Different Usages of Polymer Clay Beads on Fashion Jewelry

Polymer clay beads are one of handmade jewelry beads. They are colorful and light weight. If you like to create jewelry with large beads, these beads are a good choice as they won’t put pressure on your neck, wrists or ears. These handmade beads are versatile and can be used in making different fashion jewelries.

 

Handmade Polymer Clay Beads

For Bracelets and Necklaces

No doubt, jewelry beads use to make bracelets is quite common. But how to create a unique, eye-catching bracelet is not an easy thing to many jewelry makers. If you are one of them, why not have a try with polymer clay beads. These jewelry beads are available in different shapes, and flower shaped clay beads are one of the most popular shapes. When you search these flower beads, you will find they are available in different colors, sizes and patterns. Choose the ones you like or desired. For example, if you would like to create a bracelet as a jewelry gift for your mom, wife or friends, pink, purple flower clay beads, rose quartz heart shaped beads and pearl beads are the perfect combination for this design. Use ball headpins to make these beads as beaded pendants and attach them onto the chain randomly. Adding a clasp, and then a beautiful bracelet is finished. Follow the same steps to create a matchable necklace, if you like.

 

polymer clay beads bracelets

For Earrings

The simplest way to use polymer clay beads for jewelry is gluing them on earring setting for creating earrings. If you like or you are just a beginner of jewelry making, you can have a try with flower shaped beads. The earrings are simple, but the flower polymer clay beads are so vivid and beautiful. If you would like to create a pair of more “complicated” earrings, you can use the flower polymer clay beads and some other jewelry beads to create a pair of dangling earrings.

 

polymer clay beads earrings

For Brooch

Many people like to wear brooches, and most of them like handmade DIY brooches. Polymer clay beads are one of the best materials for that kind of DIY as they are cute, colorful and lightweight. When you search polymer clay beads, you will find some of them are named as “polymer clay nail art decoration”. They are available in different shapes too. Like flower, fruit, hear, round, half round and many others. Just glue the polymer clay nail art decorations you like to on basic brooch. Of course, don’t forget to cut them off as thin pieces if they are available in long strips.

 

Brooch

In fact, polymer clay beads are not only can be used for the above fashion jewelry, they can be used to decorating things, including hair pins, handbags, shoes, gloves, scarf and many others. Little things can be used to create stunning designs. Just believe in yourself. 

Use Tiny Round Lampwork Beads to Enlarge Jewelries’ Beauty

Handmade lampwork beads are one of the favorite jewelry beads to jewelry makers. Many beginners of jewelry making also want to use them to create fabulous designs, but always fail. Here we would like to tell these beginners how to use tiny round lampwork beads to enlarge the beauty of your jewelry designs.

Walking around in jewelry beads stores, craft stores or searching on the internet, we will find there are tens of thousands of round lampwork beads available around the world. We can get a wide range of selection of them as they are made with different colors, sizes and patterns, even if all of them are made in round shape.

 

Gold Sand Lampwork Beads

Well, how to use them to make fabulous handmade jewelry designs? Consider which style you want to create, what color you want to use first. You should have a “draft” about your design in your mind. Of course, you can also draw it down on paper. For example, you can use black round lampwork beads with light purple flower, hand shaped lampwork pendant with the same flower, small round rose quartz beads and silver tube beads to create elegant jewelry set. Draw the design on paper first. And then you may find if you choose waved tube beads instead of common bent tube beads can make the jewelry look more elegant, isn’t it? In fact, sometimes, the jewelry materials will give some inspirations. So, we would like to suggest you to check more beads or findings before you make you decision.

 

lampwork beads necklace

If you like vintage style jewelry or want to create a jewelry gift for old aged women, the gold sand round lampwork beads are good choices. These beads are looked beautiful and high-end. Both black and gold color can give people a feeling of vintage and elegant. So, black round beads with gold and white sand on surface are really good for such a jewelry design. Then, choose some jewelry findings for your vintage style jewelry. Jewelry findings in red copper color will match these lampwork beads very well. So, just fly your imagination and creativity, and choose suitable findings for your fabulous designs.

 

handmade necklace

Round lampwork beads are not large, but they can enlarge the beauty of your jewelry designs as long as you choose the correct ones. You can use them to create countless fabulous jewelry designs as long as you have endless creativity, even if you are just a beginner of jewelry making. 

Use Polymer Clay Beads to Create Exotic Jewelry Designs

Polymerclay beads are one of jewelry makers’ favorite beads because of these beads are handmade, colorful, beautiful, exotic, light and cheap. Therefore, no matter you are a professional jewelry maker or just take jewelry making as a bobby, you can not miss handmade polymer clay beads out.

