Ideas of Handmade Bracelets with Spacer Beads

Jewelry makers are not strange with spacer beads. Jewelry making needs spacer beads to enhance and strengthen a piece of jewelry. They come in round, flower, rice, tube, bicone, bamboo stick and some other special designs. Some of them are produced with some rhinestone beads. They are mainly made of brass, iron and alloy and available in various colors. In fact, some other jewelry beads can also be used as spacer beads as long as you have creativity. Some beginners of jewelry making asked me that how to use spacer beads to create amazing bracelet. This time I will share some simple but great idea of handmade bracelets with you.

Handmade Stringing Glass Bracelet
Stringing jewelry is the simplest jewelry design. The materials you need to prepare are11pcs 12mm pink abacus glass beads, 6pcs Tibetan silver caps, 9pcs 10mm silver iron spacer beads, elastic cord. Cut off the elastic cord at the length you need, and string one Tibetan silver cap, one pink glass bead and one Tibetan silver cap again. String the rest 4pcs caps and another 2pcs glass beads at the same order. And string an iron spacer bead with a glass bead. String all the rest iron spacer beads and glass beads one by one. The last step is make a well-knit knot and cut off the rest elastic cord. In order to let bracelet look more beautiful and clear, you can hide the knot into the hole of spacer bead or cap. A simple but lovely handmade glass bracelet is finished. You can also change the materials to create your own designs. They are great jewelry gifts for friends or closed friends.

Handmade Lampwork Bracelet
Handmade lampwork beads are loved deeply by women. Therefore, there is no doubt that how much they love the handmade lampwork bracelet. Those bracelets can be very simple but very elegant. Materials you will need: 5pcs purple handmade lampwork beads (about 16mm), 25pcs purple glass beads (10pcs 8mm and 15pcs 6mm), 15pcs silver color iron round spacer beads, elastic cord and 20pcs headpins. First, string all the 6mm glass beads on headpins and use plier to make a loop on each bead. String a lampwork bead, a silver spacer bead, an 8mm glass bead, a spacer bead, 3pcs 6mm glass beads pendants, an 8mm glass and a silver spacer bead. String all the rest beads at the same order and make a well-knit knot at last. An elegant handmade lampwork bracelet is finished. I am sure every woman will fall in love with it. Getting inspirations from this design and creating your own designs.

For more jewelry making ideas you can easily find from jewelry beads web stores, such as PandaHall or on its official Facebook page. Hope you enjoy your jewelry making.

Create Various Jewelry Crafts with Lucite Beads and Resin Beads

Lucite beads, a kind of resin beads, were created in 1937 and used in jewelry making then. Both lucite beads and resin beads are widely used in jewelry making today. They are inexpensive and easy to work with and resulted in lovely carvings and inlays. Both beads are manufactured in a wide variety of colors, shapes, sizes and styles.

About the styles of lucite beads, we can simply sort them as contemporary and vintage. While, how to distinguish them? Here is some useful information for your reference. First, vintage style lucite beads come in some very singular styles that make it look different than most contemporary lucite beads. If they are made of many small pieces set in metal, they could be molded lucite, and if so, they are likely vintage pieces. Second, judge from colors. Lucite beads come in a number of colors, including opaque, clear and semi-transparent. Contemporary ones usually come in solid colors. While, today, almost all the lucite beads and resin beads in the fashion jewelry markets are contemporary.

As both lucite beads and resin beads are available in a variety of types. They are loved deeply by jewelry makers and craftsmen, for they are lightweight, cheap, but colorful. These beads are the trend for making fashion jewelry. Why not purchase some for your jewelry designs? No matter for necklace making, bracelets making, earrings making, rings making or many other fashion decoration making, they are versatile and will make your designs become the spotlights. Oversized jewelry is the trend of this year. These beads have variety of sizes, from 1mm to larger than 40mm, and the sizes of their hole are from smaller than 1mm to larger than 10mm.

The contemporary lucite beads and resin beads are produced in different styles, for example, imitation cat eye, crackle ones, imitation lava, imitation Swarovski crystal, imitation amber, and imitation bone. Some of them are produced with special effects, such as produced with chains inside of these beads or with rhinestones on their surfaces. Many jewelry makers or designers like to use these beads to make jewelry with other beads together. And to the craftsmen, lucite beads and resin beads are best choice for making fashion decoration, for example, add them on hair decoration or hair clips, add them on hats, shoes, bags, clothes and many others. Even some craftsmen use these beads to create decorated curtains, hangings, mats and etc. Purchase some and just create your own unique pieces.

New Fashion Jewelry Beads—Crackle Porcelain Beads

Jewelry beads are essential for jewelry making. If you want to create newest jewelry designs, you need to get newest jewelry beads in time. Crackle porcelain beads are one of the new fashion beads for jewelry making.

