Use Flower European Beads to Create Christmas Jewelry

Christmas, the grandest festival in many Western countries, is coming. And it is very popular in many Asian countries in recent years. In order to celebrate this grand festival, many people are preparing gifts for that important day. How about you? Do you have an idea about that? If not yet, why not try to use flower European beads (flower Pandora style beads) to create some Christmas jewelries as gifts?

As we all know that European beads (Pandora style beads) are very charming and popular. They are widely used in jewelry making. They are one of women’s favorites. So if you present flower European beads jewelry to your mom, wife or girlfriend, I am sure it will be their favorite Christmas gift. Well, there is no need to worry if you are just a beginner of jewelry making and have no idea about the designs because here is a Christmas design for sharing.

Fashion Jewelry Sets

This design is a jewelry set including a bracelet and a pair of earrings. Materials we will use are 3pcs green handmade lampwork flower European beads (about 14-15mm in diameter), 8pcs green faceted round glass beads (about 8mm in diameter), 4pcs tubes, several Tibetan style bead caps, steel bracelet memory wire, headpins, jump rings, clasp and earring hooks. Earrings: string a flower European bead, a glass bead and three Tibetan style bead caps on a headpin like them on picture, and use your round nose jewelry plier to make a loop at top of bead cap. Then attach this beaded earring pendant on the ring of earring hook. An earring is finished. Repeat the same steps to create the other one for a pair. The bracelet is very easy to make too. First, string a crimp bead and jump ring on memory wire; turn the wire back through crimp bead and use crimp plier to make a loop to hold the jump ring. Then string all the rest jewelry beads and findings on wire by the order like simple. The last step is making a loop to hold the clasp and avoid these beads fall off. Till now, a European jewelry set for Christmas is finished. You can also add an extended chain on this bracelet if you worry about its diameter.

Zinc Alloy European Beads

Green and red are the main and symbolistic colors for Christmas. So I used green flower European beads for this design. You can change the color as red, or use other jewelry beads to create your own Christmas jewelry gifts. Just enjoy your jewelry making.

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. 

Ideas about Creating Drilled Pearl Beads Jewelry Set

Pearl beads are always one of women’s favorite. Search from today’s fashion market, we can easily find that drilled pearl beads are not only widely used in fashion jewelry making, but also in other fashion decorations. Contemporaries like to pursue personalize and uniqueness. So do you want to create your one of kind pearl jewelry designs? If yes, let’s start.

First, let’s create a pair of earrings. You just need prepare four drilled pearl beads, two strands of brown leather cords with the same length, two silver small round beads and two earrings hooks. First, put a leather cord through ring of earring hook and bend leather cord at its middle place. Second, string a small silver bead on the two leather cords to fix leather cord. Third, string a pearl bead on bottom of two leathers, and use glue to stick pearl and leather to make assure they are fixed. Repeat the same method to create the other earring for a pair.

Pearl Beads Stands

Now, let’s create a bracelet with drilled pearl beads and brown leather cord only. In order to make sure that the new bracelet is suitable for you, please measure your wrist first. Second, cut off a length of leather cord. It must a little longer than the diameter of your wrist. Third, bend the cord at its middle place, and make a knot near the bent part with two cords to make a loop which work as clasp. Fourth, make two knots in different places on this leather. You can put the knots on different places if you like. Fifth, string a pearl bead on, and make a knot to fix the bead. Sixth, repeat the fifth step two more times. Seventh, repeat fourth step to make two more knots. The last step is stringing two pearl beads on bottom of each cord, and use glue to stick them firmly. Put the two pearl beads through the leather loop we made at third step can avoid the bracelet fall off your wrist. Till now, a special pearl beads bracelet is finished.

Grade A Freshwater Pearl  Beads

The last design is the drilled pearl beads necklace. We need to four strands of leather cords in different length this time. First, create a loop by making a knot at one end of two cords. String a pearl bead on the other two cords, and make a knot at each side to stop the bead fall off. The bead and loop are working as clasp of this necklace. Second, string the four cords through a drilled pearl bead together from the other end. Third, put a peal bead on each cord at their bottom, and use glue to stick them firmly. Close the handmade clasp. A simple but personalized pearl necklace is created.

The steps of this drilled pearl beads jewelry set are very simple, but the designs are very elegant and unique. Just take action to create you one of kind designs. 

Base Metal Beads are Cheap but Versatile

What is your favorite hobby? If you like to working with jewelry beads and jewelry findings, jewelry making will be your favorite. Jewelry beads are essential for this hobby, but some beads like silver beads and gold beads are very expensive. So what kind of beads can make you keep this hobby? Base metal beads are the one of these beads.

