2013/09/04

Bead Caps Are Very Important Parts in Jewelry Creation

Beauty could be the eternal topic among women. Women always want to stay in limelight constantly. People, especially women, want to be appreciated and loved. This is the reason they normally use every singly strategy to look more beautiful than other women in the society they will live in.

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A lot of the women prefer getting the finished jewelries. You will find there's huge variety of jewelry sets available in the market yet they can't take the place of handmade jewelry. However, the finished jewelry is more expensive than you are making it on your own at the house. Someone think it&rsquos a complete waste of money. Therefore, we can design and customize our very own jewelry in your own home. In fact, homemade jewelry looks more beautiful than ordinary jewelry.

Now, you can easily design a jewelry set on your own. The wholesale bead caps are important parts in jewelry making. With the bead caps, your handmade jewelry include an expert touch. Besides, the bead caps can provide signature look for bracelets or necklaces. There are three benefits of using bead caps in jewelry.The first is to add the style and type for your handmade jewelry. The second is to offer a pricy look for the jewellery. The next is allow it a distinctive touch.

You can get wholesale bead caps , jewelry beads, toggle clasps as well as other accessories you may need for your jewelry making. What you need is to locate a reliable online shop and placing your order online since there are various online stores that provide jewelry gives a highly inexpensive price points.

In case you have any design in your thoughts then its great otherwise, you may check latest jewelry designs online. You need a metallic wire for designing bracelets, necklaces as well as other jewelry items. If you wish to produce a fancy jewelry set then you must use silver or gold wire. If you wish to design bracelets for your friends then you can also have thread rather than a wire.K10004C_500_500

There are huge variety kinds of jewelry beads and bead caps that you should select from. Sometimes, you will be confused which beads to decide on. I'd suggested you to buy. You&rsquod better find the beads and bead caps which have relatively bigger holes. With the big holes, it is going to create easy to help make the bracelets or neckalces. You need to use any size, shape and design of caps and beads as your prefernce.

With the rules all above, when can you design a custom jewelry seeking yourself ? It's also possible to come up with a handmade jewelry sets to deliver for your friends. It will be a fantastic strategy to enhance the relationaships along with your friends.

8seasons is one of the world&rsquos largest wholesale beads and jewelry supplies providers. 8seasons.com is a professional distributor of wholesale bead caps, it might provide thousands of bead caps in factory prices. At 8seasons.com you'll enjoy your shopping experience and find the things you want.

 

2012/08/27

Where to Buy Jewelry Making Supplies

round beads wholesale-Where to Buy Jewelry Making Supplies Jewelry making supplies is a big and general phrase. Under it has beads, jewelry chains, jewelry making findings as lobster clasps, jump rings, etc. Jewelry can be worn on neck, wrist and head has been popular among human beings maybe since the dawn.

Beading jewelry could be a way to express our creativity and thoughts. Now since handmade jewelry becomes a fashion, making our own style beading jewelry becomes so common among us. While before begin the beading project, there is a very important issue waiting for us to resolve, that is where to buy jewelry making supplies.

To make a piece of jewelry, we need jewelry making accessories of course, well, except the material; we still need the tools to help carrying our imagination and idea out into real stuff.

For jewelry making tools

Pliers and stringing tools as needle ---- Pliers in fact is a real versatile in jewelry making tools, it can take up a lot of functions. One plier sometimes can be used as a crimping tool, a wire cutter, a fixator and so on.

For beads and other findings

In terms of material, beads can be divided into acrylic beads, glass beads, pearls beads, wooden beads, gemstone beads, crystal beads, resin beads, clay beads, etc. And people’s imagination and creativity has no boundary, paper beads, beaded beads, foam beads………The list continues reaching far.

Where to Buy Jewelry Making Supplies

When we’ve set up our mind, the next thing on the top is where to buy jewelry making supplies.

Buy Jewelry Making Supplies from Online Wholesaler

Considering the price and selections, the best place to purchase bead jewelry making supplies is the wholesale supplier. When browsing and searching on internet, we can find dozens of jewelry wholesale supplier on line. While since shopping online need a lot of personal info and payment info to be given, we should try our best to find a safe and reliable seller. Thus we should read a lot of customer reviews before deciding where to place the order.

But if there is someone nears you who have similar shopping experience, don’t hesitate to ask for their hands-on experience.

