Necklace Making Ideas for Mother’s Day

Today, most people are no stranger to jewelry making. Some people choose it as vocation, and some people take it as hobby. No matter what you regard it as, Mother’s Day is coming. Have you prepared the jewelry gift for her? I have two ideas about necklace making for Mother’s Day.

 

Fashion Pearl Necklaces

Pearls are always one of women’s favorites, and widely used in jewelry making. So, a necklace making with pearls is a good choice of jewelry gift for Mother’s Day. I used pearl beads in two different sizes. The necklace is about 430mm long so that I cut off a length of white sewing thread about 900mm. Step 1, string the sewing thread through a jump ring, and double over sewing thread. Step 2, string a large pearl bead on two strands of thread together. Then, string two pieces smaller pearls on one strand, and two pieces on the other strand. String a larger pearl bead on two strands of thread together again. Step 3, repeat step 2 for more times, till the length is long enough. Step 4, string the two strands of sewing threads into the ring of lobster claw clasp, and make a knot to stop the beads fall off. Till now, an easy making but elegant handmade pearl necklace making is finished. There is no woman won’t like pearls and pearl jewelry. So, a pearl necklace is a good gift for your mother on her holiday.

 

Fashion Gemstone Necklaces

The other jewelry making idea for Mother’s Day is a gemstone necklace. I used 3pcs yellow striped agate beads (about 20x37~40x5-7mm), glass beads (8~12x6~8mm) and some brass findings (3~9x2~6mm) for this necklace making. Step 1, cut off a length of jewelry wire about 22 inches. String a crimp bead and jump ring from on one end of jewelry wire, and use crimp jewelry plier press crimp bead to make a loop to hold the jump ring. Step 2, string half of the small glass beads and some tiny brass spacer beads one by one on jewelry wire. Then, string 5pcs larger glass beads with a bead cap and spacer bead at each end. Step 3, string tiny flower bead caps, 3pcs striped agate beads, 2pcs larger glass beads on with layout like picture. Step 4, string the rest glass beads and findings like step 2. Step 5, the last step is string a crimp bead and lobster claw clasp on the jewelry wire to make an end. Now, a fashion and elegant gemstone necklace making is completed.

Jewelry making (necklace making, bracelet making, earring making etc) is not hard or difficult as some people think. Just start to make jewelry if you like jewelry making, and create your first necklace making as a gift to your mom on Mother’s Day. It would be the best jewelry gift she received. 

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. 

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.