DIY jewelry design. Earrings, bracelets, necklaces.

Jewelry you can make yourself using Swarovski, Czech, Silver and Gold

Are you a DIY enjoying bead crafts that incorportates silver and gold into your color rich jewel designs for earrings, necklaces and bracelets?

The 100 colors and 20 facet cuts of Swarovski crystal beads bring visual texture to my jewelry designs. Czech Republic glass beads offer rich deep colors, with individual 2-tone Czech beads often possessing unique color shading within the clear glass of the bead.

When I wear an outfit, I like earrings, bracelets, necklaces to all reflect the colors of my outfit.

Well, a trip to a shopping mall clearly showed that I couldn't afford that! So I started designing and making my own jewelry.

The earrings shown above are my Gold accented 9-loop dangles with Swarovski crystals.

Show cased below is a featured photo of my jewelry designs. I have over a 100 designs, and I am building a web page to show them to you. I will add a few each day until I get the majority of them shown.

My jewelry designs have a photo, comments and material list for each one. Click here to view my designs.

Right now I have a total of six pages of photos with links to material and instructions for you to look over like for my deep green aventurine beads and Sterling Silver earrings shown below.



Sterling silver heart earrings with natural aventurine beads

I like using natural stone beads in my designs, like these semi-translucent green aventurine beads and Sterling Silver chandlier drops that I purchased on-line . The tube beads are hand crafted and are a beautiful emerald with a slight metallic iridescence. I like the look of the refine delicate Sterling silver filgree chandlier drop matched against the stronger edges of the tube beads and the double cone silver plated spacer beads.


Thanks for looking at my creations.



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Halloween earrings:

Quick, put together Halloween earrings

Halloween earrings

I found these gold color charms at Michael's craft store. I purchased two packs as I wanted to make up two different earrings for Halloween.

This pair went together easily.

Material needed:

2- Gold Plated kidney style, lever back earrings (A.C. Moore)

2- Gold Plated 3-loop chandelier component (#50507 http://www.eebeads.com/_earring.htm)

10- Gold Plated, open jump rings

2- Chandelier drops are 25mm Gold Plated Victorian (A.C. Moore)

6 gold color charms

Using pliers (see tool used discussion below), I just slightly opened each jump ring. The jump rings are used to connect the various components, making sure to well close each jump ring so no charms are lost when I wear the earrings.

To view a different design in which I used these same two chandelier components, see
Lapis and Swarovski Earrings Lapis and Swarovski Earrings on my Eight and More website.

Halloween hoop earrings

Halloween Hoop Earrings

These were a little bit more involved because I had to snip 4 lengths of chain, all the same length for hanging the charms plus the two short lengths for attaching hoops to the earwires.

Material and instructions are similar to Siam Red Heart Swarovski® 18x17mm pendant with gold accent earrings on my Eight and More website.

Note I slipped a gold plated coil and gold plated round spacer bead onto the wire of the two gold plated earrings.
I got the coil and spacer bead off of another ear wire, http://www.firemountaingems.com/details.asp?PN=H201414FN

The two styles of 6mm gold plated round beads are:
http://www.firemountaingems.com/details.asp?pn=H202888MB
http://www.firemountaingems.com/details.asp?pn=H202898MB

The chain is left over from my
Copper_Swar_on_half_hoop_and_chain Copper Sparkle earring design on my Eight and More website.

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Swarovski® and Czech Republic

Swarovski® and Czech Republic bracelet and earrings

Swarovski® and Czech Republic bracelet and earrings

I wanted to make and present a special gift to my best girl friend. I found all the beads, Swarovski® and Czech Republic, plus the earring findings, even the heart shaped presentation box on the website for firemountaingems.

Stuff I've learned

Click help images below to view discussion and some lessons I've learned ...

View my Eight and More web page to view discussions and some lessons I've learned about:



What are Swarovski crystals  crimping spacer beads  What are split rings and how to use them  tools used help page  tools used help page

Rainbow of Swarovski 6mm bicone crystals

A bracelet ready to wear or be given as a gift.

Swarovski with gold accent

Swarovski® crystal beads

good bulk 6mm 5301 RW

Have your jewelry project in mind and want sparkling colors. I often use the Swarovski® 5301 bicone style crystal bead which has a hole through the axis of the bicone for stringing onto bracelets, necklaces, and earrings.

To view photos of the 90+ different color Swarovski® crystal beads that I have used please click here.

Swarovski® crystals

Do you admire the beauty of Swarovski® crystals? Like a tray full of deep blue sparkling Blue Zircon Swarovski® crystals that I used to make the background images below? Swarovski® crystals, made with 21% lead, are some of the finest crystals available.

I have created hundreds of original photo designs from my collection of Swarovski®. View many of these and download them for free background images from our Jewel Tones category images at GreatWebLayouts.com.





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The spectacular color choices of Swarovski® crystals range from delicate pastels through the sensuous deep reds and purples ending in jet black.

Many of these colors available as free background images from our Jewel Tones category images at GreatWebLayouts.com.





Czech glass beads

Amber_Aqua_Czech_Swar_Amber_bracelet

I also like to use the deep colors of Czech Republic glass beads in my jewelry designs.

Please note when purchasing glass beads to purchase your full quantity at one time as there can be variation in dye lots.

Czech Glass bead jewelry. I'm working hard to take photos and write up the material lists for almost 100 of my jewelry designs.

I'm working hard to take photos and write up the material lists for almost 100 of my jewelry designs. If you would like to see my website of photos, material list, and how-to-do click here. Thanks for looking.


dark amethyst czech_glass_beads_sterling_silver_bracelet

Swarovski and Czech hoop earring with twisted wire top

crysal clear Swarovski and green teal Czech hoop earring

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I really like to hear if you enjoyed this lens and if you DIY, I like to hear about your designs and projects.

  • fugeecat Apr 16, 2012 @ 8:53 pm | delete
    I really like the Halloween earrings you did.
  • TTMall Mar 4, 2012 @ 2:24 am | delete
    Great lens subject! Thanks for sharing!
  • iij123321 Nov 19, 2011 @ 4:52 am | delete
    good resources of knowledge on DIY jewelry design. Earrings, bracelets, necklaces.

    thanks for sharing this information

    jewellery designing in Mumbai,India
  • SaintFrantic Oct 18, 2011 @ 11:30 am | delete
    Really nice.Thanks for sharing.
  • Sylvestermouse Sep 13, 2011 @ 10:24 am | delete
    Your jewelry is quite lovely!
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Keep an eye out as to how you can used something differently ...

I found these gold plated 9-loop chandelier drops marked down at half price. I have made several sets of earrings using all 9 loops and also snipped two loops off the sides to make a 5-loop drop.






In sandal wearing weather ...

I like to wear anklet jewelry ...

dark green anklet jewelry

This dangling anklet of silver beads and dark green Czech Republic glass beads is a fun one to wear as the dangles move gracefully about my ankle as I walk.

A natural stone with a nice coral color ...

After last year's winter holidays I faced up to too much dining out and joined an indoor swim exercise class. I liked the other ladies immediately when I noticed almost all of them wore jewelry while working out. My kind of gals. Finding a coral bathing suit on sale was great, even better was that I had these bracelets and earrings already made up.

Click here to view jewelry design page for these bracelets and earrings.

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