9 Easy Mistakes To Avoid When Making Handmade Jewelry

9 Easy Mistakes To Avoid When Making Handmade Jewelry

You should be making gallery quality jewelry. What is holding you back? We are looking at nine things that will help make you a better beader. Learn how to make a secure necklace that will never break. Learn how to enhance your designs with color and components. Learn the difference between generic beading products and professional jewelry making supplies. We have a jewelry demon…
Find Creative Inspiration And Motivation In Our Joyful Beading Challenges

Find Creative Inspiration And Motivation In Our Joyful Beading Challenges

Join us for Joyful Beading! Our daily Joyful challenges are designed to lift your mood and ignite your creative spirit. Every Joyful event we kick off is a celebration of handmade jewelry. If you are feeling blue or just in a creative slump, Joyful inspiration will fuel your imagination and help you become a better beader. We are going to share some Joyful creations from our VIB commu…
Halloween Is Almost Here, We Have Some Jewelry Making Ideas To Put You In The Spirit

Halloween Is Almost Here, We Have Some Jewelry Making Ideas To Put You In The Spirit

Halloween will be here before you know it! Let's look some exciting jewelry making ideas for the most spooktacular day of the year! Melissa J. Lee gave us some wonderful jewelry and craft ideas. She uses traditional Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos icons - skull pendants, evil eye beads, and cobwebs. She also plays with unexpected colors, like floral pink and bright yellow. She has some playf…
Daily Joyful Beading Challenges For Coronavirus Quarantine

Daily Joyful Beading Challenges For Coronavirus Quarantine

Stay joyful and blissfully bead along with us! We are living in very unusual times. Shelter-in-place and isolation rules means that many of us are facing the coronavirus alone and without our peers to talk to and keep our minds at work. Quarantine does not have to be boring! This is a great time to beautify your world and light your passion to create. We are posting daily 'Joyful Beading'…
Finished Jewelry Designs From Our Dark Heart Design Kit

Finished Jewelry Designs From Our Dark Heart Design Kit

Welcome to Kit Day. Today is our favorite  company holiday. We unveil our most recent mystery themed jewelry making kit and explore its contents. Last month we offered a Dr. Seuss inspired kit. The Whimsical Beadtastical Design Kit (Sold Out) was a cheerful ode to one of our favorite writers. We will unbox this fun kit and make some jewelry, live on Facebook.You are going to love ou…
Weekly Video Recap: Metal Stamping Basics - DIY Custom Jewelry

Weekly Video Recap: Metal Stamping Basics - DIY Custom Jewelry

Good afternoon, friends! We focused on metal stamped jewelry, this week. Making a personalized name necklace or unique earrings for your dearest is a fantastic way of saying, "I love you". Do you want to learn metal stamping basics? Check out this fun video recap! Stick around - there is a storm of creative jewelry designing on the horizon. We are unveiling our most recent kit next Wednesday. We a…