Maybe some people are not clearly about crackle porcelain beads. They don’t have smooth surfaces just like other normal porcelain beads. Some of them have “caved” with some lines, and some of them have lines on their surfaces, but very smooth. These beads are a smart mix of modern and antique styles which add eye-catching appeal to designs. Crackle porcelain beads are produced in various shapes, such as round, oval, flat round, heart, rhombus, rectangle, column, melon, bicone, animals, and so on. They come in a pallet of colors and different sizes, from 6mm to 4mm+. You have a wide range of selection about them.

Just like I said above that crackle porcelain beads combine the styles of modern and vintage together, so more and more people like to use these beads for jewelry making. No matter you like modern fashion style or classic vintage style, choose the correct colors and combine with other suitable jewelry beads and jewelry findings, you can easily create the designs what you desired. Please kindly notice that as all these beads is handmade, the size, shape and color may vary slightly, even if they are the “same” beads.

Crackle porcelain beads are versatile jewelry beads. They are commonly used in necklace making, bracelet making, earrings making, rings making and some other fashion decorations. Make a jewelry piece with these beads as a gift for your lover or friend, and no doubt that this gift will be eye-catching and unique. String jewelry is very simple, but string bracelet or necklace with these beads is fashion or vintage. You can also combine these beads with other jewelry beads to create different styles or effects. Jewelry materials may is limited, but your creation is unlimited.

Each jewelry piece expresses some or tells a story about some. Do you have any story want to share? Or do you want to show yourself to others? Just get some jewelry materials to create your own jewelry pieces to express yourself or tell others a story about you. Crackle porcelain beads are available in many countries nowadays. Purchase them from online stores; you can get wide range of selection about them and other jewelry materials. They are one of the new fashion jewelry beads, and don’t miss this chance if you are a fashion fans. 

Wholesale Materials to Make Your Own Art Beads

Jewelry beads are the necessary jewelry materials if you want to make jewelry. Art beads are a perfect choice if you would like to create amazing and artistic jewelry designs. And well, the handmade art beads created by yourself will help you to create unique and meaningful jewelry designs.

How to Make Your Own Art Beads
Purchasing some original jewelry beads which can be re-produced from some online wholesale stores first. Why you should to purchase them from online wholesale stores? Because they can offer you low wholesale prices and a wide range of selection. Let’s take wood beads for example. PandaHall Wood beads come in various shapes, sizes and colors. As you want to create your own art beads, you should choose those beads without any patterns or paintings on their surfaces. Of course, you can purchase all the wood beads in original color and paint the desired colors you like in person. Painting on the wood beads is the most direct and easy way to create your own beads with different theme, for instance, about Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, birthday and many other important days. Your friends will like those one of a kind art beads too.

How to Make Romantic Art Beads Bracelets for Valentine’s Day
Pink and purple are romantic colors for Valentine’s Day. Of course, the romantic colors of Valentine’s Day are different in different countries and for different people. You can choose the romantic colors in your heart or in her/his heart. First, paint some romantic patterns on those beads. Painting angles, hearts (single heart or double hearts shot by Cupid), cupid, smile, love words and others you want or like. You can paint the patterns with your romantic colors or paint the background color with your romantic color and leave the blank area as a special pattern. Stringing those art beads onto your bracelets designs, you can also make those beads as bead pendants and attach them onto your bracelets. Those art beads steal the spotlight of those bracelets. The bracelets made from these handcrafted beads are sure to be the novelty many will admire.

I am sure you must have more wonderful ideas about making your own art beads. What are you waiting for? Just purchase what you need from jewelry wholesale online stores to start your awesome designs. While, please keep in mind that finding a reputable wholesale is the most important thing before you purchasing. And it will take some time to make that kind of beads, so hurry off to your favorite jewelry supplier.

How to Choose Correct Cabochons Settings for Cabochons

Cabochons come in many shapes and are made from a variety of materials, such as gemstones, glass, acrylic, lampwork, plastic, polymer clay, porcelain, resin, shell, woven, wood and so on. Therefore, cabochons are produced in different shapes, sizes, colors and designs in order to suitable to those various cabochons. There are so many choices for both cabochons and cabochons settings, how to choose correct settings for cabochons?

Choose By Shape
Cabochons come in various shapes, for example, flowers, heart, oval, drop, round, cone, flat round, square, horse eye, stars, animals, human, and many other special shapes. You should choose cabochon settings which with suitable blank to glue the cabochons. That is to say, you must choose oval cabochon settings if you want to use oval cabochons.

Choose By Sizes
If you have found the suitable shapes for your cabochons, you also need to check whether the sizes of both are suitable or not. Checking on some jewelry beads online stores, you can find that they have described the sizes of both settings and cabochons beside items. While, please noted that some description of settings are the outside sizes, but not the inside blank parts which are used to glue cabochons. Ask clearly before you purchasing them.

