Beadwork Ideas For Fun and Profit
If you're interested in beadwork as more than just a hobby, but also as a potential means of putting money in your pocket, then picking the right projects to focus on can greatly influence your success or failure. Below are some of the more popular profitable niches inside the expansive hobby that is bead craft.Matched Sets: The upshot of these beadwork projects is that the field is somewhat less crowded and thus, easier to enter than other areas. It's one thing to whip out a pair of earrings, but to create a matching ensemble is quite an undertaking. Definitely an advanced undertaking, even if the designs are relatively simple. On the plus side, you can generally charge a premium for matched sets, but this is balanced by the fact that they are slower to produce. If you want to make enough for sustainable profits, it is imperative that you streamline processes and keep your designs simple, yet original.
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Wire Beads and jewellery making
Due to jewelry pieces being greatly popular with people now, especially with women, jewelry making has become a hot profession, and the handmade jewelry pieces are the most favorite for people. Wire beads are good ideal for your handmade jewelry pieces.As to wire beads, they are just what the name imply: make beads by wires. According to the shape and using of beads, you should choose different wires, such as dead soft, half-hard and full-hard.
Dead Soft: as the term indicates, this wire is very soft and can be bent with your hands. It is often used for wire-sculpted jewelry.
Half-Hard: it is harder than dead soft wire because it has been pulled through a draw plate (a tool with holes in it the same size and shape of the wire).
Full-Hard: this wire is harder than half-hard wire because it has been pulled through a draw plate more times than half-hard wire.
Wires have plentiful colors, sh...
Posted : March 22, 2011 | Comments : 0 | Top 4 beads for fashion
Beads used in charming jewelry making come in many colors, shapes and sizes. Beads can be used to make almost any type of jewelry you can imagine. Making your own beaded jewelry allows you to expand your creativity, whether for gifts, personal use or commercial sale. Jewelry wholesale beads for jewelry making are made from materials such as gemstones, bone, horn, glass, crystal, wood, silver, gold, brass, copper, pewter, Tibetan, or acrylic. Here are top 6 jewelry beads for handmade fashion jewelry: Acrylic beads: Acrylic beads are one of the most popular and least expensive of the craft beads. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and these beads also come in a variety of colors, to include red, yellow, black, purple, pink, blue, green, orange, clear, assorted. Acrylic beads style comes from antique to assorted, from dreamlike fancy to Ice Flake, from jelly-like to pearl acrylic, and transparent acrylic. Tibetan style beads are one of our best seller j...Posted : March 22, 2011 | Comments : 0 | Personalized Jewelry with Loose Beads
Nowadays, along with the pursuit of personality, people pay more attention to the unique when they choose fashion jewelry pieces. While, how to create unique and/or personalized jewelry pieces? Loose beads will be the best choice.First, let us talk about it from the place of holes on beads. Beads made of any materials, such as glass, stone, wood, metal, resin and so on, can be divided as strand beads and loose beads. As to strand beads, they are thread on a line with holes on the same place of beads. About loose beads, they can have holes on different places with each other. Jewelry pieces made by them separately will have different effect. That is to say, the place of holes can make different effect for jewelry making.
From purchasing, you can easily get many different styles and/or materials for your jewelry making if you choose loose beads. However, you have to buy one bead with a large quantity and have to buy many different styles...
Posted : March 22, 2011 | Comments : 0 | Free Bead Techniques Guide
Beading Instructions: Download Bead Techniques Tutorial Guide
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Beading is a very rewarding hobby which contributes to your own appearance, creativity, imagination and wallet once you get started to sell your pieces. In this article, I will talk about an eBook named The Complete Bead Guide which is designed for people who love beads and want to learn more about beadin...
Posted : December 30, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Wholesale beads and jewelry supplies
When looking for beads and jewelry supplies it is easy to go onto the internet to find online crafting stores and find several amazing prices on beads too. This is important if buying bead supplies on a wholesale basis as the more you buy wholesale the lower your costs and the lower you can charge or the more profit you can extract from each piece.No site will be perfect on each and every criteria but there are various sites on the internet that are very good in a lot of these categories that you will be looking for. Here are some tips for finding the best wholesale beads and jewelry supplies that are available.
Posted : October 28, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Making a cheap bead necklace
When making a cheap necklace with beads collect some beading thread and be sure to add three more inches than the desired length in order to give yourself some room to work with and gather your beads. You will be able to find a wide variety of beads of differing shapes, sizes and designs in the market. You may also want to use some spacer beads to distinguish them from normal beads, these help give an attractive design to any jewellery. In addition to the beads, thread and spacers you wil need a clasp and two bead tips which are needed to secure the ends of your necklace. When you have all these materials at hand you are ready to begin making your cheap bead necklace.First, lay out all your beads out on the floor, a table or any other flat surface and a towel is also a good idea to stop them rolling about and getting lost. T...
Posted : October 20, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Instructions for Making Earrings
Once you have all the tools and materials, you will want to place beads on 2 headpins (though you can use multiple headpins on each earwire, for your first pair I recommend one for each earwire) fashion jewelry. Be sure to leave room for closing it off. I usually leave at least 1/2 inch left on the headpin for closing it. You may want to leave a full inch for your first pair.To close the headpin, making a loop with round nosed pliers and then twisting the wire around the loop will make a more professional and secure closing than just making a loop. No more lost earring parts! It looks much nicer too.
Now attach the headpin to the earwire by closing it's premade loop. I use tweezers for closing his loop.
If you are wanting to sell your earrings, you will want to put them on a backing of sorts. A business card works nicely (make holes with a safety pin after measuring). To secure the earrings on the card, ...
Posted : August 20, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Lac Beads from India
Lac beads are one of the rarest gems and they are unique in the world. They are made of natural and organic substance unsurprisingly called lac. Lac is a resinous substance which is secreted by tiny lac insects (say beetle) which belong to the family of bugs. The lac insect is well known in India and is known as "lac Kerria Kerr." Lac is safe to use because it is completely non-toxic and is a fully biodegradable product.Lac beads can be found in many colors and designs. They have a brilliant luster that that shines to give them an exotic look. In general, the lac beads are handmade and require expert workmanship to give them their unique properties. These handmade articles are famous with well known people preferring to use jewelry and other jewelry lac products as they are anti-allergic skin in comp...
Posted : August 06, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Best Beading Wire
The best beading wire is made of a inner core of steel of differing strengths and thicknesses with intertwined threads of nylon, it is the strongest option for threading and of course the thickest is the strongest but it does have its weak point which is knotting. The thicker the beading wire as well and the more expensive it will be, the trick is to budget your expenses and costs to produce. Because of its steel structure beading wire tends to be inflexible therefore crimp beads are a necessity here. otherwise you will simply end up with kinks which will in time shred the nylon from within and set you off on a jolly race all over the floor to collect your beads, or even worse still your customers will have this job to do. Since they are very strong though you will have to put in considerable effort to break them under normal conditions.Long ago the wire to use for beading was called tiger tail; it was usually made with three s...
Posted : June 30, 2010 | Comments : 0 | 
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Man robbed of rosary beads...
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