The Exciting And Creative World Of Beads

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If you’ve recently taken an interest in Beads to make some nice jewelry with, you’ll find the whole world of these tiny, little, adorable thingies addictive. That’s especially true as you finish one project after another. For starters though, you’ll probably need a few good tips, and here are some that you can tinker with:

What Those Beads Are All About

Basically, as a homegrown bead jewelry maker, you need to be able to appreciate your beads from five different angles - color, shape, size, material and weight. These are the things that you will be playing around with as you try to combine one bead with another and another until you’ve come up with some nice accessory to wear.

There’s a need to be aware of these five bead elements because they will be the basis as you decide what goes well with what, and what combinations won’t look as pretty as you would want them to.

Of course, there are no hard and fast rules is bead jewelry making. After all, this is art and art is limitless. But there are a few conventions ...
... that let us appreciate it more than if there weren’t.

Playing with the Elements

One example of this convention is that which concerns color. In fact, color is probably the most influential factor when it comes to deciding which beads go together.

It’s fun to experiment, but if you want a coherent design, go for beads of the same color in different shades. Or maybe exactly the same color or shade but different sizes and weights. