Use Alphabet Beads to Create Kids Jewelry with Your Children

Today, making jewelry is not only a hobby for adults, but also an interest for children. Using alphabet beads to create friends jewelry is a good start. And now, more and more tutorials about teaching how to make kids jewelry on the internet for free. So why not learn some and create them with your children to improve your relationship and create some happy time?

Alphabet Slide Charms, Nickel Free Alloy and Five Clear Rhinestone Beads

Some people may ask that there are so many jewelry beads why should I choose alphabet beads to start? That is a good question. Yes, why? Because the following reasons: to the beginners of young jewelry making, they have no ability to create complicated jewelry designs; and create some friends jewelry can improve their friendship or make new friends, which will interest them; alphabet beads are best choice to create friend jewelry for they can be combined as any name in the world.

Alphabet Slide Charms, Nickel Free Alloy and One Clear Rhinestone Beads

Well, I would say you need to choose correct colors for boys and girls separately. For boys, white, silver and golden colors are the most widely used colors, and for girls, all the beautiful bright colors will be okay. Alphabet beads are produced in different materials, such as alloy acrylic, brass, lampwork, porcelain, wood and so on. All these alphabet beads come in a variety of colors. Silver and gold alloy alphabet beads with rhinestone are very suitable for creating jewelry for young boys. These beads are look like a little masculine which are suitable for these young men. White porcelain ones and lampwork ones are suitable for both boys and girls. Well, acrylic alphabet beads are the most favorite beads for kids as they are colorful, lightweight and available in various shapes.

Alloy Rhinestone Slide Charm, Alphabet Style, Letter "Z"

You will also need some other jewelry materials when you start to create jewelry pieces, so purchase them together to save time and money. Start to make some friend bracelets at a Sunday afternoon with your kids. Pick out the alphabet beads of their friends’ names, and combine them on the bracelets. You can also teach them to combine the letters of “best friends” on bracelets or necklaces. They will be the perfect jewelry gifts for their friends. Don’t forget to choose correct colors for these beads according to the gifts are for boys or girls.

Alphabet beads are very popular for making jewelry and many other fashion decorations nowadays. And they are available anywhere. While, if you would like to get a wide range of selection with a low prices, choose some reliable jewelry beads wholesale stores, like PandaHall, is a wise choice. Enjoy your good time with your kids.

New Top 3 Stone Beads for Jewelry Making

When talking about fashion jewelry, gemstone beads jewelry are loved deeply by many people. These jewelry pieces are created with different stone beads, such as agate, amazonite, amethyst, ametrine, aquamarine, aventurine, black stone, spot stone, Buddhist relics, coral, carnelian, crystal, hematite, jade, jasper, lava, howlite, lace stone, dragon blood, hypersthenes, moonstone, onyx, tiger eye, turquoise, wealth stone, wood petrifaction, rhodonite and so on. There are really so many different stones. These stone beads are available in different colors, shapes, sizes and effects. They are good choices for creating various jewelry pieces.

Natural Phenix Crackle Agate Beads Strands

While, there are so many different stone beads available, do you know them clearly? Here are some information about several stone beads which are the most widely used in jewelry making.

Turquoise Stone Beads: Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminum. One of the main compounds of the turquoise stone beads is copper. This is what gives them blue, green, bluish-green colors. This kind of stone beads is wonderful for drawing out negative vibrations from a person. They are also regarded as the symbol of strength, protection from harm, psychic sensitivity and connection to the spirit world. Turquoise stone beads have been used in jewelry making since ancient.

Crackle Crystal Beads Strands, 128 Facets, Round

Jade Stone Beads: Jade is the term applied to forms of jadeite and nephrite. Today, many jade stones are produced in China and Myanmar. Panda Hall is one of the largest suppliers of these beads. These stones appear in different colors, emerald green, mottled green, white, and the rarer colors of yellow, pink, purple, and black. The range of greens is light to dark, creamy, grayish, and also white. Jade is admired as the stone of love, inner peace, harmony and balance, so they are given as a gem on the 12th, 30^th and 35^th wedding anniversary, and widely used in jewelry making too.

Gemstone Beads Strands, Grade "AA" Natural Amazonite

Coral Beads: Coral stones, unlike most other gemstone, are actually the skeletal remains of marine polyps. The polyps are surrounded by a fleshy skin and excrete a carbonic substance from which the coral grows like trees and branches. The history tells us that the oldest coral stone beads to be used in coral jewelry were thousands of years ago.

