Craft Ideas with Brass Chain

We all know that brass chain is widely used in creating cheap necklaces, earrings and bracelets. They are very popular in today’s fashion jewelry market. If you are a person who pursuits of fashion, you can’t ignore the brass chain and jewelry pieces designed by them.

Brass chain is available in different designs, sizes and colors. They can help you to create different style jewelry projects, for example, fashion style, vintage style, elegant style, cool style, cute style and others. About which style it will shows, it depends on your design and what kind of other jewelry materials you will choose. You can use several strands of chains together to hang a metal pendant to create a simple chain necklace. You can also use the chain with glass beads, porcelain beads or other beads to create elegant style jewelry. When you walk in your local jewelry stores or online jewelry stores, you will find tens of thousands of brass chain jewelry pieces available.

Brass Chains

But you are wrong if you just think brass chain is suitable for making cheap necklaces. Making hair jewelry with brass chains can be really fund. Handmade jewelry pieces are recyclable. It is time to use your out of fashion brass chain necklaces to create new hair jewelry. Well, if you do not have that you can go to a bead shop where they sell chain and necklace making supplies. Of course, you can purchase them from online wholesalers if you need more materials for other projects. For this project, you need these materials: thin wire, strands of brass chain, a brass loop, a small hair comb, a hobby pin (with the same color as comb), wire cutters and flat head pliers. Steps:

1, Open the brass loop and string the shorted chain on the loop. (Make sure that all the chains have different length.)

2, Continue stringing the rest chains, and use flat heap plier to close the loop.

3, Sliding hobby pin through the brass loop.

4, Cut a piece of thin wire. Make sure that the length of wire is about 2 times of your comb because you need to wrap it on comb.

5, Wrap the wire around the first prong of comb, and tighten is by using flat head plier.

6, String your shortest chain on the first loop, and wrap wire around the top of comb and back under. And then, string the rest chains at the same method.

7, Last step is tightening all the chains with flat head plier.

Brass Necklace Chain

A piece of beautiful and vintage brass chain hair jewelry is finished. I am sure you will be the spotlight in crowd when you wear it. Of course, you can also add some little vintage style pendants on this hair jewelry to make it more eye-catching. It all just depends on your creation. 

How to Choose and Use Crimp Beads

When you use jewelry wires to create necklaces or bracelets, one jewelry findings you must to use, or else you can’t finish your design. They are crimp beads or tubes. These small findings beads are produced by metal, such as brass, iron and so on.

Crimp beads are available in different colors and sizes. It is very important to choose the right size for your beading wire. Choose the size of beads based on the size of wire you are using. Keep in mind that you will often have to pass the wire through a crimp twice. These small metal beads are round and look like tiny seed beads. Crimp tubes are cylindrical. And don’t ignore that crimps have two diameters—internal diameter (ID) and outside diameter (OD). The internal diameter must be a little larger than the diameter of wire. And I also want to remind that different sizes of crimps require different sizes of crimping tools.

Brass Crimp Beads

How to attach a lobster clasp on wire with crimp bead? String a crimp bead on jewelry wire, then loop it through lobster clasp and back though the bead. Make sure that the wires are side by side but not crossed. There is a special crimping tool that you use to crimp these beads and tubes. The inner jaws make an indentation in the crimp bead or tube and the outer jaws fold the crimp bead or tube so that it is slightly rounded. The crimping tool makes crimp beads less noticeable in a design and gives you a more professional looking finish. Please notice that you can’t use other regular jewelry pliers to instead of crimping tool, because when you use regular ones, you can accidentally cut into the beading wire.

Crimp Beads

Sometimes, you just don’t get a perfect crimp bead. It either didn’t fold over nicely or the wire pulls loose. If this happens, cut the crimp bead off the end, and just start over again with a fresh new crimp beads. This is another good reason to leave yourself a little extra wire to play with on the end of your design.

Some people may forget how important the crimp beads are, as they are so little. They are small, but they play an important role in jewelry making. Many times, they hold an entire design together. So don’t ignore them again, especially their quality. You can easily find these small metal beads today’s jewelry market. But please make sure to find a supplier who can stand behind the quality of their crimp beads like PandaHall.com.  

Everyone can Find Suitable Cheap Necklaces

No one can deny that every woman wants to become beautiful and fashion, but not every woman is willing to pay a great deal of money for a costly necklace. So they will search succedaneum. Fortunately, the succedaneums came out when fashion jewelry was produced. The cheap necklaces are their new option.

White Pearl Necklace

Along with the development of fashion jewelry, the range of selection of cheap necklaces is growing larger and larger. They are available in different styles, including vintage style, fashion style, elegant style, cute style, cool style and many others. Many materials are used to create cheap necklaces, like acrylic, glass, lampwork, metal, wood, rhinestone, gems, polymer clay, sterling silver, Tibetan style silver, cultured pearl, resin and others. All the jewelry beads or findings produced by those materials are available in different colors, sizes, shapes and designs. You will easily find what you desired.