Metal beads are inexpensive and could help you to create elegant jewelry. In fact, what we used in and found in today’s fashion jewelry market, the metal beads are base metal beads. Base metal beads are beautiful, less expensive alternative to the precious metals of gold and silver. Well, what are they? Well, first of all, what are base metals? Base metals are iron, nickel, copper, zinc or lead that oxidize or corrode easily. They are also loosely referred to as non-precious metals that also include aluminum or alloys.

Metal Alloy Beads

Metal beads jewelry is a big trend in today’s fashion jewelry. Metal beads making is a highly valued art. All the metal beads like sterling silver beads, pewter beads, brass beads, copper beads, aluminum and etc are handmade. These beads come in some great shapes and textures, such as smooth, round, filigree, tubes, flower, cloisonne, faceted, flat discs that can be used as spacer beads and many more.

Metal Alloy Bead Spacers

When we walk around in jewelry stores or search on internet, we will find that metal beads are produced in many different colors, such as antique gold, antique silver, red copper and some others, but not just their original color. In fact, they are plated with other metals. Therefore, when we speak of antique gold or antique silver, we are referring to, in the case of antique gold a metal finish of a golden yellow color that has been applied to the bead. Antique silver is a metal finish that is a medium to dark gray color applied to the bead to make it look old or antique. And when we looking for finished jewelry pieces, we will find metal beads could be mixed and matched with all kinds of other jewelry beads. They are really versatile in jewelry making.

Metal beads can be purchase from both your local jewelry beads stores, craft stores and jewelry beads wholesale online stores. Well, if you choose these beads from jewelry beads wholesale online stores, you can get a wide range of selection and discount prices for these beads. There are tens of thousands of online wholesale stores, but not all of them can offer quality items at cheap prices. So choosing a reputable supplier is quite important for you, or else, you will meet many problems after you received your order. As a leading China beads, finding and gems online market, PandaHall.com is a good option.

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.

Start to Make Unique Jewelry with Lampwork Beads

There are so many different jewelry beads are available, but lampwork beads are one of the specials. Why? Because each bead is handmade. No two pieces are the same totally, even if they are made by the same artist. Handmade lampwork beads are produced in various shapes, colors, sizes and designs, so that you can have an array of selection.

Fashion Jewelry Bracelets

When you walk around in your local jewelry beads stores, you will be attracted by these beautiful and special lampwork beads, and want to create some your own jewelry designs with them. Do you have any idea about your designs? If you are just a beginner of jewelry making and have no good idea for the moment, here I’d like to share two ideas with you—one is a stringed bracelet and the other is a jewelry set. Let’s start to make the stringed bracelet first. Please prepare the following items: 11pcs blue European style lampwork beads (about 13mm long, 10mm wide), 11pcs white glass pearl beads (about 10mm in diameter) and elastic cord. This bracelet is very simple to make even if this is your first time to make jewelry. Just string all the jewelry beads by one European style lampwork bead and one glass pearl bead. Then make a knot after all the beads are stringed. Last, hide the knot into a hole to make this bracelet clear. It is very simple to create but very lovely, isn’t it?

Handmade Lampwork Jewelry Sets

Now let’s start the second design. This lampwork beads jewelry set include a bracelet and a pair of earrings. The maters you need are 7pcs yellow flat round lampwork beads (about 16mm in diameter), 27pcs faceted glass beads (about 6mm in diameter), 28pcs headpins, 2pcs silver round, rhinestone beads, 12pcs tiny silver spacer beads and 2pcs earring hooks. Let’s make the bracelet first. First, string 25pcs glass beads on 25pcs headpins, one bead on one pin, and use your round nose jewelry pliers to make a loop at the top of each bead. Second, String 5pcs dangling glass beads on and lay them as a flower, then string a tiny spacer bead and a lampwork bead. Third, repeat second step four times. Make sure there is a spacer bead between each glass beads flower and lampwork bead. Fourth, make a knot and hide it into a hole. About the earrings, string a tiny spacer bead, a lampwork bead, a rhinestone bead and a glass bead on headpin and use jewelry plier to make a loop at the top of glass bead to make the whole as an earring pendant. Then attach the pendant on the ring of earring hook. Make the other earring with the same steps. Now, a beautiful handmade lampwork jewelry set is finished.

Can’t wait to create your own lampwork beads jewelry now? You must purchase some jewelry materials first. In order to save money and get a large range of selection, I’d like to suggest you to purchase them from jewelry beads wholesale online stores, like PandaHall.com. 