Some other stone beads are also very popular in jewelry making, and jewelry pieces with them are loved very much by people. Today, different gemstone beads are available around the world. In order to save your time and purchase more stone beads without breaking your bank, finding a large and reliable jewelry supplier is quite important.

Create Various Jewelry Crafts with Lucite Beads and Resin Beads

Lucite beads, a kind of resin beads, were created in 1937 and used in jewelry making then. Both lucite beads and resin beadsare widely used in jewelry making today. They are inexpensive and easy to work with and resulted in lovely carvings and inlays. Both beads are manufactured in a wide variety of colors, shapes, sizes and styles.

Taiwan Resin Beads, Column, Dyed, Multicolor

About the styles of lucite beads, we can simply sort them as contemporary and vintage. While, how to distinguish them? Here is some useful information for your reference. First, vintage style lucite beads come in some very singular styles that make it look different than most contemporary lucite beads. If they are made of many small pieces set in metal, they could be molded lucite, and if so, they are likely vintage pieces. Second, judge from colors. Lucite beads come in a number of colors, including opaque, clear and semi-transparent. Contemporary ones usually come in solid colors. While, today, almost all the lucite beads and resin beads in the fashion jewelry markets are contemporary.

Resin Beads, Magenta, Cube

As both lucite beads and resin beads are available in a variety of types. They are loved deeply by jewelry makers and craftsmen, for they are lightweight, cheap, but colorful. These beads are the trend for making fashion jewelry. Why not purchase some for your jewelry designs? No matter for necklace making, bracelets making, earrings making, rings making or many other fashion decoration making, they are versatile and will make your designs become the spotlights. Oversized jewelry is the trend of this year. These beads have variety of sizes, from 1mm to larger than 40mm, and the sizes of their hole are from smaller than 1mm to larger than 10mm.

Resin Beads, Flocky Style, Multicolor

The contemporary lucite beads and resin beads are produced in different styles, for example, imitation cat eye, crackle ones, imitation lava, imitation Swarovski crystal, imitation amber, and imitation bone. Some of them are produced with special effects, such as produced with chains inside of these beads or with rhinestones on their surfaces. Many jewelry makers or designers like to use these beads to make jewelry with other beads together. And to the craftsmen, lucite beads and resin beads are best choice for making fashion decoration, for example, add them on hair decoration or hair clips, add them on hats, shoes, bags, clothes and many others. Even some craftsmen use these beads to create decorated curtains, hangings, mats and etc. Purchase some and just create your own unique pieces.

Get Normal Glass Beads to Create Various Fashion Jewelry

Glass beads are always liked very much by jewelry makers, especially the normal glass beads which are versatile in jewelry making. These beads are available in different forms, sizes, colors and shapes with hole smaller than1mmto larger than10mm. Even though they are named as normal glass beads but they are really not normal at all.

Glass beads are available in various types, such as normal glass, cat eye glass, crackle glass, Czech glass, drawbench glass, electroplate glass, frosted glass, glass pearl, rhinestone glass, imitation jade glass, painted glass, Piezo glass, specialty glass and so on. Someone may say that normal glass beads have no special characters like other type glass beads. But I want to say just because of this character, they are versatile in jewelry making. Normal beads can create fabulous and various jewelry designs as long as you have limited creations.

Glass Bracelets, Valentine Jewelry Supplies

According to the trends of fashion jewelry in 2012, oversized bracelet is very hot. Using normal glass beads can also create hot jewelry for this year. Choose some pearl pink faceted glass beads, two round brass rhinestone beads and a length of elastic cord. This design is not complete so that the steps are very simple. String all the pearl pink normal glass beads on the elastic cord, and put the bead strand through the two brass rhinestones together for three times. In that case, you will find that the glass beads strand has become three circles which all through the rhinestone beads. Cut off the rest cord and make a knot to stop the beads fall off. Hide the knot in hole of a bead. A simple but fashion, shining glass bracelet is finished. You can also combine the normal glass beads with some other jewelry beads to create your own one.

Glass Beads Strands, Faceted, Bicone

Today, a new fashion jewelry is more and more popular with people. Many celebrities are its fans too. It is Shamballa jewelry which is made with different jewelry beads, such as rhinestone beads, glass beads, gemstone beads, hematite beads, resin beads, polymer clay beads and so on. While, beautiful is just one of the reasons why so many people love to wear it. The other reason or maybe the main reason is that the philosophy of Shamballa jewelry is to create pieces that welcome the memory of our infinite love and deep rooted compassion towards ourselves and other. Open your mind, and smile to the word. Shed fear, hate and envy, and experience the happiness of smile. Why not use your normal glass beads to create such a fabulous jewelry? You can create it for yourself, for your family or your friends. This kind of jewelry is very suitable for wearing or presenting as a gift. You can use normal glass beads to create only, but also can collect some other jewelry beads together for your designs.

