Viva Magenta Beads and Supplies to Add to Your Stash

Pantone recently declared Viva Magenta as 2023 Color of the Year. This vibrant color captures a moment a moment in time, as a hybrid shade that’s symbolic of our lives in the natural and virtual world. Pantone says Viva Magenta balances boldness with a feeling of fun. Use magenta beads and supplies as springboards for injecting a sense of optimism and joy into your beadwork. Here are some of our favorite seed beads, gemstones, stringing materials, and more.

Above: Use magenta seed beads, crystals, stringing materials, and other beading supplies to add joy and zest for life to your beaded jewelry designs.

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Viva Magenta Beads, Crystals, and Stones

From luster to lined, to opaque, metallic, and every finish, look for seed beads in magenta, fuchsia, raspberry, hot pink, cranberry, and cherry. For subtle combinations, add cream, light pink, or brown as neutral backdrops. If you are looking for a brighter pop of color, add orange, teal, or tanzanite. Since magenta is made of equal parts blue and red, it plays well with nearly any color or complexion.

Incorporate crystal beads, flatbacks, chatons, rivolis, and other styles with your favorite beadwork techniques. Look for colors named magenta, ruby, fuchsia, and plum. Crystals are available in nearly every shape and size to make your beadwork sing with maximum sparkle.

Natural rhodochrosite stone ranges from pale pink to deep magenta and often displays banded or zig zag patterning. You can encase it in a beaded bezel to provide protection from scratching as well as enhancing the beauty of the stone. Rhodochrosite is known as a stone of new chances, which dovetails perfectly with Viva Magenta’s selection for its brave and fearless qualities.

Tourmaline is another stone that includes shades of magenta in its vast array of colors. In fact, a gorgeous color palette can be drawn from the stones themselves, from pastel pink to deep magenta, mossy green, smoky gray, and beyond. Tourmaline bead strands frequently include bands of color or variegated mixtures, depending on the type of tourmaline.

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Viva Magenta Supplies and Organizations

Using colorful bead stringing materials is a beautiful way to bring more color into your beadwork. You can achieve different effects depending on your bead/cord combination. Try using transparent beads with magenta stringing cord for a subtler effect or go for full-on color with opaque magenta beads and magenta stringing cord.

Typically, when Pantone announces a Color of the Year, manufacturers hurry to produce products in that color. Now that Viva Magenta has been declared the Pantone Color of the Year, it will become even easier to find magenta products for beading such as this organizer and other containers for storing your stash. Viva Magenta!