Teach you to make crystal beaded necklace

Posted by admin on Mar 30, 2011 in Inspiration Projects | 2 comments

Beaded jewelry are very fashion and fabulous, today the editor will teach you to make crystal beaded necklace step by step.

Tools for jewelry making: pincer pliers, round pliers, glue

Materials or jewelry findings for preparation: Resin flower cabochons, antique brass Tibetan style resin flower Palette（spacer beads), antique brass Tibetan 9 shape pin, antique brass Tibetan jump rings, crystal beads, antique brass heart shape OT clasper

First step: Making the resin flower pendants. Add the resin flower on the antique brass Tibetan style resin flower Palette by using the glue, you can put it on the edge or the center on the antique brass Tibetan style resin flower Palette as you like.

Second step: Add the resin flower pendants to the chain. Firstly you should cut the chain. Cut the right length of chains using the pincer pliers, then link the chain and the pendant by the jump rings. If you want to make the necklace fashion with stereovision, you can add more chains to the side of the pendant.

Third step: Making the crystal beaded chains. Let’s talk about the using method for 9 shape pin. Add one crystal beads on to the 9 shape pin, form a orthogonal on one end of the wire using the pincer pliers. Estimate the length you need and cut away the surplus. Then Using the tip of the round-nose pliers, catch the other part of the 9 shape pin, form a simple loop in the opposite direction of the chain, and then repeat this step for making the crystal beaded chain as long as you like.

The fourth step: Use the jump rings to link the crystal beaded chain and the other part of the chain. Add the two chains with different length to the pendant, place the longer chain up to the shorter one and make sure the beaded chain is at the bottom position of the necklace at the same time.

The fifth step: Add OT clasps to the necklace. Add the OT clasps to each end of the chain, and till then the resin flower necklace is finished.

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Top 5 jewelry beads for handmade fashion jewelry

Posted by admin on Mar 2, 2011 in Hot Deals | 0 comments

Beads used in charming jewelry making come in many colors, shapes and sizes. Beads can be used to make almost any type of jewelry you can imagine. Making your own beaded jewelry allows you to expand your creativity, whether for gifts, personal use or commercial sale. Jewelry wholesale beads for jewelry making are made from materials such as gemstones, bone, horn, glass, crystal, wood, silver, gold, brass, copper, pewter, Tibetan, or acrylic. Today we will talk about top 6 jewelry beads for handmade fashion jewelry.
Acrylic beads: Acrylic beads are one of the most popular and least expensive of the craft beads. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and these beads also come in a variety of colors, to include red, yellow, black, purple, pink, blue, green, orange, clear, assorted. Acrylic beads style comes from antique to assorted, from dreamlike fancy to Ice Flake, from jelly-like to pearl acrylic, and transparent acrylic.
Tibetan style beads are one of our best seller jewelry beads, it is very charming, and lots of people love these beads. We have three kind of Tibetan style beads according the material used to make beads: antique brass Tibetan beads, antique copper Tibetan beads and Tibetan silver beads.
Metal beads: These beads are typically hollow because they are made from thin sheets of metal. They can be made from many different metal materials. Pewter beads are basically metal beads made of the metal alloy called pewter.
Crystal beads and lampwork beads are two kinds of glass beads. I like crystal beads very much, crystal beads are very charming and beautiful, which add sparkle to jewelry pieces.

Do you know the basic information about Tibetan silver?

Posted by admin on Nov 3, 2010 in Beading Tips | 0 comments

Tibetan silver is a name, is actually an alloy, and for Tibetan people, Tibetan silver is actually a copper-nickel alloy. Tibetan silver is a royal name for white copper (copper-nickel alloy), the traditional combinations of Tibetan silver is thirty percent silver with seventy percent copper. Because the silver is expensive, so now the market has rare silver contains in the Tibetan silver beads, and completely replaced by copper-nickel alloy.

Sterling silver jewelry are made better than Tibetan silver jewelry, silver jewelry are delicate than Tibetan silver jewelry, and some large stones and inlay are real turquoise, red coral, the stone quality is better, its brightness is stronger than the Tibetan silver, Tibetan silver compared to the Under the original number are more simple, sterling silver Tibetan silver jewelry, of course much more expensive than others.

Bracelets, three-color copper rings are one of the Tibetan people’s favorite accessories, the so-called three-color copper, referring to the copper-nickel alloy, antique brass Tibetan beads, copper bronze in three different colors to play well-crafted.

Bring Tibetan silver jewelry made of inlaid stone, many people thought that it was from Tibet, this is really being “Tibetan silver” misled by the title. In fact, Tibetan silver refers to the high purity silver. Tibetan silver mixed with other metals, hardness is relatively high, carved in the above complex patterns, which India, Nepal and other handmade jewelry in the Middle East to use more of silver.
Tibetan silver jewelry made in the purchase when in fact, to distinguish between true and false Tibetan silver is not difficult. Tibetan silver jewelry carving patterns really fine clear, bright shiny silver reflection; fake Tibetan style beads jewelry carving pattern which seems rather ambiguous, reflective gloss dark silver, almost invisible.