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. 

Add European Beads to Make Your Jewelry Stunning

Want to make timeless fashion jewelry? Why not choose European beads? We all know that European beads (Pandora style beads) are available in different materials, sizes, colors and shapes, so that you have a wide range of selections about them. What is more, there are mysterious legends about that kind of beads, which bring these jewelry beads fashion, mysterious and timeless characters. 

 

Handmade Lampwork European Beads

Any jewelry beads can make your jewelry stunning, amazing or fabulous, and what you need are only imagination and creativity. So, how to use European beads (Pandora style beads) to make your jewelry stunning and timeless? Here, we would like to share some jewelry making ideas about these beads with you. European beads are colorful, but can also used to create vintage style jewelry. “Old” color is one of the characters of vintage style jewelry, so that you need to choose European beads have suitable or similar colors with your vintage jewelry findings. For example, if you have some earring hooks, Tibetan style hangers and metal beads in red cooper, and want to use them to create a pair of vintage style earrings, then you can choose some Lampwork European beads in brown to match them. Just like the design below. In fact, European beads with bright colors can also used to create vintage style jewelry as long as you choose the correct color for your vintage jewelry findings.

 

Pandora style earring

The second one is about a lampwork European beads bracelet. We know that each handmade lampwork beads is one of a kind bead on the world. Therefore, there is no two jewelry pieces are the same, even if they are created with the “same” lampwork beads, and your jewelry will become timeless and unique. When start to create European style bracelet (Pandora style bracelet), many people may choose Pandora style chain bracelet for this design, but the metal chain bracelet is not suitable for the people whose skins are sensitive to metal. So, the leather cord Pandora bracelet is the best choice. You can choose any lampwork European beads you like for this bracelet, but don’t forget to choose one or two beads with special designs to make this bracelet unique and stunning, just like the below bracelet design.

 

European beaded Bracelet

European beads are also widely used to create holiday jewelry, such as for Christmas, Valentine's Day and so on. Search European beads (Pandora style beads) on the internet, we can easily find many of these beads are produced with holiday theme. Add these handmade one of a kind jewelry beads on your bracelet, necklace or earrings to make your designs and you stunning. 

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. 

Craft Beads Are Versatile In Jewelry Making

Are you a jewelry designer or jewelry beads retailer? If you are one of them, you will always searching new or hot jewelry beads for your designs or business. If yes, why not searching for affordable craft beads to complete your jewelry line?

 

Colorful Acrylic Beads

Craft beads are one popular jewelry bead, and widely used for both adult’s jewelry making and kid’s jewelry making. When you search craft beads on the internet, you will find a large selection of craft beads for people of any age. They are available in different colors and textures to suit all needs, from plastic, wooden and glass to mixed variety. These beads are usually used to create beautiful necklaces, bracelets or earrings. Apart from used to make jewelry, these beads are alternatively used for collage and gift boxes.

Craft beads are produced in various styles and shapes too. And neon color pony beads are one of such a craft beads that are great for various threading activities. And neon color jewelry is one of the trends of fashion jewelry in 2013, so make trendy neon color jewelries for yourself, friends, or your kids, and become a trendy person. You can teach your kids to create friendship jewelry for her or his friends with these pony beads. I am sure her or his friends will like these gifts very much as kids like colorful things very much.

 

Transparent Acrylic Beads Mix

Metallic pony beads are one of that kind of craft beads which are good choices for gorgeous, complicated beaded jewelry projects. In many jewelry shows, we can see some gorgeous beaded jewelry designs created with these craft beads, cabochons, pearls and some other jewelry materials. I found myself word loss when I saw these jewelry designs. Gorgeous, beautiful, elegant, and delicate, these words are not enough to express or describe these jewelry designs. If you are a experienced jewelry maker and want to create your own awesome beaded jewelry design, this kind of craft beads is your good choice. And if you are a retailer, wholesale these beads to improve your business and profits.