 

Polymer Clay Beads

As a beginner of jewelry making, you may ask what kind of jewelry designed can be made with polymer clay beads. I would like to say you can create all kinds of jewelry designs you like with these beads. What you need are imagination and creativity. Here, I would like to share two jewelry ideas about using this kind of beads to create exotic jewelries.

polymer clay beads earrings

 

Chinese traditional fashion is more and more popular among the world. Do you like this exotic fashion? If yes, why not use polymer clay beads to create such a jewelry for yourself or as a jewelry gift to someone who likes Chinese traditional fashion? Let’s create a pair of earring, which is easy to beginners of jewelry making. The materials we need are 2pcs round steel blue handmade polymer clay beads with white flowers on surface (about 10mm in diameter), 4pcs white glass beads (about 4mm in diameter), 2pcs gold headpins and 2pcs gold earring hooks. The steps are quite simple too. First, string a white glass bead, a blue polymer bead and one more glass bead on headpin. Second, use your jewelry plier to make a loop at top of glass bead. Third, use your jewelry plier to attach the beaded earring drop onto the ring of earring hook. Fourth, repeat the above steps to create the other earring for a pair. Till now, a pair of polymer clay earrings with Chinese traditional fashion is finished. Don’t you think the blue clay beads have the feeling of Chinese blue and white porcelain?

 

Polymer Clay Plumeria Beads

Summer is hot, and Hawaii is an amazing place to have holiday, so why not wear some jewelry pieces with Hawaii style there? And handmade flower polymer clay beads are good choice for creating that style jewelry. When you search that kind of flower beads on the internet, you will find they are available in various shapes, colors and sizes. So, you have a wide range of selection about them according to your design. The simplest one should be string glass pearl beads and flower polymer clay beads with different colors as a necklace or bracelet. And then, create a pair of flower earrings. If you are an experienced jewelry maker, you can create a complicated design. For example, use eyepins or jewelry wire to link these flowers in a beautiful shape or pattern for your necklace. No matter what shapes you like to use, keep in mind to use different colors as colorful is one character of Hawaii style.

You can also use polymer clay beads to create some other exotic jewelry designs. Just purchase the materials you need to start now. 

Jewelry Inspirations with Rondelle Rhinestone Beads

Rhinestone beads are one of the favorite jewelry beads of jewelry makers. They are beautiful, shiny, colorful, and of course, very cheap, so that many people like to wear them. These beads are produced in a range of different shapes, and rondelle rhinestone beads are one of the most popular styles.

 

Grade A Rhinestone European Beads

As a popular jewelry beads, what kind of jewelry pieces can be created with rondelle rhinestone beads? Here are some jewelry inspirations shared with you. As these beads are produced with different sizes (diameter and hole), you need to choose suitable size for your designs. For example, if you would like to make a string bracelet with rondelle rhinestone beads and gemstone beads (but not large hole beads), you need to choose the rhinestone beads with small hole. These rhinestone beads can be used as spacer beads between each gemstone bead or each two gemstone beads, which depends on your design. If you like to use Pandora style (large hole) rhinestone beads, the Pandora style (European style) jewelry makings should be your choice. You can simply add these rondelle rhinestone beads in different colors on the Pandora style bracelets, necklaces or earrings. Even though the designs are very simple, they are still stunning as Pandora style jewelry will never out of date. “Simple is Elegant” is one of characters of Pandora style jewelry. For the Pandora style jewelry, these Pandora style rhinestone beads can be mixed and matched well with other Pandora style beads, such as lampwork ones, glass ones and so on.

 

Alloy Rhinestone European Style Beads

As a hot trend of fashion jewelry, many jewelry makers create neon jewelry with different materials in various styles. Why not choose some colorful rondelle rhinestone beads and iron mesh ball beads to create your own neon jewelry? If you are a fashion jewelry designer, don’t miss it out. Olga Evgenievna, a regular customer of PandaHall.com, has created such an earring, and shared with other jewelry makers. The materials she used are brass hoop earring, iron mesh ball beads (green and purple in different sizes) and alloy rondelle rhinestone beads. The steps are very simple too. Open the hoop earring, and then string these jewelry beads on the hoop according to your design. The last step is closing the earring hoop and attaching it to earring hook. It is very simple, and suitable for the beginners of jewelry making, isn’t it? You can also create a necklace and a bracelet for a complete neon jewelry set.

Maybe you have got some other jewelry inspirations from the above designs with rondelle rhinestone beads. No matter what kind of jewelry you want to create, purchase the materials you need to start now. 

Jewelry Making Ideas with Faceted Glass Beads

We all know that glass beads are one of the most popular jewelry beads, and faceted glass beads are one shape of the most popular beads. Faceted glass beads are available in many different colors and sizes as the same as other glass beads. And here, I would like to share two jewelry making ideas with this kind jewelry beads.

 

Fashion Tibetan Style Earrings

The first jewelry making idea is about a pair of earrings with faceted glass beads and Tibetan style pendants. We need 12pcs red faceted glass beads (about 6mm in diameter), 2pcs alloy Tibetan style chandelier components (about 31mm long, 21mm wide), eyepins, headpins and earring hooks. First, string a red glass bead on a headpin, and use your jewelry plier to make a loop at the top of bead. Beading 9pcs more beads like this. Second, attach 5pcs beaded faceted glass beads on rings of alloy chandelier component one by one. Third, string a glass bead on an eyepin, and use jewelry plier to make a loop at the other end. Attach the alloy chandelier component on a loop of eyepin. Fourth, use your jewelry plier to attach the other loop of eyepin on the ring of earring hook. Fifth, repeat the four steps to create the other piece of earring for a pair. Till now, a pair of beautiful Tibetan style glass beads earrings is finished.

