Plastic Beads—Cheap But Versatile in Jewelry Making

Jewelry making can be expressive and cheap, which depends on your projects. If you want to create sparkling, high-end jewelry pieces, the Swarovski crystal, silver, gold etc are your choices. If you just want to create inexpensive but fashion, beautiful jewelry designs, jewelry beads like plastic beads (acrylic beads), glass beads and others are what you need.

Crapy Exterior Acrylic Beads

If you are a new young jewelry maker, plastic beads (acrylic beads) are a great choice for you to start, as they inexpensive, colorful and virtually indestructible. Plastic beads are available in various types, such as transparent, imitation, CCB (metalized), spray painted, drawbench, plating, antique, printed, crackle and others. Even thought the material is acrylic, these plastic beads can show you different effects. Let’s take imitation plastic beads as example. They can be produced like shell & pearl, jelly, gemstone, foil glass, clay, animal skins, wood, coco, amber and many others. That is to say, plastic beads (acrylic beads) are versatile and can help you to create jewelry pieces in different styles.

Apart from their various effects and styles, plastic beads (acrylic beads) are a great way to add fun shapes, for example, the commonly used shapes are round, oval, flower, flat round, cube, drop, square, bicone, and other popular shapes are start, heart, butterfly, twist, leaf, rice and some others. One of the most popular plastic beads is pony beads. They are used by both kids and adults for a large variety of beading projects and craft projects. They are a great multi-purpose bead. Kids will back to school soon. Why not use some pony beads, number beads or alphabet beads as school spirit bracelets for them as gift for their new term? I am sure they will love this gift very much. If possible, you can also ask your kids to create this kind of bracelet with you together. They can present the bracelets their made to their friends as friendship bracelets.

Solid Acrylic Beads

Even though the plastic beads (acrylic beads) are very cheap and not the choice for creating high-end jewelry pieces, they are produced very well with endlessly improved techniques, and widely used in fashion jewelry, including necklace making, bracelet making, earring making, anklet making, ring making and many other fashion decoration making. No matter what kind of fashion and style you like and want to create, plastic beads (acrylic beads) can help you much. What is more, they are easily to be purchased, and you can get a wide range of selection if you purchase them from jewelry beads online wholesale stores. 

Methods of Getting Handmade Lampwork Beads

Lampwork beads are one of the most popular handmade jewelry beads in fashion jewelry making. I think most jewelry makers and jewelry lovers know it that lampworking is a type of glasswork where a torch or lamp is primarily used to melt the glass.

Handmade Lampwork Beads

Some jewelry makers like to make lampwork beads in person and have good technique about it. How to make lampwork beads? It is not an easy work and you need to prepare some tools and machines. About the detailed information and techniques, we can find some on the internet. But I think you’d better to learn it from some face to face, which will help you much and necessary for improving your techniques. Why people like to make their own handmade lampwork beads? As it is a good way to get the one of a kind lampwork beads on the world. One of a kind jewelry beads play a quite important role in making one of a kind jewelry in modern time.

But I also want to say that it is not the only way to get one of a kind handmade lampwork beads. Search handmade lampwork beads on fashion jewelry market, both online and offline stores and companies, we will find that many of them can offer handmade ones yet they offer a large quantity to the whole world. However, I also want to say that there is no two pieces of handmade lampwork beads are the same, even if they look like really the same. That is to say, you are unable to get one lampwork beads exactly to another, and then each jewelry piece you designed are one of a kind in the world.

Silver Foil Lampwork Beads

If you are a jewelry maker and don’t want to or unable to make lampwork beads in person, you can purchase them from jewelry stores or companies. When we search the beads on online and offline stores, we will find we can get a huge wide range of selection. Well, if you need a large quantity of these handmade lampwork beads and other jewelry making materials, I would like to suggest you to purchase them online wholesale stores. I think almost all the jewelry makers know the advantages of purchasing wholesale jewelry beads from online stores. I just want to say, the most important thing you need to do before purchasing from online is finding a large, reliable wholesaler. PandaHall.com is such an online wholesaler. Of course, you can also exchange jewelry beads with others on jewelry show if you just need a little handmade lampwork beads for your design. 

Design with Sterling Silver Beads to Express Your Personality

Sterling silver beads have been used to decorate in ancient times, and played a quite important role in people’s lives. Sterling silver is a symbol of rich in ancient times. And today, they are one of the most favorite jewelry beads for jewelry makers as well as the jewelry lovers.

Sterling silver beads come in different shapes and sizes, and look good when crafted in any jewelry piece. Sterling silver beads are always used to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and so on. Besides that, they are added on shoes, hand bags and hairpins. Some people also would like to buy some silver articles to decorate home.

Sterling Silver Beads

Why people like sterling silver beads so much? Sterling silver is one kind of precious metal and a good material to create beautiful jewelry pieces which make people look beautiful. Jewelry pieces created with sterling silver beads are neutral so that can be worn by both men and women. These beads are the best choice for making fashion, decent but unique jewelry, for they are made of precious metal, and come in different sizes, shapes and designs. But some people may say that the sterling silver jewelry is expensive. Of course, jewelry designed created with sterling silver beads can be very cheap, but also can be very expensive too. That is depending on the design and workmanship. There is no need to worry that everyone can find the suitable sterling silver jewelry.

Many people like to wear metal beads jewelry pieces, but some of them have sensitive skins and unable to wear normal metals. To these people, jewelry created with sterling silver beads is much safer than other metal beads jewelry designs. Apart from that, sterling silver beads have a lot of health benefits too. That is why many people like to wear sterling silver jewelry, even many children wear it.

Sterling Silver Stardust Beads

Fashion is a forever topic for modern people, for pursuing fashion and uniqueness is their endless aim. Well, fashion is an attitude of life, and jewelry designs created with sterling silver beads are one of such a powerful support to that attitude. As there are various styles for choosing, I’d like to remind that you need to find out what is your style and must follow the fashion trend tightly if you want to control that kind of fashion jewelry well.

In this age of pursuing personality, creating your own fashion jewelry with sterling silver beads is the best way to express your uniqueness and personality to others, and tell them how different you are. Purchasing these jewelry beads and other materials from wholesale online stores can save both time and money for you, and you can get wide range of selection there.