Choose By Colors
Cabochons are made of different materials so that they come in a wide range of colors and styles. And about cabochons settings, they are mainly produced by brass, alloy, iron and plastic. All those materials can be produced in different colors, such as antique bronze, red copper, silver, golden, black, antique silver, antique golden, platinum and so on. Settings with different colors and designs will create different style with the same cabochons. No matter what kind of jewelry you want to create, color matching is one of the important elements you have to consider for your designs.

Choose By Usage
Cabochons can be used on necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings, so that some cabochons settings in different shapes or styles have its special usages. For example, some settings can be used as pendants on necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, but they are not suitable to rings. Some settings have two loops on both ends can be used as links on necklaces, bracelets and earrings too. While, if the sizes of settings are too large, they may not suitable to bracelets and earrings.

Both cabochons and cabochons settings are widely available from both offline jewelry stores and online stores. In order to save time, money and get a wide range of selection, I would suggest you to purchase them from online stores. If you find a large and leading online suppler like PandaHall.com, you can also enjoy one-stop shopping easily. 

How to Get Discount Wholesale Beads

Jewelry making is not such a hobby which doesn’t need to spend money. On the contrary, sometimes you have to spend a lot of money on that hobby or career if you don’t find discount wholesale beads. Let’s face it that the most expensive part of jewelry making is the beads and beading supplies. Some bead jewelry artists have spent a lot of money on their beading arts after they realized that.

How to Find Discount Wholesale Beads
Many local jewelry beads or jewelry crafts stores can some jewelry beads or jewelry findings. While, they are retail stores which are unable to offer you cheap prices and wide range of selection. You need to find a jewelry beads wholesale store if you want to spend little money to get lots of beads. Open your computer’s internet browser to a search engine. Type “wholesale beads” or “discount wholesale beads” as key words in the search box. Some of the best places to shop will be listed. While, please be kindly noted that some stores will say they are wholesale stores even if they are not real. Doesn’t Fir Mountain Gems sell wholesale beads? Well, sort of. They may sell their beads for near wholesale prices if you buy enough of them at one time, but they really seem to sell their beads as a retail outlet. Doesn’t PandaHall.com is a real wholesaler? Yes, of course. Every one can enjoy its wholesale prices without minimum order quantity.

Where to Buy Discount Wholesale Beads
This is a big question for most people, I think. First, you can search for wholesale beads stores online. Be careful. Just because a website says “wholesale beads” doesn’t mean it necessarily is a true wholesaler. You can also ask some of your other jewelry making friends or contact owners of other beading jewelry websites to find out where they purchase their beads. As a real wholesale beads store, it must have its own manufacturers or have a good relationship with many manufacturers, which is the most important reason why they could sell beads for so much cheaper than retail. Many of my jewelry making friends purchase their beading supplies from PandaHall which is a leading China beads, findings and gems online wholesale company. It is a federation of Chinese factories and also the Chinese Small Merchandise online market. As a Squaretrade verified seller, it has a very big warehouse with nothing more than thousands of shelves and boxes filled with beads, findings and other jewelry supplies. Purchasing promotional jewelry beads is a good way to save money. This China wholesale company can offer monthly promotion and special promotions for special days or holidays.

Jewelry Gifts for Her on Valentine’s Day

Almost all the girls like wearing bracelets. Valentine’s Day is coming. Are you thinking about preparing a surprise for her? Do you have any good idea? If no, why not choose some beautiful bracelets as jewelry gifts for her on that romantic day? And it would be great if you could make those gifts in person for her. Here I will share some great ideas about handmade lovely bracelets for Valentine’s Day.

Gemstone beads are always very popular with many people. Making a carnelian bracelet is a great bracelet for her. The materials you will need including 18pcs round carnelian gemstone beads (about 8mm in diameter), 1pcs tube carnelian bead (about 8 mm in diameters, about 40mm long), 2pcs 8mm round silver rhinestone beads, 1pcs carnelian heart shaped pendant and elastic cord. This is a stringing bracelet. Stringing jewelry is the easiest jewelry. Stringing the tube bead on the elastic cord and adding a rhinestone bead next to that bead. Adding the heart shaped pendant on the cord, and then adding the rest 9pcs and 1pcs rhinestone bead on the cord. The final step is cutting off the rest cord and making a knot. In order to let this bracelet look more clear and beautiful, you can hide the knot into the hole of beads. The method is very simple, but the design is very beautiful right? The carnelian gemstone beads are nature. Their natural beautiful lustre let this bracelet looks very elegant and suitable for every occasion and any cloth.