 

Fashion Lampwork Neckalces

The second jewelry making idea I want to share is a necklace. The materials you need to prepare are handmade lampwork pendant (about 45.5X20mm), 2pcs oval shaped lampwork beads, some faceted glass beads in different colors and sizes (light blue and AB purple, 4~8X4~6mm), jewelry wire, 2 strands f black nylon thread, 2pcs cord ends, lobster claw clasp. First, string purple glass beads on ball headpins (one bead on one pin), and use jewelry plier to make loop at top. Second, cut off a length of jewelry wire, and string all the faceted glass beads, lampwork beads and lampwork pendant on wire like the layout on picture. Third, use crimp beads and crimp plier to attach the two ends of wire on two strands of black nylon cords separately. Fourth, use cord ends to combine nylon cords, and attach lobster clasp and jump ring on two cord ends separately. Now, a beautiful handmade necklace is finished. The color is very suitable for both spring and summer.

Mother’s Day is coming soon. If you still have no idea about what kind of gift you should prepare for your mom, why not purchase some faceted glass beads and some other jewelry materials to create one of a kind jewelry to express your love to her? 

Tutorial of Making Polymer Clay Beads Jewelry for Beginners

Many jewelry makers like to use polymer clay beads to create jewelry designs, and some of them even like to create handmade polymer clay beads themselves. What is polymer clay? Some beginners of jewelry making may not know. Clay is not a natural material. On the contrary, polymer clay is blended by polymers (a kind of plastic) and softeners, like oils and waxes.

 

Fashion Earrings

Polymer clay beads are always made in various shapes, colors and sizes. The popular shapes include round, flower, oval, flat round, tube, butterfly, human, heart and many others. Some of them even produced with holiday themes, such as Christmas, Halloween and so on. Polymer clay jewelry is very popular. And here, I’d like to share two simple but lovely jewelry making ideas with beginners of jewelry making.

The first design is a pair of earrings with polymer clay flower beads and glass pearl beads. The other materials you need to prepare are headpins, eyepins, earring hooks and jewelry pliers. First, string a flower shaped polymer clay bead on a headpin, and use your jewelry plier to make a loop at the top of clay bead. Second, string a glass pearl bead on an eyepin, and use your jewelry plier to make a loop at the top too. About the color of glass pearl beads, you can choose a similar color as your clay bead, or choose a different color. Third, use your round nose jewelry plier to attach the top loop onto one end of eyepin. Fourth, attach the whole earring drop onto the ring of earring hook. Fifth, repeat the above four steps to create the other earring for a pair. A pair of simple but lovely polymer clay flower beads earrings is finished.

 

Handmade Polymer Clay Flower Bracelets

The second jewelry design is about a bracelet. The materials we will use are 3pcs polymer clay flower beads, about 19pcs clear faceted round glass beads (about 8mm in diameter), clear elastic crystal thread. Stringing is the simplest method of making handmade jewelry, and it is the method we will and only use for this design. First, cut off a length of elastic crystal thread (longer than the size of your wrist), and string 3pcs flower polymer clay beads with a clear glass bead between each two flower beads. Second, string all the rest clear glass beads on one by one. Third, make a knot and cut off the extra thread. Fourth, hide the knot into a hole of polymer clay flower bead to make this bracelet look clearly.

Many people like to wear polymer clay beads jewelry; no matter they are young or old. Would you like to create your own one of a kind jewelry designs with polymer clay beads? If yes, it is time to purchase some polymer clay beads and other jewelry materials to start now. 

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. 

Purchase Beads Bulk Is Quite Important to You

If you are a jewelry beads retailer or a jewelry designer and have a store to sell your art works, I am sure you will need many quality jewelry beads. So, one thing you need to consider is how to get more jewelry beads with less money. The best way is purchasing beads bulk from jewelry beads wholesalers.

There are tens of thousands of jewelry beads wholesalers, especially the online wholesalers, available on the world. Whether you create your own jewelry for yourself, friends, or whether you sell it on, in order to make your creations as profitable as possible it always pays to stock up on jewelry materials in bulk. Many people think jewelry making is high cost. In fact, jewelry making can be very cost-effective, especially if you purchase your beads bulk online.

ABS Acrylic Pearl Beads

Buy beads bulk can not only be more cost effective, but also a lot more convenient. Just image it that when you setting down with the intention of creating beautiful jewelry, than realizing that you have completely run out of the beads. How’s your feeling to this situation? I am you must be depressed and have no passion for this design. Then, you must cost much time to purchase your jewelry materials and wait for them. And if you are a retailer, you will lose good time to enhance your profit, as time is money.

Buy beads bulk simply means that you are purchasing beads in quantity with intent to re-sell or create quantity jewelry pieces to sell, and receiving them at a lower price. Some people may say that I will choose discount beads. Yes, it is logical and can help you to make a better profit margin. But buying beads bulk can give you a better price all around, which means you can save more money. And that means you can buy more beads, which is what we want, isn’t it?

Transparent Acrylic Beads

Some people may ask:”I am a new hand of jewelry business, do I need to purchase beads bulk online?” Yes, of course. For more business owners buying jewelry materials in bulk is relatively cheaper. But it is advisable to do adequate research about a particular company before you decide your supplier. Asking around from other jewelry businessmen or jewelry makers, or posting a question on relative community or forum. Anyway, there is no need to worry about finding a reputable supplier to get beads bulk as we said above that there are tens of thousands of jewelry beads wholesalers on the world. 