Buying from Local Crafts Store

Besides online jewelry making supplies wholesaler, local crafts stores could be considered as another good place to do business with. But their prices are much higher and have no space to show you a great amount of products, therefore their storage for supplies are also limited. Compared to wholesale supplier, crafts store is much like a retail shop. Buying from a local crafts store, we can get the things we need instantly though the price is not so preferential. But if you’re in a hurry to finish your jewelry making project, then choose a local store.

2012/07/30

Wholesale Pocket Watch for Steampunk Project

Knowing how to make steampunk jewelry is not the end, for some handcrafts lovers, it’s just a beginning. Now as many of us has been deeply influence by the fashion of retro flavor of steampunk jewelry, the demand for these special art projects surged.

Where to buy gears for steampunk fashion jewelry? Now many jewelry making supplies wholesalers have added watch parts into their product category. Firemountaingems, American’s biggest beads and jewelry making supplier may have taken the lead.

antique watch parts for steampunk jewelry

All the parts we need to make steampunk jewelry comes from antique watches, while not all parts of the antique watches could be useful to you. Sometimes we only need the gears, or the innard plate or the watch hands.

Before we make a decision how to buy watch parts for our steampunk project, we should make a good comparison. Compare the price of course.

First choice: Yard sale.

Nearly all of the brass gears used in steampunk projects comes from wristwatches, pocket watches, and clocks of all sizes. Look for yard sale broken clocks that cost second to nothing. Second hand stores would a great source of cheap or broken and free alarm clocks and similar pieces.

Followed by: Cheap Antique Steampunk Pocket Watch

To finish the endless searching for the unique watch parts for your steampunk design, cheap antique watch face and finished pocket watch jewelry from China supplier would be a good way. Though the watch is still in use, it is very cheap. Thus it would be fine to tear it apart for gears to make jewelry.


For Wholesale Steampunk Findings

Antique Bronze Adjustable Filigree Ring Settings steampunk antique bronze cameo frame setting pendants Antique Bronze Flower Round Cabochon Setting

Wholesale Antique Bronze Adjustable Filigree Ring Settings

Wholesale Bronze Tone Cameo Frame Pendants

Wholesale Brooch and Hairclip Findings

2012/07/25

Leather Pearl Wrap Bracelets

How to make leather pearl wrap bracelet? Tutorial videos and instructions can be easily found on Youtobe and blogs. There are so many kind hearted artisans who are willing to share their skills and great craft ideas on the internet with us.

The beads used to make leather wrapped bracelets varies a lot. Tiger-eye beads, jade beads, African turquoise beads, hematite beads and rhodonite beads. Only if the beads are roughly round shaped and smooth enough which won’t cut our skin, and then they’re suit for leather wrap bracelets.

Grade A Purple Freshwater Cultured Pearls

Freshwater Pearl Beads

The quality of freshwater pearl beads differs a lot.
Available Color: While, Black, Purple

Leather Cord

For jewelry making and wrap bracelets, the size of leather cord should be match with the diameter of the pearl beads.
Available size: 1mm 1.5mm 2mm

Mixed Leatheroid Jewelry Cord 2mm

The method to make leather pearl wrap bracelets is the same with other kind of beaded wrap bracelets and the only difference is the beads being used. Where to find the supplier who can offer good quality and inexpensive pearl beads?

Freshwater pearl beads are now mainly cultivated in China, thus the eye sourcing for wholesale pearl beads might be fixed on the huge and surging market there.

Material we need to make leather wrap pearl beads bracelet: Pearl Beads, Leather Cord, Beading Needle, Beading Strings, Buttons / disk beads.

Leather and pearl beads bracelet
Multi-layered leather and pearl beads wrap bracelets.


Braided leather and pearl bracelet idea
This kind of leather and pearl bracelets are quite similar to the Shamballa style bracelet. Click here to get the full instruction for how to make shamballa style bracelets.

2012/07/24

Freshwater Mother of Pearl Shell Beads

Mother of Pearl Shell Beads for Pearl Beads Necklace

Mother of pearl shell beads necklace have a special charm, bold while still remain to be mild. Among all types of wind chimes, I love the shell wind chimes most for its clear sound and soft tunes.

Mother of pearl, when maintained the original appearance, can be easily made into wind chimes; and after a slight procession, can be flexibly mound into the shape we want. Mother of pearl rosary beads and mother of pearl bird beads are now commonly been seen on our costumes jewelry design.

