Jewelry Making
September 1st, 2010 at 04:26pm
Under DIY+ Jewelry Making
If you’re like some people I know then you spend a lot of money on all your jewelry. What’s the point? I understand jewelry is the last piece of the puzzle, it puts your whole outfit together, but why spend all the money? Try to save that money and make your own jewelry. If you [...]
Continue Reading How to Make your Own Earrings
Tags: how to make your own earrings, Jewelry Making
By Christine
August 16th, 2010 at 05:04am
Under Jewelry Making
Make some trendy bracelets to wear with your homemade necklaces! We added some great bracelet tutorials on FaveCrafts last week for the crafty fashionista. Here are my favorites:
Dangling Floating Hearts Bracelet: Various pink and red charms and pendants make up this Dangling Floating Hearts Bracelet. This striking crystal bead bracelet will make a great [...]
Continue Reading New Pattern Monday: 3 Beaded Bracelets to Make
Tags: beading, bracelet, breast cancer awareness, crystal, Valentine's Day
By Karisa
July 19th, 2010 at 09:41am
Under Crochet+ DIY+ Home Decor and Design+ Jewelry Making+ Knitting+ Tutorials
Are you the type of person who will receive a compliment for your work and you easily dismiss your project as being amateurish or easy to do? I would be broke if I had to give a dime for every time I receive a compliment and I just dismiss the compliment without accepting the praise [...]
Continue Reading Dismissing Your Crafting Compliments
Tags: Amateur, Artist, Compliment, Creativity, Designer, Failure, Ideas, Mikeyssmail
By Mikeyssmail
July 12th, 2010 at 05:00am
Under Jewelry Making
Every time I go the mall I see veritable boatloads of jewelry that I can only dream of being able to afford. Upon closer inspection, however, I usually say something to the effect of “I could literally make that for cheaper!” Now that there are tons of new necklace tutorials on FaveCrafts, I have no [...]
Continue Reading New Pattern Monday: 3 Trendy Necklaces to Make
Tags: DIY jewelry, free jewelry patterns, necklaces, new pattern monday, trendy crafts
By Karisa
July 9th, 2010 at 11:01am
Under Craft Festivals+ Jewelry Making+ Wearable Craft+ When Creativity Knocks
Nearly 20 years ago I was an Artisan’s sections of the Canadian National Exibition where there was a couple of guys selling some ”Self Made Jewelry”. The jewelry was unlike anything I had ever seen. One of the guys had a dentist friend… He was making some jewelry with false teeth. Before your cringe and think that’s pretty gross… there was something about [...]
Continue Reading Buying The Artist’s Vision and Stories
Tags: art, Buyer, Creativity, Customer, Design, Inspire, jewelry, Mikeyssmail, Passion
By Mikeyssmail
May 12th, 2010 at 11:07am
Under Jewelry Making
Making your own charm bracelets or necklaces can be quite the fun time. If you see a pretty piece of jewelry in the store, but it’s too expensive for you then just take note of the design. You can then go to the store, get your materials and make your own charm bracelet or necklace. [...]
Continue Reading How to Fit Jump Rings when Making Charms
Tags: charms, how to fit jump rings, Jewelry Making
By Christine
February 25th, 2010 at 05:00am
Under Jewelry Making+ Sites We Love
Yesterday, I published a post on how to get started with free beading patterns. I outlined the tools and materials you will need for beading and defined essential terms such as “crimping.” You can browse a huge collection of free beading patterns at FaveCrafts, including 101 Free Beading Patterns. Here are some additional sources on [...]
Continue Reading Link Love: Beading Websites
Tags: beading, beads, jewelry
By Caley
February 24th, 2010 at 10:30am
Under Jewelry Making
My wedding is coming up in just a few months, so my latest planning projects are for all those little details that I didn’t think about in the beginning. The wedding favors, the ceremony “rice toss” (in our case, eco confetti), thoughtful gifts for our wedding day helpers, and of course jewelry for all my [...]
Continue Reading How To: Beading Basics + Video
Tags: aunties beads, basic beading, bead crafts, beading
By Kristen
February 24th, 2010 at 05:00am
Under Jewelry Making
If you scroll down looking at the right sidebar of our blog, you will see a poll with the question, “Which new craft would you most like to learn?” The most popular response with 32% of respondents thus far has been Beading. Many of you indicate that you would like to learn beading as your [...]
Continue Reading How to: Get Started with Free Beading Patterns
Tags: beading, jewelry
By Caley
November 15th, 2009 at 10:00am
Under Jewelry Making
My girl friends and I exchange small gifts every year around the holidays. We’ve lightened up over the past couple of years, because we’ve all steadily had more and more people to buy for as we get older. So last year we implemented a system where we have to make gifts for each other. Nothing [...]
Continue Reading Gift Sunday: Everyone Loves Jewelry
Tags: Christmas Gift Ideas, free jewelry patterns, jewelry crafts
By Kristen