Useful Information about Opal Beads

Natural gemstone beads are loved deeply by jewelry makers, and widely used in jewelry making. Opal beads are one of such a popular natural stone beads. This kind of stone bead is available in different colors (like black, red, yellow, blue, pink and white), shapes and sizes as well as other gemstone beads.

Gemstone Beads

Opal is birthday stone of October. It will make the people who were born in October loving and affectionate in personal and family life and will ensure them good opportunities and they will be able to magnetize others for good causes. They come in three natural varieties—the opalescent precious opal, the fire opal (yellow to red-orange), and the generally opaque common opal. Fire opal was born in fire in the ancient volcanoes of Mexico. They are treasures which appeal most of all to active people with a positive approach to life. Their warm, fiery color gives us vigor, fills us with the joys of life and opens our senses to the beauty of Nature. They are good mean of helping to make feelings flow and resolve blockages.

Opal Beads Strands

This gemstone was formed many millions of years ago, when a combination of silica and water flowed into cracks and spaces in the ground. Then gradually hardened and solidified to become opal. Opal beads in different colors have different meanings. The blue opal will soothe erratic emotions and enhance personal courage, and the pink opal is a stone of peace and tranquility for the aura. This kind of stone is also said to be a stone for love, but only to faithful lovers. It will bring misfortune to an unfaithful lover.

How to store opal beads for long periods of time? Generally it is safe to store them away, as long as the area is not overheated. You can also put them in a sealed plastic bag with a little water in case of drying out. Don’t expose them under hot lights, as this could crack these beads if the heat builds up and is magnified in a showcase. They also must be protected from detergents which will dry the gem. And remember, opal beads can be fairly brittle because they contain water.

On today’s fashion jewelry market, we can easily find opal beads. But they have different qualities and prices. If you want to collect some opals or use some opal beads to create jewelry, you’d better to find a reliable supplier who can offer you quality ones. 

Get Jewelry Beads Wholesale for Kids Jewelry Making

Today, both the adults and kids like fashion jewelry very much. They are not only like wearing colorful jewelry, but also interested in making their own fashion jewelry. So, if you are a jewelry maker, don’t forget to purchase some jewelry beads for your kids to let them create their own jewelry designs. And once you need more and more jewelry beads for both your designs and your kids’ designs, getting beads wholesale is a wise method to get what you need.

Transparent Acrylic Beads

When you teach your kids how to create jewelry or create kids jewelry with them together, you will find they have endless fabulous inspirations. Kids always like colorful jewelry beads, and the lightweight ones are very suitable for them to create kids jewelry, so that jewelry beads like acrylic beads (plastic beads), resin beads, wood beads and etc are their best choices. All these jewelry beads are available in a really wide range of selection for shapes, colors, sizes and designs. However, you will find there is no more selection of these beads as you thought when you walk around in your local jewelry beads or crafts retail stores. That is because retail stores have limited space and money to store many different jewelry materials together. So, you’d better to search beads wholesale from the internet to get cheap wholesale prices and large range of selection for all kinds of jewelry materials.

Resin Beads

When we talk about beads wholesale, we will think of there are tens of thousands of jewelry beads wholesale online stores over the world. But just because there are so many options, where should we purchase from? More and more people like to get beads wholesale from China in recent years. So, you can have a look at Chinese jewelry market. Mamie, one of my friends, is a jewelry maker. She purchased her jewelry beads from a Chinese jewelry beads wholesaler which is named as PandaHall.com. She said:” I like the beads I purchase there as they could be reused. I always make jewelry with my kids—two little girls (3 & 5 years old). They love its colorful acrylic beads, glass beads, resin beads, polymer clay beads and wood beads very much. The jewelry beads I bought for them are big enough for their little hands which make it easy to create their own necklaces and bracelets. And I am sure you will be shocked by their jewelry designs.”

If you are a jewelry maker and have kids who are interested in jewelry making like you, getting beads wholesale to teach and make their own jewelry is a good method to enhance the emotion between you. You can also choose the jewelry beads with them together on the internet to let them choose what they desire. 

Tutorial of Making Jewelry Set with Glass Beads

Glass beads are one of the most favorite jewelry beads to jewelry makers. They are available in a huge range of selection for colors, sizes and shapes, so that we can easily find various jewelries created with glass beads on jewelry market. If you are a beginner of jewelry making, it is a good choice to choose this kind of jewelry beads to start.

