner and I'm almost finished transferring it to bead art. But this is the biggest piece I've ever done (midi pearls) and I'm so afraid of ruining it!

I've only ever melted small pieces and I definitely prefer when the beads melt completely, so no hole is left. Is it possible for me to achieve this with a regular iron and baking paper? While using the tape method with poking holes, of course.

How do you handle melting such big pieces? I'd love to hear what your experiences are :)

Used a pre-existing template I found on Pinterest and improvised a bit as I ran out of green towards the top lol.

Hey everyone, first time posting here.

Me and my friends got into fuse beads through the Chinese bead scene (MARD beads). Over there patterns get shared as charts with a color code on every bead and the bead counts at the bottom. Some of those charts end up on Pinterest, and I've seen people here ask where they come from. I couldn't find a tool that makes charts like that from my own pictures, so I spent the last few months building one.

You upload a picture (or start from a blank board), pick a size and a brand palette, and you get a chart you can build from:

• Brand palettes for Perler, Hama, Artkal (S series) and MARD, with a color code on every bead
• Bead counts per color, so you know what to pull out or order before you start
• Red guide lines, chart downloads, and more tools that help you follow a pattern
• A build companion for your phone or tablet that highlights the color you're placing, tracks your progress, and estimates time left from your pace
• One-click merge for rare colors, which folds the ones that only appear a few times into the closest common color so you're not buying a whole bag for 3 beads
• A bead stash and build log where you mark which colors you own, log finished builds, and see how many beads you've used in total (plus your most-used colors)
• A small gallery of ready-made free patterns (classic paintings, animals, food) if you'd rather grab one and start beading

It's free and runs in the browser. You don't need to install anything, no account needed to try it. The conversion happens on your device, your photo never gets uploaded anywhere, and there's no AI involved, just color math.

It's not magic though. Busy photos with lots of gradients come out muddy. Every brand only has so many colors (Perler 103, Hama Midi 92, Artkal S 199, MARD 291), so some pictures just can't be matched perfectly. There's a full editor to fix stray beads or swap a color everywhere when that happens.

I built this alone. There's a lot more planned, and requests basically decide what comes next. Also, bead makers don't publish official color values, so the palettes come from community lists. If a color looks wrong next to the real beads on your desk, or something feels missing or clunky, that's exactly the feedback I need.

Link's in the comments.

Edit: added Artkal C, A, M and R, plus Perler Mini and Hama Mini and Maxi

And received a response from the CDPR official😆

Making all these was a great project. Anima and Bahamut are my favorite by a long shot. Thanks for all the comments and messages, everyone. No idea at all what to make next, so I'll just be posting some older projects for a while

I really didn't have the space/money to do a giant 31k size perler, so this is my resized version of the original art. It was hard trying to keep a lot of the details, especially in the veins near the bottom!

Wanted to share this older piece with you all. I debate redoing this since there is a lot more shades of grey/white available than a few years back.

The shiny side is very beautiful.

Based on a design by Bluesapphy0 on Instagram.

Made these perlers for a cringe rave I'm going to. More designs coming soon!