How To Make Simple Jewelry
Buying jewelry online or at the department store can be very overpriced. I do not think diamonds are the most beautiful kind of jewelry, so I prefer to design my own jewelry with glass beads and charms. You can even buy jewelry that is pre-assembled with glass and plastic beads, but it is much cheaper to make it yourself. Costume jewelry is fun to make because it is flamboyant, colorful, and zany, so sometimes it is exciting to incorporate a few of these types of accessories in your wardrobe. I would feel horrid if I lost a beautiful diamond bracelet, but if I lost a simple bead necklace I would just mostly be disappointed. Glass beads come in very many beautiful shades of colors, as do acrylic beads and many other affordable beads. Go to your local craft store or second-hand store to find pendants, beads, and other supplies for making affordable and beautiful jewelry. If you want to learn more about making simply affordable and beautiful jewelry then read this informative hub. People of all ages will be able to make bracelets and necklaces with the simple one strand method. If you want to learn more about jewelry making you can also read my other hub How To Make A Necklace And A Matching Bracelet.
Make A Simple Bracelet With Glass Beads
You can select glass beads for making a truly affordable bracelet, that you will not worry about losing. Of course, you would be sad if you lost your beautiful handmade bracelet, but at least you would not be as worried as if you had lost a real pearl bracelet. To make the bracelet you need to think about what type of material you would like to string it on, but recommend stretchy cord because it is easy to work with and affordable. Determine what color of glass beads you would like to use for your bracelet, or use a variety of colors to create a truly magical and eclectic piece.
Step One: Gathering Your Supplies
Step Two: Decide What Type of String You Are Going to Use
Step Three: Make a Pattern With the Beads
I like to make a pattern using smaller and larger beads, but if you prefer to mix all the beads up that is fun too. Sometimes I have leftover beads from different projects and I make a multi-colored bracelet. Here I am using blue colored beads that were on sale for a dollar fifty, which are similar to ones I saw on a bracelet for twenty dollars at the mall.
Step Four: Continue The Stringing Beads Until The Desire Length is Reached
The Finished Product
Tying off the stretchy string is easy and simple. There are many different shapes, colors, and styles of beads you can use. I have made green, blue, and even red bracelets. The possibilities are endless with beading.
Use Old Jewelry Cases For Gifting Handmade Bracelets
Other Types of Bracelets and Earrings That Are Simple to Make
Use a Wire Chain to Make a Simple Necklace
For this project I used a wire necklace that had magnetic clasps, which are easy to use, do not get caught in the back of long hair, and which screw off easily. The pendant and beads I used for this project are made out of magnetite, but they almost look like black pearls from a distance. Who said cheap beads cannot be beautiful?
Step One: Position the Wire Chain
Beading wire is one of the ideal ways to string a necklace or a bracelet. This particular beading wire is ideal because it has a magnetic clasp that screws off on one end. I enjoy the shape of beading wire and recommend it highly.
Add Half of the Magnetite Beads and the Pendant
The Completed Necklace
The supplies for each of these pieces of jewelry cost less than five dollars, which is about fifteen-twenty dollars less than you would pay in the store. Beading is fun for children and it allows them the creativity to make their own jewelry. I enjoy going to the sale aisle at crafting stores and you can find some very good deals on beads. Good luck and I hope you enjoy making your own beaded necklaces, bracelets, or whatever type of jewelry you choose.
Comments
you're absolutely right, and I know very well since I produce glass beads from Murano.
With the manifold variety of colors, sizes and shapes can be realized an infinite number of models, not only with a single wire as those who have presented you, but also by using a series of two or three wires.
Article very simple but effective, good!
Hello SweetiePie, I liked your hub and easy tips to create some nice pieces of jewelry. I hope to see more of your creations in the future too! Beading is fun to do, I hope to get back into it more.
I often make hair bands and stuff for myself. Though I have made bracelets and necklaces I have not really taken it as a hobby. I have a deep interest in semiprecious stones and now I see that jewelry making can even make me money if I put my heart into it. Good Hub SweetiePie!
I love to string beads!! great article!
Good hub - I love making jewelry to match my outfits! Thanks!
You article most definitely was one of the highest points of my Saturday. I was on Yahoo searching for something totally unrelated when the post caught my attention. I’m glad I took the time to read your article!
Great pictures and instructions. Wonderful hub.
Great hub. I'll be passing this along to my wife. She loves this kind of stuff.
Your ideas are superb! I absolutely love your magnetite beads necklace and bracelet.