Glass Crystal Jewelry Set

Jewelry set with glass beads are very popular for a long time, and will continue. Here I’d like to share two ideas about how to make simple but fabulous glass beads jewelry set with you. The first jewelry set include earrings, bracelet and necklace. They are designed with blue faceted round glass beads, pearl beads and tiny CCB acrylic bead spacers. Let’s make earrings first. First, string a blue glass bead on ball headpin and make it as bead pendant. Repeat it for 3 more times. Second, put a blue bead on ball headpin, and then add the four bead pendants on this ball headpin too. Then, string another blue bead, a tiny CCB acrylic bead spacer, a pearl bead and one more bead spacer on headpin, and use round nose jewelry plier to make a loop at top of bead spacer. Third, attach this beaded earring drop onto the ring of earring hook. Repeat these steps to create the other one. About the bracelet, use ball headpins and 12pcs blue glass beads to make them as 12pcs bead pendants. Then, string a crimp bead and lobster clasp on jewelry wire, and turn the wire back to make a loop to hold the clasp and stop the other jewelry beads fall off. Third, string the jewelry beads and bead pendants like the layout on the picture. Fourth, add a crimp bead and jump ring at end to stop beads fall off. Fifth, add an extended chain on the jump ring to make this bracelet is adjustable. The steps about making necklace are the same as making bracelet.

Fashion Glass Jewelry Sets

The second idea about jewelry set with glass beads very fashion too. I choose light Khaki faceted glass beads, Tibetan style beads, brass tube beads, steel memory wire and brass earring hooks for this design. About bracelet, cut off your memory wire with about four circles, and then string the beads on wire like the layout on the picture. Use your round nose jewelry plier to make a loop at two ends to stop the jewelry beads fall off. About the earrings, string the beads on headpin and make a loop at the top, and then attach it to the Tibetan style pendant. The last step is attaching the whole earring pendant on earring hooks. Repeat the steps to create the other one.

The two ideas of jewelry set with glass beads are very simple to be created, but also very fabulous and suitable for beginners to start their jewelry making. Are you falling in love with these lovely glass beads and jewelry designs? It is time to create your own jewelry designs. 

Freshwater Beads—Things You Need to Know

Today, no one will ask why when people say “I love pearls”, I think, because many people are attracted by pearls’ beauty, elegance and luster. On today’s fashion jewelry market, almost all the pearl jewelry pieces are created with freshwater beads.

For thousands of years, pearls have been admired for their beauty and rarity all over the world. In some ancient countries, people believed that pearls were a symbol of the moon and had magical powers. It was said that in ancient times, knights wore pearls onto the battlefield believing the pearls’ magic would protect them. Many famous rulers were also fond of pearls.

Grade A Freshwater Pearl Strands

In ancient ages, all the pearls are natural sea pearls. They are the symbol of rich and states of the nobles and the rich. Today, almost all the pearl beads used in fashion jewelry are freshwater beads (cultured pearls). The difference between wild and cultured pearls focuses on whether the pearl is created spontaneously by nature (without human intervention) or with human aid. There are many different types of freshwater beads, such as South Sea Pearls, mabe pearls and so on. Freshwater pearls are grown in non-saline water, but the South Sea pearls and Tahitians are cultured in salt water. But unlike cultured saltwater pearls, freshwater pearls are not bead-nucleated and are therefore typically less round. Only two percent of all freshwater beads are round or near round. Though this number seems quite small, the abundance of freshwater pearl beads is much larger than other pearls types. The most common shapes of these beads are oval and button shaped.

Grade A Natural Freshwater Pearl Strands

On today’s fashion jewelry market, we can easily find many freshwater pearls. These freshwater beads are available in a wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. Originally these pearls were marketed as an inexpensive alternative to natural sea pearls. For this reason, jewelry makers traditionally used freshwater pearl beads for pieces that favored design over the gems themselves. However, since the 1990s, the freshwater beads have a large improvement in both quality and value; and then more and more freshwater pearls have been used in fashion jewelry making designs.

Many jewelry beads suppliers can offer freshwater pearl beads, some are retailers and the others are wholesalers. There are several main suppliers of freshwater beads, and China is the largest one. Many beads manufacturers in China have their own freshwater pearls farms or have a long and friendly cooperation with these farms. So, if you want to get cheap and quality freshwater beads, China is a good choice.

Versatile Wood Beads for Wood Beads Products

Woodbeads are one of popular jewelry beads for jewelry making. They are not shiny as Swarovski crystal beads; not heavy as metal beads; not elegant as pearl beads, but they are colorful, beautiful and full of ethnic feel. So, there are lots of wood beads products available on today’s fashion market.

Dyed Wood Beads

Colored wooden beads are very attractive and beautiful ideal for creating elegant wood beads products, such as elegant bracelets, hanging curtains and other handicrafts. Quality painted wooden beads are very durable and sturdy. Large suppliers can provide various wood beads with vibrant colors in different sizes. Apart from that, quality colored wooden beads have very smooth and polished surface with provision of holes for putting the strings and other threads. Even thought colored wooden beads give jewelry makers a wide range of selection, some jewelry makers may like to use natural wooden beads better. High quality natural wooden beads from some reputable, large suppliers like PandaHall are fabricated using modern machineries and tools by their highly skilled and talented personnel. Wooden beads are very durable and attractive that is why so many people like wood beads products.

Wood beads can easily bring the ethnic touch and natural splendor in jewelry and apparels. These jewelry beads are used with pearls, glass, shell or other kind of beads to carve exclusive and playful designs with elegance. Offered in various designs, colors, cuts, shapes and grain these natural wood beads are highly sought due to their fine finish and competitive prices.

