Craft-Charms

Craft-Charms
Necklace, Bracelet ,Earring Design Ideas

We love making jewelry with craft-charms!

Plus, you can really make inexpensive, fun jewelry in a snap!

They come in thousand of different shapes such as flowers, angels, hearts and much, much more…

They are often used for bracelets making and they can be original gift ideas using hobby, job's or spiritual symbols for example.
You can also make earrings or pendants.

We use them a lot in cheap metal (antique gold or copper) and in silver with gemstones.

Charming-Jewelry-Making love charms! You can make whimsical, elegant, fantasy jewelry in a snap!

For most patterns, you just need to know how to open and close jump rings!

As easy as 1-2-3 with fun and creative spirit!

Hearts, shoes, keys and much more, charming craft-charms!

You can find hundreds of different cute shapes. "Girly" charms ( shoes, mirrors…) are popular in craft metal.

If you are looking for original and special, you will need to look at sterling silver charms. Bali, Thai, Chinese's charms to name a few are really unique!

Look at the bracelet made with just tourmaline quartz nuggets and embellished with Balinese charms and a beautiful clasp!

Bracelets Making

Silver, carnelian and jade: Orange gemstones are relaxing. Add a silver heart with a positive word and it makes a very nice gift!
Click here for gemstone meanings.
Click here for silver findings and design ideas.

Craft enamel daisies mixed with African glass beads.

Bracelet with charms are fabulous gift ideas and can be made with simple techniques.
Click here for more infos. We have more ideas to shows. Hope you will kill them!

Necklace Making

Pendant attached to a cord with only jump rings!
Simple, easy, elegant!
Click here to see how to attach a cord to a pendant using the lark's head technique.

Earrings

Young girls love these cute, fantasy earrings!

How To Summary

Charming Jewlery Making is about making creative jewelry with mixedtechniques easy to master and , so you will find detailed informations on

Very basic: how to open and close a jump ring, simple but you have to do it properly, click here.
About the different types of findings (metal components like head/eye pins or clasps) and how to use them to make different types of jewelry, click here.
How to embellish a jewelry pattern with simple beading techniques please clickhere.
For necklace's styles and lengths, clickhere.

Jewlery making instructions is about

How to make wire jewelry (simple loop, earwires making, chain making) with design ideas, how to use nylon or silk thread for stringing or knotting techniques, how to string (and finish) with Tigertail or Soft-Flex also called wire thread.
We have added examples of bracelets made with elastic cord. These bracelets can be made in a snap!

With these few techniques, you can design unique, original jewelry that you can sell in small series, offer or make for yourself. Except for bead embroidery which take time ( 2-3 hours), you will see that you can make jewelry to match any of your outfit very quickly. It is fun and rewarding and I can say very relaxing!

For more ressources,

Click HERE!

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