Mother of Pearl shell beads are made from freshwater pearl mussels, which are also known as abalone. When dyed into candy colors, mother of pearl shell beads can turn out to be very sweet and charming.

Red Ring/ Circle Shell Loose Beads for Necklace

Red Ring/ Circle Shell Loose Beads for Necklace

Outer diameter: 30mm
Each strand is 39cm long and has approximate 13 beads.

Mixed Irregular Shell Loose Beads

Size: Approx: 7mmx7mm-16mmx10mm
Hole size: 1mm
Thickness: 1.2-3mm(1/8")

Mixed Irregular Shell Loose Beads
Mother of pearl rosary beads

Mother of pearl rosary beads

Size: 25mm x 24mm
Hole size: 1.2mm
Thickness: 2mm

The main chemicals of freshwater mother of pearl shell beads are Calcium carbonate, the loose texture of which means these shell beads are prone to be broken. So when wearing jewelry made with mother of pearl shell beads, we should pay extra attention. ^_^

2012/07/23

Silver Plated Chains, Forever Charming

Chain Necklace

Silver jewelry, as one of the most favored pet in the fashion industry, has successfully withstood the test of time. Under the picky examination of our eyes, silver jewelry remains its purity impression in our mind.

Of all precious metals, silver has the highest penetration rate. People’s love and enthusiasm for silver jewelry has never died off. While in today’s crafts and handmade industry, starling silver are still a little bit expensive. For this kind of handmade jewelry or costume jewelry, style and creativity are also much important than the precious metal.

Thus silver plate products came into being. For freelances as small business owners who design and make costume jewelry at home, silver plated chains has successfully allowed them to cut the cost to the lowest. And the lowest making cost means highest sales performance.

Sterling silver plated chains and silver tone jewelry chains are frequently used during the process of crafts making. As chain necklace or chain bracelets, or just chain decorations. Place orders for wholesale silver plated chains are very safe for these chains are resistant to compression. So we don’t have to worry about deformation problems.

Silver Plated Heart Oval Link Chain 16x10.5mm

Silver Plated Heart Oval Link Chain:

Oval loop:16x10.5mm
heart loop:13.5x14.5mm
Description: This silver plated chain is very special. With only a little more decors, featured bracelets or necklace would be made.

Silver Tone Cirlce Link Chain

Hole size: 14.9mm
Thickness: 1.6mm
Description: Loop and loop, circle and circle, simple while meaningful.

Silver Tone Cirlce Link Chain Findings 14.9mm

Silver plated chains are much cheaper than sterling silver chains, while it pertains the charming.

2012/07/17

Seed Beads for Beaded Beads

Now “How to make beaded beads?” has become the daily question which would be asked by a large amount of jewelry making lovers. Beads totally made by beads? Well, this crazy thought has become into reality far before I begin to realize the existence of this wonderful idea.

In the world of jewelry making, these incredible things continue to happen at a much faster speed. We have many things yet waiting for us to learn. Such as beaded beads, which after the appearance of Beading Quilts Project, has become the hot topic in beauty chasing world.

And as the beading quilt project, beaded beads project also need a large sum of seed beads. Thus for a beaders and jewelers, please be noted if your usually beads and jewelry making supplies wholesaler can offer you seed beads in full size and full color.

Yellow AB Color Glass Seed Beads for Jewelry Making AB Color Glass Seed Beads

Approx: 4mm x 3.5mm
Hole size: 1mm
Thickness: 3.5mm
Mixed Glass Tube Seed Beads

Approx: 7mm x 2mm
Hole size: 0.6mm
Thickness: 2mm(1/8")
Mixed Glass Tube Seed Beads 7x2mm(1/4"x1/8") Jewelry Making
Mixed Glass Seed Beads 3mm Jewelry Making Mixed Glass Seed Beads

Approx: 3mm x 3mm
Hole size: 0.8mm
Thickness: 3mm(1/8")

Seed beads come mainly in two main categories, glass seed beads and acrylic seed beads. Both of the two categories are very handy. However, when we are doing our beading work we should be careful with the fragmentary side corners which remain beside the seed bead. They’re usually very sharp and can easily cut the fingers. Well, the seamless safety measure we can take is wearing a pair of gloves.