How to Make Jewelry for Everyone Jewelry tutorials About the jewelry tutorials: There are so many ways to create jewelry, and there are luckily no rules to tell you how they shall look, or what you must use to make them. You can let your imagination and creativity go wild. To classify jewelry into groups is not an easy task. Of course, you can see plainly that it is a bracelet or necklace, but when it comes to say what kind of bracelet or necklace it is, the trouble begins. Pure beaded or bead embroidered jewelry is normally easy to classify. But what when you combine several techniques, like chain mail and polymer clay, or worse, add felted beads to that. These tutorials are about putting different components together into jewelry, and about the basic jewelry techniques. I hope you will enjoy them all, and use them to get inspiration to create your own awesome jewelry. Add YOUR tutorial Basic tutorials: Make Your Own Ear Wires How to make wire loops How to fasten a clasp to a jewelry wire Want to know how to make your own Jump rings? Macrame
Recycled High Tech Jewelry by Cirkutia Our love of computers and the latest gadgets creates a huge problem of disposal once they are no longer wanted. One artisan who recycles them into jewelry is Milan based Paola Mirai, the creator of Cirkuita collection. Paola meticulously dismantles unwanted gadgets and upcycles them into new "jewels". She researched into and uses a new transparent and super light material ideal for jewelry making called Orotransperante. It's not clear exactly what it is but it it is probably some sort of resin. You can see the process on her video here. The rings and bangles are sleek and modern as well as astonishingly vibrant with color. Via Before You Go : ______________________________ Original Post by THE BEADING GEMJewelry Making Tips - Jewelry Business Tips
Bead Jewelry Making Instructions! How to Make Jewelry for Everyone - Easiest Fastest Bestest Patinas - Formulas A Definition The surface of metals may be colored, a patina added either chemically or with heat. Patinas are generally achieved by causing the metal present to react with another element. It may be the air forming oxides or another chemical added to bond molecularly with the surface. A few pseudo-patinas are simple coatings on the metal's surface. Preparing the Surface A key to achieving a good patina is to work with an antiseptically clean surface. Existing oxides should be removed in a pickling or bright dip solution. Physically altering a metal's surface will also prepare the surface. Application of patinas should be done immediately after cleaning. Protecting a Patina Due to the possibility of continued color change, once a desired patina is reached, many pieces will require Protection from further reaction. Lacquers provide good protection but may eventually chip, Use a high quality product to avoid later discoloring. Copper Plating One method of coloring is to copper plate.
Wonderful beads art by Nancy Josephson Nancy Josephson is bead artist who makes wonderful and really uniqe beaded art like decorative different things for interior, beaded animals, birds, candlestick, mirrors and even urns! This is something really must see! Click to visit Nansy Josephson Facebook Related posts: Resin Obsession - How to create a bangle bracelet using transparencies This tutorial is graciously shared by Rona Phillips I could get no in-depth help from anyone on how to work with transparencies and add them to resin jewelry. So I decided to learn this process myself and on my own. List of materials: -Super Clear Resin -Large 10-oz. Molds I make my own molds from forms I make from polymer clay. Art You will have to choose a photo - sketch - painting - or art work that you want to use to print onto the transparency. Photo/Print There are lots of different types of photo programs you can use to manipulate your photograph or artwork. Cut Transparency After I print out my transparencies, I let them sit over night in place fuzz and lint can not get on them. You will then have to cut out a very thin strip of a transparency, to glue the bangle transparency together into a circle. I use a small Teflon sheet to tape the small transparency strip to. I then take a scrap piece of the transparency and mix up epoxy according to instructions. Mix Finishing
Inspirational Beading: About Welcome to Inspirational Beading! This blog is a resource for anyone who adores beads, jewelry or handmade crafts. With each post, I hope to inspire new ideas for using beads, colors, and techniques. I often try to put a bit of a green spin on things, while also appealing to every type of beader. A Quick Note on Copyrights: All text on this blog, including interviews, is the property of the author(s), and may only be copied as excerpts (maximum one paragraph or 300 words) when credit is given with links to all authors involved. All images are the property of the artists, with the exception of screenshots which are the property of the originating site. If you would like to share an original Inspirational Beading image, please provide credit with links back to the post. I always do my very best to provide credit, links and SEO tags to help promote the artist and/or site where images are found. Tutorials: For suggested tutorials, see the individual site for copyright information. Blog Comments
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