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Bead Stringing Necklaces

String up beaded necklaces, including crystals, gemstones, lampwork, and glass. Learn to use beading wire and finish with crimps or nylon and silk and finish the bead tips.
Peacock Pearl and Crystal Star Necklace
Peacock colored pearls, sterling silver, opal colored crystals, and a gorgeous star-shaped crystal pendant make up with beautiful necklace design.
Lampwork Bead Necklace Projects
Use lampwork beads and bead stringing techniques to make a variety of jewelry designs.
Crystal Bead Necklace Projects
Sparkling crystals will get your necklace designs noticed. Here are some necklace projects incorporating crystal beads.
Pink Crystal and Brown Lava Bead Necklace
Brown and pink are a perfect wardrobe combination, so it made sense to combine pink crystal beads and brown lava beads in this beaded necklace design.
Vegetable Bunny and Bead Necklace
This is one wild and crazy bunny pearl and crystal beaded necklace accented with egg and vegetable lampwork beads.
Floating Flower Necklace
One special lampwork bead inspired this necklace design which combine colored components such as colored wire and colored beading wire.
Create a Bead Mix Cocktail Necklace Strap
What do you do with just a few left over beads? Make your own cocktail style bead mixture and create one-of-a-kind necklace straps with them.
Endless Knotted No Clasp Crystal Necklace Tutorial
This tutorial is a little more advanced than your average bead stringing project, but the time and patience is well worth the effort when you see the finished results of your endlessly knotted crystal necklace. There's no clasp, so you can just slip it over your neck and get ready to sparkle with these amazing red crystal beads.
Opal Crystal Elegance Necklace
Gorgeous opal crystals make up this simple and elegant necklace design.
Copper Dude Shell Necklace
Copper colored beads, a shell, and copper colored beading wire make cool surfer-dude style necklace. Make one for your dude or steal it for yourself.
Pearl Ilusion Necklace
Make an illusion-style necklace with pearl beads, beading wire, and crimp beads. Then finish it off with a hand-crafted clasp.
Crystal Badge Lanyard Necklace
More and more of us these days are required to wear badges where we work, but just because we have to wear something utilitarian around our necks doesn’t mean they can’t also be attractive as well as a functional piece of jewelry.
True Blue Crystal Flower Necklace
Blue is a color that looks good on almost anyone and with the addition of crystals, sparkle, and a flower motif this necklace is fun to make and even more fun to wear.
Beaded Glass Heart and Pearl Choker Project
Step by step instructions on jewelry making, beaded glass heart and pearl choker.
Tin Cup Necklace
The Tin Cup Necklace is a classic and very easy to make, especially for those jewelry makers learning to knot between beads.
Raku and Crystal Necklace
This is a unique twist on the illusion style necklace inspired by lampwork Raku beads.
Oriental Gold Necklace
Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, this gold, red, and black necklace was actually inspired by Venetian glass beads.
Good as Gold Heart Necklace
Gold beading wire, gold-foil pink Venetian glass beads, gold crystals, well, you get the picture. This beautiful golden necklace is perfect for Valentine's Day or any day of the week you want to feel loved.
Heart Throb Necklace
Carnelian, poppy jasper, and moonstone beads with an agate heart pendant make up this cool looking necklace.
Va Va Va Voom Necklace
I had the urge to make something that would really stand out, and this chunky design is definitely noticed. Thus, I call it Va Va Va Voom!
Glitter & Gold
Make a glittery gold pearl and crystal necklace in just a few minutes using gold colored beading wire.
Chunky, Funky Heart Necklace
This necklace design was inspired by the thought of Valentine's Day and by this Caymanite heart pendant. I wanted to create a design that had a Valentine theme, but that was not the traditional pink or red heart design.
Patriotic Necklace
Use red and blue cathedral beads along with pretty pearls to create this red, white, and blue necklace.
Quickie Collar Necklace
It only takes about 5 minutes to make this necklace you can wear to show off a favorite lampwork bead, charm, or pendant even when wearing a shirt with a collar.
Floating Flower Necklace
Created to enhance a favorite, lampwork beads, this small grouping of beads in this necklace float because they are not anchored into position. They will slide and move as the person who wears the necklace moves.
Pumpkin Vine Necklace
Take those delicious pumpkin beads and make a wild pumpkin vine necklace for the fall holidays.
Pretty in Pink Necklace
We all have that favorite piece of jewelry we’ve made that we wear again and again. Mine happens to be a pink pearl tin cup necklace I like to call "Pretty in Pink."
Czech Flower Necklace
If you like chokers and Czech beads, then you’ll enjoy making this simple flower design necklace. These work up very quickly, and depending on the color of beads and cord, you can create an infinite combination of colors.
Victorian Style Fused Necklace
Combine beads and fused glass to make this elegant necklace.
No-Tassel Necklace
A similar technique to the Tassel Necklace is used. However, this design has no tassel. It looks equally as nice.
Tassel Necklace
This tassel necklace can be made with any number of bead combinations. Dig around in her bead inventory and see what you come up with.
Center Piece Necklace
Make a one of a kind piece using various techniques such as wire, fusing, casting, and beading.
Cocktail Mix Cord
Toss in a some of this and some of that to create a cocktail mix of beads and string them up for a unique corded necklace.

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