If you like elegant style cheap necklaces, I would like to suggest cultured pearl beads necklace for you. A cultured pearl is a type of pearl that is prepared under controlled situations. This includes cases where a pearl farmer may take oysters and implant them with grafts from other oysters to help make them grow more pearls. Cultured pearls are found in many of cheap necklaces. Although the pearls are cultured, they are real pearls and still look attractive. That is why cultured pearl beads necklace is cheap but elegant.

Sterling Silver Necklaces

Sterling silver necklace is one of these popular cheap necklaces. If you want to wear something which look like high-end but won’t cost much, the sterling silver necklace is your best choice. These necklaces can be designed in both simple and complicated styles. A simple sterling silver necklace with a brilliant rhinestone pendant or Swarovski crystal pendant will make you look concise but fashion. A complicated sterling silver necklace can let you look more elegant.

Of course, cheap necklaces are created with other jewelry beads and findings offer women a wider range of selection. However, I want to say that cheap necklaces are not only available for women. Some cheap metal chain necklaces are very suitable for men too. Most of the necklaces have chain in antique silver, antique gold, antique bronze, red copper and etc.

If you are a jewelry maker, you can easily get any kind of jewelry materials you want from today’s jewelry market at cheap prices as long as you find a reliable jewelry beads wholesaler. So create your own cheap necklaces is not an impossible thing. Well, if you are a jewelry businessman, there is no reason to not wholesale cheap necklaces to improve your sales. 

Alloy Charms for Halloween and Christmas

Many people are storing jewelry materials for Halloween and Christmas now. How about you? If you are not preparing for them, it is not too late to start right now. What kind of jewelry materials will store for the two holidays? Except beautiful jewelry beads and versatile jewelry findings, I think you can not miss the lovely alloy charms with theme of two holidays.

Lovely Snowman Alloy Charms

When you walk in your local jewelry beads offline shops and global online stores, you can easily find that charms and pendants are available in all kinds of materials, shapes, sizes, designs and themes, for example, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Children’s Day and some other holidays and special days for someone. As one of the most popular pendants and charms, alloy charms and pendants are widely used in many fashion crafts and designs, except jewelry making. For instance, Christmas is a very important holiday to Western people. They will start to prepare for this holiday very early—Christmas tree, Christmas gifts, fancy lanterns, Santa Claus and many others. Christmas gifts play an important role in this big holiday. People always express their love to their family members and friends by presenting Christmas gifts. So a handmade, unique, personalized gift with Christmas theme alloy charms will be the best. You can see some alloy charms in your local jewelry stores, like Christmas gift boxes, Christmas snowman, Christmas tree, socks, Christmas bell, Christmas snowflake and so many other kinds. They are very suitable for creating Christmas jewelry gifts with other jewelry beads and findings, and for decorating your Christmas tree too. You can also use them on other Christmas decorations, which just depends on your imagination and inspiration.

Alloy Pendants

You can also find alloy charms with theme of Halloween in your local jewelry beads retail stores, such as pumpkin, skull and so on. They are very cool for creating necklaces, bracelets and earrings. They are available in many different colors, sizes, shapes and designs. Halloween is an orgiastic day. How can you not dress up yourself with some special Halloween jewelry pieces? So it is time to store unique or special alloy charms as well as other jewelry materials for that orgiastic day.

Well, you may realize that the selection of alloy charms for both Halloween and Christmas are very limited in your local retail stores. Yes, it is absolutes. If you want to get a wide range of selection for all the jewelry materials, you’d better to search them from online wholesale stores. What is more, you can get much low prices from wholesalers. 

Leather Cords Jewelry Making Ideas

As a widely, commonly used stringing materials, leather cords can usually be seen in necklace making and bracelet making. These cords are available in a variety of colors, shapes, sizes and weaves.

Some people may think that using leather cords to make jewelry will limit their choice of jewelry beads because the cords will only pass through large hole beads. But there are actually a variety of ways to use smaller hole beads with leather cords. For example, we can use suede cord and pearl beads to create a necklace. Suede cord is lovely to look at and very comfortable to wear. We all know that the holes of pearl beads too small to string on suede cords. But we can use head pins and jump rings to attach them onto suede cords. Use the head pins to make a small loop on the top of pearl beads, and attach those beads pendants on jump rings. The diameter of those jump rings is large enough to string on suede cord. String those pearl bead pendants on the cord, and make some knots to fix them in place, of course, it just for your reference.

