Beaded Choker Necklace for Brides

Choker necklaces are wonderful jewelry accessories to show your the beauty of the clavicle. If you are going to get married, I suggest you to DIY a unique memorable beaded choker necklace for yourself or your bridesmaids. It can also be a precious jewel to be passed down. No need to worry that you are beginner, here's a detailed video tutorial to teach you how to make this beaded choker necklace. Just take your time and practice again and again. Don't blame me that you finish a master piece then! Your friends and family will be so proud of you! Enjoy it now!

Supplies needed to get started:

0.3mm Tiger Wire
2mm Iris Round Seed Beads
6mm Clear Bicone Glass Beads
6x4mm Faceted Glass Beads
2mm Glass Seed Bead
12mm Light Blue Drop Beads
16mm Glass Pearl Beads
3mm Iron Bead Tips
Silver Jump Rings
Silver Lobster Clasp
Flat Nose Plier
Wire Cutting Plier
Iron Scissor

Boho Charm Anklet VS Elegant Bead Anklet

Anklets are one of the most popular accessories for women dress themselves up! And summer is already here and obviously they are great jewelry piece for such a lovely hot season. Not only little girls but adults love wearing the anklet toe bracelet. Many bead lovers tend to make it all by hands with a large variety of nice cheap beads. If you are a jewelry maker, you must know that the beauty of DIY jewelry depend mostly on the combination of colors and shapes of beads.  There are many beading patterns available online and for anklets and if you are going for a beach trip, do make yourself a beaded anklet in no time! 

So here, I have 2 beautiful anklet toe bracelet ideas for you: one boho style; another elegant style. Compared with these two barefoot scandals, which one is your favorite? If you love them, check the detailed making steps here. And rock your own style~ 

Different Types of Items Found Within the Jewelry Making Supplies

The jewelry making supplies that you may need to start making the jewelry is beads and jewelry wire. The jewelry wire is normally made in the gold filled, gold plated, silver plated, gold, silver, copper and brass.  The wires are sold within many sizes that are known as gauges and a wire with a large gauge is going to be known as small diameter. If you make the jewelry, the common gauge to use are from 22, 20, 18 and 16.  The 26 and 24 gauge may be used but they are not that frequent.    There are also other features of the soft jewelry wire that may be used such as the soft jewelry wire which is used to make spirals or rounded shapes.  Semi-hardwire that are used to tight the beads on it or on other wires. Hard wires are used when there is no need to harden the objects afterwards.  Sterling silver jewelry wire and the gold jewelry wire come with perceived value.  The craft wire is found in different styles and they are plastic coated wire. You can find enamel coating or parasitic coated wire. There are also other types of wire you can find and the price depends on the materials used.

The beads are also an important part of the jewelry making supplies. They are found from different materials and they come with a hole that it is used to hold the beads on the wire. The beads are found in the bones, metals, stones, wood, plastic and glass.  Some precious and semi precious materials also may be used.  Fire polished beads are normally defined and they are faceted or cut off glass beads which are polished through the heating. Seeds beads are less expensive and smaller beads which are made in the glass. They are normally shaped as small donut. Pressed glass beads are normally made in the manner that the milk bottle are made and when they are still hot, they are forced into the mold in order to make such beads. This is inexpensive process for which the pressed glass beads are made and the beads are not that expensive.  The most expensive beads are Swarovski Crystal beads.

Other types of jewelry making supplies are the components that are used together with the jewelry such as jump rings, ear wires, head pines and clasps.  They can be handmade or manufactured.  There are some components that are important and they are needed for any jewelry making.

Even if there are many types of the jewelry supplies, these that have been identified above are the most common ones. A beginner can start out by buying inexpensive jewelry making supplies to get the right skills. 

