Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Design with Acrylic Beads Round Shape

Acrylic beads are basically plastic beads with an appearance similar to glass beads. They are made from acrylic which is a useful, clear plastic that resembles glass. However, acrylic has properties that make it superior to glass in many ways. One of the advantages of acrylic beads is it can wear for years. And one of the normally used shapes is acrylic beads round.

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Printed Beads

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Printed Beads

People who use as well as those who deal in wholesale acrylic beads like plastic beads, because they can be found in almost all kinds of shapes. Acrylic beads round, acrylic beads tube, acrylic beads flower, animal beads and acrylic beads faceted are most popular shapes of such types of beads. Acrylic beads round is multi-sided and normally used beads.

Plating Acrylic Beads, AB Color

Plating Acrylic Beads, AB Color

Acrylic beads round are used mainly as craft beads and jewelry beads. How to make jewelry set by using acrylic beads round shape? Here are some tips for you to select acrylic beads round shape and get started to make amazing jewelry.

Dyed Transparent Acrylic Beads

Dyed Transparent Acrylic Beads

l Make a sketch of your imagined design using a graph paper and colored pencils. Color each square to represent a bead. This will bring clarity to your imagination.

Transparent Acrylic Beads

Transparent Acrylic Beads

If you are not sure the pattern of your design, you can lay some acrylic beads round with different colors and sizes in front of you and experiment by contrasting or complementing them with each other. You will see that you have stared making patterns in your mind soon.

CCB Acrylic Beads, Antique Silver

CCB Acrylic Beads, Antique Silver

You can make simple necklaces, earrings, pendants and wrist beads. You can use only acrylic beads round shape to make these jewelry sets, but also can mix and match with other material beads, such as glass beads, crystal beads, wood beads, lampwork beads, metal beads, Tibetan style beads, Pandora beads and so on.

Round Acrylic Beads, Mixed Color

Round Acrylic Beads, Mixed Color

Give wings to your imagination. Creating any imaginable acrylic jewelry sets by round acrylic beads in different colors and sizes.

Besides that, acrylic beads round are immensely used for making beaded curtains to be used for door, windows etc. They are also used to decorate Christmas trees and even in chandeliers for decorating homes.

Imitation Shell Acrylic Beads

Imitation Shell Acrylic Beads

Handmade beaded acrylic jewelry is the best gift for your friends. You just need some acrylic beads round in different colors, sizes and stringing material plus a lot of imagination to make such jewelry set. You can get acrylic beads round in your local crafts store or purchasing them from online shops. They can offer a wide range for your selection.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Acrylic Beads Is Multipurpose Bead for Designing

Acrylic beads can be a fun to work upon. What makes the craft of acrylic beads further more interesting is the wide range of colors and shapes in which these are available. It won’t cost much to your pocket. So enjoy the charm of acrylic beads and get something every creative for you and your friends this season. Meanwhile, acrylic beads also named as “plastic beads”.

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Imitation Pearl Style

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Imitation Pearl Style

As we all know that acrylic beads are featured as beautiful, light weight and affordable. For these characters, acrylic beads are loved by many jewelry makers. Acrylic beads can be divided into many types, such as colorful acrylic beads, transparent acrylic beads, antique acrylic beads, CCB acrylic beads, crackle acrylic beads, imitation acrylic beads and so on. Acrylic beads also can be divided by their shapes, including animal, butterfly, faceted, flower, heart, leaf, round, irregularly and etc. You can find all the style acrylic beads from PandaHall.com at competitive wholesale prices.

Imitation Jelly Acrylic Beads

Imitation Jelly Acrylic Beads

Jewelry makers like to use colorful acrylic beads to make acrylic jewelry, such as necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings. Making acrylic jewelry is a relaxing and fun hobby to have. The best thing about this jewelry, which can be worn for years, is that it is handmade. Many individuals sell their handmade jewelry at fashion shows and local boutiques. The acrylic beads jewelry looks elegant but is not difficult at all to make. For the beginners, you can buy an acrylic jewelry-making book which will teach you the basic steps you need to follow during your beading journey. You can surprise your friends and family with the gifts of handmade acrylic beads jewelry.

