jewelllery making for 2010

princesspoppypop

Sue your bracelets are fantastic!

Poppy x

Shortie

Wow Sue your bracelets are gorgeous!

princesspoppypop

Here is my bracelet make from this morning. Its a gift for a friend.

Poppy x

Taypier

LoLo wrote: »

Hi, I would love to make a pandora style bracelet, can you give me any ideas on best places to buy the beads and bracelets please.

Sorry I missed your post, you should have PM'd me!

I buy my chains and beads from ebay, if you search for pandora style bracelet/bead you should find plently. I got my bracelets from a seller called hmmec1 they don't seem to have any available at the minute and have bought my beads from china at 1p each free postage and packaging! crockrocks and allthingspandora are also good sellers.

Taypier

Poppy your bracelets are gorgeous! I have some memory wire but I can't get the hang of it. How did you make your green and purple coiled bracelet? That's the kind of style I'd love to make!

karren

Sue, they are fab! I too sell jewellery but maily craft fetes around summer and christmas and I love crafts a bit too much sometimes as I sem to have loads of ideas but no time to complete them! I work 30 hours
as
a nurse, ive a 10 year oldand 6 year old and they have tons of hobbies so these days im always on the run!
But ive sorted out our cellar into a toyroom/craftroom and have a desk
and bookcase sorted now and im raring to go! so new year new me!lets hope eh.

princesspoppypop

Taypier wrote: »

Poppy your bracelets are gorgeous! I have some memory wire but I can't get the hang of it. How did you make your green and purple coiled bracelet? That's the kind of style I'd love to make!

Hi Taypier - thank you!

To make a mw bracelet like mine you need a 5/6 coil of bracelet mw.

If using a larger coil that needs cutting down, make sure you use proper memory wire cutters!

I used round nose pliers to coil one end into a ring, then thread on your beads. The beads I used in mine are from different sources. Ive used glass pearls, illusions beads, tibetan charms and beads, glass beads, acrylic beads and aluminium beads.

Eeek when I think about the cost of my bead collection!

To finish off coil the end once again with round nose pliers and either leave like that or add a little charm like my angel.

Hope this helps

Poppy x

tattoed_bum

can i join in please ? I started making jewellery last year a good place for bulk orders is pandahall.com . Also beads direct are quite cheap for gemstone beads and they also have a few tutorials online as well

wam73

All your bracelets are fab, Well done. xx

SueB

I've just posted my first tutorial in my blog. It's about how to do wire wrapping. I'd be grateful for any constructive criticism. I know some of the photo's are a little.......pants..... but I will get around to changing them.