New Fashion Jewelry Beads—Crackle Porcelain Beads

Jewelry beads are essential for jewelry making. If you want to create newest jewelry designs, you need to get newest jewelry beads in time. Crackle porcelain beads are one of the new fashion beads for jewelry making.

Maybe some people are not clearly about crackle porcelain beads. They don’t have smooth surfaces just like other normal porcelain beads. Some of them have “caved” with some lines, and some of them have lines on their surfaces, but very smooth. These beads are a smart mix of modern and antique styles which add eye-catching appeal to designs. Crackle porcelain beads are produced in various shapes, such as round, oval, flat round, heart, rhombus, rectangle, column, melon, bicone, animals, and so on. They come in a pallet of colors and different sizes, from6mmto4mm+. You have a wide range of selection about them.

Handmade Porcelain Beads, Crackle Style

Just like I said above that crackle porcelain beads combine the styles of modern and vintage together, so more and more people like to use these beads for jewelry making. No matter you like modern fashion style or classic vintage style, choose the correct colors and combine with other suitable jewelry beads and jewelry findings, you can easily create the designs what you desired. Please kindly notice that as all these beads is handmade, the size, shape and color may vary slightly, even if they are the “same” beads.

Handmade Porcelain Beads, Crackle Style

Crackle porcelain beads are versatile jewelry beads. They are commonly used in necklace making, bracelet making, earrings making, rings making and some other fashion decorations. Make a jewelry piece with these beads as a gift for your lover or friend, and no doubt that this gift will be eye-catching and unique. String jewelry is very simple, but string bracelet or necklace with these beads is fashion or vintage. You can also combine these beads with other jewelry beads to create different styles or effects. Jewelry materials may is limited, but your creation is unlimited.

Handmade Porcelain Beads, Crackle Style, Round

Each jewelry piece expresses some or tells a story about some. Do you have any story want to share? Or do you want to show yourself to others? Just get some jewelry materials to create your own jewelry pieces to express yourself or tell others a story about you. Crackle porcelain beads are available in many countries nowadays. Purchase them from online stores; you can get wide range of selection about them and other jewelry materials. They are one of the new fashion jewelry beads, and don’t miss this chance if you are a fashion fans.

Jewelry Making Ideas with Round Lampwork Beads

Handmade lampwork beads have been popular for jewelry making for a long time. These handmade jewelry beads come in different shapes, such as round, flat found, lentil, square, tortoise, heart and so on. Round lampwork beads are the most widely used beads in jewelry creating. Do you have some round ones in hands, but have no idea with them yet? Why not use them to make some bracelet?

Handmade Lampwork Beads, Round

Make a Round Lampwork Beads Bracelet with Full of Love

Do you have a girl who you want to love forever? Do you want to give a special jewelry gift to express your love to her? If the answer is YES, create a red round lampwork beads bracelet with a heart pendant by your love. Jewelry materials you need to prepare are 12pcs10mmred evil eye round lampwork beads with eyes in white and black colors, 8pcs10mmsilver acrylic round beads, a CCB acrylic pendant, a jump ring and a length of elastic cord. String these beads in this order: two silver acrylic beads and three red round lampwork beads. Don’t forget the heart pendant; add it between any two silver beads by using a jump ring. Cut off the rest length of cord, and make a knot. Hide the knot in the hole of beads to let the bracelet look clearer. It is a stringing bracelet which is a simple design, but your love is all.

Handmade Italianate Lampwork Bracelets, Red, Heart CCB Acrylic Pendant

Create a Lovely SkyBlue Lampwork Beads Bracelet for spring

Spring is coming to us noiselessly. Have you prepared some bracelets for such a lovely and beautiful season? If no, so let’s make a lovely sky blue lampwork beads bracelet for yourself. Prepare 10pcs10mmsky blue round lampwork beads, 10pcs6mmsky blue bicone glass beads and a length of elastic cord. It is a stringing bracelet too. String all the beads in the order of one glass bead and one lampwork bead, and cut off the rest cord to make a knot. Hide the knot in a hole of a bead too. The design and steps are very simple, but the lampwork beads with white dots and pink flowers let the bracelet full of the feel of spring, and the sky blue color let people feel very comfortable and relaxed. Have you felt the breath of spring?

