It's easy to craft custom jewelry at home. To string a pendant onto a necklace you will need an extension chain, a trigger clasp, cord tips and jump rings. Learn how to string a pendant for a necklace by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.
Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter shows you how to make four fabulous inked backgrounds for miniature collage pendants. Using vintage French images and her trusty crew of crafty helpers Madge whips up a tasty project you'll definitely want to sink your teeth into. Learn how to make these pretty necklace pendants by watching and following along with this video jewelry-making tutorial.
This how-to video teaches how to use polymer clay to make jewelry. Learn how to manipulate polymer clay to design and craft a necklace pendant.
Learn how to use resin to make gems for costume jewelry.
Learn an easy way to enhance your pearl jewelry by using a sterling silver enhancer, which is versatile enough to be attached to several different kinds of jewelry.
Improve your jewelry making technique, watch this video and learn about the many uses of connector bails.
Watch this video to learn how to design jewelry using bead frames.
Watch this video to learn how to use different tools, split rings and jump rings for making jewelry.
How specific and awesome! Our favorite thread heads teach us how to make cool jewelry, like hemp bracelets, while on a long car ride. Sweet! Macrame rules!
You don't need to call the plummer to dismantle your entire bathroom just to retrieve your wedding band. In this video Barbara K will demonstrate exactly how to retrieve jewelry from down the drain.
Designing jewelry allows an artist to spice up fashion and create a new trend. Learn to design jewelry from a fashion designer in this free fashion illustration video series.
If you want to make the perfect spirals, join Lisa Niven Kelly from beaducation for this quick demo on perfecting the wire spiral. Learn how to make open and closed loop spirals, and the proper tools to use for mastering this technique. Watch as Lisa shows you how to make one of her favorite shapes that she not only incorporates into many of her designs but also showcases all over Beaducation.com! Learn how to make the perfect wire spiral for jewelry.
Improve your jewelry making technique, watch this video and learn how to apply Swarovski hot fix crystals
When it comes to displaying your own sense of style, there are so many different options to choose from. You can focus on the hair, hands, whole body, or even your toes. Either way, you can customize and create any stlye you can by easily choosing which jewelry to wear or how to wear your hair style. This video tutorial will help give you another great option to help achieve that personalized look. Find out how to make awire wrap ring easily. Enjoy!
Watch this video to learn how to make a beautiful jewelry box. This project requires fairly advanced woodworking skills.
Filigree beads add a touch of intricate whimsy to any jewelry project. But if you're using run-of-the-mill metal filigree parts of one uniform color each time, then you're probably making necklaces and earrings that are more blah than impressive.
Turn a collection of delicate crystal beads into a lovely pair of earrings! All you need are the beads, some jewelry wire and wire cutters. Then, follow the steps in this tutorial to get your own pair of dainty, crafty earrings.
The end of the ugly split ring and soldering jump rings has arrived! Jumplocks "are easy-to-use jumprings that "LOCK" into place! This video jewelry-making tutorial demonstrates this new product and the technique used to "LOCK" them!
In this step-by-step beading video, you are shown how simple and easy it is to make a very intricate and ancient style of chain mail (with jump rings), the Byzantine Chain Mail Weave. Learn how to assemble the Byzantine chain mail weave by watching this video jewelry-making tutorial.
Arts and crafts are a whole bunch of fun, and in this tutorial jewelry making video, Jessica Poundstone of Jewelry By Jessica teaches you how to make a three-layer flower pin out of shrink plastic! The templates needed to complete this project are available as a PDF download at http://www.jewelrybyjessica.com/tutorials.html
Create your own personalized jewelry-it's all the rage! Add to necklaces, bracelets, pet collars, scrapbook pages, book charms, invitations, and more! Perfect gift for mothers, daughters, sisters, bridesmades, kitties & puppies!
Improve your jewelry making technique, watch this video and learn how use a v bail with a peg to create beautiful jewelry.
Improve your jewelry making technique, watch this video and learn how to create a beautiful pair of earrings using connectors.
Watch this video and learn about ultrasonic cleaner and how to clean your jewelry.
Watch this video to learn how to use bails to make pendants and jewelry.