Idea about Simple but Elegant Pandora Glass Beads Jewelry Set

As an elegant or cute jewelry, Pandora style jewelry is always very popular with women, no matter they are young or old. There are various kinds of Pandora beads (European Beads) which are produced in different materials. All the Pandora beads come in different colors, sizes, shapes and designs so that you have a wide range of selection for your designs. And Pandora glass beads are one of the most popular one.

Glass European Beads

As a beginner of jewelry making, you must want to create your own Pandora style jewelry. Have no idea about how to create? There is no need to worry. Here is an idea about a simple but elegant Pandora glass beads jewelry set which including a necklace and a bracelet. When you create Pandora style jewelry, you must use Pandora style jewelry making which are special for Pandora beads. So the jewelry materials you need for this idea is silver Pandora style necklace with lobster clasp (about 510mm long, 15mm wide), 10pcs black Pandora glass beads (about 14mm wide, 9mm thick, hole: 5mm), several Pandora style rhinestone beads and alloy beads (about 11-15mm wide, 3-4mm thick, hole 7-8mm), Pandora style bracelet with lobster clasp (about 180mm long, 15mm wide) and 2 silver extended chain.

European Style Jewelry Sets

Now let’s make this simple but elegant Pandora beads jewelry set. Let’s make the bracelet first. String 5pcs black Pandora glass beads on the special bracelet from the end without lobster clasp, and use two or three Pandora style silver rhinestone beads and alloy beads to separate each two adjacent black Pandora glass beads. About the numbers and order of both rhinestone beads alloy beads are depend on you. Second, attach a silver extended chain on a jump ring of one end. Now the bracelet is finished. Let’s make a necklace with the same steps as bracelet. Till now, a Pandora style jewelry set is finished. The collocation of silver (or white) with black is very classic, so even the steps are very simple, the designs are very elegant, aren’t they.

Have you learnt this idea well? I am sure you have. You can also change the black Pandora glass beads in other colors; even use Pandora beads made of other jewelry materials, such as gemstone, metal and so on. Maybe you also have got some other good inspirations from this simple jewelry design. If yes, why not purchase the materials you need to create your own Pandora style jewelry?

Versatile Seed Beads in Jewelry Making

Seed beads are extremely versatile in jewelry making, even if they are tiny. They can be used as tiny bead spacers between other jewelry beads or as basis for many complicated designs. We can easily find many different seed beads and seed beads jewelry designs on jewelry market.

Glass Seed Beads

The sizes range of seed beads is from 24/0 to 5/0, but the most common size is 11/0. These little jewelry beads come in translucent, matte, opaque, luster finishes, silver, copper, or bronze lined colored beads. Glass seed beads are generally available for purchase wherever jewelry making supplies are sold. Seed beads necklaces are a popular choice for accessories in jewelry for women. They vary from simple and minimal styles to elaborate costume pieces. Some people like to use seed beads to create net necklaces. The net patterns vary, but the design is typically constructed solely with seed beads. However, counting these tiny glass beads is the most difficult aspect of beading a net necklace. If there is one bead off, the pattern will be distorted. The most widely used sizes of these tiny beads are 10/0, 11/0 and 15/0. When you work with these tiny beads, you will need needles. And a beading mat can help prevent your beads from rolling around on your work place.

Seed Bugle Beads

When you find seed beads on jewelry market, you can also find bugle beads. Both seed beads and bugle beads are sold by weight, but others are sold by a unit bundle of strands known as a hank. Apart from making necklaces and bracelets, both seed beads and bugle beads are popular for creating dangling earrings. You can use these tiny beads only or mix and match them with other jewelry beads, such as glass beads, gemstone beads and so on to create different styles. Use these tiny beads to create rings is very easy too. The most simple seed bead rings can be an elegant accent, especially when worn with other rings. Patience is very important when you use seed beads and bugle beads to create jewelry designs. As these jewelry beads are so tiny, they are very difficult for the novice to string.

Why so many jewelry makers and jewelry wearers like seed beads and bugle beads? Except they have a wide range of selection with sizes, colors and types, these tiny beads allows you to be tremendously creative. Both jewelry beads are available in many jewelry stores, but if you want to get a large range of selection and cheap price, you’d better purchase them from reliable online wholesale stores. 

Wholesale Beads to Create Different Jewelry Designs

Along with the development of jewelry making and the growing number of jewelry wearers, the jewelry makers need more and more jewelry beads to create different jewelry designs to meet people’s different requires. And I am sure almost all of us know that getting wholesale beads or beads wholesale is a wise method to get a wide range of selection for jewelry materials.

