Month: March 2014

InspirationFXGet your creative juices flowing Copper Spiral Braceletby: Kelly Garland Simply stack the beads on an eye pin and create a loop to finish off each section. Connect with a single copper jump ring.    Add the toggle clasp with jumprings. For extra durability and security – ensure your jump rings are worked to hardness so they do not open with pressure. Copper is a soft metal, and you don’t want to lose your creation!  Working metal to hardness happens naturally with any manipulation of the metal but of course, you don’t want to leave marks or distort your jump …

InspirationFX Get your creative juices flowing Rose Gold Sparkle Collar by: Pam Kearns l love the combination of the gold/pink/bronze and pulled together these beads to create a collar that is meant to sit at the base of the neck. Rich without being gaudy! It is a simple stringing project using beading wire. To get the triangles, take the beading wire around and again through the first bead in the triangle. The bicones help to hide some of the wire being used, as do the drops at the outside point of the triangle. I suggest working from the spool so …

InspirationFX Get your creative juices flowing Thinking of the Beach by: Rae Huggins It feels like the winter is not going to end, and being the Trinisunshine that I am, I was thinking happy thoughts and I was thinking of the beach. No, I was not daydreaming! I was restocking the semiprecious stones in the store! A few links, some jumprings,chain, firepolish, Amazonite, headpins and wire – linking and wrapped loops and this is history in the making. If spring won’t come to you – then you had better make some spring of your own! Components Go to our components …

InspirationFXGet your creative juices flowing Shooting Starsby: Rochelle Kilmer Catch a shooting star and hang it from your ear,never, never let it go!  These are statement earrings – real “shoulder dusters!” Additional supplies required – elastic band.  Take all 3 pieces of leather and cut in half. Take the halves and cut them in half – but keep them in two separate piles. Take one of the piles of halves and put the leather through a 9 mm Jumpring – move the jumpring to the centre of the leather pieces. Do the same with the other pile of the leather …