Hi,
I am younger than 12 and have been making jewelry for 4 years:) I am teaching my little sister to do it too:)
Thanks, this has given me lots of ideas!
great job, i have been spending all this week working on jewelry to sell at one of my upcoming garage sales. It's really fun! I love making crafts and jewelery :)
thanks sweetie pie
hey um.. is it safe if i sign up because im only 12 and i dont want to do something im not supposed to do..
thanks a lot sweetie pie and one more question is it a good idea to get a crimping tool??
Hey sweetie pie my name is Courtney and i really like to make jewelry i make it for everyone but especially for my mom and i was wondering how do tie stretch magic tight so the beads wont fall off cause ive used stretch magic before and my beads just fell right off please right back
Courtney
I want to get into it because i love working with my hands and i need a hobby and who knows it might be something i would want to do more often
Nice job :)
I have never been brave enough to branch out and make my own jewelry. I should try because I don't have any and I love jewelry. I need super-cheap supplies right now. The craft store in the clearance aisle will be my first step. I like your idea of the magnetic necklace so that I don't have to buy the special tools. Thanks Sweetie Pie. Love your articles. :)
Great hub! Thanks for the good ideas! :) Now I have to get started...
Great Hub, I am going to show it to my daughters. Thanks for the ideas and tips on how to do it.
I liked the beads you used...where did you get them?
Nice hub
Sweetie Pie,
You have nicely written the hub embedded with videos. descriptions are nice and videos ilustrate very well. I appreciate you as a Jeweler.
Jyoti Kothari
Sweetiepie - I was just thinking last night that I would love to start making necklaces and I've looked at a few books and supplies online. I've never been 'crafty' but I think this is something I could do. Like you, I am tired of paying too much for something I think I could make myself. Do you have any suggested sources for wholesale beads online? Your pics were great and I really enjoyed your hub!
very well illistrated. i occasionally make my own jewelry as well. love the necklace.
Hi, Sweetie-I make some of my own jewelry, too. Sometimes from actual materials I buy, or sometimes from old jewelry pieces. Why not? :) We agree about wearing diamonds and things like that. Who needs it?
I have a nice array of polished rock and stones. Do you have any ideas for making jewelry, perhaps wrap them wire and attach a chain? I know NOTHING about making jewelry or crafting, and I am not very creative, either!
Damn, I could have saved a small fortune this christmas if only I'd visited your hub earlier. I bought my wife a couple of expensive jewelery items and then regretted it quite frankly especially as she has a habit of losing them.
Anyway I could make a nice bracelet for her anytime, so cheers for this hub!
SweetiePie,
I am bookmarking these for later research. Glad you were so busy making such informative hubs about jewelry making.
Your hub is great! very helpful and easy to follow! thumbs up!
Hey Sweetiepie, its weird for me to call you that, you know? Ah well, i will call you by your name in our letters. I am thinking of making Jewelry this year for Christmas presents. I just have to figure out some of the families favourite colors.
yeah, maybe I should. Anyway, I spranged my ankle pretty bad. The only thing I can do is play on my cumputer. It's tiring but it's the only thing I can do. I'm not going to school for a few days.... I just finish another piece of jewelry yesterday. It's my best yet, so I think it's a keeper. I'll be here all day tomorrow, so talk to me any time, and if I don't answer, I'm prabably sleeping.
when I saw this web page, all I could really say is WOW! I never thought jewelry could be so easy. When I made this jewelry and brought it to school, everyone asked where I got it. I was very amazed that nobody knew that I made it at home. I've even sold 12 of them and made 40$! Thank you for being helpful so I could get a few dollars.
Thanks for the great site showing how to make jewelry. You made it easy for others to make jewelry. I make the traditional jewelry using wire or silk. This is much easier for those learning to make jewelry and using stretch cord is becoming the fashion.
Hi Sweetiepie,
Just caught up with this Hub (only joined a few days ago and I am still getting sorted) As luck would have it I've just come home from a jewellery class I'm taking making chain maille. I sure do like your Magnetite Necklace and if I can locate the bits and pieces in Australia I'll make one for my wife.
This is a great hub and I will refer back to it in the future.
Regarding your comments on Brittney Spears you might like to have a look at what I wrote a few months back at; http://greypowertimes.blogspot.com/
Keep up the good work.
SweetiePie, your hubs are as good as your Avatars!!!