Transparent Acrylic Beads

Transparent Acrylic Beads

While, to make acrylic beads jewelry is not the only usage of acrylic beads. No other thing can beat the charm of acrylic beads curtains. If you want your home in oriental home decor style then consider the beaded curtains. You can use clear acrylic beads only if you like the sense of refreshment. You also can use different shapes, colors and sizes acrylic beads to make a colorful curtains. From Asian these acrylic beads curtains moved to Europe then to America. The acrylic beads in the form of curtains come and go in fashion and home décor. The purpose of the beaded curtains is not to hide anything but to give decoration to your place. Using acrylic beads to decorate your lampshades by adding fringes on them is a good ideal too, which will give an exceptional look for your lamps.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Get New Ideal from Pewter Beads for Jewelry Making

Pewter beads are basically metal beads made of the metal alloy called pewter. Some people may don’t know that is pewter. Pewter is one of the many alloys of tin having small amounts of other metals too. It is a malleable metal alloy with about 85-99% tin and the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead. Lead is common in lower grades of pewter having bluish tint.

Tibetan Style Pendants, Nickel Free

Tibetan Style Pendants, Nickel Free

Modern age pewter mostly contains at least 90% tin and is alloyed with copper, antimony, or bismuth. Lead is no longer permitted to be an alloying element for making pewter. This is perhaps the reason why even lead free pewter beads can be found easily these days.

Tibetan Style Pendants, Nickel Free

Tibetan Style Pendants, Nickel Free

Tibetan beads can be cast and manipulated into interesting shapes for various jewelry making purposes. Pewter beads items include spacers, aligners, bead bars and bead frames among others. To create greater art and jewelry work variety these beads also come in styles such as alphabets and animals shapes. Some of the popular pewter beads designs can be listed as pewter round flower, square, rectangular, heart shapes, as well as faceted.

Pewter beads can be polished to a high, silver sheen or chemically darkened for a blacker metal look. This darker appearance of pewter beads seems to be more popular, as for a silver look people would more likely choose sterling silver. Dark colored pewter beads look quite distinctive and are extensively used for jewelry making. Pewter beads may tarnish to a dull grey color, but they can be easily cleaned. Some people even like the natural metal look of these beads and prefer to buy un-plated pewter beads.

Tibetan Silver Pendant, Plated with Platinum

Tibetan Silver Pendant, Plated with Platinum

Pewter beads usage is mainly related to making jewelry trinkets. Other than jewelry, pewter usage can be seen in making embellishments for fringes, curtains, throws etc. From among the pewter beads jewelry, pewter beads and charms are the most popular pewter beads jewelry. Pewter pendants and pewter necklaces are also popular among jewelry lovers. In fact, pewter spacer beads and pewter charms are used extensively for making other types of jewelry too.

Tibetan Silver Beads, Plated with Platinum

Tibetan Silver Beads, Plated with Platinum

Pewter beads can be easily purchased. You can purchase them from both online shops and local stores. While, if you would like to get unique pewter beads different from your next door store, you’d better to purchase them from online shops, for they can offer you the largest selection. PandaHall.com, one of the largest beads wholesale online shops, can offer you a wide range of selection for pewter beads as well as other jewelry beads & findings at low wholesale prices.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Making Personalized Jewelry with Loose Beads

Nowadays, along with the pursuit of personality, people pay more attention to the unique when they choose fashion jewelry pieces. While, how to create unique and/or personalized jewelry pieces? Loose beads will be the best choice.

Printed Acrylic Beads, MediumOrchid

Printed Acrylic Beads, MediumOrchid

First, let us talk about it from the place of holes on beads. Beads made of any materials, such as glass, stone, wood, metal, resin and so on, can be divided as strand beads and loose beads. As to strand beads, they are thread on a line with holes on the same place of beads. About loose beads, they can have holes on different places with each other. Jewelry pieces made by them separately will have different effect. That is to say, the place of holes can make different effect for jewelry making.

Mixed Color Acrylic Beads

Mixed Color Acrylic Beads

From purchasing, you can easily get many different styles and/or materials for your jewelry making if you choose loose beads. However, you have to buy one bead with a large quantity and have to buy many different styles and/or materials if you choose strand beads. If so, the cost will be increased.

Wood Beads, Lead Free

Wood Beads, Lead Free

Third, jewelry pieces made by loose beads will be more unique or personalized than made by strand beads. Because you can choose different beads as many as possible with a few quantity. Loose beads are easy to be mix and match with each other as long as you can image. But strand beads will limit your imagination by their large quantity.

