Plastic Beads—Cheap But Versatile in Jewelry Making

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

Crapy Exterior Acrylic Beads

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

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

Solid Acrylic Beads

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