Do you like wooden beads? If yes, one craft beads will interest you. They are assorted wooden tribal beads. These craft beads are really fun and easy to be used. Just simply thread them onto leather cords for an authentic piece. And I think many people will like these simple but full of tribal feeling jewelry designs, no matter you are adults or kids. Wooded beads are available in neon color as well as acrylic pony craft beads too. Just fly your imagination, and create your one of a kind fashion jewelry. 

Combined Beads for Kids Jewelry Making

Kid’s jewelry is very popular as well as adult’s fashion jewelry. We can easily find all kinds of fashion jewelry for kids on today’s fashion jewelry market. Many adults like jewelry making and take it as a job or hobby. But some of them have not realized that making kids jewelry with their kids is a good way to improve their emotion. So, why not choose some combined beads which are colorful and funny to create kids jewelry with your children?

 

Colorful Acrylic Flowers

What are combined beads? They are the beads which are combined with two or more parts. Today’s fashion jewelry market, they are mainly produced by acrylic. Even though combined beads are produced in limited materials, they are available in various shapes (flower, oval, round, butterfly and so on), colors and sizes. As they are colorful and light weight, they are very suitable for creating kids jewelry, and loved deeply by kids.

Acrylic combined beads can be used to create kids necklaces and bracelet with cord only, but also can be used to max and match other jewelry beads together. For example, you can choose some round, colorful acrylic combined beads and a length of satin ribbon or rubber cord to make a necklace. The simplest method to make a necklace is stringing, so that teach your kids to string colorful combined beads on the cord by any order they like to create their own first handmade jewelry. If they like, they can create several more pieces as jewelry gifts for their friends. They can call these necklaces as friend necklaces.

 

Colorful Acrylic Beads

Sometimes, each combined bead comes to you with its own single color, but you can teach your kids to take apart them as several parts, and combined them with parts in different colors to create new combined beads. The processing of creating new beads is very funny and helpful for your kids’ intelligence. And I am sure your kids will like it very much. Apart from combined different colors together, you can also use resin beads, glass beads or woven beads together. These beads are light weight and cheap, and not harmful to kids’ skin.

On current fashion jewelry market, most of the combined beads come from China. So, if you want to purchase cheap, quality combined beads, you can purchase them from China jewelry beads online wholesaler to get a wide range of selection, and save both time and money. 

Flower European Beads for Mother’s Day Jewelry Gifts

As one of women’s favorites, European beads (Pandora style beads) are widely used in jewelry making. Flower European beads are one of the most popular shape, and very suitable for creating jewelry gifts for Mother’s Day.

 

Alloy European Beads

About flower European beads, they are available in different sizes, shapes, colors and materials. Even though they have some many differences, they have the same characters—beautiful and charming, so that people are easily fall in love with them at their first sight, especially the women. I used 6pcs handmade lampwork flower European beads, 6pcs European style bead spacers and a Pandora style chain to make a bracelet for my mom, and want to present it to her on Mother’s Day. This jewelry gift is very easy to be created, even if you are just a beginner of jewelry making. Just open the clasp of chain bracelet, and string handmade lampwork European beads and alloy European style alloy spacer beads one by one. When you finished it, you will find this bracelet is simple but very beautiful and suitable for any occasion and clothes. I am sure my mom will love it very much.

 

Fashion Cowhide Leather Cord Jewelry Sets

My friend Amy created a jewelry set, includes a bracelet and a pair of earrings, in a hot style. The materials she used are silver alloy flower European beads, silver iron wire mesh beads, black cowhide leather cord, cord ends, lobster clasp, earring hooks, Tibetan style cap, jewelry wire, and silver chains. About the earrings: first, cut off a length of jewelry wire, cut chain in several short strands. Second, string the chains on jewelry wire and make a loop at bottom to hold these chains. Third, string a Tibetan style cap, a wire mesh bead and ring of earring hook on the wire, and use jewelry plier to make a loop at top. An earring is finished. Repeat these steps to create the other one of a pair. About the bracelet: add a cord end on one end of black cord, and string a wire mesh bead with one flower European beads at each end on the cord. Then, attach the other cord end on the other end of black cord. The last step is attaching jump ring and lobster clasp on each end of bracelet. Now, a hot jewelry set is completed. Amy’s mom is very fashion and cool, and this jewelry gift is very suitable for her. I am sure she will love this gift very much.

