If you have every wanted to own a unique piece of jewelry but found stores too expensive, try making your own. Jewelry making can be really simple. Yes, if you want to create more elaborate pieces of jewelry, you will need to learn more skills. Just like riding a bike, making fancy jewelry will be an easy skill to master.
Simple To Start
In the video above you can see how fast you can make fancy bracelets. You simply take wire and beads and create wearable art. By being able to create bracelets so fast, you can make many during a single television show if desired.
To make a bracelet, you simply close one end of the wire, add lots of beautiful beads and then close the other end. To finish off the bracelet, you trim the ends of the wire on both sides.
Very Inexpensive to Learn
It is very inexpensive to get started as the only tools needed are pliers and wire cutters. Bracelets only need beads and memory wire. Though you can choose to use fairly fancy beads, often you can make a bracelet for less than $5.
Turn Your Hobby Into A Business
After discovering how fun it is to make your own jewelry, you may want to make it into a business. Jewelry businesses can be extremely profitable.
Extra Steps For Jewelry Businesses
Three things that every jewelry business can benefit from are: packaging, marketing and selling. These three steps can be very simple. For packaging, you can create a nice card or include a box or bag. Marketing can be telling friends and relatives, advertising on Ebay or joining Etsy. Selling can be done on your own website, on Ebay or at craft fairs. Once you get big enough, you will most likely want to hire out some or all of these tasks.
We hope you enjoy making great jewelry and have lots of fun!
As the holidays get closer, we know there will be some people we want to give presents to.If you are on a tight budget, what can you give? Well, you can make them a gift!
A simple thing you can create is jewelry.Jewelry is a gift that can be used longer than baked goods. Additionally, sometimes it is even cheaper. Here are 2 easy types of jewelry to make: beaded earrings or bracelets. Earrings are usually cheaper to make as there are less beads involved. However, sometimes the beads used to make bracelets are really inexpensive. And of course, you can always make a matching set! So lets go over how to make jewelry!
Getting Started
First you need to get supplies.Craft stores like ArtBeads, Micheals, and Joanns should carry everything you need. For either project you need: beads, round nose pliers and wire cutters. For earrings you will also want earwires, headpins and tweezers; for bracelets, you need memory wire.Most crafters will create both types of jewelry for some extra variety.
Remember that fancier beads will make fancier jewelry. Sometimes you can get freshwater pearls rather inexpensively that makes wonderful jewelry.
Making The Jewelry
Both types of jewelry need loops to be created.Use your round nose pliers to create these.Wirecutters make trimming off extra wire a snap.
For earrings: add beads to each headpin, close off headpin with a loop and attach the loop to the earwires' loop.
For bracelets: create a starting loop, add beads, and then close it off with a loop.
Nice Touches
Putting the earrings on cardboard or a blank business card makes them look more professional. Having the earrings or bracelet in a small plastic baggie helps make certain that the beautiful jewelry won't be damaged. If you have extra jewelry boxes around, these help even more.
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