…compilation of tutorials
Needless to say that you can also put jewelry into the advent calendar boxes, such as this lovely River Troll Ring.
It looks as if you could make quasi on the spur of the moment and that it would always be a unique and personal item.
I simply find it beautiful!
Links:
River Troll Ring
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘jewelry’
Boxes not only for the advent calendar
It gets dark sooner now and I like to light a candle again.
The tutorial for a wire candlestick suits me just fine ;-)
But I’m a little afraid that the candlestick may not hold the candle securely.
I have to try it once.
Hopefully before the evenings get much longer ;-))
Links:
Wire Candlestick
Sometimes I don’t want to simply string the beads but create some ‘ears’ on both sides like at the bead on the photo.
How to do this shows the bead wrapping technique tutorial where she does those ‘ears’.
Something else for my ever growing just-try-it-sometimes-list ;-)
Links:
Bead Wrapping Technique
I always like to browse art-e-zine. There I found the tutorial for the wire frame bracelet.
I find it beautiful!
On the same site further down is a tutorial for very expressive pendants – I really must try them one day!
Links:
At art-e-zine: Wire Frame Bracelet
When stringing bead jewelry you sometimes need spacer bars to keep beads or strings of your jewelry items apart. You can buy them as a matter of course, but I like much better making the needed spacer bars myself.
On the photo you see a first attempt.
Both middle spirals are meant to pass strings of a necklace through, the outer spirals are ‘nothing but’ decoration.
Not bad for a start, isn’t? ;-))
Links:
Making Your Own Spacer Bars
Take a look at the charm bracelets of Connie Fox, aren’t they beautiful?
I really love them!
She even wrote a tutorial on how to make charm bracelets, now everybody can make them.
I came until now only to a compilation of charms ;-))
Links:
Wire work and bead project by Connie Fox
Charm bracelets by Connie Fox
A Wire Jig is a kind of board with pins where you can wind the wire. It is used for making jewelry.
And now I know how to make my own wire jig.
As you can see on the photo I gathered the pins already, I only have to find a wooden plate ;-)
And when you gathered all the elements of the wire jig, you can begin to make beautiful wire jewelry.
Links:
Make your own Wire Jig
WigJig University of Making Jewelry with Wire and Beads
Once I found a tutorial on how to make fried/baked marbles: don’t they look great?
I couldn’t make them yet, but I have put them on my to-do-list.
For the wire work she did in the tutorial you can find inspiration and tutorials at WigJig University Jewelry Making Designs as I did for the Tealight Wire Spiral some days ago.
Links:
At craftster.org: Best way to make fried marbles+a suncatcher… kind of.
WigJig University Jewelry Making Designs
Here at unikatissima: Tealight Wire Spiral
I browse sometimes at WigJig University – Jewelry Making Designs and found once the Wire and Beads Christmas Tree.
It wasn’t Christmas time then, so I used the wire Christmas tree as inspiration and made me a tealight wire spiral.
It doesn’t look as beautiful as I thought with the tealight lit, because the light shines upwards and the spiral lies in darkness, but I still like it.
I suspended it on a thread and sometimes I let it turn slowly (and carefully!) with the flame burning, that looks lovely.
Links:
WigJig University – Jewelry Making Designs: a fantastic compilation of wire jewelry projects!
Wire and Beads Christmas Tree