Wood Beads

Wood beads are not only used in jewelry making, but also used to many other fashion decoration and handcrafts. We can find many handbags, hats, shoes and many other fashion things are decorated with wood beads. Some handbags are even wood beads products totally. Coasters created by wood beads are very common, popular and useful too. Wood beads can not only be used to create small decorations, but also suitable for creating large designs, such as curtains. Using natural wood beads to create a dangling curtain for your living room is very beautiful. Such a lovely and useful wood beads product can make your living room look more beautiful and “separate” that area as two spaces. If you want to create such a useful and decorative wood beads product for your kids’ bedroom, I think the colorful wood beads in different shapes and sizes will be a good choice.

Wood beads are versatile and very affordable. The new year of 2013 is coming. Do you have any great idea about creating some wood beads products. Finding a reputable supplier who can offer quality wood beads is the most important of all. 

Versatile Glass Beads in Jewelry Making Designs

We all know that glass beads are one of the most popular and widely used jewelry beads for today’s fashion jewelry designs, so that many people like to create glass beads jewelry to start their jewelry making. Here are two jewelry making designs with these beads for sharing.

Glass Bracelet

The first glass beads jewelry is a bracelet. I used flat faceted round electronic glass beads in AB color, (about 8mm in diameter), about eight pieces silver metal rings, antique silver Tibetan style link pendant and clear elastic thread. Stringing bracelet or necklace is the simplest jewelry design. First, let’s use some electronic glass beads and elastic thread to make a flower ball shaped beaded pendant. Second, string four pieces silver metal rings on thread first, and then string antique silver Tibetan style link pendant and the rest four pieces on thread too. Third, string the rest electronic glass beads on clear thread, and cut off the extra to make a knot with two strands of threads. Fourth, kind the knot into a hole of bead to make it looks clearly. Fifth, use a jump ring to attach the flower ball shaped beaded pendant onto the ring of Tibetan style link pendant. Now, a simple but classic glass beads bracelet is finished.

Fashion Glass Jewelry Sets

Glass beads are versatile and can be used with many other jewelry beads to create jewelry pieces too. So the second idea is a jewelry set which created with yellow glass beads, yellow resin rhinestone beads and antique gold rhinestone beads. I also need some jewelry findings. They are ball chains, crimp beads, bead tips, and earring hooks. And of course, all of them are antique gold. Let’s make the bracelet first. 1, String 3pcs yellow glass beads on elastic cord, and add an antique gold rhinestone beads as bead spacers between each two glass beads. Then, string a yellow resin rhinestone bead on cord. Second, repeat the first step for another four times. Third, cut off the extra elastic cord and make a knot. Hide the knot into a hole of a bead to make this bracelet looks clear too. About the earrings, string a crimp bead on ball chain at one end and use a crimp plier to press it as a stopper. Second, string a rhinestone bead and a glass bead on the ball chain. Third, use a bead tip to hold the ball chain on the other end and attach the earring pendant on the ring of earring hook. Create the other piece with the same steps. Till now, a lovely glass beads jewelry set is created.

Would you be happy to get started on make your own jewelry designs with glass beads? If yes, why not purchase some jewelry materials to create some jewelry gifts for the coming Christmas?

Some Useful Information about Turquoise Beads

Gemstone is one of the most popular jewelry beads for jewelry making, and turquoise beads are one of the most popular gemstone beads. This kind of beads is available in a great deal of shapes and sizes, and their colors are usually available from green to blue.

Turquoise is produced from a number of locations worldwide, notably in the southwest US, Egypt, Iran and Tibet with the largest supplier of the stone being China. There is over 75% of the turquoise market coming out of China. That is to say, most of the turquoise items you purchased from fashion jewelry market are from China. So, if you want to get quality turquoise at cheap prices, why not purchase them from China directly?

Natural Turquoise Beads Strands

There are many Chinese jewelry beads suppliers can offer turquoise beads, but not all of them have ability to offer cheap but quality items. So you need to find a reputable suppler before you place your order. About the description of these beads, sometimes a stone is advertised as turquoise it could be referring to the color rather than the stone. When it is advertised “turquoise like” or advertised with turquoise in front of the name of the actual stone, i.e., turquoise howlite, then you should know it is not true turquoise and the price should be lower than what you would expect to pay for natural turquoise. When you purchase these gemstones from online stores, read their description clearly before you order from them.

Natural Turquoise Beads Strands

Some of my friends who are jewelry makers or jewelry businessmen usually purchase their turquoise beads from China. They have found their regular supplier. Rich said:”I received the turquoise beads last week, and they are really beautiful. I can’t wait to get started creating a special combination and unique jewelry with them.” Anna is a jewelry maker, she always get her gems and beads from the same supplier as Rich. She said:”I received my order today and I have to say I was amazed at how pretty the different types of turquoise are. I usually buy gems and beads from PandaHall.com—Rich recommended it to me, and their sleeping beauty turquoise is pricey, and I have never seen the green type before, which I really like immensely. It has a very satisfied customer now who will only buy her beads there in the future.”

Why people like turquoise beads and jewelry so much? It is because these gemstone beads are so beautiful. And they can be wide used to create necklaces, bracelets and earrings singly or combined with other jewelry beads and findings. No matter you are a jewelry maker or beads retailer, you have no reason to miss this beads. 

