TAGS: Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine + Crystals

Haiku Wire Jewelry with Guest Blogger Barb Switzer

Sometimes, the simplest designs are the most powerful. Wire jewelry made with clean lines and bold colors can make just as big a statement as a piece of wire jewelry made with intricate bends and wraps. In fact, it can actually be more difficult to create...

Published Apr 10, 2013 4:00 AM by Jennifer VanBenschoten

Filed under: Chain Maille, Crystals, Bead Making, Glass Beads, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
Use Basic Wire Jewelry Skills to Make a Fabulous Floral Collar!

A couple of months ago, Jewelry Making Daily 's Tammy Jones wrote about a very cool stick pearl bracelet she made using wire and a metal cuff bracelet. When I saw her tutorial for her wire jewelry making project, I was inspired to finally use one...

Published Sep 17, 2012 4:00 AM by Jennifer VanBenschoten

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Bead Making, Glass Beads, Wire Jewelry, Beading Tools, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beads, Jewelry Making
Treat Yourself to a Little Crystal Bead Luxury and Celebrate Beading Daily's 5th Anniversary!

That's right! Beading Daily is five this month! Five years of beading blogs, beading projects, beading techniques, making new beading friends, and gorgeous beaded art. We've had the likes of Michelle Mach, Jean Campbell, Leslie Rogalski, and the...

Published Aug 3, 2012 4:00 AM by Jennifer VanBenschoten

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Beaded Beads, Bead Making, Stringing, Glass Beads, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping, How To Bead, Bead-weaving, Bracelet Making, Kumihimo, Earring Making, Necklace Making, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beaded Jewelry Design, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
5 Tips for Making Beautiful Wire and Bead Chains

I've been doing a lot of wire jewelry making projects lately, thanks in no small part to my ever-improving wire jewelry making skills. I've discovered that just knowing how to make simple loops, wrapped loops, and jump rings can translate into...

Published Jul 23, 2012 4:00 AM by Jennifer VanBenschoten

Filed under: Chain Maille, Bead Embroidery, Gemstones, Crystals, Beaded Beads, Bead Making, Glass Beads, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Seed Bead Patterns, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beaded Jewelry Design, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
Jump Start Your Wire Jewelry Skills!

Learning how to swim is like learning a new jewelry making skill. You dip your toes in the water, then your foot, then you wade in until you're knee-deep. By the time the water is up to your shoulders, you realize you might just be in over your head...

Published Apr 29, 2012 9:00 PM by Jennifer VanBenschoten

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Beaded Beads, Bead Making, Glass Beads, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping, How To Bead, Seed Bead Patterns, Bead-weaving, Beading Tools, Mixed Media Jewelry, Earring Making, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beaded Jewelry Design, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
Free Beading Project: Colorful Wire Wrapped and Crystal Earrings!

This bright and cheerful wire-wrapping, wire-coiling teardrop earring project was designed by Lindsay Burke for Fusion Beads. With the upcoming holiday season, these would look great for all those office parties and family get-togethers on your busy calendar...

Published Nov 6, 2011 10:00 PM by Jennifer VanBenschoten

Filed under: Chain Maille, Crystals, Bead Making, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping, How To Bead, Earring Making, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beads, Jewelry Making
To Wrap or Not to Wrap; Wire that is...

Lime soda earring inspiration Do you wire wrap all your loops or not? That is seriously the most popular loopy question! I must confess, up until now I didn't think I needed to wire wrap my loops. Please don't judge . . I have had many excuses...

Published Jan 24, 2011 4:44 AM by Kristal Wick

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Bead Making, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping, Beading Tools, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beads, Beading Daily
Top Tools for Working with Wire

It wasn't too long ago that I knew nothing about making jewelry with wire. I started as a beader, for a long time, then dove headfirst into metalsmithing. But wire . . . that was a step I'd missed along the way.
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Published Oct 25, 2010 4:02 AM by Kristal Wick

Filed under: Chain Maille, Crystals, Bead Making, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Beading Tools, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
Dos and Don'ts for Combining Crystals and Wire

I was lucky enough to spend some time with the folks at the Rocky Mountain Bead Society last week. During their Show and Tell (a wonderful tradition with most bead societies where members present their new creations), one of the ladies showed off a couple...

