Here’s are really cute and easy wire wrapped ring tutorial from McFarland Designs called the Rosette wire wrapped ring. This would look really cute in colored copper craft wire for youngsters and a nice gift if done in gold … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Barbed Wire Jewelry Tutorial
Artist Camille Young has a great tutorial on her blog for making polymer clay barbed wire using Lumina Polymer Clay. Its so realistic and alot less painful than the real thing. They look great as rings and pendants!… Read More ...
Recycled Eyeglass Lens Pins
Take all those old eyeglasses and make some kitschy cool pins! “Manic Thing Maker” KB Vanhorne shows you how on her colorful and creative blog A Patchwork World… Read More ...
Chunky Wire Wrapped Gemstone Ring
You be in LOVE with this super easy wire ring tutorial from Cathie & Steve on Creative Juice! Its fun, and you’ll be obssessed making tons of them for all of your friends too.
The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girls Guide to Handmade Jewerly Book Review
The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girls Guide to Handmade Jewelry by Jennifer Perkins
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books (August 11, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1600611168
- ISBN-13: 978-1600611162
I will preface this by being completely honest – its … Read More ...
“ID Me” Metal Clay Bracelet Tutorial
Tammy Powley has a pretty metal clay ID bracelet tutorial up on her blog Crafty Princess Diairies. This lovely project is from her book “Picture Yourself Creating Metal Clay Jewelry
” and is made with lowfire clay and a … Read More ...
Clever Pendants from Recycled Placemat
Artist Deborah Dee decided to push herself ‘out of the box’ creatively one day and see what she could do with things she had. And what a wonderful project she came up with! In this tutorial she recycles a bamboo … Read More ...
Rocker Style Men’s Cuff Bracelet Tutorial
Our crafty friends Cathie & Steve, show you how to make some great Rocker style Denim cuffs for the guy in your life. These are great gifts and easy to customize to the recipient- the ones shown are great … Read More ...
Need inspiration? Check out Beading Daily!
Ever get bored and want something new to make??? And if you are like me, you are impatient too-don’t want to spend an hour at a book store searching or waiting for your Amazon order to come in-you want to … Read More ...
Bezel Setting Tutorial
MaggieJs has a great intro to bezel setting on Instructables.com With this tutorial and a little practice you can create your own bezel-set ring or other piece of jewelry easily.… Read More ...
Get Hip with Katie Hacker’s “Hip to Bead” book
I’m not saying that any of you AREN’T hip, obviously you are because you are reading this blog (LOL!). But for anyone who may be having a ‘not so hip’ feeling kinda day, this book will bring you back up … Read More ...
Cute Crochet Cherry Earrings Pattern
Check out this FREE crochet jewelry pattern from Roxycraft. This is for the Cherry Pickers crochet earrings pattern. Super sweet and very vintage. You could resize it and make a necklace like this, I have one my grandmother made … Read More ...
Kickin’ it Ye Olde Style!
Some people like to kick it old skool style, but Margot Potter likes to kick it ye olde school style!
This time, Margot wows us with a custom Ye Olde School necklace in a 7 minute thrill packed The Impatient … Read More ...
Bead Style Magazine Online Open House this weekend
This news comes to us via the viviacious Jean Yates at “Snap out of it Jean, theres beading to be done!” whose bejeweled finger is on the pulse of all the up to date beading news out there. … Read More ...
Free Project pdf from Picture Yourself Making Metal Clay Jewelry
Super talented Tammy Powley, has posted a free project from her latest book “Picture yourself Making Metal Clay Jewelry
” over on Beadstylemag.com. I won’t tell you WHAT the project is, but I will say it is easy … Read More ...