A bolt of genius – Coral and Peach (as seen in the May 2010 issue of Make Jewellery Magazine)
Designed by Jane Purdy and Amanda Pickstock, Shiney Company
Introduction
A statement necklace with a difference! It’s a surprising design that pushes the boundaries, using bolt rings as chain links, combined with polyester chain. Position the design [...]
Beads and Beyond have made a few tweaks to their magazine this month. It looks great with lots of fabulous projects to wet your appetite as usual. Shiney has a wire work bracelet project featured… If you haven’t got your hands on the magazine you might like to try your hand at making our Cool [...]
Project: Helix Rhapsody
Create Shiney Company’s wirework necklace using 1mm and 0.8mm silver plated wire combined with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements.
Free-form wire shapes and some crazy coiling, make up this contemporary design. Once you master the art of making the open flat coils you’ll find this necklace quick and easy to make. Why not adapt this [...]
Create Shiney Company’s 4 in 1 necklace combining chain with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements pearls and Xilion beads.
Four individual necklaces make up this versatile design and unite stringing with some simple beadwork. It is easy to make and can be worn as 1, 2, 3 or 4 necklaces, depending on the occasion. We’ve combined fancy [...]
Straight off the catwalk! This fabulous chunky, funky design is up to date with big Coral pearls. Bold and bright, yet slightly vintage looking; this brand new colour pearl by CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements is bang on trend. Add some contrasting jet pendants and big links to complete this statement necklace. Use the same techniques [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This gorgeous design using CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements was styled by Shiney Company’s Camilla Frayling. You’ll see it featured in this months Beads and Beyond Magazine. With long, large necklaces at the height of fashion, this is a must for your summer wardrobe.
This catwalk style necklace is fun to make as you create and hammer [...]
Learn to make your own Toggle Clasp with a Hoop and T-bar. We recently featured Part 1 of this free jewellery tutorial, showing you how to make the hoop part of the clasp. This post shows you how to create the T-bar with 0.8mm wire. We have used a plated craft wire, however, once you [...]
