Herringbone cuff
I use the herringbone stitch for these, and for the clasp, I may use circular peyote or other embellishment. I got the idea from a design in Beadwork magazine, but I don't follow a pattern and I use …
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Handmade bridal cuff
I hand stitched each bead individually one by one using embroidery and back stitching to make sure each bead was firmly in its place and attached securely. One technique you do need here is some pati…
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Romantic Charm
I used wire wrapped loops and jump rings to create the design. I wrapped each dangle using brass ox headpins, bead and bead cap. Once complete, I attached two lengths of the brass ox cable chain and …
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High Sierra bracelet
I strung the piece on Softflex using crimps and crimp covers. I did some wire wrapping to attach the dangling beads to bracelet. I created my own jump rings to attach the dangling beads, using a flus…
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Kissed By The Sea
This sea glass bracelet was designed using beading wire brought together and crimped with a heavy weight sterling silver toggle clasp. The bracelet had to be taken apart several times in order to coo…
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Silver-tone Blue/Jet Bracelet
After organizing all the beads I wanted to use for this bracelet, I tried a few configurations to find the best way to combine the gems and pearls to be complementary. I then arranged the beads, pear…
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Easy-to-Make Memory Wire Bracelet
This is a very simple-to-make beaded bracelet. The fun part is creating an assemblage of beads that coordinate well and enhance each other.Metal spacer beads could be used to separate the green beads…
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Quick and easy
2 crimp beads1 toggle clasp12 bead caps12 small silver beads13 medium baby blue beadsfound bead caps and toggles decided to try them out and finished with a really nice looking bracelet all my family…
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Art Nouveau Copper Etched Bracelet
Again, copper etching is the main technique used. This process involves finding or drawing my own image, transferring this image to my computer, using a program to manipulate this image, printing thi…
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Eternity Bracelet
Using two 9 inch strands of stretch cord: string 4 rose quartz beads, 1 tanzanite spacer bead, 4 rose quartz beads, and 1 Swarovski spacer bead on each of the two cords until attaining the length/siz…
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Favorite Bracelets
I started with printing out a photo, then sandwiched it between a piece of 1.5" X 1.5" glass and a piece of sheet aluminum cut the same size. I wrapped the edges in copper tape and then melted non-le…
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Favorite Bracelets
I hand fabricated swirled figure 8 links and attached wire wrapped Rainbow Calsilica beads, and I think the result is stunning! The link design is slightly altered for the handcrafted hook and eye cl…
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Butterfly' Cloisonne bracelet
I always have interest in trying out different kind of strings for my jewelry designs. For this year's Chinese New Year, I experimented with cloisonne beads and Chinese knot string. I'm using wire wr…
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Favorite Bracelet
I started out making beads with a right angle weave and thought I would try something with a bugle. What I got was a cube (an awesome cube). As I was trying to figure out what to do with it I started…
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Caviar Links
I used size 8 antique orange white heart seed beads. The technique I used was Cubic Right Angle Weave (from Valerie Hector's book-very good instructions). I also used Nymo D dark orange thread to mat…
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