Published Jun 22, 2010 10:17 PM by Jean Campbell

Filed under: Crystals, Bead Making, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Seed Bead Patterns, Bead-weaving, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beaded Jewelry Design, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
Find Your Jewelry-making Mojo with Kumihimo Braiding

Mutual attraction: beads and wire My passion for all things beady has taken me to new levels of determination, levels of obsession . . . and I know you all know what I’m talking about. We practice and practice an element of our craft to get it right...

Published Feb 19, 2010 4:00 AM by Leslie Rogalski

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Bead Making, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Bead-weaving, Kumihimo, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beads, Beading Daily
What Rocked Tucson in 2010

What is the Tucson Bead Show? Tucson during the bead shows is impossible to describe. It is not “a bead show,” not even “bead shows.” It’s a universe of about 50 independently produced venues of beads, gems, jewelry, minerals...

Published Feb 12, 2010 4:00 AM by Leslie Rogalski

Filed under: Gemstones, Pearls, Crystals, Beaded Beads, Bead Making, Glass Beads, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Seed Bead Patterns, Bead-weaving, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Bead Crafts, Beaded Jewelry Design, Beads, Beading Daily
Try 4 New Wire Design Trends

What's coming up in wire style I was at a restaurant with friends recently, and there was a psychic set up in the corner. I figured, why not? So I bellied up to her table and she began . . . “Ah, you’re working too much, but it’s...

Published Feb 3, 2010 4:00 AM by Jean Campbell

Filed under: Crystals, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Bead Knitting, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beading Daily
Design Wire Jewelry with Attitude!

Keep it together with wire. It’s my birthday this week and, according to a friend, I’ve officially arrived to the point in my life where people will start saying “Yes, Ma’am!” when I ask them to do something. Boy, if she’s...

Published Nov 18, 2009 4:15 AM by Leslie Rogalski

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Bead Making, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
7 Ideas for Displaying Earrings

Several years ago, I made a pair of earrings that I wanted to submit to a magazine. Normally, I photographed all my jewelry flat on a piece of scrapbooking paper, but these elegant, multi-part dangles looked like a jumbled mess when I tried that. ...

Published Aug 14, 2009 6:00 AM by Erin Carey

Filed under: Pearls, Crystals, Bead Making, Stringing, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Seed Bead Patterns, Bead-weaving, Earring Making, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily
10 Favorite Tips, Techniques, and Projects from Beading Daily

Beading Daily turned two on August 1st. When I started several months before our official launch date, there were 1,500 members. Now there are more than 100,000! It's amazing that despite this huge growth, Beading Daily still feels much like it did when it started—a fun place to hang out with your beading pals. ...

Published Aug 3, 2009 5:29 AM by Michelle Mach

Filed under: Bead Embroidery, Peyote stitch, Crystals, Beaded Beads, Bead Making, Stringing, Brick Stitch, Wire Jewelry, How To Bead, Seed Bead Patterns, Bead-weaving, Beading Tools, Earring Making, Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine, Beaded Jewelry Design, Beads, Jewelry Making, Beading Daily

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TAGS: Step by Step Wire Jewelry Magazine + Crystals

Haiku Wire Jewelry with Guest Blogger Barb Switzer

Use Basic Wire Jewelry Skills to Make a Fabulous Floral Collar!

Treat Yourself to a Little Crystal Bead Luxury and Celebrate Beading Daily's 5th Anniversary!

5 Tips for Making Beautiful Wire and Bead Chains

Jump Start Your Wire Jewelry Skills!

Free Beading Project: Colorful Wire Wrapped and Crystal Earrings!

To Wrap or Not to Wrap; Wire that is...

Top Tools for Working with Wire

Dos and Don'ts for Combining Crystals and Wire

Find Your Jewelry-making Mojo with Kumihimo Braiding

What Rocked Tucson in 2010

Try 4 New Wire Design Trends

Design Wire Jewelry with Attitude!

7 Ideas for Displaying Earrings

10 Favorite Tips, Techniques, and Projects from Beading Daily