Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! I love making motifs. For me, it is the easiest way to create a design using the same pattern from start to finish and when creating motifs I always use the Right Angle Weave beading technique. When making motifs with right angle weave, all you need to do is create one unit of RAW and then connect the units to create a bracelet or a necklace. Try this motif design I’ve created. Cut an arm span of thread. If you can work well, longer than an arm span of thread that would be good. You may coat your thread with beeswax, but this is optional and then get rea ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! Dagger beads are pressed glass beads from the Czech Republic. This elongated bead features a dagger shape with 2 holes drilled side to side at the narrow end. Because of its elongated shape dagger beads are perfect to hanging or simply dangling designs and the holes at the end is a great option for multi-strand stringing techniques. Dagger beads are great to add to your collection as they are easy to incorporate with other Czech beads collection. Watch these video tutorials using dagger beads! More dagger beads jewelry to check out! Use these cre ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! I notice that bugle beads are not often used when making beaded jewelry. I don’t know why, but even I, myself, do not use bugle beads often. Maybe because I could seldom think of designs using bugle beads. But let us not forget about how wonderful bugle beads are. Bugle beads are tiny tubular cut glass beads. There are a variety of colors available and sizes. In the old days, bugle beads are primarily used by dressmakers for dress embroidery. Today, they are now used for a variety of craft projects. When it comes to jewelry making, bugle beads are grea ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! Our journey to jewelry making isn’t over, yet. New Year, new learnings, and new creations! In this issue of DIY Jewelry Making Magazine, we’re having two new guest authors’, EwaHotBeads and ZiaLolaBeadsIt who will teach you how to make a bracelet and a ring. We’re also having Zviagil back to teach you how to make a very elegant and beautiful necklace. Have fun jewelry making! Happy Jewelry Making! Wanna be part of DIY Jewelry Making Magazine? It is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Contact us and submit your very own jewelry making tutorials with us! Here’s what ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! AVA beads as we all know is the creative mind of Gianna Zimmerman. AVA beads are made exclusively in the Czech Republic, created and taking the shape of a Chevron. With its three holes, it would allow you to make several and different ways to pass the thread so you can definitely think of numerous ways how to play and incorporate it into your beadwork. With its straight edges, you can use AVA beads to make shapes, especially, a star shape like these earrings from Samantha of WescottJewelry. DOWNLOAD AVA Beads is also perfect for biZUterie’s Tristan ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! It is almost 10 years now since we have launched DIY Jewelry Making Club, (formerly known DIY Beading Club) and it has always been our passion to keep learning and sharing jewelry making techniques to further advance our skills to continue to create beautiful jewelry. We have featured jewelry designers such as Beading4perfectionists, ZviaGil, Iceni Bead Design, CrownOfStones, MocoJewels, TheBeadClubLounge, Kica Bijoux, Beaducation, Heather Collin and many, many more that you can find at our Contributors Page and Pinterest Contributor’s Board. With DIY Je ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! In this issue of DIY Jewelry Making Magazine, we are featuring a variety of Czech of beads you can use to give you ideas on how to combine them and create gorgeous pieces of handmade jewelry. Our Contributors, SvetlanaGalleryBeads,  WescottJewelry and DBDesigns will teach you how to create a necklace, a pair of earrings and a bracelet, from beginner to advanced students. Happy Jewelry Making! Wanna be part of DIY Jewelry Making Magazine? It is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Contact us and submit your very own jewelry making tutorials with us! Here’s what ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! Jewelry findings are essential materials for jewelry making. Using jewelry findings we can create jewelry with a professional finish and achieving that professional finish on our jewelry projects makes the jewelry more saleable. Even if you’re just going to give your creations as a gift or just for yourself, still, we need to make sure that the jewelry is properly secured and that is the essential purpose of jewelry findings. There are a variety of jewelry findings you can use such as clasps, jump rings, earrings, backings, bezel, ring bezels, bead caps ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! Only 10 days to go and Christmas! We’re now on our 3rd day of Christmas Beads Discounts sale and today, we’re putting up all Charms & Pendants on sale!!! Check out the items under the Charms & Pendant category. You’ll find bezeled charms, letters, metal charms, stainless steel charms and pendants. There are also blank tags and tassels. 2pcs Alloy Bracelet Necklace Connector Gold Plated Pendant Charms for DIY Jewelry Making Handmade Crafts Accessories $8.90 Select options 10pcs/lot 12x83mm Multi Colors Rayon Silk Tassel Ea ..read more

Have Fun With Beading and Wire Jewelry! 12 Days of Christmas Beads Discounts continuous and on our 2nd day, it’s ALL SEED BEADS sale! Start collecting Toho and Miyuki seed beads in a variety of colors and sizes. Seed beads are an essential material when it comes to jewelry making, especially, for those who are into bead looming. Seed beads come in tubes so they are easy to store, plus, it is really exciting when you have a variety of colors and sizes always available in your craft box! Enjoy shopping! The post 2nd Day of Christmas Beads Discounts appeared first on DIY Jewelry Making ..read more