Blogging about this :)
These hubs about jewlery making are very cool, i want to learn to do this someday
Good hub. My wife is a pro stringer (pearls etc).
I wanted to say congrats on your profile being sent out. Two thumbs up!
Fine. Thanks for the idea, I thought craigslist is only for business promotion. I have never been there. I knew about facebook, but yet to try seriously.
Digg bans some users for no valid reason, I think you were talking about it in forums. I had bad experiences with Digg, Mixx don't get as many visitors as Digg provides in few minutes. But, Mixx is simply seems to be good environment. I love the communities, groups and tags - there are so many features in mixx that we don't find in Digg.
I tried to post this hub link at mixx and I found it was already there. I guessed it must be you submitted there. I've left you a mixx mail simply :)
You are very creative. Great hub with easy to follow instructions.
Hi SweetiePie - I am glad that I discovered your hub on this topic. I have tons of beading supplies and have meant to get into the hobby, but didn't take a class or anything. Your hub makes it look very easy and fun. Time to get going on this! My daughter will enjoy working with mom on these projects (she is 5). Steph
Well, did you read the recent hub of Jenny? It is about understanding google adsense reports, helpful hub for me.
It's my pleasure friend :)
Actually, I believe saree is as good as any other costume that is sexy and hot. Low-hip(navel show!!) Saree, if combined with sleevelss, low-neck blouse(cleavage show!!) can be much more sexy. Our actresses know that well as they wear in movies. Especially, I love Aishwarya Rai(bachchan) when she is in saree better than in any other costume. I hope you know her, she is doing in hollywood too.
That's it. They can wear any costume in movies(character sketch decides it). But, what I feel is that they must be aware of how their outfits get good/bad impressions in public. Thanks for understanding.
Hi SweetiePie, it was 3 am here when I left the last comment here, then I went to sleep. Celebs have personal life, we should respect. Paparazzi is going wild, I felt sorry for Diana when it happened...still I get disturbed on recalling.
Yes, I agree with you. Celebs have their rights to decide their outfits. But, culture differs nah. Aishwarya Rai wore such a nasty exposing costume in her first cannes appearance. People there could have taken it normal, but Indians felt bad because it gives wrong impression about Indians. She could have wore Saree or some other North Indian traditional wear, Saree can show much sexy, but not awkward.
That's what I expect from our celebs(female). Many other bollywood babes did the same following Aishwarya, recently it was Shriya at IIFA awards at Bangkok.
Thanks for understanding. I always think of celebs' personal life becoming hot topic and press/media almost always poking into celeb's private things too much. Sometimes I even think media has lost it's ethics. On the other side, most of the celebs are giving room for controversies. I know some Indian celebs who make publicity stunts that they feel worth to become more popular.
That's nice. Although I post sexy pics of celebs, personally I don't like too much of skinshow/exposure in Indian movies. I'm not orthodox, but glamour is overshadowing everything else in our movies(especially in north - bollywood), thats what I feel. And, also I wonder how our actresses wear too much of exposing dresses in public (like you have seen pics of Shriya in award function). But, otherwise their dressing sense and jewelry are very good. I just want them to show more in acting, along with glamour(as it is unavoidable).
Nice to know. Yes, I try to post something different, as you said you never heard of Minka Kelly, even I don't know her for long. And, I'm trying to be different these days, so I'm posting some celebs who are not so popular.
About the jewelry of Indian women, I have great taste of it. I almost always analyse movies technically and especially I look keen about costumes, make-up and jewelry in movies - aesthetic!!!
Nice, I just come across this hub. I always like to see and hear about jewelry making/designing being it's a form of art....Interesting :)
Great, helpful tutorial. It's amazing what treasures you can make with a few beads and some simple tools. It's also helpful to have a five year old around the house when making beaded jewelry - he's low-to-the-ground, so he can easily find all of the beads that I drop.
You are right about being able to make beautiful jewelry very affordably. We offer custom handmade wedding jewelry for the bride and as bridesmaids gifts at silverlandjewelry.com and I even uploaded a crude video to utube showing how to make some of the jewelry.
If someone can see that I can make it with my clumsy hands and lack of artistic skill-they should be very confident of doing it themselves.
Just for the record-I don't make much of our jewelry-typically a few earrings or a simple necklace with a drop every now and then for a rush order. Nearly all the jewelry is made by experienced local jewelry makers.
You ought to add a few of your favorite creations to your other products.
I enrolled my daughter in a beading class last school holidays and now she would like to sell the jewelry she made....
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