Spiral Rope Bracelet VS Flat Spiral Bracelet~

If you are an addict who loves bead weaving, you may be interested in learning the spiral stitch jewelry, which is a kind of popular beading skills that you should master. Or you must have learnt the simple technique already, have you? Haha~~ Compared with these 2 spiral bracelets, which one is your favorite, the spiral rope bracelet with lapis beads and gold seed beads, or the pink flat spiral bracelet with pink bicone beads? The left one was made with basic spiral technique and however, the right one is a variation of the previous one. Both of them are simple to make and pretty to wear. Don't be afraid to take the first step to try it. You'll be surprised how easy they actually can be made! Do check out the videos and good luck~

Repost: Spring Jewelry Collection~~~

What beautiful jewelry ideas for spring!! My favorite ones are the two floral bracelet. I'm good at right angle weave stitch, and guess it's not hard to finish them! And I'll search some flower transparent acrylic beads to replace the clay beads. Yayy~~ can't wait to wear them for travelling next month~~~

Via: blog.pandahall
Spring is really a charming season that everybody looks forward to. Especially after a chilly cold winter, we would always feel itching to go for outdoor activities, do some gardening, or make craft projects in this beautiful time of year. So once we mention spring, flowers and pastels can be a long-lasting topic. They are the symbol of warm weather with petals bloom and colors splash. So in today’s post, we gathered 10 pretty jewelry designs for your inspiration! Let the lovely season shine with these great jewelry crafts......

DIY Heart Shaped Beaded Decorative Tree

Decorating our home is a long-lasting topic. Some of you may tend to buy ornaments directly from stores, some prefer DIY unique embellishments! So here’s a lovely tree decoration for home. It used the small seed beads to make the petals and leaves. You can replace the beads with your favorite beads like small crystal glass beads, rustic woodenbeads and so on, and follow to try one! 

Details: wiring beads and twisting~~~

Via http://www.icreativeideas.com/how-to-diy-heart-shaped-beaded-decorative-tree/

DIY Beaded Tree

A beaded tree can be great decoration for home. They will stay the same, last forever without becoming weak and turning into yellow. And simple as you can see from below picture. Grab a roll of cooper wire, and numerous grey seed beads. First, thread the seed beads on 1 piece of wire and then twister both wire ends to form a leaf shape, repeating the procedure to make the rest branches and twist all of them together, and you'll have a beautiful decorative tree! Super easy, right? You can make several of these to send as gifts for your friends. They are absolutely inexpensive and awesome idea for home decorating! How do you think? 

Marine-style Beaded Bracelet DIY within 30 Minutes

A delicate beaded bracelet to share with you! I just love this blue colored piece, breathtakingly beautiful! It may look a little bit complicated, but it’s actually quite easy to follow! Never be afraid to tackle it if you don’t have enough beading experience. Supplies will be needed:

8mm Glass Pearls
6mm Bicone Glass Beads
3mm Round Seed Beads
0.38mm Tiger Tail Wire
Crimp Beads
Bracelet Clasp
Round Nose Pliers
Wire Cutter Pliers
Side Cutting Pliers

Find more details here, if you really can’t figure out HOW. Enjoy!

Beading Necklace Patterns

Round Ups of Rhinestone Crafts~

honestlywtf.com & dreamalittlebigger.com

Rhinestones are such ordinary cheap beads materials to decorate accessories around us! They can easily be used to add sparkling look to your outfit! Most of you may prefer gluing bling bling rhinestones on your old ugly shoes. But apart from this, we can take the advantage to change other things a new playful look! Wow,wow,wow, look at these fantastic creations, elegant bridal sash, sparkling phone case, chic jean hem, fashionable clutch, stylish warm gloves, and that playful yet cool baseball cap~~ which one is your favorite then? 

If you’re up for some other creative rhinestone ideas, rock it out! xoxo

Beaded Mirror!

Feeling bored when standing in front of the plain mirror? Here's an simple idea to change your mirror a new look. Just glue your leftover beads,old brooches etc, on the edge of mirror, and a beautiful new mirror is finished soon! You should have a try if you love this cute idea! 

Pandahall Spring Beading Contest 2015

Wanna show off your professional jewelry making skills? Here's a beading contest I'd love to recommend to you! It's actually not limited to beading. They welcome all sort of jewelry making crafts, like knotting, wire wrapping, beading, loom bands and so on. And you'll get up to $100 prize. Just browse more contest details and guidelines by visiting the contest page.

And here're even 2 video guidelines for your reference! If you are interested, never miss this opportunity!

Beading Bezel Around Cabochon

Video to teach you how to make a beading bezel around cabochon! Get jewelry making supplies and start to try your own! I hope you'll like this video.