No matter what style and color your mom like, there is a suitable one for your mom if you choose flower European beads to create jewelry as gift on Mother’s Day. 

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. 

Dzi Beads Are Good Choices of Jewelry Gift Making

Many people know that dZi beads have mysterious legends and power, so that they are very popular in jewelry making. The meaning of dZi is shine, brightness, clearness and splendor. Chinese people call dZi beads as “heaven’s bead” or “heaven’s pearl”. Tibetan style dZi beads have special and traditional Tibetan culture.

Tibetan dZi Beads

Dzi beads are suitable to create jewelry for yourself or as gifts to others. But please choose correct dzi beads on your jewelry gifts. When you search dzi beads on your local beads stores or online stores, you will find that the numbers of “eyes” on diz beads are not the same, and different numbers have different meanings. That is the reason why I ask to choose correct one. For example, one eye Tibetan dzi beads are believed to bring wearers light, hope and life-long happiness. Wearing that bead may help people to be brave, determined, strong, self-confident and help wearer realize their dreams. The nine-eye dzi is the symbol of the nine planets. It includes the activity of the universe and the wisdom of the humanity. Nine-eye dzi beads aer the emperor of all dzi beads. If you expect much for your kids, you can choose one-eye diz beads and create jewelry gifts for them, a weaved mobile phone strap will be a good idea. So, the next thing is to share an idea about creating such a mobile phone strap as kids jewelry gift.

Mobile Phone Straps

The materials we need are colorful nylon cords, 5pcs black glass beads and 1pcs one-eye dzi bead. We will use three different color cords (blue, pink and green) for this design, you can choose any color you or your kids like. First, cut off four strings of cords (1 strand of blue, 1 strand of pink and 2 strands of green). Fold the blue cord and string a black glass bead and Tibetan dzi bead on. Second, make Chinese knots with pink and green strands on blue cord separately to make it looks like human-shaped. Third, string black glass beads on pink cords separately, and fire the cord as a knot to stop bead fall off. String two glass beads on blue cords by the same method. Till now, a simple, lovely but full of hope and positive energy mobile phone strap for kids is finished.

You can also create many other jewelry gifts with Tibetan style dzi beads for your family members and friends. If you want to get cheap and quality Tibetan style dzi beads, I’d like to suggest you to purchase them from China. 

How to Make Elegant Jewelry Set with Glass Beads

You are unable to created beaded jewelry without jewelry beads, even if you are an experienced jewelry designer. And glass beads are one of the most popular jewelry materials to both jewelry designers and jewelry wearers.

Glass beads have functioned as currency, gifts, work of art and symbols of high status, and are recorded as being created, traded and worn as jewelry by the earliest civilized societies. But in modern times, glass beads are widely used in jewelry making and many other fashion decoration makings. These jewelry beads are available in various types, from crackle glass to millefiori glass, from cat eye beads to glass pearls, from drawbench glass to electroplate glass, from normal glass to frosted glass and some others.

Crystal Glass Beads

Glass beads can be used to create jewelry in different styles, such as cute style, elegant style and so on. And elegant style is such a style that no woman can ignore it. So why not use glass beads to create an elegant jewelry set? Here is an idea for sharing. This jewelry set includes a bracelet and a pair of earrings. Materials we need are clear and brown faceted abacus glass beads (clear beads: about 6mm in diameter, brown beads: about 12mm in diameter), 4pcs rhinestone links, 2pcs brass earring hooks, brass magnetic clasp, iron chains, 1pcs rhinestone bead, 2pcs headpins, 2pcs end caps and clear thread. Followed are the detailed instructions.

Earrings: first, string 1pcs 12mm clear glass bead, 2pcs 6mm glass beads in clear and brown on a headpin, and use round nose jewelry plier to make a loop at top of brown bead. Second, attach this beaded pendant on a length of iron chain. Then, attach the other end of chain onto the ring of earring hook. Repeat the two steps to create the other one for a pair.

