Seed Bead Jewelry
Posted in: Beaded style by weddingcometrue | March 11th 2010 | no comments
Seed bead jewelry, get more and more! Beads, beads, beads…probably every woman`s dream nowadays. In time of crisis, cheap, colorful and funny jewels are the perfect combination, although there is one major risk: that most women become fond of beaded jewelry and they get too classical as fashion items.
Nevertheless until this unfortunate situation happens, either you can buy handcrafted jewels, or either you will make them at home. Bloggers assure us that it is very simple, you need the minimal equipment of a jeweler (scissors, wax, lots of seed beads which can be bought from jewelry sites) and a lot of creativity. In any situation, you will have in your hands a very colorful and cheap jewel; if you buy it, it will cost you about 10-20$ and if you create it by yourself, you will approximately reduce the costs with 5$.
Your jewelry game can be created with dangle beads (available as black sparkle, purple pearl, deep purple, opaque bone, grey sparkle, metallic silver or gold, iridescent, salmon, ruby, strawberry sparkle, lime sparkle, lime to Capri or blue, mint sparkle, teal, mountain blue, olive gold or gold plated) – 3 mm thick and costing between 3- 4$.
If you are interested in more prominent jewels, you have to choose from 4 mm, 5 mm, 6mm or 7 mm seed beads. For abstract jewels, try flowers seeds spears seeds, hearts seeds, star seeds and leaves seeds- about 3$, available in all conceivable colors and nuances.
If you don`t feel confident in your creative sense of jeweler, try as a beginner classical seed beads as white to black, straw to brown, pink to ruby, purples, blues or greens main themes. Each theme has various nuances for your most extravagant ideas: opaque bone Czech, white lined crystal Japanese, silver lined daffodil Japanese, silver lined gold Czech, metallic copper Czech, silver lined light mauve Japanese, opaque tropical pink Japanese, silver lined blush Czech, opaque fuchsia Japanese.
Transparent purple Japanese, silver lined midnight Japanese, opaque light baby blue Japanese, silver lined dusty sky Japanese, silver lined fresh fern Czech or opaque avocado Czech- just to mention only two nuances for its category. Impressing isn`t it?! Now, you probably find a new hobby: creating beaded earrings or necklaces for your own and maybe you will become a master in this field.
Delica seeds are created to satisfy the most sophisticated ideas for jewels. With only 3$, every opaque or translucent nuance on this Earth can descend in your jewelry box. Some short examples to convince you: opaque lace bone delicas, silver lined charcoal delicas, opaque cream delicas, opaque light peach delicas, silver linde cranberry delicas or amber lined delicas. If you are a conservative woman, some cut glass seeds will surely make you feel elegant. They cost about 6$ and they are available in black, white, light pink, light red, yellow, green or blue.