Simple OL Jewelry DIY: Pearl Necklace

Are you feeling crafty these days? Well, I recommend you to DIY some office lady jewelry. Sometime we feel like wearing something handmade and personalized, hah? In the below, you'll see a lovely elegant pearl necklace, the perfect mixture of silver gray pearls and silver seed beads makes the whole design more elegant! So the easy pattern can be finished with jewelry making supplies like: 8 mm silver pearl beads,2 mm seed beads, organza ribbon and tiger tail wire.Hope you will love and enjoy it! 

View more tutorials @: LC pandahall

6 Holiday DIYs To Try With Beads

Wow, holiday's finally coming. I have lots of plans for crafts in all my free time. Of course, I would still make crafts with my favorite beads and beads and beads...lol~! So here, I collected some great beaded DIYs from craftgwaker. They're all funny to make! Can't wait to try them out~~~~

You may wonder why all colorful beads? Honestly, these crafts ideas all used my favorite glass beads, sequins and rhinestone beads. So if you love these sparkling beads like me, just give them a shot in this holiday!

1, Colorful Crystal Watch Band
2, Hippie Crystal Headwrap
3, Beaded Bracelets for Christmas
4, Suncatcher Made with Safety Pins
5, Sequin Bag Upstyle!
6, Tinsel Trees DIY

DIY Wrap Bracelets

Are you new to jewelry making? Wanna make some jewelry gifts for your beloved ones? You can start from this style of DIY wrap bracelet! They only need leather cords, threads, beads,and big buttons for closure. Colorful acrylic beads, transparent glass beads, beautiful gemstone beads or any beads can be used for making such kind of bracelet. 

You may wonder how to do it. It's quite easy! 

1st, thread the beads on wires or strings. 

2nd, wrap them on leather cords and repeat. 

3rd, thread big button and make loop at the end of one leather cord, tie an overknot at the other end. Done!

You can match the beads and cords color according to you preference. Have a nice try by yourself!

Image from: http://lc.pandahall.com/tammy-belcher-245544/show/p1.html

Golden DIY Necklace Roundup

Golden colored jewelry can always bring us some highlights in these cold days. You'll sometimes need a little bit of bling to set off your outfit. How about DIY some gilded necklaces? Check out these gorgeous, gilded jewelry accessories, and make one today!

Woven Chain Collar Necklace: Use the leftover of your bracelet threads to finish this awesome chain&thread necklace!

Golden Triangle Necklace: If you don't know where to buy the triangle dangles, use some golden wires instead.

Golden Milagro Necklace: Get tons of gilded charms&pendants. you can finish this pretty necklace.

Golden Knot Necklace: How about making a beaded knot with small seed beads?

Golden Hex Nut Necklace: Add some metallic feel on your accessories, so unique and chic, right?

Which of the above attract you most? If you love all of them, get jewelry making supplies and start to make them! It will be so much of fun. Happy crafting!

Big Jewelry, the Latest Jewelry Trend for 2014-2015

Speaking about 2014-2015 jewelry trend, big jewelry which is bold and catchy ranks first; because over-sized jewelry appears in many fashion shows and these massive and catchy jewelry are great adornments that immediately catch people’s eyes.

During 2014-2015, more and more people are getting involved in collecting big jewelry in different styles, such as big hoop earrings, bib statement necklaces, bracelets covering the whole hand, over-sized rings and jewelry sets. Everyone, especially women would like to wear big jewelry which let them become the fashion leaders.

There is no doubt that big jewelry can be a simple addition or a bold adornment to your outfit, which all depends on how you choose to wear. If you are interested in making big jewelry like big bold jewelry with your own hand, just take a look at the below big jewelry designs. Hope they can give you some inspirations! And don't be afraid to choose anything fresh, a bold attempt helps to discover your own personal fashion style! 

Big Hoop Earrings

Big Statement Necklaces

Big Bracelets

Big Rings

Image sources: 

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/163209107/big-rose-quartz-boho-ring-free-shipping?ref=shop_home_active

http://lc.pandahall.com/customer-show/-32021.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/jewelry-made-from-living-plants?sub=3270462_2997591#2g6n864

http://www.xogallery.com/collections/necklaces-1/products/blue-agate-turquoise-and-copper-pendant-necklace

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JewelryByJessicaT?ref=l2-shopheader-name

https://www.etsy.com/listing/90683671/turquoise-jewelry-southwestern-cuff-red

https://www.etsy.com/listing/118595609/green-jade-big-tear-drop-hoop-earrings

http://mcauleysboutique.blogspot.com/2010/06/big-bold-earrings.html