Make fabulous fashion flower stud earrings with these 35p acrylic flowers. With a dab of GemTac, a pair of flat back stud earrings and these 28mm flat back flower beads, you can create a light weight, high fashion pair of stud earrings from just £1.60 a pair.
Upgrade the Silver Plated posts to Sterling Silver at [...]
Lots of lovely new Miyuki 4mm Square Mixes now available at www.shineyrocks.co.uk .Use them in your beadwork or stringing projects. We’ve tied them into strands of monofilament, put them all together in a calotte and fastened with a crimp to create this colourful illusion necklace.
Take care when squashing crimps on monofilament. You must have them [...]
HERE’S HOW…
Follow Steps 1 and 2 for the feature necklace (see previous post), shaping into four circles. Make two slightly smaller than the first two. Using one of the wires, attach the one large and one small circle together at the top. Make a wrapped loop and snip the remaining wire. Flat coil the other [...]
HERE’S HOW…
Make the leaf decoration the same as Steps 1 – 6 for the feature necklace (see previous post). Cut approx. 50cms of 0.5mm wire in the same colour as the two outside edge leaves. Wrap around the holes in the comb and the edge of the leaves to secure. Work both wire towards the [...]
Be inspired by Amanda and Jane’s rich wire colours mixed with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements. Learn how to hammer your own leafy wire links, create flat coil embellishments and adapt this technique to create a stylish autumn collection.
INTRODUCTION
This collection combines hammering, wrapping and coiling wire, while integrating CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements beads, pearls and flat [...]
Organic shapes and back to nature is set to be a big trend this season. Large metal leaf earrings are everywhere.
These fashionable metal leaf earrings (left) graced our screens on Sunday night’s Xfactor. Nicole is bang on trend with these statement danglers! Make your own today, with metal charms from www.shineyrocks.co.uk These fabulous metal skeleton [...]
Create Shiney Company’s Bollywood Chic strung necklace design with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements and gold plated chain.
This strung necklace is big on techniques, demonstrating how to use a wire guardian, crimps, crimp covers and the split ring tool. Adding the chain makes a strung necklace more interesting. The rich colours and gold metals work well [...]
If you have ever visited the CRYSTALLIZED™ store in London’s Great Marlborough Street, near Carnaby Street, you may have spotted a design like this before. We saw it on a recent visit and couldn’t resist having a go ourselves. Here’s how we did it. We thought you might like to try too!
All you need is [...]
This is such a useful and versatile technique. Flat coils are a great way of finishing
off wire ends neatly. We recently used this technique on a couple of the projects we submitted to Beads and Beyond and Making Jewellery Magazine (see images).
There are many uses for the flat coil; making headpins is just one of [...]
With satin ribbon featuring in many of this seasons jewellery designs, it can be a challenge keeping those edges from fraying.
You can try snipping at an angle with your scissors but the ends still unravell after it’s been worn.
We’ve found the best way to stop fraying is to carefully run a lighter flame over the edge of the [...]