Adjustable Bracelet, SkyBlue, Lampwork Beads and Glass Beads, Bracelet

Just create some other fabulous bracelet with your lampwork beads and other jewelry beads in hands. Lampwork beads are renovated everyday, so purchasing some newest ones for your designs to create some new.

Express Your Style with European Beads

Pandora style beads, European beads, are well known by their various colors, beautiful designs and different materials to all the jewelry makers, jewelry designers, jewelry businessmen and many other jewelry fans in the world. European style beads are still widely used in making Pandora style jewelry which is still a hot jewelry today.

European beads are available with a wide range of selection. They are produced in different materials, such as rhinestone, sterling silver, acrylic, crystal, glass, gemstone, polymer clay, metal, resin, porcelain and so on. Spring is an aglare season. Rhinestone European beads and silver European beads are very suitable for creating spring Pandora style jewelry pieces.

Alloy European Style Dangle Beads, with Rhinestone, Dolphin

Use European beads to express your style, and tell your story. Someone said that a collection of charms or beads can truly tell a story. They show who you are and the experiences you have been through. Whether you have a bead for each milestone in your life, or one for each of your hobbies, your bracelet is as unique and special as you are. Spring is season for traveling. Have you gone out for a short trip? Have you found spring’s color—green? Do you have any story about that trip? Have you planed to create a green European beads bracelet to commemorate this trip? So create some Pandora style bracelets with spring’s color for yourself and friends. Choose some green crystal European beads, silver rhinestone European beads with light green rhinestone, and a silver Pandora style hanging pendant with green rhinestone. Pick a silver Pandora style bracelet and through those beads and pendant on the bracelet with any order you like. This bracelet is very simple, but memorable for its story.

Alloy European Beads, with Rhinestone, Tubbish, Silver Metal Color

Silver European beads are loved deeply by jewelry makers too. These beads are widely used to mix and match with jewelry beads or pendants in other colors. These beads are versatile, not matter what style or patterns they are, just like white or black clothes can be matched well with other colors, because silver, white and black are classic colors and never out of fashion. So if you have some European beads but have no ideas what colors to collect together, combine them with silver European beads is wise choice.

Alloy European Style Beads, Column, Silver Color

No matter what style you are, no matter what story you have, collect European beads and many other jewelry beads to express yourself. Panda Hall style European beads are popular worldwide. Many jewelry makers and jewelry businessmen purchase them from aChinabeads, findings and gems online wholesale store. To express your style and tell your story with fashion beads, choose Panda Hall European beads is a fabulous idea.

Jewelry Making Ideas with Shell Beads

Shell beads come in many traditional shapes and sizes, including flat round, oval, rectangle, flower, square, round, rondelle, drop, heart, star and many others. These beads are available in various colors and styles. Shell beads are widely used in making necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and many other fashion decorations. You can also find them available in variety of sizes, from 1-3mmto39mm. You can easily find what size, color, and shape you need for your designs.

Colorful Shell Chips Strands, Dyed, Multicolor

Jewelry Making Ideas with Shell Beads

Making jewelry is not such a difficult thing as some people think. To beginners of jewelry making, make a stringing bracelet is the easiest jewelry design. Spring is colorful and romantic season. Women like shell beads very much, and pink is a romantic color to them, so why not try to make a pink shell pearl beads bracelet for your girl? Prepare 15pcs12mmpink shell pearl beads and elastic cord. Cut off the elastic cord with a suitable length. String all the shell beads on the cord, and make a knot. In order to let the bracelet look clear, you can hide the knot into the hole of beads. A lovely, romantic pink shell pearl stretch bracelet is finished. You can also string the beads on the cord first, and cut off it to make a knot after all the beads are stringed. It is very easy, isn’t it?

Shell Pearl Stretch Bracelets, Valentine Jewelry Supplies

Pandora Jewelry is still very hot today. Pandora style (European style) shell beads jewelry is women’s favorite. To make a lovely Pandora style shell beads bracelet, you can prepare 6pcs Pandora style shell beads in pink, yellow, read, green, white and blue, a pink rose hanging pendant, 6pcs Pandora style stop beads in different style or shapes, and a silver Pandora style bracelet. Twist the clasp of bracelet off, string these beads and pendant as a stop bead, a shell bead, a stop bead. Make sure to add the rose hanging pendant at the middle place of this bracelet and the last one is a stop bead. Close the clasp, a colorful, lovely Pandora style shell beads bracelet is finished.