Genuine Leather Cord

Some people may say I like use cabochons, but really think they cannot be used with leather cords to create any jewelry. Do you really believe that? If yes, I have to say “sorry, you are wrong absolutely.” If you know how to wrap, if you can get some suitable jewelry findings, or frame beads, I am sure you can use any cabochons with leather cords to create awesome jewelry designs. You can use jewelry wires and frame beads to fix cabochons on the findings. And you can add the creative findings with leather cords to create necklace or bracelet. I dare to say the design will be one of a kind on the world.

Leather Cord Necklace

Well, some other people—beginners of jewelry making will say: “we are beginners and have no good experiences to create so complicated jewelry. How can we create fabulous jewelry with leather cords?” I want to say anyone can create your own jewelry with cords no matter how long have you been in jewelry making.” For instance, use a black leather cord to make a personalized necklace. The necklace pendant is the key of this personalized necklace if you have no idea about how to create something special on cord. You can choose three pendants and link them together with rings to make a long pendant. Black leather is the perfect stark, simple contrast to this metal pendant.

Do you believe leather cords can be used to create many different types of jewelry designs now? Do you have some awesome jewelry making ideas with those plain cords now? If yes, just take action to create your own superb jewelry now. 

Information You Must Know When Get Gemstone Cabochons

Cabochons are one of the most popular jewelry findings for jewelry making. They are sorted as different types according to their different materials. including gemstone cabochons, resin cabochons, glass cabochons, plastic cabochons, shell cabochons, lampwork cabochons, polymer clay cabochons, porcelain cabochons and some others.

About gemstone cabochons, they are available in various materials on today’s jewelry market, for example, howlite, turquoise, Jade, agate, tiger eye, hematite, rose quartz, amethyst, jasper, coral, garnet, and many others. And all of them are produced in different shapes, but not in oval only.

Tiger Eye Cabochons

Today, some people may have a hobby of collecting gemstones. And some of them want to cut their own collected gemstones as one of a kind gemstone cabochon, but have no idea about how to cutting. Here is some useful information about it. The usual shape for cutting cabochons is oval. The normal procedure for making a cab is to cut a slab of the rough rock, then stencil a shape or design. The slab is then trimmed using a diamond blade saw. Once the piece is trimmed and shaped, it is usually mounted on a drop stick to assist in polishing. This procedure is called dopping. The piece is then ground, the back edges may be beveled, and finally the top is sanded and polished to a uniform dome shape.

Gemstone Cabochons

If you have no conditions to travel and collect high quality gemstone cabochons, you can purchase them from online wholesalers who is must be reliable, no matter whether you know how to judge gemstone cabochons are good or not. Jennifer, a jewelry maker from Canada said:” Studying geology in college is definitely an advantage when it comes time for me to choose and buy my gemstone cabochons for beading. I learned how to identify and classify dozens of different types of rocks, gemstones and minerals, all of which comes in handy when I am browsing at bead and gem shows. And of course, it is not a problem to judge whether the gemstone cabochons I purchased from PandaHall are natural or not. To be honestly, I like its cabochons so much. Well, if you have no rich fund of knowledge about gemstone, you can search some information from internet or ask for a recommendation about reliable cabochons supplier from your friends.”

Gemstone cabochons are mainly used in pendant necklaces and cabochon rings. Are you ready to “splurge” to create your own stone cabochon jewelries? Find a reliable supplier to get start. 

Jewelry Making Ideas about Glass Pendants

Glass pendants are widely used in jewelry making, especially in pendant necklace making, for a long time. These pendants are produced in different types, such as foil glass pendants, lampwork glass pendants, dichroic glass pendants and normal glass pendants.

To beginners of jewelry making, they are not good at creating complicated designs and may have no good ideas about design for the moment. There is no need worry. Silk comes from practice. If you do more, you can learn more and get more fabulous jewelry making inspiration. Here I would like to share two jewelry making ideas about glass pendants with you.

Glass Pendant Earring

Glass Pendants Earrings---oversized earrings are one of the hottest jewelry in 2012. So let’s make a pair of oversized crystal glass earrings together. The materials are very easy to get: 8 pieces pink faceted round glass beads, 6mm; 2 pieces pink glass pendants, faceted, about 21mm wide, 43mm long. 6 pieces jump rings, 2 long pieces head pins, 8 pieces ball pins and 2 pieces earring hooks. The jewelry tools you will need are jewelry pliers and cutters. The steps are very simple, even to the beginners of jewelry making. First, put the pink glass beads on ball pins, and use jewelry plier to make a loop on each bead. Second, link 3 pieces jump rings together as a link by your jewelry plier. Third, attach 4 bead pendants on the top two jump rings, 2 beads for each jump ring. Forth, put the glass pendant on a long head pin, and make a loop on the top of the pendant by your jewelry plier, and then attach the glass pendant on the third jump ring. The last step is attaching the whole earring pendant on the earring hook by jewelry plier too. A piece of oversized, dangling glass earring is finished. Create the other one by following the same steps. The steps are very simple, but the designs are very elegant, aren’t they?

