Designing Your Own Jewelry

Before you start making your own jewelry, designing and planning is important.  When you plan, always remember that you have to be organized in all aspects as you go along with your jewelry making.  Necessary tools and material are important ; however, you do not just grab those things because you need them.  Sometimes we mess up by trying the incorrect materials ; an example of this is when we selected the wrong beads and ending up with a mess, a complete waste of your time and materials.  So, it is vital to chose the right kind of materials you’ll be using, or rather chose a good quality of materials that may last long without fading. 

The most common materials are handmade glass beads, gemstones, and other metal materials that come in different sizes, colors, and varieties.  They are the loveliest materials that make up your jewelry.  However looks can be deceiving.  Beads are beautiful miniscule pieces, but if you aren’t wise enough to pick high quality beads, you could finish up with faded beads.  Gemstones and other metal materials, if carefully looked after, will last many lifetimes, but others don’t.  Sometimes good quality beads, gemstones, and other metal materials are way more dear to buy, but it really pays when you realize that they can last for a lifetime! 

But if you are intending to make fun and trendy designs, you can go with the cheaper materials.  Finding out how to source the best wholesale jewelry is best done online through places like eBay. 

As beads and other materials come in different sizes, choosing the correct size for your design is critical as well .  You don’t want to select heavy beads to pull off the design shape of your necklace.  Heavy beads may cause tiara tips bending over in your jewelry.  Extremely light beads can look flimsy and will not go with your preferred designed shape. 

Making a dramatic design statement typically comes with plenty of enormous beads; in this situation you can incorporate hollow metal beads, wood or other light weight materials, that may help you make the completed item from being too heavy to wear.  There are lots of light weight beads that look stunning, Bali silver beads are a nice example of this. 

The purpose of the beads is necessary if you are coming up with a special bead effect for your jewelry.  Add a dramatic touch that will make a certain bead stick out.  Others use organic designs, composed of beads that blend together giving an overall beautiful cohesive impression, thus selecting beads that are similar in color tone and sizes are very important things to do. 

After having completed a number of items, and likely planning on selling them, you can come up with this equation for your pricing: cost of the beads + your time + expenses and other materials.  There are many places that you can sell your jewelry : craft shows, home parties and you can find out all about setting up your online jewelry store by searching the internet for ideas.