Jewelry Making for Beginners

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Jewelry making is easy and fun. Make wonderful gifts for your family, friends and yourself!I have slowly learned the jewelry-making techniques. It's a great feeling to get compliments on jewelry you've made yourself. Even better when you've gotten good enough to give handmade jewelry to your friends and family.

Beading Board

Darice Large 3-Channel Flocked Bead Board

Amazon Price: $4.09 (as of 06/01/2012)Buy Now

The bead board, while not absolutely necessary, can make your life much easier. It has at least one channel (sometimes more) around the outside edge so that you can set up your beads in a pleasing pattern before stringing. Most bead boards will also have a few wells in the middle to store beads.

The board shown here has multiple channels for multi-strand necklaces and bracelets.

Select your beads and play with them until you find a pleasing design. String your beads (using string or wire), allowing 1 inch extra string or wire for clasp.
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Product description:The Bead Board is designed with three channels located along the outside of the board to use for design preparation and bead placement. It also offers storage compartment for easy access for jewelry findings, beading needles, thread and separating bead styles, colors and sizes for placement. Make multi-strand necklaces up to forty-two inches in length. Bracelets may be made up to nine inches in length.

Jewelry Making Tools

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Sculpey EZ Release Push Mold Cameos and Hearts Jewelry

Sculpey EZ Release Push Mold Cameos and Hearts Jewelry

These revolutionary flexible mold materials mean no messy release agents are needed. Simply mold, flex and release! Push molds are great for beginners and first time Sculpey users. Work with polymer clays, air dry and non-dry modeling clays, plaster of paris, craft soap & candle wax! Cameos and Hearts Jewelry- Includes 2 cameos in different sizes, 3 different heart shapes as well as cabochon shapes and fancy settings.

Jewelry-Making How-To Videos

Watch these videos to see jewelry-making techniques. Sometimes seeing is the best way to learn a skill.
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Wire for Jewelry-Making

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Jewelry-Making Books

PC11: A Medley of Jewelry Techniques

PC11: A Medley of Jewelry Techniques

Create a medley of jewelry pieces using many innov more...0 points

Alex Best Friends Bands Friendship Bracelet Kit with 2 Looms and 10 Colors

Alex Best Friends Bands Friendship Bracelet Kit with 2 Looms and 10 Colors

Make 10 wide bracelet bands in 4 different pattern more...0 points

Bling Bling Beaded Bracelet Kit

Bling Bling Beaded Bracelet Kit

Bling Bling, Great Bling Bling Ring & Bracelet more...0 points

Jewelry-Making How-To

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Books on Making Jewelry

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Beads

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Turquoise Beads for Jewelry Making

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Jewelry Kits

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Blog Posts

Jewelry fundraiser helps Africans leave poverty behind, one bead at a time.
The fundraiser will not only provide an opportunity to learn more about impoverished Ugandan women who are lifting their families out of poverty with their handmade, high-quality beaded jewelry, but all money raised will support those women, as well.
Going Her Own Way
The jewelry designer Irene Neuwirth, 36, a former horseback-riding teacher, is a nominee for her first Council of Fashion Designers of America award in the accessory design category. Ms. Neuwirth lives and works in Los Angeles, and is dating the ...
Greco welcomes new artists
New beaded table jewelry also has been added to their collection. » Bethany Kirwen, best-known for her flower and landscape paintings, who lately has experimented with mixed-media pieces, including unexpected accents like maps and intricately cut metal ...
Local Artist Designs Jewelry for Celebrity Royalty
?The key thing in my jewelry is the use of the Evil Eye which is a really old, well-founded, historic theory rooted in the Mediterranean. The bead or jewelry that you adorn yourself with the eye is meant as good luck or protection,? she said.

What are your favorite jewelry-making techniques?

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  • TWOnline2 Dec 8, 2010 @ 11:32 am | delete
    i have never made jewelry but i want to start
  • shush Feb 28, 2010 @ 2:36 am | delete
    Great lens. very inspiring. Check out my lens on earrings making http://www.squidoo.com/Swarovski-Crystal-Beads-Earrings
  • reinadesigns Dec 28, 2008 @ 2:58 am | delete
    I like your lens. Rated it. I like wire jewelry making very much because they are easy to make.

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