Sunday, September 9, 2012

Jewelry Making Ideas with Cat Eye Beads


Cat eye beads are one of the most popular glass beads in jewelry making. We can easily find all kinds of jewelry designs with cat’s eye beads. These glass beads are available in various colors, shapes and sizes. People are always attracted by their charming colors and luster.
Cat Eye Beads Strands
Cat Eye Beads

Today, more and more people realize to protect women’s health. Here is a jewelry making idea about making a prostate cancer awareness crystal and cat eye beads bracelet. This bracelet has eight pink cat eye beads, small sterling silver ball beads, small bicone white Swarovski crystals, a dangling sterling silver Prostate Cancer awareness ribbon charm and a pair of toggle clasp. It is a very simple design so that the beginner of jewelry making can do it too. Cut off a length of wire first, and use crimp beads and jewelry plier to fix the wire on the clasp. String sterling silver beads and Swarovski crystal beads one by one, three pieces for each. Then string a pink cat eye bead, a sterling silver beads, a crystal bead and a sterling silver bead. String all the rest beads on the wire by the same order. Don’t forget to add the Dangle Prostate Cancer Awareness ribbon charm at the middle place. After you stringed all the pink cat eye beads on you will find there are more three pieces for both crystal and sterling silver beads. String them on wire one by one. The last step is fixing the wire on the ring of T-bar with crimp bead and jewelry plier. Till now, a lovely bracelet is finished. It is a wonderful jewelry gift to express your love to your wife or girl friend.  
13" Cat Eye Beads,Strands Round
13" Cat Eye Beads

It is time for students to go back to school. Why not create some jewelry gifts for them to encourage them? You can use cat eye beads, Tibetan style flower beads, flat round alphabet beads and small silver round beads to create a bracelet, for example. Here are the steps about how to create it. You can use a pair of toggle clasp for this design. Use a crimp bead and jewelry plier to fix your wire on the ring of T-bar first. Then string a silver bead, a Tibetan style flower bead, a light yellow cat eye bead, a silver bead and one more yellow cat eye bead. Repeat the second step, and add some alphabet beads separated with small silver beads. About the alphabet beads, you can choose any words you like, for example, happy, verity, lucky and many others. String the rest beads like the beads on the other end of alphabet beads. The last step is fixing the wire on the ring of toggle clasp by a crimp bead and your jewelry plier. A sweet and lovely school bracelet is finished. Well, you can also add a silver heart shaped pendant on the clasp.

Do you have someone you want to present jewelry gifts to express your love to her or him? Cat eye beads jewelry will be a good choice. It is time to purchase the materials you need to start. 

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