European Style Bracelets, with Shell Beads and Tibetan Silver Beads

You can also choose some beautiful flower shell beads to make a bracelet. These flower beads can be produced in different colors and sizes, and these bracelets will be elegant but affordable. As shell beads are available in various colors, shapes and sizes, and they can be used both singly and combined with other jewelry beads, purchase some to make your own personality jewelries.

Why Women Love Pandora Jewelry So Much

Pandora jewelry is a worldwide brand of jewelry which is found inDenmark. Today, the demand of jewelry grows continuously, specifically in European andUSAmarket. And it is now gaining popularity around the world.

Everyone knows that Pandora jewelry is made with Pandora beads. Those beads are being made up of different styles, colors and materials. The prices of Pandora style beads (European Beads) keep on changing according to the styles and materials.

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

Why women love Pandora jewelry so much?

Pandora jewelry is most often described using words such as modern, romantic and timeless. Many jewelry pieces are available that might enhance the wonder of women, Pandora jewelry may be the top one out of the list. Pandora jewelry is loved deeply by women all around the world. It is famous for its unique and stylish design. It is designed to be “one of a kind”. No two of them are the same, and many can be personally crafted and created with a special one in mind. Pandora is more than the name of a legendary figure with a special box. It is also the name of unique jewelry that is available at tens of thousands of jewelry stores worldwide. In addition, Pandora jewelry is most often described using words such as modern, romantic and timeless.

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

Pandora style beads are produced in different materials, such as glass, acrylic, crystal, gemstone, polymer clay, porcelain, sterling silver and etc. They are available in different colors, shapes, sizes and designs. PandaHall Pandora beads are very famous. They are also coming out every day, so there is something for everyone. It is only a matter of knowing and looking for what you want. Pandora jewelry pieces are well known for their fabulous designs and styles. There is nothing better than giving such a sweet gift for a woman.

Handmade Lampwork European Beads

Pandora jewelry pieces are available in different styles, for example, bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings. Some women like to wear some of them together as a set of Pandora Jewelry. Pandora jewelry are elegant and high standard but affordable. You can easily purchase them in your local jewelry stores or jewelry shows. While, you can only get limited selections if you purchase them at retail stores. Today, Pandora jewelry pieces are produced by many manufacturers around the world, a good way to purchase fashionable, elegant, unique and newest Pandora Jewelry is from online stores. They can offer you the largest selection beyond all doubt. But please keep in mind that their prices and quality are not the same, choosing a reputable store like is quite important.

How and Where to Buy Beads

Jewelry beads are widely used in jewelry making and other handmade crafts. Today, many people are looking to start a hobby or continue an existent qualification in their daily lives. Many people find that beading is one of the coolest and easiest options; though removing a piece can be tough for some. Well, many people may have the same problem—how and where to buy beads.

Gemstone strands, Synthetical Howlite

In fact, jewelry beads are available anywhere around the world. You can easily find jewelry beads stores in your local city and jewelry online stores around the world. Some are retail stores, and others are wholesale stores. Today, buying beads is no longer just as simple as walking into your local bead stores and choosing a strand of gemstones or glass beads. With more folks than ever selling and buying on the internet, there are an incredible number of places where you can buy beads as long as you have a computer. But you can not see or touch them if you buy beads from internet, how to buy them successfully?

Spray Painted Acrylic Beads, Matte Style

First, do a research on the internet, and choose some wholesalers who you think they are reputable. Compare their items and prices. Please keep in mind that you must read the description and pictures of the items carefully, because you can not see the items in person and don’t know their exact sizes, colors, materials and etc. Second, if you are not familiar with some materials, please don’t be shy to contact the seller to ask for information. If it is a reputable seller, you will get what you want. Third, each online store or company has its own principle or terms of the sale. Please make sure that you have understood it clearly. If you do make a purchase and you are not happy with the item once you receive it, make sure that you have read ahead of time what the seller’s policies are for returns and refunds. Fourth, find out how much you will pay for shipping and handling. If you are unsure about what shipping and handling for your order will cost, contact the seller. Some sellers offer free shipping for order over s certain amount, just like PandaHall.

Rhinestone Beads, Iron, Grade "B"

When people have known how to buy beads online, they may meet a new problem—where to buy, or which online store should I choose. Yes, it is a big problem, as there are so many jewelry beads online stores. Well, the stores which are worth to buy beads are not only one. Someone likes to buy from fire Mountains, someone like to buy from PandaHall.com, just like me and many of my friends. If you have found what you need there, and the prices and others are satisfied you, so I would say that you have found your good place to buy beads.