If you have a lot of jewelry and hair accessories then your collection probably looks more like a land fill than an exquisite, well-curated and organized selection of adornments.
You can make jewelry out of chainmail! It will be bulky, unless you use incredibly tiny rings. This tutorial shows you how to make the box chain out of many small metal rings, which you can expand to a necklace, bracelet key chain or any other type of jewelry you can think of.
$4.95 jewelry boxes from Wal-Mart are probably not the chicest containers in which to put your prized sterling silver Tiffany's ring. Place your high fashion rings, bracelets, and necklaces in a similarly high fashion satchet by watching this tutorial.
This Mona Lisa necklace is really as unique and charming as it gets. Why wear the same old stringy bohemian necklace as everyone else when you can fabricate your own neck wear using vintage brooches, brass stampings, and other found knick knacks?
Want to make your own jewelry? While there are loads of pre-made earrings and necklaces and bracelets out there, it's often hard to find one that suits your personality to a tee, so we totally feel you. But before you start haphazardly strining stuff onto a wire, check out this jewelry making video first.
Bohemian jewelry is all the rage in Hollywood. Stars pay literally hundreds of dollars to get their bohemian jewelry fix, but you don't need to spend more than a few bucks - if any - to tote around a beautiful piece.
Wearing a peace sign pendant is the perfect way to celebrate the harmony and integration of nations occuring right now at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. While known as soccer's clash of nations, the World Cup also presents a way for disparate countries to play together on a fair, comraderie-filled basis.
Here is a way you can make your own jewelry for little money and have fun doing it. In this video we are shown how we can add feathers to existing earrings and necklaces. For this project we need some feathers, a pair of earrings, some silver plated copper wire, needle nose pliers, and scissors. The earrings used in the video are already made circle earrings. The first step is cut about a circle's length of copper wire and grab a feather. Wrap the wire nice and tightly around the quill of the...
Not sure what to get your sweetheart for her upcoming birthday? Make something handmade for her special day that she will remember for a lifetime! In this video, learn how to build a fabulous jewelry box, perfect to fit and organize her large jewelry box collection in.
In this video we learn how to tie a pretzel knot for hemp jewelry. First, making a loop with the chords in your right hand and place them over the left chords. Hold the loose ends on the right side and take the chords from the left hand. Go over the right chords and then up through the top. Then go over the loop under the left side of the loop pulling the chords up. What you get here will look kind of like a mouse, so you will need to get the first color on the outside. Then, slide this up an...
Jump rings are super functional in jewelry making, allowing crafters to connecting disparate sections of a necklace easily and also serving as their own minimalist decor. If you're into the look of chain mail (which is just that - lots of chains connected together via jump rings), then you should check out this video to learn how to craft your own jump rings.
Jump rings serve a variety of purposes in jewelry making, the most common of which is connecting adjoining sections of a necklace, bracelet, or earring. If you would like to integrate jump rings into your jewelry crafting then check out this video to learn how to open and close a jump ring using two pairs of chain-nosed pliers.
In this video, we learn how to make a mosaic jewelry ring. First, put the glue into a container, then place the stones into the glue and then place them onto the ring. Start by making the outer ring of the circle, then continue to go around the inside and the middle. Once you have all the stones placed inside, let the ring and stones dry for a full two hours. Next, take your powder and add a small amount of water. Mix together until you have a toothpaste like consistency, then rub it on the r...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a glue in and glaze jewelry ring. First, grab a blank ring that has a spot on the top to place a picture. It can have a jewel on it, just pop the jewel out. After this, choose an image from collage art papers, then cut it out. When done with this, place the image inside of the top of the ring and push it down with pliers. After this, place a clothing pin around the ring bottom to hold it in place, then grab you DG3 gel and add it to the top of the image....
You'll learn how to gloss/polish your polymer clay pendant jewelry in this video. To do this, you'll need a brush. Preferably, a nice, soft brush. You'll also need your clay pendants (of course), some gloss, and aluminum foil. First, you pour two drops of the gloss onto the aluminum foil. Next, you take your brush, put it in the gloss, and run it across your pendant. This will give your pendant a really thin coat of gloss. Be sure to wash your brush soon after, otherwise the gloss will dry an...