Jewelry Making Ideas with Coral Beads

Jewelry making is really a hot career or hobby so that there are so many people devote themselves to it. Coral beads are one of popular jewelry beads in this fashion career or hobby. On today’s fashion jewelry market, it is quite easy to find jewelries created with these beads. They are very suitable for presenting as gift to family, lover or friends.

Bracelets, with Coral Beads and Turquoise

Coral is believed to prevent ill fortune and offer protection from skin disease when worn as a necklace. So many people like to wear coral beads jewelry or present them to others as gifts. I created a bracelet with red coral beads, turquoise and cloisonne beads for my best friend as Christmas gift. This bracelet is about 330mm long for wearing two circles on wrist. About the jewelry materials, I chose red abacus coral (about 4mm in diameter), round cloisonne beads with exquisite flower on surface (about 6mm), round turquoise beads (about 4mm) and elastic cord. This bracelet is very easy for making, and it is very suitable for beginners of jewelry making to try. String a quarter of corals on elastic cord, then string a cloisonne bead with a turquoise bead at each side. Then string the rest jewelry beads like the first step. The last step is making a knot and cutting off the extra cord. A beautiful bracelet gift is finished. Why it is very suitable for presenting as a Christmas gift? We all know that red, green and white are the main and symbol colors Christmas. Colors of this bracelet are very accord with that, and the good implied meaning of coral beads is very suitable to express your emotion to your friends.

Bracelets, with Coral Beads

Coral beads come in various colors, shapes and sizes. Their brilliant colors are really charming, even if they are white. Have you even created a bracelet with dumbbell coral beads, flower coral and Swarovski beads? The dumbbell is very cute shape. String the white dumbbell beads on cord, and place them like a cross by two of each so that they will look like white flowers. After stringed a half of white corals, string two Swarovski and white flower coral on cord. Then, string the rest two Swarovski beads and dumbbell coral beads on. The last step is making a knot to finish. It is really a cute and charming bracelet, isn’t it?

Coral beads are coming from natural, which is another reason why so many people like them. Apart from that, coral beads are not only can create fabulous jewelry with other jewelry beads, but can also create beautiful pieces singly.  

Wholesale Beads Bulk Is Necessary

When your technology of jewelry making is growing, and you want to create more jewelry designs, you will need more jewelry beads. Or if you are a jewelry beads retailer and you need more materials once your business is growing larger and larger. How to get a lot of beads in cheap prices? It is the question of the hour to many jewelry makers like you. Wholesale beads bulk is the wise method to solve this problem.

Acrylic Beads

We all know that there are countless jewelry beads and other jewelry materials available on the whole world’s market. But the selection of retailed jewelry beads is too limited to satisfy our demands. We have to travel to several jewelry beads retail stores to collect all the materials we need and pay expensive prices for them, which is not we want. In that case, we need to search our materials from internet. Wholesale beads from online wholesale stores are very popular with many jewelry makers in the world. And there are many wholesale stores can offer beads bulk. We can get a wide range of selection for both jewelry beads and suppliers.

Acrylic Beads Mix

Some people may say that I am jewelry maker and don’t need all kinds of jewelry beads materials because I just like to use glass beads, gemstone beads or acrylic beads to create jewelry designs, for example. It looks like an absurdity example, but wholesale beads bulk can solve this problem, no matter you consider this problem from getting a large of selection or saving time and money. Let’s take acrylic beads for instance. Acrylic beads come in a variety of colors, shapes, types, and sizes. Different beads can help you create different style designs. When you want to create acrylic jewelry in different styles, you need different acrylic beads, so that you need to collect the more different acrylic beads as you can. Traveling around your city to collect these beads is not the thing you should do obviously because it is all just wasted time. What is worse, you may unable to collect all the beads you need, even if you have traveled all the jewelry beads retail stores there.

In fact, there is no one will only use one or two different jewelry beads to create fashion jewelry. The more beads you need, the beads bulk wholesale is more necessary. If you have realized it, the next step is searching a reputable bulk sale supplier who can offer you quality items at much low prices. Enjoy your jewelry making. 

Cat Eye Beads Jewelry for Thanksgiving Day

Nov. 22^th is Thanksgiving Day of this year, and many people will present gifts for others to express their thanks. And along with the development of jewelry making and popularity of fashion jewelry, I am sure that many people will choose jewelry as their gifts. I am one of them. I have created two jewelry pieces with cat eye beads as gifts.

Cat Eye Beads Strands

                              

Cat eye beads are one kind of glass beads. They are beautiful and shiny. On today’s jewelry market, cat eye beads come in different shapes, colors and sizes. So we can easily find whatever we need for our designs. My first Thanksgiving Day gift is a bracelet. I used 6pcs pink round cat eye beads (about 6mm in diameter), 4pcs fuchsia bicone glass beads (about 6mm in diameter), 8pcs Tibetan style flower bead spacers, 8pcs sterling silver beads (about 4mm in diameter), crimp beads, jump rings and jewelry wire. First, string a jump ring and crimp bead on wire, then turn the wire back through crimp bead. Use your crimp jewelry plier to press crimp bead to make a loop to hold the jump ring. Second, string all the jewelry beads by the following order: one sterling silver bead, one flower bead spacer, one bicone glass bead, one flower bead spacer and two cat eye beads. Third, add a crimp bead and lobster claw clasp to make an end for this bracelet like step one. By now, a beautiful and cute cat bracelet is finished.

