You’ll soon feel the love in the air because Valentine’s Day is coming. Our GoodyBeads Designers have new Valentine’s Day DIY kits to bling out your lovely look.
These kits include all the beads and findings, along with simple step-by-step instructions. They are also easy to make and give away as gifts.
Eat your heart out with a box of chocolates and a beautiful selection of heart earrings.
Czech Honeycomb Jewel Beads with Bracelet Tutorials
With the popularity of the Czech Honeycomb two-hole bead, comes the Honeycomb Jewel bead. Here are two projects where we used these beads to make a bead-stitched bracelet with DiamonDuos and as a wire cuff bracelet with bead wire.
What makes Czech Honeycomb Jewel beads different than other honeycomb beads? Honeycomb jewel beads are faceted on one side, to give depth and dimension, and flat on the other.
Honeycomb Jewel and DiamonDuo Bracelet with Tutorial
Designed by So Vang
We paired the Honeycomb Jewel shape with DiamonDuos, which plays off each others’ faceted look. We took the Chalk Lazure Jewel (Z018620) and gave this bracelet a pop with a bold hue of the Pastel Montana Blue DiamonDuo (SB03347).
Designed by our own Heidi Urlaub, this gorgeous necklace was featured in our 2015 December seed bead fringe trend. We love her edgy designs. See her wear another similar style and learn how to make the simple loops needed for this piece on our YouTube video: How to Make Simple Loops. This statement necklace is a showstopper and very easy to make!
Falling Waters Necklace
Designed by Heidi Urlaub
With a basic understanding of how to make simple loops and opening and closing jump rings, this necklace is quite easy to make. Made with a combinations of size 8/0 and 11/0 Miyuki seed beads and bugle beads, you can make this necklace in many different colors.
Necklace Tutorial
What you will need to make this:
(2 pk. OR 185) A019697/A0019688– 2 Inch Silver Plated 21 Gauge Headpins with Ball Top
Step One: On a headpin slide on the following beads in the image and make a simple loop. Make a total of 175 headpin dangles.
Step two: Open a 6mm jump ring and slide on 5 headpin dangles. Close jump ring. Repeat to make a total of 35.
Step Three: Attach the 6mm jump ring with headpin dangles (made in step two) to an open 5mm jump ring, then attach this 5mm jump ring to the smaller links of your 18″ chain. Close the 5mm jump ring. Repeat 35 times. TIP: To center the look, start from the middle and work your way outwards on either side simultaneously.
Step Four: Open a 6mm jump ring, slide one end of your chain link and close jump ring. Open another jump ring and slide on loop of your clasp, through other chain link end and close jump ring.
One of our talented GoodyBeads designers, So Vang, has her first necklace featured in Jewelry Stringing Magazine, Winter 2017. Not only was the Enchanted Bib accepted for the magazine, it made the front cover!
Inside the magazine you can see a full page spread of the necklace and the details that went into making the necklace. Instructions are also provided.
Snag your copy of Jewelry Stringing Magazine today at your nearest bookstore and see the instructions on how to create this on-trend piece/design. All components can be found here at GoodyBeads!
Q&A for So Vang
What inspired you to make this necklace design?
My inspiration came from my own cultural upbringing. As a Hmong American, there is an artistry in the silversmithing of Hmong jewelry. This is why I was drawn to the antique silver-plated oval chain. Its beautifully-etched design reflects the cultural inspiration and makes up the focal base to this necklace.
The bib style is on-trend right now. The design look daunting to make, but I found my pattern to be a lot of repetitive beading, so once you get the rhythm, it’s really just putting it all together.
Glam up your New Year’s Eve party with your favorite dress, dancing shoes and statement necklace. We have a few fashion trend necklaces sure to turn heads before the ball drops!
Tease your fun side with a statement necklace donned with Jesse James beads from our Dec ’16 trend. Create this statement necklace with the Cabin by the Lake Mix, chain, bib connectorsand feather charms. Finish it up with leather cord and you can get on with the partying!
Designed by So Vang
Check out this waterfall necklace from our June ‘16 Birthstone Trend. This statement necklace has Swarovski® pearls linked together by wire wrapping each dangle and attaching each dangle to the gold-plated necklace with jump rings.
From our July ’16 Birthstone Trend, this statement necklace has the perfect hues for the festive holidays. Headpins are strung with Czech fire polish beads, through Textured Large Oval Links (CH00738/CH00739) and teardrop Chinese crystals.
Designed by So Vang
Let these Dakota Stone Gemstone Pendants (Nov ’16 Trend) create the ultimate focal statement necklace. Simply string one of these pendants with small round beads to separate the stunning sets and add your favorite chain to complete a necklace you can wear year ‘round!
GoodyBeads EZ DIY Series: How to Make a Rhinestone Link and Leather Bracelet
For supplies and tools totaling under $20, you can learn how to make a rhinestone link and leather bracelet with a Rhinestone Link Bracelet Kit (A020661/A020662) and 2mm Round Leather Cord.
Tutorial
Items used:
A020661 – Matte Silverstone Rhinestone Link Bracelet Kit
If you make crimps, this handy Xuron 4 in 1 Crimper with Chain Nose Pliers is a must for your jewelry-making tool box. Watch a video demo from Xuron and learn how to use it with your next beading project.
The 4 in 1 Crimper with Chain Nose Pliers has a crimping notch at the end that creates a perfectly formed v-shape. As you can see from the image above, the crimping pliers also has three different notches to precisely fold a 1, 2 and 3mm size crimping tube after you’ve crimped a v-shape. On top of that, this pliers also multi-functions as a chain nose pliers at the tip of this pliers; perfect for opening and closing a jump rings without putting your tool down.
From BeadSmith® comes a new wave of SuperDuos beads: Duets. SuperDuo Duets features a two-toned color that shimmers, and different hues on each side of the bead. These unique beads are perfect for defining lines and beading accent color around borders.
BeadSmith has an inspiring video featuring these new SuperDuo Duets.
Color Shifting Bracelet from BeadSmith w/ Tutorial
We love the simplicity of this bracelet pattern from BeadSmith. We used the Black/Red Luster SuperDuo Duets (SB03501) with Orange Luster on Chalk SuperDuo (SB02110).
Here, we took the same pattern from the Color Shifting Bracelet and redesigned it by substituting the middle SuperDuos with a size 11/0 Miyuki seed bead, a Miyuki Tila and another size 11/0 Miyuki seed bead. We used Black/White Beige Luster SuperDuo Duet (SB03491) and layered the black sides of the duet together on the edges for an interesting stripe effect.
We also used 8/0 Miyuki Dark Bronze seed bead for the outer edges instead of alternating between a size 11/0 and 8/0 seed bead. Plus, check out the image below on how we’ve sewn our ends. We had sewn in a size 8/0 seed beads at the end to loop in a jump ring and lobster clasp on one end and chain link on the other.
We amped up the pattern and adding more rows of SuperDuos and SuperDuo Duets to the previous bracelet. This bracelet pattern will create a band width just under 1.5” with a cream and black stripe effect and bronze border.
