Top 5 Creative Craft Ideas for 2018 spring From Beebeecraft

Jewelry making and craft are wonderful experience for those who love them. The project can boost positive mental health, encourage mindfulness, allow us to socialize and even improve our physical wellbeing. The 2018 spring is coming, let’s learn what the trends are and get inspiration from them. Here is the top 5 creative craft ideas for you and you can buy all the jewelry craft supplies from beebeecraft.com.

Colorful Glass Bead Flower Bracelet

The major materials are glass beads and some jewelry tools and supplies. To make glass bead bracelets, you can choose Czech glass beads as the flower’s petals, pearl beads as its heart, green heart beads as its leaf, and connect each flower with seed beads. It looks lovely and alive.

Beautiful Beaded Long Red Earrings

The earrings are mainly made of red faceted glass beads and green 3mm seed beads. First we should make a shape of flower, then make the dangle, at last connect the earring hooks. It’s easy enough for you to have a try. The red and green dangle earrings always make you remind of the beautiful spring day.

Adorable Green Flower Necklace

This green flower necklace is really beautiful and leaving us a feeling of fresh. But the most challenging part of designing the necklace is to collect the beads. While the main bib portion consists of an array of oval bead, lightweight acrylic bead is a good choice. Once you have figured out how to place the beads, the rest is easy!

Amazing Wire Wrapped Flower Ring

The flowers are at their best in spring. This is the inspiration for this wire wrapped flower ring. What you needed in this flower ring making are green aluminum wire, green copper wire, green seed beads and red rose bead. Of course the pliers are necessary, too. First make the shape of flower with aluminum, and then fill with the green seed beads, finally fasten the red rose bead to the middle. Easy to make, right?

Charming Seed Beads Flower Necklace

This creation is deeply loved by those who love seed beads jewelry, as it’s finished by colorful seed beads. The most difficult prat during this project is to make the 5 flowers. Use the tiger wire to help making a circle and six petals, then thread the seed beads to make the flower vivid. The rest is to make the basic necklace ornament and add six lowers to it. What a delicate and fresh flower necklace. Suit for spring so much!

Do you like the ideas? You may find there are something in common among the 5 ideas. They all have flower as theme and green color to show vitality. These are just what the symbol of spring. Do you have some inspiration for your spring design? Flowers and green. Just try to make your spring jewelry now.

4 Steps to Choose Wire for Jewelry Making

Summary: Wire is always used in jewelry making, you may wonder how to choose right wire for your jewelry making projects. In this post, we will tell you how to do it.

The use of jewelry wire in both practical applications and decorative has always been important in creating complicated, attractive jewelry designs. You can use it as links for chains, create stone settings and make pendants, earrings and bracelets. Good wire can make jewelry perfect. 

Making jewelry needs many tools and wires, the wire used for jewelry making is created in a number of materials and sizes. There are two important elements about wire that you need to know before choosing wire for jewelry; They are wire gauge and wire hardness. Jewelry wire is measured by different gauges, or diameter sizes, there are different kinds and sizes of wires. Hardness means how hard the wire is. You may wonder what kind of wire you should use in the jewelry making. Next, we will offer your more information about wire choices.

4 Steps to choose wire for jewelry making:

Step1: Choose your project.

Firstly, you should know different wire fits different jewelry, so you are supposed to make it certain what kind of jewelry you are going to make before you choose wire.

Step2: Choose the wire hardness: soft, half-hard, and hard.

Soft wire can be easily bent into the shapes you want by hands. It is great for making spirals, loops and round shapes.

Half-hard wire is a bit harder. It is designed for making sharp angles or wrapping around itself.

Hard wire is difficult to bend. It can be used to make pins, jumprings, hooks and clasps. It can’t be bent into round shapes.

Step3: Choose the wire gauge.
12 gauge wire is usually only available in dead soft temper. It may require heavy duty jewelry making tools for shaping and cutting.
14-gague and 16-gauge(1.3 to 1.6 mm) best used for large, heavy jewelry construction, which require some heavy duty jewelry making tools for shaping and cutting.
18-gauge and 20-gauge(0.81 to 1 mm) wire can be made into most bracelets, which can be shaped by hand and with the use of regular jewelry making tools (for shaping and cutting)
22-gauge (0.64 mm) wire for stone settings, earrings and pendants

24-gauge (0.51 mm) wire for most beading projects. The gauge fits through most beads but isn't too bulky.

26-gauge (0.40 mm) to wrap beads and make smaller chain loops. 

20-gauge or higher can be used for making earrings and wrapping bead.

30-gauge or 28-gauge (0.25 to 0.32 mm) wire for delicate jewelry making. It is great for wire weaving, rings, bead work and making small chains. Use fine jewelry making tools for this gauge.

Step4: Choose the wire color.

There are many colors of different wires. You can buy the wires in the color suitable for your main jewelry project.

Now, have you known the wires better? You can choose the wire for your jewelry making better in the future. Hope the above information can help you to create more beautiful jewelry.

Nylon Thread Dragonfly Keychain tutorials

Summary: This dragonfly knot tutorial is to show you a good idea to make a dragonfly keychain for couples with thread jewelry making, which costs less to make but full of love. Don’t leave, the result is a surprise!

To make this string material dragonfly keychain, you can choose nylon thread as the dragonfly's main part, two wood beads as it’s eyes. The alphabet beads added on the body make the whole design meaningful. You can choose special letters instead of that on the picture, such as your names and your lover’s. Now, let’s start to learn how to make a string dragonfly keychain!

Supplies needed in dragonfly knot keychain tutorial:

2mm Nylon Thread
Alphabet Acrylic Beads
Wood Beads
Lighter

Instructions for dragonfly knot keychain tutorial:

Step 1: Make the head for the dragonfly keychain

1st, cut off about 40cm nylon thread(length also depends on your needs), and slide two wood beads onto the thread;
2nd, place the nylon thread to the following shape as picture shows, and the length you want to get the finished dragonfly depends on the places of wood beads;

3rd, keep the middle two threads as the holding thread, use another threads as working thread to tie a half square knot as pictures show;

4th, continue to tie the other half square knot, and tighten threads;
5th, tie a square knot again; now, the head of dragonfly has been finished.

Step 2: Make the wings for dragonfly keychain

1st, tie a square knot as below, and remember keep it loose as pictures show, this will be dragonfly’s top wings;

2nd, do the other pair of wings in the same method, and make this pair of wings smaller than the top ones.

Step 3: Make the body and tail for the dragonfly keychain

1st, slide an alphabet bead onto the holding threads, and then tie a square knot;

2nd, do another alphabet beads in the same way, and use lighter to fix the end if necessary, remember to leave a little loop at the end to be the dragonfly’s tail.

Step 4: Finish dragonfly for couples

Do the other dragonfly keychain in the same method, you can change the color and alphabet beads as you want.

Attach the dragonfly to keychain. The final look of dragonfly keychain for couples looks like this:

Wow! This dragonfly keychain knot tutorial is over! This tutorial have must inspired you on how to make a dragonfly keychain. Take your imagination, and create such cute and unique dragonfly keychain for you and your boyfriend! I hope you will have a perfect Valentine Day!