Your girlfriend likes glass beads and Swarovski beads? Don’t worry; I will share a design with those materials now. Glass beads and Swarovski beads are very shining and colorful. Jewelry pieces made with them are gorgeous and elegant which make women love them deeply. Materials for this gift contain 10pcs blue bicone glass beads, 5pcs pink butterfly Swarovski beads, 5pcs pink shell beads in heart-shaped and elastic cord. Stringing those beads on the elastic cord according to the this order: one blue bead, one butterfly Swarovski bead, one blue bead and one pink shell bead. Stringing all the rest beads at the same order and cutting off the rest cord to make a tight knot. Hiding the knot into the hole of bead to make the bracelet looks more clear and beautiful. A lovely bracelet with your love for her has finished. It is very simple, but very sweet as it is made with sweet colors by your love. I am sure your lovely girlfriend will like it very much.

All the jewelry materials of the two about jewelry designs can be easily purchased. You can also change the colors of those beads, or even change the materials for the designs. No matter what kind of materials you want to use, purchasing them from online stores will be a good idea. I would like to say PandaHall.com is a suitable choice, as it can offer you low price and high quality. What is more, you can enjoy one-stop shopping there as it offers you more than 200,000 items for selecting.

Make Swarovski Beads Ring for Her on Valentine’s Day

Romantic Valentine’s Day is not far away. Are you thinking about creating a special jewelry gift for her on that day but still have no good idea? No worry. Here I share you a great jewelry design about making a ring by Swarovski beads.

Materials:
2 x Beading Needles
Crystal Thread
3mm and 4mm Swarovski Beads (About the colors, you can choose whatever you like. Three colors for each size.)
Clear Seed Beads
1 x 8mm Mounted Glass Crystal Bead

Instruction:
Step 1: Thread a needle on either side of a crystal thread with 1.5mm width.

Step 2: Start by picking up six 3mm Swarovski beads. About the colors, you can choose whatever you like. Different colors produce different effects. Thread the needle through the beads and exit on the other side.

Step 3: Use the other needle, go through all six Swarovski beads. Then with the same needle, pick up another six 3mm crystal beads, and take the other needle and go through all the new beads from the opposite side. Make sure that there are two beads between the two needles.

Step 4: Pick up two 4mm Swarovski crystal beads (the first is a main color and the second is an accent color), and slide down toward the stone (8mm mounted glass crystal bead). Pick up a 4mm bead (another main color bead), and criss-cross with the other needle from the other side. Both needles will come out from that bead, but in opposite direction.

Step 5: Take the needle which is closest to the stone, and go through two of the 3mm beads.

Step 6: With the other needle, pick up two 4mm beads (the first is an accent color and the other is main color), and criss-cross the last bead with the opposite needle. Slide down toward the stone. Repeat step 4.

Step 7: Repeat step 5 and step 4 until there are six main color crystal beads and five accent crystal beads.

Step 8: Take the needle which is closest to the stone and go through the two 3mm beads, and with the same needle go up through the first crystal in the row. You will have the one needle coming from the first crystal and the other needle coming from the last crystal. Now pick up the last accent crystal bead and criss-cross with the other needle.

Step 9: With the one needle, pick up a seed bead and go through the 4mm accent color crystal, repeat until there is a seed bead between each crystal.

Step 10: With one needle, go up back through a 4mm main color bead, to exit at the top of the ring. Pick up one seed bead, one 3mm bead and one seed bead; go through the next 4mm bead from bottom to top. The crystal and seed beads will slot into the space. Repeat this step another five times to ensure that all gaps are filled.

Step 11: To make the band for your fingers, you need to work back to the bottom crystal. Be sure to exit the same crystal with both needles, but the needles must be on opposite sides.

Step 12: Pick up six seed beads on each needle, and then criss-cross both needles with a 3mm crystal. Repeat until the desired length, and then tie the thread with half hitched knots.

How to Choose and Use Bead Caps

As bead caps are very useful and essential for jewelry making, learning how to choose and use beads caps for handmade jewelry is very necessary. Some people also call them as end caps. Those caps come in different materials with different colors, shapes and sizes. Different caps will create different effects for your jewelry designs.

How to Choose Bead Caps
You must consider the size, shape and color about bead caps when you choose them for your design. First, let us talk about sizes. Most people will choose a bead cap which is not smaller or larger than jewelry beads. While, if you want to create a special effects for your designs, it is possible to choose some smaller or larger caps for your designs to have a try. Second, choose by shapes. Who said the round caps only can be used for round beads? There is no such a rule. Apart from using round caps for round beads, you can also use it for flat round beads. String both flat round beads and round flower bead cap on the pin together, fold the bead cap in half over the end of bead with your fingers. Use chain nose pliers to crimp the bead cap in place. Please be careful when you do this, or else you may break your beads or hurt your cap bead. The third way of choosing caps is by their colors. If you like vintage style, the caps with antique colors will be your good choice. And silver color caps will be your perfect choice if you like shining style.

