Semi Precious Beads

To begin you should place the center of your drilled semi precious beads over the open end of the headpin towards the bottom of the headpin. Place a 4mm semi precious bead to match the jewelry strand design, followed by another semi precious bead. Continue to alternate the different semi precious beads and the 4mm stones for the length of the headpin, less a 1/4 inch at the top.

Alter the design by removing all of the semi precious beads except for the first semi precious bead. Add a row of 4mm pearls or 4mm crystals for the length of the headpin, less 1/4 inch.

When designing earrings using headpins, you can change the design as often as you like before you bend the headpin. The semi precious beads slide on and off easily, allowing you to hold the piece in front of you and watch how the light catches the beads when the headpin dangles.

Uses For Semi Precious Beads

Fill in between the semi precious beads with smaller crystals and/or glass pearls. Use one or the other or mix the two by centering a pearl between two similar sized crystals, or vice versa.

For bracelets, determine how much thread you need for the bracelet, by wrapping it around your wrist. Add approximately one inch to allow for tying the ends together. Slide the semi precious beads onto the thread until it is full. Tie a knot at one end of the thread to hold the semi precious beads. Cut any excess and slip the bracelet onto your wrist.

Semi Precious Beads, Designs

Sketch out sample jewelry pieces to determine what type of jewelry you want to create, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings or pendants, and the colors, materials and type of semi precious beads or metals, texture, size and overall design of each piece. Find inspiration from looking at your current pieces, past trial and error designs, crafting websites, your favorite jewelry designers, clothing and your environment.

Begin assembly of your semi precious beads jewelry. As you put together the pieces, you may find the original design doesn’t meet your satisfaction. Often in production, pieces change as you put them together. Go with your instincts to create jewelry that you would be proud to wear and sell to others.

Designing jewelry with semi precious beads can be a fun and profitable creative outlet. Semi precious beads come in so many varieties that selecting beads for your pieces may get frustrating without planning and designing. The process of deciding which semi precious beads to use can often take longer than the actual jewelry assembly. The act of designing the semi precious beads in your jewelry pieces involves several steps, including finding inspiration for your pieces, sketching out ideas, choosing the beads, determining costs and putting together pieces using trial and error to get the final desired designs.

Hold the loop with your chain nose pliers. Center it over the bead, and wrap the remaining wire around the base of the loop with your round nose pliers.

String your semi precious beads onto the wire as you have them laid out on your bead board. Cover the wire tail coming from the crimp bead as you work.

String a single gemstone or semi precious bead onto each headpin. Grip the headpin just above the bead with your round nose pliers, and bend the headpin to form a 90-degree angle. Hold the headpin at the bend as you roll the wire around the tip of the pliers to form a loop.

Jade, Semi Precious Beads

Jade is a semi precious bead and is considered a royal gemstone in China. While we recognize jade as being light green, it also comes in yellow, lavender and white.

Examine the holes drilled in the semi precious beads. Glass beads can sometimes show frost lines from drilling or look like they have powder inside of the hole. A stone bead, on the other hand, may have some faint chipping around or inside the hole. Semi precious beads are an excellent choice for making your own jewelry, and they will usually sell very well too.

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