I found a tutorial on how to make a beautiful necklace from buttons and wire. It seems to be quite easy but the necklace is striking.
Soon I’ll have to go through my buttons and buy som silver wire ;-))
Links:
Recycled Button Necklace
Tag: Wire
Wire Wrapped Hardware
When seeing this tutorial on how to make jewelry from hardware store stuff I feel the urge to drive to the next hardware store immediately and rummage around.
But I will stay strong and wait until the next occasion.
Or perhaps I just sneak off to my basement…
;-)))
Links:
Wire Wrapped Hardware (It’s a Wrap)
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘wire’
Beaded Brooch
Are you still looking for a quick but personal gift for a friend?
How about a beaded brooch?
She describes with good pictures how to create a brooch from wire and beads and a lucky charm.
It should be possibl to create pendants or earrings in the same way.
I already have the materials … ;-)
Links:
Get hooked: make your own beaded brooch
Here at unikatissima:
Instructions on how to make brooches:
Necktie Flower Brooch
Needle Felting Brooch
YoYo Pin
Freeform Bead Embroidery Brooch (the tutorial on how to freeform embroider here)
River Troll Ring
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
Bead Wrapping Technique
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
Wire Frame Bracelet
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
Make Your Own Spacer Bars
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
Charm Bracelet
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
Make your own Wire Jig
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
Fried Marbles
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