How to Use Bead Caps
Bead caps are used to hold the beads in place. They are the spacers which make the fashion jewelry more beautiful and cute in details. While, how to use them? It is very simple. Choose the correct bead caps for your design first, and then string the caps next to beads which you want to hold in place. This is a normal use for stringing jewelry. However, bead caps are not only can be used for beads, but also can be used on other jewelry findings, such as roundel rings to make one of a kind ring. Let us choose a flower cap for example. First, fold the bead cap in half over the bottom of the ring with your fingers. Second, use chain nose pliers to crimp the cap in place. Third, continue to crimp down the edges, folding filigree around the ring to secure. Using this one kind of ring as a link of your bracelet, necklace or earrings, I am sure you will be the spotlight when you wearing those jewelry designs.

Bead caps can be used in irregular way as long as you can image and create. Marvelous imagination and creation is your capital to make amazing jewelry. Of course, you can not ignore the quality of bead caps. Finding a reputable jewelry supplier like PandaHall is very important, which helps you avoid many problems after you receive your orders.

The Relative Merits of Two Kinds of Jewelry Stores

Jewelry is definitely a decoration that every woman loves. So there is no surprise that fashion jewelry market is growing stronger, and the number of jewelry stores, both offline stores and online stores, is growing larger and larger. While, there is a trend that jewelry makers and jewelry businessmen prefer to purchase their jewelry materials from online stores, and which will lasting for a long time, I am sure.

Why they prefer to purchase jewelry materials from online stores? Here I would like to show you the disadvantage of offline stores and the advantage of online stores for you, which helps you know the reason clearly.

Disadvantages of Purchasing from Offline Stores
1, Limited Selection: as we all know that almost all the offline stores are retail stores. They have limited selection for you as their have no manufacturers or factories. Some of those stores even only can offer you one kind of beads.

2, High Prices: as those stores are retail stores, they are unable to offer you low wholesale prices. No doubt that you have to spend much high retail prices to get materials from those stores as they have to earn money which may not a little.

3, Inconveniences: As you only can get limited selection from stores, you have to go to several retail jewelry stores, even more, to check and buy the materials for your designs. It is a time-wasting work.

Advantages of Purchasing from Online Stores
1, Wide Range of Selection: There are tens of thousands of online jewelry stores. You can easily get wide range of selection for all kinds of jewelry materials as long as you can find a large and reputable jewelry wholesaler. And you can easily enjoy one-stop shopping there, which helps you save a lot of time.

2, Much Low Wholesale Prices: Most online jewelry wholesale stores have their manufacturers or factories, which make sure they can offer you much low wholesale prices. You can spend a little money to get as many jewelry materials as possible.

3, Conveniences: There is no need to drive to different places to check and purchase jewelry materials. You can check any jewelry stores all over the world at any time and compare their prices, quality, services and etc easily as long as you can surf the internet. You never need to drive or fly to their companies or stores to check and purchase what you need. You just need to check on their stores and contact with their customer service teams if you have any question. 

Beads Necklaces—Valentine’s Day Gifts Ideas

Valentine’s Day of 2012 is coming soon. Are you planning to make a special jewelry gift for your girlfriend but not sure what will be great? If yes, why not to make a special beads necklace for her?

A heart beads necklace will be a perfect gift for someone special in your life. Lots of gifts come in the shape of hearts on the Valentine’s Day as it is the special day for love. Heart necklace is one of the best Valentine day gift to surprise your loved one. As the Valentine’s Day is all about love, a gift that truly symbolizes it is the way to go. Thankfully, there are many options available these days while you go out to shop for your heart necklace. It will be great if you could choose a healthy heart shaped necklace as a Valentine’s Day gift for her, for hematite is good for health. Handmade hematite necklaces with heart shaped pendant and brass turnbuckle clasp will be a perfect choice. This lustrous, metallic looking necklace adds richness wherever they appear. Hematite gives them beautiful, glistening colors with a “softer” look and a smoother feel.

Some girls may like colorful beads necklaces, especially the candy-like colors. Presenting a heart shaped gemstone necklace is a big surprise to her. Necklace is linked by different kinds of heart shaped gemstone beads, including rose quartz, citrine and aquamarln. It is attractive for heart shapes with full of love and vivid colors. A easy-to-use alloy lobster clasp let everyone wear it easily. Well, someone may like to wear single sweet color jewelry. If your girl friend is one of them, choosing a lovely necklace with sweet pink or bright yellow or limpid blue could be an amazing idea. Blue and pink, white and pink, yellow and pink, white, pink and purple, red and pink and many other color collections are wonderful color matching for jewelry gifts on Valentine’s Day.

