Design Ideas with Glass Beads for Beginners

Glassbeads are one of the most widely used and popular jewelry beads for jewelry making. They are available in different colors, shapes, styles and sizes. You can use glass beads only to string a necklace or a bracelet, but also can use them to mix and match other jewelry beads. Here are some jewelry making ideas for beginners about how to create fabulous jewelry with glass beads.

Earrings, with Glass Beads

The first design idea is colorful beaded earrings. The materials you need to prepare are 12pcs bicone glass beads in different colors (about 6mm in diameter), 10pcs headpins, 10pcs Iron spacer beads (about 3mm in diameter), 2pcs alloy chandelier links (about 13.5mm wide, 25.5mm long) and 2pcs earring hooks. First, string the bicone glass beads, iron spacer beads on headpins and make sure there are 2 headpins have 2 beads on as there are 10 headpins and 12pcs glass beads. Use your round nose pliers to make loops at the top of spacer beads. Attach these bead pendants on the rings of alloy chandelier links’ bottom. There is no need to make sure the colors on both earrings are the same. Who says the colors of a pair of earrings must be the same? The last step is attaching the whole earring pendants on the rings of earring hooks. Till now, a pair of colorful glass beads earrings is finished.

Glass Bracelets

The second jewelry making idea with glass beads is creating a lovely bracelet. About this glass beads bracelet, it seems a little difficult for beginners to make, but it is very simple indeed. Prepare about 47pcs faceted round glass beads (about 8mm in diameter) and crystal thread. About the quantity of glass beads, it depends on your wrist. The inner diameter of my bracelet is about 55mm. Now let’s start it. Cut a length of crystal thread, and string three glass beads on the middle of the thread first. Second, string the fourth glass bead with one crystal thread, and string the other crystal thread from the other hole of the bead. Third, string two glass beads from each thread, and repeat the second step to add one more bead. Repeat those steps to string the rest glass beads together. When you have stringed the last two glass beads, string your crystal threads through the middle bead you string at the first step. The last step is making a knot and cutting off the rest crystal thread. Make sure to hide the knot into a hole of a bead to let this bracelet look perfect. So, a lovely glass beads bracelet is finished.

Now I am sure you have learnt how to create handmade earrings and bracelet with glass beads. And I also think you must have your jewelry making ideas now. If yes, why not purchase some glass beads and other jewelry materials to create your own handmade jewelry designs?