Cat Eye Beads

The second gift I created is a pair of earrings with cat eye beads and sterling silver beads. The materials I used are 2pcs sterling silver earring hooks, 6pcs 6mm cat eye beads (green, pink and yellow, 2pcs for each color), 4pcs tiny sterling silver bead spacers and 2pcs ball headpins. Earrings are always very easy to make. First, string 3pcs cat eye beads in different colors on headpin, and use two sterling silver bead spacers to separate them. Second, use your round nose jewelry plier to make a loop at the top of cat’s eye bead. Third, attach this beaded pendant on earring hook. An earring is finished. Repeat the above steps to create the other one for a pair.

Do you want to create some jewelry gifts for someone on Thanksgiving Day? If yes, take action right now, as this holiday is coming. My ideas with cat eye beads are just for reference. I am sure you must have your own fabulous ideas already.

Meanings about Dzi Beads with Different Numbers of Eyes

I think many people have heard about Dzi beads already. As a kind of mysterious beads, Tibetan style dzi beads are very popular in jewelry making, including necklaces making, bracelets making and earring making. They are beautiful but exotic, and popular with many jewelry wearers.

Tibetan Style dZi Beads

About the dzi beads, they have different “eyes” on them, for example, one eye, two eyes, three eyes and more. Tibetan style dzi beads with different numbers of eyes have different meanings. For example, one eye means safe and good luck; two eyes for a happy marriage and a happy family; three eyes will bring you great wealth; four eyes represent the four major Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, and will bring the wearer wealth, luck and long happy life; five eyes can bring success, career advancement, wisdom and obtaining whatever the wearer desires; six eyes will eliminate all sadness and suffering from the wearers’ life; seven eyes helps you to achieve fame, glory, perfection, career, wealth, relationship and health. Of course, there are many dzi beads with eyes in other numbers. Apart from eyes on dzi beads, there are some other special patterns on them, for instance, sun and moon; black and white; tiger tooth and etc. About sun and moon, they symbolize reconciliation between Yin Yang. Black and white symbolize day and night which is also represent Yin Yang. Tiger tooth is a symbol of defeating evil spirits, righteousness and successful career. No matter you want to choose one or several Tibetan style dzi beads to wear or present as gifts to your friends, you should know their meanings clearly first.

Tibetan dZi Beads

One thing to remember concerning these curious little stones is this, dzi beads may repel things, but they also can store them. When a negativism comes to wearer, its stone may block it or absorb it. They can also give very positive energies to wearers once absorbing a bit of their energy in the process. That is to say, a bit of them goes into you and a bit of you will go into them.

If you are a jewelry maker, you can purchase some dzi beads and other jewelry materials to create your own lucky jewelry. Apart from use Tibetan style dzi beads to create necklaces, bracelets and earrings, you can also add them on other fashion decoration designs. For example, add them on hats, handbags, gloves, cell phone decoration, key chain and many others. Well, please keep in mind about their different meanings with different eyes and patterns.

Why and How to Get Beads Dropship

Along with the development of jewelry making around the whole world, more and more people start making jewelry, no matter for career or just a hobby. No doubt that the demands of jewelry making supplies are growing larger and larger. However, some jewelry materials retailers may have no big enough space to store many items for their customers. How to solve this problem? Get beads dropship (beads dropshipping) is the best solution.

Beads Dropship

As a jewelry making supplies retailer, you are both the buyer and seller during this jewelry business. To your supplier, you are buyer, but to your customers, you are their seller. You have to purchase jewelry items from your supplier and transport them to your customers. Maybe you will think it is not convenient, and have no enough space to store items. In that case, beads drop shipping is your wise choice. What is beads drop shipping (beads dropship)? Drop shipping is method of getting jewelry materials from manufacturers directly but not through wholesalers. Well, some jewelry materials wholesalers have their own manufacturers, just like PandaHall.com—a leading China beads, findings and gems online market. In other words, they are the manufacturers. Drop shipping is also considered as a method of transporting goods from a supplier to a third party under a second party’s label or address so that it appears as though the product came from the second party and not the supplier. This enables the second party to conduct business without having to carry an inventory.

How to get beads drop shipping or enjoy beads dropship method? The first important thing is you have to find a jewelry materials manufacturer or supplier who have its own manufacturer, and can offer you beads dropship. No doubt that your local jewelry beads stores are not the suppliers you are looking for. So please search your suppliers from the internet. When you find a jewelry materials wholesaler online, ask if they accept that you place your order on their website and send the package to your customer’s shipping address. It is a good news if they can. And then you should ask if they can offer pictures of the items you ordered without their logo. Congratulation, if the answer is yes. About the pictures without logo, you can not only use them on your website, but also can offer them to your customer. You customers will like this service without question. And I enjoy all these services from my regular supplier—PandaHall.

If you still confused or annoyed about shipping items to your customer, or you want to find a convenient way to save more time, hope you can find a reliable manufacturer or supplier who has its own manufacturer and can offer beads dropship (beads dropshipping) for you.