You can be highly disappointed if you are unable to buy a heart necklace as a Valentine’s Day gift for your beloved. After all, it indicates that you truly love her and she means so much in your life. To ensure you can buy the satisfied beads necklaces, finding a reputable and leading jewelry beads, jewelry gifts supplier is quite important. PandaHall.com—a China leading supplier of jewelry materials and jewelry gifts will be a good choice. Presenting some small cute Valentine’s Day decoration with jewelry gifts will be a wonderful idea too. I am sure most girls who fall in love like those little cute things. And don’t forget to choose a lovely jewelry box which will earn points on your gift. 

Jewelry Making Ideas with Metal Beads for Valentine’s Day

The annual romantic holiday for lovers—Valentine’s Day is around the corner. What kind of special gift can touch a woman’s heart? The key is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time. Make a special jewelry gift with metal beads on such a romantic day for such a special woman to you will be a perfect idea, I am sure.

Jewelry pieces are widely available in the market now, both costly jewelry and fashion jewelry. About the costly designed jewelry, they are the symbols of elegant (or beautiful), expensive and status, they are costly, but they are not the unique. Everyone who can afford it can own it. While, if you make a one kind of a jewelry piece for your girl, even if it is very cheap, I am sure she will love both you and your gift very much. Metal beads are a wonderful choice for creating such a special gift, for it is not expensive, but have wide range of selection to create different styles and effects singly or with other jewelry supplies. Here I would like to one of my jewelry ideas with metal beads for Valentine’s Day with you.

Handmade Flower Metal Beads Jewelry Set
Vintage style jewelry is loved deeply by some women. If your girl is one of them, making a set of vintage style flower metal beads jewelry for her will be the key to touch her heart. The materials you will need include 3pcs 3cm diameter black flower beads, 2pcs 1.5cm diameter flower beads, 8pcs gold seed beads, 4pcs silver spacer beads, 5pcs small rhinestones, black wire, silver necklace chain, silver earring hooks, glue, round-nose pliers and hole punch. Steps: 1. Drill a hole on two petals that are on a straight line. 2. Glue the small rhinestones one the middle hole of flower beads. 3. Use black wire to string a seed bead, a spacer bead, a seed bead, and make a loop on each end of the wire. Repeat the steps to make 3 more. 4. Use the black wire loops to link those beads with 2 1.5cm flower beads and 1 3cm flower beads together. The order is like this: beads link, 1.5cm flower metal bead, beads link, 3cm flower metal beads, beads link, 1.5cm flower metal bead and beads link. 5. Attach this long link to the silver necklace chain. 6. Attach a heart shaped alloy clasp as ending. 7. Attach the rest 2 3cm flower metal beads on the silver earring hooks by round-nose plier. Till now, a set of handmade elegant metal beads jewelry has been finished. It is very special and enough to express your love to her, right? Of course, you also can make a bracelet with those beads and flowers to expand your set. You can also choose some other metal beads, such as aluminum rose beads.

This idea is just for your reference. I am sure you must have some other amazing ideas. If so, the other important thing to you is purchasing good jewelry materials. After shared a jewelry idea with you, I’d like to share a good supplier of jewelry materials with you. PandaHall.com, as a leading China beads, jewelry and gems online wholesaler, can offer you more than 200,000 items at low wholesale prices. Hope you enjoy both your creation for your lover and such a romantic day.

Valentine’s Day Lampwork Beads Jewelry Making Ideas

Valentine’s Day is a day for saying I Love You. Have you prepared well for the coming romantic day? If no, what are you waiting for? Why not choose some beautiful valentine lampwork beads to create some one of a kind jewelry pieces in person for her? As we all know that fashion jewelry is one of women’s favorite, so I am sure your special Valentine’s gift will touch her heart.

Well, you may ask what kind of lampwork beads you should choose if you are a beginner of jewelry making or just have no ideas about that. In fact, it is very simple. In different countries, the color which stands for love may be different. For example, in some countries, red is the symbol of passion, so the people believe red roses and some other red things can express their love correctly. While, some people in other countries prefer to use white or purple. Of course, you can also choose her favorite colors to make this special gift. No matter which color means love and romantic in your country, you will easily find the lampwork beads with perfect colors in various shapes and sizes.

A gift can touch a woman’s heart is a successful gift. Except choosing from colors, you also need to consider about the shapes of those beads. Heart shaped lampwork beads will be the first choice without doubt. They are the symbols of your love to her from braking hot heart. Heart shaped beads are available with different patterns, for example, with strips in different colors, with flowers in different colors, with dots in different colors, with different fruits and etc. And of course, other shapes will be good choice as long as you have great designs.

