Showing posts with label enamel pendants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enamel pendants. Show all posts

2013/01/22

Enamel Charms for Valentine’s Day Jewelry Design


Charms and pendants are always widely used in jewelry making as they are lovely, colorful and charming. Enamel charms are one of such a kind jewelry material. Many jewelry makers like to use them on necklace making, earring making, bracelet making and some other fashion decoration making.
Brass Enamel Pendants
Brass Enamel Pendants

Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Do you have any idea about a special gift for your loved one? If not yet, why not try to use enamel charms to create one or several jewelry gifts for her? You know, women love jewelry and will never think they have enough. About the enamel charms, they are available in different materials indeed, for example, alloy, brass, stainless steel, iron and etc. They can be produced in many different colors, including platinum, silver, nickel, golden, antique silver, antique golden, rose gold, antique bronze and so many other colors. About their shapes, I would like to say you can find any shape you want. So, you get a really large range of selection about these charms to create your jewelry gift for Valentine’s Day. After all, Valentine’s Day is a romantic day, so the heart shaped, awareness ribbon shaped, flower shaped, start shaped maybe the best choices. Of course, the shapes and things your lover like best are good choices too.
Alloy Enamel Pendants
Alloy Enamel Pendants

If you want to create a bracelet for your lover as jewelry gift on Valentine’s Day, make sure what kind of bracelet she like first. As we all know that bracelets can be created in many different styles, but no one will like all the styles. You need to consider the materials, colors, sizes and shapes of the jewelry beads, jewelry findings and enamel charms you will use. If you are not sure what kind of jewelry she will like, look at her clothes and the jewelry pieces she own, and you may get some inspirations.

If you are not a jewelry maker, and just want to create a gift for your lover, you can walk in your local jewelry beads or craft stores to search the materials you need. But you need to pay high price and get limited selection for the retail items. If you are a jewelry maker, you can purchase enamel charms with other jewelry materials together from the same supplier on the internet to save time and money. If you find a large, reputable jewelry materials online wholesaler, you can easily find what you need there.  

2012/03/09

Create Various Jewelry with Brass Pendants and Enamel Pendants

Jewelry making is not only a career for jewelry makers or designers, but also is a hobby to many people now. Pendant necklaces are still very hot in 2012. Brass pendants and enamel pendants can help you to create jewelry in different effects. Like vintage style jewelry? Brass pendants are the perfect choice. And enamel pendants are suitable for creating colorful jewelry.

Brass pendants, there is no doubt that the material is brass only, but they can be produced in various colors, such as golden, silver, black, nickel, red copper, antique colors, platinum and so on. They are available in different shapes; including drop, oval, heart, flower, flat round, round, leaf, bags, animals, tree, cross, star and many others. Exquisite patterns on these pendants with different colors let them look very delicate.

Brass Pendants, Drop, Unplated

Brass Pendants, Drop, Unplated

Enamel pendant is another familiar jewelry pendant to jewelry makers. But some of them may don’t how it is produced. For jewelry industry, enamelling can be defined as a technique of adding color to a piece of jewelry. Enamel basically is a finely grounded glass. When these tiny colored glass particles are heated in a furnace at about in 800 degrees Celsius on a red hot metal, the result is a beautiful colored glass coating on the metal. This is called as enamel. The different colors of enamel pendants available are due to the presence of metallic salts in the glass. And we all know it that color overlay can create a new color.

Alloy Pendants, Enameled, Pretty Girl, Mixed Color

Alloy Pendants, Enameled, Pretty Girl, Mixed Color

There are three types of enamel that is used in jewelry: opaque, transparent and translucent. Different effects are produced by using these enamels singly or in combinations of two or more. Manufacturers often mix and match various techniques and bring out lovely colors, so you can find enamel pendants are available in a pallet of colors. They are also designed in different shapes with various patterns. As these pendants are produced in different effects– lovely, elegant, vintage, fashion, masculine and other effects, they are widely used in jewelry making. They are loved by both men and women.

Enameled Alloy Pendants, Christmas, Human

Enameled Alloy Pendants, Christmas, Human

Both brass pendants and enamel pendants are available in tens of thousands of designs, you can easily find what you need or desired for your jewelry making designs. The two different pendants can be used as necklace pendants, bracelet pendants and earring pendants. Not only are they can be used singly in one project, but also can be mixed and matched with other beads and pendants. It is up to you.