Step by step instructions

Materials & Tools

Large wood or plastic bead to cover
Nymo 0 thread
Delicas and/or Czech seed beads in sizes 15/0, 11/0, 8/0, or even 6/0 as
desired
Beading needle

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I mentioned yesterday that all the Swarovski Crystal Beads for this project were donated by ArtBeads.com so that I could create and share this project with you.  Thanks so much, guys!

Materials & Tools:

2 lengths of gold SoftFlex beading wire, 24 inches each
4 – 5 inches of chain
Gold hook
18 bicones, 6mm
6 cubes, 8mm
20 mm square ring
14 mm triangle ring
14 mm square ring
14 mm round ring
Star charm
Moon charm
11/0 Delica seed beads, color-lined mixed green/blue
Nymo beading thread, black
8 jump rings, 9 mm
3 jump rings, 7 mm
11 jump rings, 4 mm
11 head pins
28 crimps, size #1
2 crimps, size #3

Flat nose pliers
Round nose pliers,
Wire cutters
Tape measure
Beading needles
Scissors

Step by step instructions

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Let’s not forget that there are some wonderful sources online with instructions to learn specific skills or make specific projects. Not all of them are free, but if you’d like to get the very best instruction and can’t go somewhere to take a class, these might be just the ticket!

On the other side, these are also sites that you might be able to tap into for selling your own projects if you are interested in pursuing that line of business this year.  I just heard from Eni Oken yesterday, and she says that although her site is best known for wire projects, she is very interested and open to having lots of other techniques taught there too!  Think about it 

JewelryLessons
Featuring tutorials by Eni Oken and friends

Beading Daily
Online store of projects

Bead Patterns
Especially helpful for seed bead patterns

Ganoksin
An unbelievable database of jewelry making tutorials

Beaducation
Online classes by nationally known teachers

Polymer Clay Tutor
Videos and much more by Cindy Lietz

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Love

Make Art Monday!

The bead embroidered necklace above took me a bit longer to make than the average project.  So I’ve raided the archives to come up with lots of fast and easy jewelry projects for Valentine’s Day.  There’s plenty of time to make one of these!

Antique heart filigree pin

Prom Queen earrings

Adjustable necklace and heart bracelet

Venice jewelry set

“Can’t Touch That” Venetian earrings

Knitting and heart jewelry

Heart gemstone set

Chunky Funky heart necklace

Tammy Powley’s favorite heart earrings

“Good As Gold” heart necklace

Colored wire & heart bracelet

Stunning Sterling Heart Earrings

Antique Heart Filigree Pin

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Unfortunately, it’s not always possible to go somewhere to take a class. There’s so much to be said for classes…being able to see the technique demonstrated, being able to ask questions, mixing and mingling and meeting new people. It’s all good. But it just doesn’t work out for everyone.

Fortunately, there is the internet!

There are three categories of posts on this very blog that will lead you to lots of techniques, tips, tutorials, and fun new projects to try. There are also lots of new sources that I’ll be adding to these categories pretty regularly.

The Basics – Getting Started – online instruction to help take the place of basic classes

Tutorials & Techniques – all kinds of beading and jewelry how-tos

Technique Tuesday – my own step by step projects

Online classes

There will be some overlap on these lists. Sorry, but it’s unavoidable If you’d like to share a source that you think I’ve missed, please do! I’d love to be able to have the most complete list of resource links for online learning anywhere!

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