Jewelry Storage Ideas - Brighten Your Home With Finished Jewelry Displays

Jewelry Storage Ideas - Brighten Your Home With Finished Jewelry Displays

What do you do with your finished  jewelry? Are you a thoughtful jewelry organizer or do you hang your necklaces over the back of a chair? Do you drape your bracelets from the branches of a handmade jewelry tree or do you inventory everything and place your designs in labeled drawers? Do you have a jewelry box with delicate dancer in front of a mirror? Do you organize your sparkly stuff…
How to Make a Rainbow Wrap Around Knot Bracelet with Crystals

How to Make a Rainbow Wrap Around Knot Bracelet with Crystals

This week on Free Spirit Beading with Kristen Fagan, I show how to make a woven bracelet using rainbow colored crystal beads, Soft Touch™ and Soft Flex® beading wire on a Mini Macrame Board. This wrap knot technique can be adjusted for larger beads and thicker diameter beading wire if desired. I share a few similar tutorials with different materials at the bottom of this…
Pantone's Color Of The Year Classic Blue Is The Perfect Fashion Trend For Jewelry Making Designers

Pantone's Color Of The Year Classic Blue Is The Perfect Fashion Trend For Jewelry Making Designers

Pantone's Color Of The Year Classic Blue Is The Perfect Fashion Trend For Jewelry Making Designers Every once in awhile we get a Czech glass bead mix that just blows me away. In this case, the bead mix is based on the Pantone Color of the Year - Classic Blue. When paired with our matching 2020 Pantone Classic Blue Quad of Beading Wire you have almost everything you need to make a winning des…
Weekly Video Recap: Themed Jewelry Making - Wonder Woman, Pantone Classic Blue, And Tokyo Nights

Weekly Video Recap: Themed Jewelry Making - Wonder Woman, Pantone Classic Blue, And Tokyo Nights

Do you like working with a theme when you make jewelry? It is fun to pick and choose your favorite beads from a stash for a project. But, we think having a theme of colors to work with is amazing. This week we explored themed  jewelry making. We released our latest quad collection of beading wire and a mix of beads that celebrates Pantone's Color of the Year. We designed beaded…
3 Beaded Earrings Made with the Amazon Princess Bead Mix and Trios

3 Beaded Earrings Made with the Amazon Princess Bead Mix and Trios

This week, I shared 3 different techniques for making simple teardrop and hoop earrings with Soft Flex flexible beading wire. These DIY beaded earring designs are beginner friendly. You don’t need much in the way of supplies, just some basic jewelry tools such as a pair of cutters, crimping pliers and chain nose pliers, assortment of beads, beading wire, and earring findings!  3 DI…
Learn How To Crimp 2 Ways With This Free Jewelry Making Tutorial

Learn How To Crimp 2 Ways With This Free Jewelry Making Tutorial

Learn How To Crimp 2 Ways With This Free Jewelry Making Tutorial Last week, I broke open a bead strand and its matching bead mix to create two fun designs. The first was created during a live video on Facebook. I took 3 matching boho beads and made a beautiful pendant using our Extreme 24k beading wire.  Click here to buy our latest bead mixes and bead strands.  Soft Flex Extr…