Someone may ask why I should choose lampwork beads to create a Valentine’s Day jewelry gift. The answer is very simple--all the lampwork beads are handmade which means each lampwork bead is unique. That is to say your handmade lampwork beads jewelry gift is one of a kind in the world, just likes your love to her. You can create the gift with lampwork beads only, but can also mix and match them with other jewelry beads together to create different effects. Handmade lampwork beads are available in many countries, but the quality and prices are not the same. PandaHall.com can offer you quality beads at low prices as it is a Squaretrade Verified seller. No matter for bracelet, necklace or earrings, you can easily find what you desired there.

Start Jewelry Making with Correct Jewelry Tools

Some people may think jewelry making is a difficult project. Well, jewelry making can be much easier as long as you can choose the right jewelry tools which can simplify many tasks. There are various jewelry tools. They come in different types, sizes and uses. The widely used jewelry tools including jewelry pliers, cutters, beading needles, shears, bead reamers, tweezers and scissors. During them, the pliers are the most widely used jewelry tools as they come in many different types and each type has its special usage.

Jewelry pliers help make loops around beads, stretch and crimp wire and tie off ends. There are many types of jewelry pliers from round nose pliers to side cutting pliers, from flat round nose pliers to end cutting pliers, from wire cutter pliers to chain nose pliers etc, which protect the finish of wires and other materials used in your designs. If you are not sure what kind of pliers you might need, consider buying a kit, with several types for different projects. You can purchase all the jewelry tools you need with your jewelry beads together at the same stores to save time and money. A large or leading jewelry beads store like PandaHall.com can offer you all kinds of jewelry beads, findings, gems and tools at much reasonable prices.

About the jewelry pliers, as we said before that each type has its special usage. Flat nose pliers are the most commonly used pliers. They are used for gripping wires, as well as creating sharp bends. The round nose pliers have smooth and round jaws which are used in the making of loops and curls in wires. Chain nose pliers are similar to flat nose designs except that they are pointed. This kind of pliers is used to access tight areas. They can also be used to tuck in wire ends and grip the wire. Apart from that, they can be used to open and close jump rings too.

Beading needles are perfect jewelry tools for beading jewelry projects. They eye of those needles is larger than that of a traditional needle and can accommodate larger strings.  Some beading needles are special for threading leathers. While they certainly be used for beading, you don’t have to limit yourself to just stringing beads by them. Any project that requires you to use large, thick string can benefit from a beading needle. They are simple to use and will save your a lot of troubles.

Except above widely used jewelry tools, some other jewelry tools for jewelry making are available too. No matter what kind of jewelry tools you will purchase, make sure that they are the correct tools for your designs.

Have a Dazzling Spring with Swarovski Crystal Beads

Spring is coming to us, and the romantic day—Valentine’s Day is around the corner. What kind of fashion would you like to use to start your spring? No double that the Swarovski crystal beads are the best choice. They are brilliant, shining and dazzling. Those beads come in a palette of colors which ensure you are able to change colors easily and frequently.

Spring is a warm, flowery, fragrant, shining, bright and happy season. It is also a romantic season and perfect time to present gift for your girl and the jewelry gift is the most fashion and warm gift. Every girl like beauty and pursue fashion which is beyond all doubt. Necklaces, bracelets and earrings, no matter what she likes, you can easily make an amazing one for her as long as you create it by your heart. If you want to add pizazz to your necklace, bracelet, earrings or pins, consider Swarovski crystals. You can buy Swarovski crystals in a palette of colors, shapes and luster to fashion into pins, earrings, necklaces and bracelets and rings.

There is also need to worry if you are a newer to jewelry making, here I will share some simple ideas about making Swarovski crystal beads necklaces with you. Although designs are simple, they are very elegant, beautiful, fashion and can be worn in every occasion. The first one is delicate pink crystal and pearl bracelet. Both pearl beads and crystal beads are the symbols of elegant and loved deeply by women. They are the perfect combinations for each woman and as a gift for Valentine’s Day. The materials you need contain 4mm light rose Swarovski crystal beads (about 29pcs) with 2mm button white freshwater pearls (about 29pcs) and crystal thread. The diameter of this bracelet is about 7 inches. The steps are very simple: string a Swarovski beads and a pearl beads on the thread, and string all the rest beads by the same order. The last step is cut off the rest thread and ties a knot. In order to let this bracelet is clearer; you can hide the knot in the hole of crystal beads. 

The second design is for your reference if you or your girl like colorful bracelet. The supplies you need to prepare are 4mm light blue, light yellow, tanzanite, pacific opal, aquamarine Swarovski crystals, 6mm clear and light sapphire Swarovski crystals, 3mm round silver metal beads, Tibetan style flower spacers and lobster clasp. About the quantity of each bead and order of string those beads, they are depend on your design and style. Stringing all the beads on the wire and attach the two ends of the lobster clasp. A beautiful, colorful and elegant Swarovski crystal beads bracelet is finished. Every woman will fall in love with it, I am sure.