Glass Pendant Jewelry Set

Glass Pendant Jewelry Set---using glass pendants is very easy to create a simple jewelry set. Handmade goldsand and silver foil glass pendants are very unique, so your design must be one of a kind on the world even if you create a jewelry set with a simple design. Materials: necklace pendants, about 24mm wide, 67mm long; earring pendants, about 14mm wide, 24mm long; black leather cord; 2 jump rings and 2 earring hooks. The steps are as simple as stringing jewelry. Use your jewelry plier to open a jump ring and attach the earring pendant and earring hook on it. Close the jump ring. An earring is finished. Create the other one with the same method. String the glass pendant on the black leather cord, and attach a clasp and ring on both ends of cord. Till now, a set of glass pendant jewelry is finished.

Are you confident to create glass pendant jewelry now? Just purchase some materials and take action now. 

The Most Popular Jewelry Making Tools

As wire wrapped jewelry are very hot, more and more jewelry makers learn to create it. The most important thing the jewelry makers must know is how to choose correct jewelry making tools for their jewelry projects. There are many different types of jewelry tools on jewelry market, what kind of tools should be chose? Here is a list of the most popular jewelry making tools.

A set of Jewelry Pliers

Jewelry pliers are made to handle more delicate jobs than pliers from a hardware store, and they vary in shape and size depending on the job. There are types of jewelry pliers:

Round nose pliers—this kind of pliers have two conical jaws. This is use in making loops with beading wire or other materials. The loop size is determined by how far the jaws are made. If you want to make small loop, make it near the tip of this plier, otherwise large loop is made near the hinge of the pliers.

Flat nose pliers—they can be used for almost every other jewelry making job. They are great for closing up jump rings and chain links, as well as holding things in place while you work. The serrated type has roughened surfaces which are great for giving you a really strong grip. The only drawback is that the serrated edge can mark some surfaces.

Jewelry Plier

Wire cutters / Side cutter pliers—this kind of pliers have sharp jaws that will help you snip jewelry chain and softer beading wire to size. You can use them on jewelry findings, like eyepin and headpins, to snip off any excess and leave you with a nice neat finish, and they can also be used to cut shapes out of sheet metal.

End cutter—this cutter have jaws that are blunt with blades perpendicular to the handles. It is used in making sharp and clean cuts on wire. The blades at the end proved more cutting leverage.

Jewelry Pliers

Since jewelry work can be quite fiddly and time consuming, it is important to think about comfort. You will probably be doing a lot of squeezing, which can put a lot of strain on your hands and wrists. So you need to compare the different jewelry making tools and their special usages in jewelry making. It will be great if you always purchase your jewelry materials from a large, reliable online store, for you can easily purchase the jewelry making tools you need with your jewelry items at one-stop shopping. 

Why You Must Wholesale Jewelry Supplies Online

No doubt that no one can create fabulous jewelry without jewelry supplies. Along with the growing of your experiences, skills and demands of jewelry making, you will need more and more jewelry beads and jewelry supplies for your designs. Therefore, it is time to start wholesale them from online wholesalers to get a large wide range of choice and much lower prices to reduce your cost and earn more money.

Cat Eye Beads

Wholesaling jewelry supplies and beads from online stores is not something new to most of jewelry makers and businessmen any more. If you still purchase large quantity jewelry making supplies and beads from retail stores, you will fall down sooner or later, because your competitors have controlled the cost successfully by wholesaling. I want to say something about this. For example, suppose you and your competitor create a same jewelry by using the same jewelry materials, and sell them at the same price. Who can earn more money? No doubt your competitor is the winner because she or he cost less to create the same design than you. Well, this is an idea competition that same designs are sold at the same price. However, the real situation must be much cruel. Let’s talk about the same design still. As we all know that people like to compare before buying. In order to get stronger competitiveness, your competitor will sell it at a lower price. No matter how low you can offer, your competitor can offer lower than yours as his cost is much lower than yours. It is so called cost competitiveness. If you find two designs are the same but sold at different prices, which one will you buy? The answer is the cheaper one absolutely. It is the answer of all the buyers too.

Zinc Alloy Lobster Clasps

People like to wear new jewelry, no matter they are trendy or not. Well, the new jewelry here I mean is not the one created just now, but the one with innovative jewelry supplies, beads, designs or inspiration. It is a new creation. You should have found that you have limited selection in your local retail stores if you always get your jewelry making supplies and beads there. Therefore, you are unable to create innovative jewelry designs to attract your customers without new designed jewelry supplies and jewelry beads. So you must to purchase them from large wholesale online stores to get a huge range of selection and much lower prices, or else you of course will be left far behind by your competitors.

Do you want to let your jewelry business grow stronger and earn more money? It is time to wholesale jewelry supplies and beads from large, reliable online stores. May your business is booming.