Fashion Glass Pearl Earrings

We all know that even if with the same design, different people may like different colors to suit their hair style, other jewelry, dresses, handbag, color of skin or just because they like this color. For example, I have an idea about fashion glass pear earrings. I want to use the same design with same jewelry materials, because I want to present them to my friends. But I will use the jewelry beads in different colors. However, how can I get the same jewelry beads in different colors? Get wholesale beads or beads wholesale is the method. You can easily get the same jewelry beads in mixed colors if you purchase them from a jewelry beads wholesaler. As a jewelry maker, I always wholesale beads to get a wide range of selection for my designs. For this present, I wholesaled 10mm glass pearl beads in different colors and Tibetan style beads.

Natural Howlite Beads

I’d like to share this idea with you. The materials are including round glass pearl beads, silver bicone Tibetan style beads, silver Tibetan style beads in angle wing shaped, Tibetan style flower bead caps, jump rings, headpins, and earring hooks. All the jewelry materials are purchased from my regular beads wholesale (wholesale beads) online store. The steps are very simple. First, string a glass pearl bead, flower bead cap, Tibetan style angle wing and bicone Tibetan style bead on a headpin, and use your jewelry pliers to make a loop at the top of bicone bead. Second, use a jump ring to attach this earring pendant on earring hook. An earring is finished. Repeat the same steps to create several pairs by using glass pearl beads in different colors. I presented them to my friends. They love the gifts very much and said the colors are their favorites. Well, I would say that the same jewelry materials in different colors will give you different fabulous jewelry making ideas at most of time.

People always like to pursue difference, uniqueness and personality, so they would like to choose jewelry which is different from others. So get wholesale beads or beads wholesale is necessary for each jewelry maker and jewelry beads retail. 

Design Ideas with Glass Beads for Beginners

Glass beads jewelry designs are always very popular with women, no matter they are old or young. Glass beads are available in a variety of colors, sizes, designs and types, so that no matter you are jewelry makers or jewelry wearers you have a wide range of selection. Followed are two design ideas with glass beads for beginners of jewelry making.

Fashion Tibetan Style Necklaces

The first idea is fashion Tibetan style necklace with glass beads. You need the following jewelry materials: black cowhide leather cord (about 47mm long), 2pcs cord ends or cord tips, 6pcs coral round baking painted glass beads (about 6mm in diameter), 6pcs headpins, Tibetan style pendant (about 29mm wide, 38mm long), Tibetan style hanger, alloy lobster claw clasp, jump rings and extended chain. First, string the glass beads on headpins, one bead on one headpin, and use your round nose jewelry pliers to make loops on them. Second, attach these beaded pendants on the rings of Tibetan style pendants, and attach this new pendant on the Tibetan style hanger. Third, string the hanger on your leather cord. Fourth, add the cord ends on each end of cord, and then attach a jump ring and lobster claw clasp on each cord end. The last step is adding the extended chain on the jump ring. Till now, an exotic Tibetan style glass beads necklace is finished.

Fashion Glass Jewelry Sets

The second idea is a glass beads jewelry set which including a bracelet and a pair of earrings. Even though it is a jewelry set, it is very easy and suitable for beginners of jewelry making to learn. The materials you need are 18pcs blue faceted round glass beads (about 8-10mm in diameter), 3pcs handmade Indonesia beads (about 16pcs in diameter), 17pcs small round bead spacers, 2pcs headpins, 2pcs eyepins, 4pcs Tibetan style flower bead caps, 2pcs earring hooks and elastic cord. Stringing method is the simplest technology. Let’s make a bracelet first. Cut off your elastic cord, string 16pcs 10mm glass beads, 17pcs small bead spacers and 1pcs Indonesia bead on cord. The bead spacers are used to separate each glass bead and Indonesia bead. Then, make a knot and cut off the extra cord. Hide the knot into one hold of bead to let the bracelet clear. About the earrings, string an Indonesia bead on headpin and use jewelry plier to make a loop on the top of bead. Second, string a bead cap, an 8mm glass bead and a bead cap on eyepin, and use jewelry plier to make a loop on the top of bead cap. Third, attach the Indonesia bead to the loop of glass bead. Fourth, attach the whole beaded earring pendant on an earring hook. A lovely earring is finished. Repeat the same step to create the other one for a pair.

Have you learnt these design ideas? If yes, it is time to purchase glass beads and other jewelry materials to create your one of a kind jewelry. You can have a try.