Fancy Round Glass Beads Strands

Fancy Round Glass Beads Strands

Jewelry making is an addictive and fun hobby for some, and a business for others. Whether or not you make jewelry for sale, you may still want to find a few places to buy inexpensive loose beads for your jewelry making needs. Here are the top three:

1, PandaHall.com
PandaHall is a federation of Chinese factories and also the Chinese Small Merchandise online market. It retails and wholesales Beads & Findings including jade, silver, pearl, gemstone, lampwork glass and crystal items etc. All of the beads can be offered as loose beads. The prices are very reasonable.

Handmade Polymer Clay Beads

Handmade Polymer Clay Beads

2, Your Local Beads Stores.

If you need those loose beads to finish your designs urgently, you can purchase them from your local beads stores. While, your local beads stores will most likely have higher prices than online wholesalers. This is because they purchased those beads from online wholesalers.

Glass Beads Strands, Bicone

Glass Beads Strands, Bicone

3, Jewelry Beads Shows
You can take part in some jewelry beads show around you. It is a good way to get different loose beads for your designs. As to the price, please make sure the quality matches it.

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Alphabet Beads: Best Choice for Pursing Unique

Alphabet beads are also known as letter beads. They come in various materials, including alloy, acrylic, glass, porcelain, etc. There are square, rounded, heart, oval, flat round and some other special shapes. Alphabet beads make for a great design on handbags, shoes, key rings, cell phone charms and so on. They are also normally used in making jewelry.

Zinc Alloy Rhinestone Pendants, Alphabet

Zinc Alloy Rhinestone Pendants, Alphabet

Alphabet beads are an easy way to get your feet wet in making jewelry, even if you are a beginner in making jewelry. Customization is the name of the game with using alphabet beads to make jewelry. Contemporary is an era of pursuing individuality. Alphabet beads will be your best choice. You can choose alphabet beads to form your name on your bracelet or necklace to tell people who you are.

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Golden

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Golden

You also can use alphabet beads to make bracelets or necklaces with some sentence, such as “I Love You” to your lover, “Best Friends” to your friends, “I Love Mommy” to your mom, and so on. They will show your special sentiment to others correctly. Even you can make an alphabet bracelet for your girl friend with “will you marry me?” when she is asleep. How a pleasant surprise when she wake up! Alphabet beads are also will be a good ideal to spell out the name of clubs, schools, Churches on bracelets or necklaces as a gift for celebration.

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Platinum Color

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Platinum Color

As alphabet beads have different sizes, so please make sure that the hole of alphabet beads is big enough to string on thread. You can also add some crystal beads, glass beads, lampwork beads, gemstone beads, etc to make them more appealing. They will be amazing jewelry pieces for grown ladies.

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Letter "Y"

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Letter "Y"

You can purchase alphabet beads from both your local shops and online shops. But I would like to say that the online shops can offer you a wider rang of choosing, for there are tens of thousands of beads wholesale online shops around the world. Not matter what kind of alphabet beads you are looking for, pandaHall.com can satisfy you.

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Golden

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Golden

Don’t think that alphabet beads only can be used to make jewelry by adults. You can also choose alphabet beads with your kids together if you like. It is a good time to promote the relationship between you and them. And it is a good ideal to teach your kids to make bracelets with their friends’ names to promote their friendship. Or they can make double strand bracelets with both their names on it. Either way alphabet beads are a great shout out to their friendship.

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Golden

Rhinestone Alloy Alphabet Pendant, Golden

Jewelry making and beading are great hobbies for just about everyone to enjoy. Alphabet beads let it easy to make unique bracelets, necklaces or other charms for yourself or others as a gift.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Best Way and Best Place to Purchase Plastic Beads

Plastic beads, another name of acrylic beads, are big news in 2011. Plastic beads jewelry pieces are more and more popular with people, especially with women of all ages. But along with the growing fierce competition of jewelry business, most people are considering how to grab this opportunity to grow jewelry business better. Today, I want to say that how and where to purchase plastic beads are two important factors of success. Let me explain them for you.

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Assorted Shape

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Assorted Shape

How? Purchasing plastic beads from online shops is the best way.