Glass Jewelry Sets

Necklace: first, use a long clear thread to string several clear glass beads and rhinestone bead as a round flower shaped pendant. Second, put 7pcs more clear beads and 1pcs 12mm brown glass through the two strands together. Third, put 2pcs clear glass and 1pcs brown glass on one strand,  and repeat this for three more times. String the same beads on the other strand. Fourth, keep on stringing rhinestone links and clear glass beads on two strands. Make sure to use the 4pcs links to separate these beads as 4 average parts. Fifth, string all the rest clear glass beads on the third strand, and use links to combine two strands together link the design on picture. Sixth, attach magnetic clasp on two ends of this necklace.

Till now, an elegant jewelry set with glass beads is finished. It is very elegant but very simple to be created, even if you are a beginner of jewelry making. If you want to make your own, it’s time to purchase the materials you need to start. 

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. 

Swarovski Beads and Pendants Are Fantastic for Valentine’s Day Jewelry

Swarovski is famous for its sparkling appearance, high quality and high price. Many females want to have a piece of Swarovski jewelry at least. Swarovski beads and Swarovski pendants are available in different shapes, colors, sizes and designs. They can be used only to create elegant jewelry but also can be mixed and matched well with many other jewelry beads and findings.

Swarovski jewelry is always used to express love to lovers. The Valentine’s Day of 2013 is not too far, and it is time to start preparing jewelry gift for that romantic day. Creating a sparkling, elegant Swarovski crystal jewelry with Swarovski beads and Swarovski pendants is a fantastic idea. So, you can have a try with red and white (with AB color) bicone Swarovski beads, antique silver flower Tibetan style bead spacers, heart shaped red Swarovski pendant and a heart shaped toggle clasp to create a bracelet. Steps are very easy. First, cut off a length of jewelry wire, and then string a crimp bead, red bicone Swarovski bead, 2pcs flower Tibetan style bead spacers, a white Swarovski crystal bead and two more pieces bead spacers on wire. Second, turn the wire back and through it back to the hole of crimp bead to make a loop. And use your crimp plier to press the crimp beads to stop the jewelry beads fall off. Third, string the rest Swarovski crystal beads and Tibetan style bead spacers by the same order as they are strung in the first step. Fourth, make a loop like the second step, and attach the clasp and T-bar on loops by using jump rings. The last step is using a headpin to make the heart shaped Swarovski pendant as a bracelet dangling pendant and attach it to one end of this bracelet. Now, a very sparkling and elegant Swarovski bracelet is finished. I am sure the recipient will love it very much.

Swarovski Crystal Pendants

You can also use Swarovski beads and Swarovski pendants to create a pair of lovely and elegant earring, as earrings are one of the most popular fashion jewelry to women. You can also use the same white and red Swarovski items to create a pair for a jewelry set with that bracelet. But you can also use pink ones to create, which is really lovely. Prepare 2pcs headpins, 6pcs eyepins, 2pcs earring hooks, 6pcs Swarovski beads (4pcs in white and 2pcs in red) and 2pcs pin heart shaped Swarovski charm pendant. First, use your jewelry plier to make all the 6pcs beads as a bead links by stringing them on eye pins, and make the two charm pendants as earring pendant with headpins. Second, link three beads (one white, one pink and one white) and charm pendant together as a long earring drop. And then, attach the long drop on the ring of earring hook. A lovely pink Swarovski earring is finished. Repeat the same steps to create the other one for a pair.

Swarovski Crystal Beads

From the two jewelry making ideas, we will find that creating a lovely and elegant jewelry gift for Valentine’s Day is not such a difficult thing if we use Swarovski beads and Swarovski pendants. Do you have any your own ideas about jewelry gift for Valentine’s Day? If yes, it is time to take action. 

Jewelry Ideas with Alphabet Beads and Number Beads for Adults

Alphabet beads and number beads are always widely used in creating jewelry designs for Kids. Today, they are not the accessions of kid’s jewelry only, but also widely used in creating fashion jewelry for adults. Both jewelry beads come in many different shapes, colors and sizes so that we have a large range of selection for our designs.