How to Use Lobster Claws in Jewelry Making

Lobsterclaw is used to attach to jewelry pieces to close two ends for wearing. These jewelry clasps come in various colors, sizes, shapes and designs. Lobster claw clasps are not only jewelry findings on jewelry pieces, but also a part of jewelry design.

When you choose lobster claw for your jewelry design, you must consider the concordance between lobster clasp and other jewelry materials. For example, you need to use a silver claw clasp but not gold or other color clasp if you use silver chain and some jewelry beads to create a necklace. Make jewelry makers like to use this type clasp. But to beginners of jewelry making, they may don’t know how to attach the findings on their designs. Here I’d like share with jewelry making beginners about how to attach clasps and two jewelry making ideas.

Fashion Pearl Necklaces

The first idea is making a fashion pearl necklace. The materials you need are 21pcs white freshwater pearl beads, 21pcs ball headpins, a length of silver chain, jump rings, 6 strands black leather cords with same length, lobster claw, crimp beads, cord ends and extended chain. The steps are very simple. First, string freshwater pearl beads on headpins, one bead on one pin, and use your round nose jewelry pliers to make them as bead pendants. Second, attach 20pcs pearl pendants on the chain in suitable places. Attach the last pearl pendant on one end of extended chain. Third, use jump rings and crimp beads to fix black leather cords on two ends of chains, three strands for each end. Fourth, attach cord ends on the other end of each three strands. Fifth, this step is using a jump ring to attach lobster claw on the loop of one cord end. The last step is attaching a jump ring on loop of the other cord end. An elegant freshwater pearl necklace with lobster clasp is finished.

Fashion Bracelets

The other idea is about a bracelet. Please prepare 6pcs cyan handmade polymer clay flower beads (about 14*7mm), 8pcs glass pearl beads (about 8mm in diameter), several eyepins and headpins, jump rings, lobster claws and extended chain. Use a headpin and jewelry plier to make a glass bead as bead pendant first. Then use eyepins and jewelry pliers to make all the rest polymer clay beads and glass beads as bead links, and link them together by one glass bead followed by one polymer clay bead (like the picture). Then, use a jump ring to link the extended chain and one ended glass bead. The last step is using a jump ring to link the lobster claw and the other ended glass bead. Till now, a lovely handmade flower bracelet is finished. 

As a jewelry making beginners, have you learnt how to use lobster claws in jewelry making? I am sure you have. If so, start your jewelry making and enjoy it. 

How to Make Necklace with Metal Beads and Gemstones

Metalbeads have been used to create fashion necklaces for women for a long time. They are made of different metals in different colors, sizes, shapes and designs. They are always used to mix and match with other jewelry beads to create jewelry. How to use metal beads and gemstone beads to create necklaces? Followed are two ideas of jewelry making for reference.

Gemstone Pendants

Wire wrapping jewelry has been popular for a long time. Many people like to use jewelry wire to wrap several circles around the top of beads or pendants to decorate. Do you have some other good ideas to decorate your beads or pendants specially? If no, why not try to use metal beads and other beads to decorate? For example, maybe you have a natural rectangle gemstone pendant without hole and want to use it as necklace pendant. Wire wrapping is a good method for this design, but don’t use wire to wrap several circles on the top of pendant. You can use two clear glass luster beads in different sizes and one metal bead. About the color of metal bead, use the same color as jewelry wire is perfect. Use jewelry wire to wrap your rectangle gemstone as usual first. When you start to make a special on the top of gemstone, you can string the larger glass luster bead, metal bead and smaller glass luster bead on the two straight wires. And now, you can wrap several small circles on the top small glass bead and make a loop with the rest jewelry wire by your jewelry pliers. Attach the wire wrapped gemstone pendant on a leather cord and add clasps. A special wire wrapped metal beads gemstone necklace is finished.

Iron Filigree Beads

The second necklace is made with bicone and small round metal bead spacers, delicate round and tube metal beads, blue rectangle and oval topaz beads, iolite oval beads and oval sunstone beads. About the quantity of each kind of beads, it depends on the length of your necklace. Choose a jewelry wire with the same color as metal beads, and use crimp bead and crimp cover to fix one end of the wire. String 8pcs blue topaz bead in order of 2pcs rectangle followed by 2pcs oval, and separated two different shapes by round small bead spacers. Then string gemstone beads and metal beads one by one. The colors of gemstone can be randomly, but make sure that the delicate metal round beads are placed on the middle places of this necklace. After you have stringed all the metal round beads on, string the rest gemstone beads and metal beads as the first part of necklace. And then, fix the wire and attach a clasp. A beautiful necklace is finished, and you will find that the different gemstones in this necklace really highlight all the different metal beads used.