As a fashion tendency plastic beads in 2011, most jewelry maker are using plastic beads to make jewelry pieces. So are you. While, how to get the unique plastic beads to make distinctive jewelry pieces? The best way is to purchase plastic beads from online shops.

There are tens of thousands of beads wholesale online shops around the world. They can offer you the largest selection for jewelry beads. You can compare beads and/or prices with different shops as much as possible to choose your favorite plastic beads. Some of the online shops such as PandaHall.com can also customize beads and search unique beads for you.

Dyed Acrylic Beads, Faceted Round

Dyed Acrylic Beads, Faceted Round

In addition, all the online shops open for 24 hours a day. You can purchase plastic beads at any time and any where as long as you have a computer. In that case, you can easily master the information about the newest plastic beads and fashion trend at random.

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Craft Style

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Craft Style

Where? China is the Best Place to Purchase Plastic Beads.

As we mentioned above, there are so many beads wholesale online shops, where should we to purchase plastic beads? China is the best place to purchase. Why? Reasons are followed:

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Flower

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Flower

1, various choice and sufficient supply

There are thousand of Jewelry manufacturers in China. Shenzhen, Yiwu and Guangzhou are the three main bases. They create and produce jewelry beads endless everyday. In that case, they can offer you the newest, unique and plentiful plastic beads to help you stand at the front of international fashion trend.

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Tree

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Tree

2, low cost and high quality

As is well known China is the world’s third largest country in area, and has a higher population than any other. Therefore, China has abundant raw materials, cheap labor and centuries of know-how. Many Chinese people at above three main bases are professional in making jewelry beads, even the plastic beads. Undoubtedly, Chinese beads wholesalers can offer you high quality plastic beads as well as other jewelry beads at competitive wholesale prices.

Colorful Acrylic Pendants, Teapot

Colorful Acrylic Pendants, Teapot

3, reduce your cost

Perhaps some people may don’t know that many beads retailed in your local beads craft shops are wholesaled from China. You have to pay much more money to buy beads from location or other countries than from China directly. Chinese beads wholesalers can offer cheap shipping to every place of the world, even some of them such as PandaHall.com can offer free shipping to some countries.

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Diamond

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Diamond

And now, are you ready to take this big chance to meet the challenge in 2011? If yes, don’t hesitate, and put them into action. Success lies at your arms’ length.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Acrylic Beads: Popular Beads for Jewelry Making

Today, along with the growing popularity of fashion jewelry, acrylic beads jewelry pieces are more and more popular with people, especially with women in all ages. So making jewelry by acrylic beads is a wise choice.

Colorful Acrylic Beads

Colorful Acrylic Beads

Acrylic beads come from different colors, shapes, and sizes, you have a wide range to choose from, including colorful beads, transparent beads, antique beads, CCB beads, crackle beads, painted beads, plating beads, printed beads etc. For the shapes, they are in heart, round, flower, flat round, rhombus, oval, rectangles, column and some others. Acrylic beads can also be made in different sizes from 6mm to 40mm and even bigger.

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Flower

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Flower

Yet now, common fashion jewelry pieces can not meet people’s request on personality. They want to be unique from others. As having various colors, shapes and sizes, choosing acrylic beads will be a wise choice for jewelry making. They will give you good inspirations on making unique jewelry pieces to show your own personality. You can not only use acrylic beads to make jewelry pieces only, but also mix and match them with other beads, such as glass beads, gemstones, metal beads, resin beads and so on. Different collection shows different style.

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Flower

Transparent Acrylic Beads, Flower

As acrylic beads can be made of different materials, some of them may show you the appearance of metal, and some are looked like glass, even some can give you the look of gemstone. No matter what they look like, all of them are attractive by their own characters. They can be used to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and any other jewelry pieces which can be imaginable. Different beads can be used to create different style jewelry pieces. Every style will be amazing and suitable to you at different occasions.

Clolorful Acrylic Beads, Metal Enlaced

Clolorful Acrylic Beads, Metal Enlaced

If you would like to get beads different from your next door shop, purchasing online is a good idea. As there are hundreds of thousands of beads wholesale online shops, they can offer you the largest selection and one-stop shopping at any time. What is more, acrylic beads are very light so that the shipping cost will be very cheap. China beads wholesaler– PandaHall can offer you the largest selection and will update new created beads in time. If in that case, you can make unique jewelry pieces with the newest beads and stand at the forefront of fashion.