Acrylic Beads, Mixed Alphabets

How to use alphabet beads and number beads to create fashion jewelry for adults? Here I would like to share two ideas which are very suitable for beginners to learn as they are quite easy. The first idea is a satin ribbon necklace with alphabet beads and glass beads. First, choose a satin ribbon you like and cut two pieces. Feel free to cut the ribbon to whatever length you desire or need. Second, layout the glass beads and alphabet beads in desired order, for example, one glass bead with one alphabet bead, or string a short strand of glass beads in different colors and use some alphabet beads of a word (like Mother, Love, etc) to separate each two glass beads in the middle place. Third, cut off a jewelry wire and string all the jewelry beads on the wire by the order as your layout. Then use crimp beads to stop the beads fall off, and make a loop at each end. Fourth, use jump rings to attach the part of beaded necklace to two satin ribbon strands. You can also add some lovely or elegant charms on the satin ribbon strands too. Fifth, the last step is making a lovely bowknot with the satin ribbons. Then, a lovely and elegant satin ribbon necklace with alphabet beads for adult is finished.

Symbol Acrylic Beads,

The second idea is a shiny bracelet with silver alphabet beads (letter “I”, “❤” and “U”), number beads (1, 3, 1 and 4) and round rose golden rhinestone beads. It is very suitable for presenting to your wife or girlfriend because it is means “I Love You Forever.” The steps are very simple. First, layout all the jewelry beads as your desired order on your table or other jewelry making tools. Second, cut off a length of jewelry wire, and string all the beads on wire one by one. Third, use crimp beads to stop these beads fall off and make a loop at each end. Fourth, use jump rings to attach toggle clasp on each end. A shiny, elegant bracelet with rhinestone beads, number beads and alphabet beads is finished. It is quite suitable for adult and easy to create, right?

Both alphabet beads and number beads are always innovated so that we can often find new types on fashion jewelry market. And the only t

Versatile Pewter Beads in Fashion Jewelry Making

Pewter beads are a kind of metal beads which are similar as Tibetan style beads. These beads are made of the metal alloy which is called pewter. Both metal beads are widely used in necklaces making, bracelets making, earring making and many other fashion decoration making.

Pewter beads can be polished to high, silver sheen or chemically darkened for a blacker metal look. Well, the darker appearance of pewter beads seems to be more popular, as for a silver look people would like to choose sterling silver. Both pewter beads and Tibetan style beads are available in various shapes, colors, sizes and designs. They are versatile and can be mixed and matched with many different jewelry beads and findings to create fashion jewelry pieces.

Tibetan Style Beads

Many people like to wear bracelet, which is no doubt. So why not try to use silver pewter beads or Tibetan style beads and glass beads to create a lovely bracelet? The materials you need are very simple: about 22pcs glass beads with the same color (about 8mm in diameter), 3pcs fish shaped pewter beads (1pcs is a pendant, about 14-16mm long, 9-16mm wide), Elastic cord, jump rings, 2pcs round pewter beads and 1pcs pewter hanger. This bracelet is very easy to be created and suitable for beginners of jewelry making. First, string a glass bead and a round pewter bead on a headpin and use your round nose jewelry plier to make a loop at the top of pewter bead. Follow the same steps to create the other one. And then, attach the two beaded pendant and fish pendant on the ring of pewter hanger. Second, cut off a length of elastic cord. Make sure the length is longer than the perimeter of your wrist. Then, string all the rest glass beads on the cord, and then add a pewter fish bead, the pewter hanger and one more pewter fish bead. Third, make a knot with your cords, and cut off the extra length. In order to let this bracelet looks finished and clear, hide the knot into a hole of bead. It is very easily to make but very lovely, isn’t it?

Fashion Tibetan Style Bracelets

Pewter beads and Tibetan style beads also can be mixed and match with other jewelry beads and findings as we said above. So, you have a lot of other designs to try. For example, use memory wire, tube jewelry findings, pewter bead caps and beads to create a set of jewelry? Just let your imagination fly, you can create fabulous and one of a kind jewelry design.

Can’t wait to start your beads jewelry making? Just purchase the materials you need to start and enjoy it.  

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.

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.