Swarovski crystal beads are available widely in the world now. You can easily find plenty of them in both offline and online jewelry stores. Well, to reduce the cost of your jewelry making business or hobby, purchase them and other jewelry materials from reliable wholesale online stores like PandaHall.com will be a wise choice.

Key Chain—Lovely Jewelry Gift for Valentine’s Day

Key chain, a widely used accessory in our daily life, is not only a common accessory for hanging keys but also a jewelry decoration in our life now. No matter you are young or old, man or woman, you need a key chain to assort your keys to avoid missing them. Today, a unique or special key chain is a secret weapon to improve your personality.

Key chains are available in various designs, colors, shapes and materials. Some are only suitable for woman, and some are only suitable for man, while some are suitable for both man and woman. Of course, you can choose anyone you like or suitable to your personality, no matter it is designed for man or woman originally. I always think the most suitable is the best. Even so, I will share some wonderful key chains as lovely jewelry gifts for Valentine’s Day, for man and woman separately.

Key Chain for Man
Men, masculine life, will like manful things. I think most of them will like that. So if you want to choose a key chain for your man, please keep in mind to choose a manful one. In 2012, cross pendants on necklaces are one of the fashion trends for jewelry, so choose a cross key chain for your man is a fabulous Valentine’s gifts—fashion and manful. For example, you can choose an alloy cross key chain with rhinestones on it. How gorgeous and absorbing the key chain is. The sparking rhinestone and the decent shape go extremely well with each other, making the key chain more brilliant and captivating. And the shiny color enhances the glamour of it. It is extraordinary popular in young people. Just use this fun and manful key chain for collecting his keys. Key chain in anchor shaped is very suitable for man too. 

Key Chain for Woman
Women are sweet and tender. They like beautiful, sweet and lovely things and pursue beauty is their life goal. So when you choose a key chain for her, a lovely, sweet or unique one will be your correct choice. Of course, you also need to consider about her favor, ordinary style, collocations and so on. While, choose a key chain with a lovely angel or a sweet heart as a Valentine’s gift will be loved deeply by your girl, I am sure. This key chain means she is your angel or sweet heart. The sparking rhinestones on the key chains and the lovely shapes go extremely well with each other, making the key chains more sweet and eye-catching. Just use them to hang the keys for her or hang on her bag, she will become the spotlight in crowd immediately.

There are countless key chains available in the jewelry market, so you can easily find them around you. While, if you want to get a special one for him or her, you need more choice, and choose them from wholesale online stores like PandaHall.com will be a good idea.

How to Choose Suitable Pendant Settings

Do you have many fabulous jewelry pendants or cabochons in hand but have no suitable pendant settings for them? Why not choose purchase some suitable settings for them? As you know that lay aside such many beautiful pendants there is a waste.

What kind of pendant settings are the correct ones? You need to consider it from several factors. First, you should check the shape of your pendants. Jewelry Pendants come in various shapes, such as round, oval, flat round, drop, triangle, rectangular, cross, start, starfish, flower and so on. And accordingly, the shapes of pendant settings are available in various shapes too. Everyone knows that the shape of pendant setting must be the same as shape of pendant. For example, if you have a flat round pendant, you have to choose a round shape setting but not an oval or other shape. 

Size of pendant settings is the second element you need to consider. When you have chosen a setting with correct shape for your pendant, the other thing you need to consider is if its size is suitable for your pendant. Well, you may be able to check the settings and pendants if they are suitable when you purchase them in offline stores. However, you are able to check them in person if you purchase the pendant and settings from online stores. What should you do? In fact, there is no need to worry either. All the pendant and settings are listed on the websites with their sizes clearly, but please noticed that the size of settings may be their outside. That is to say, you need to know their inner sizes which are the correct or suitable sizes to your pendants. If the descriptions are not clear, feel free to contact the supplier.

To create fashion jewelry, apart from considering the shapes and sizes about both pendants and pendant settings, you also need to consider the materials and colors of them. A good combination for all the factors could create amazing effects and designs. Semi precious gemstone pendants with shining sterling silver settings will create elegant jewelry, glass pendants combined with antique color metal settings would show you vintage style. No matter what style you like, it can be created as long as you can combine your pendant and pendant setting correctly.

Both jewelry pendants and pendant settings are available widely in the fashion jewelry market. Purchase them from wholesale online stores is a wise method to save time and money. And of course, choose a reliable online wholesale store has become particularly important. PandaHall.com, recommended by many jewelry making friends, could be a good choice.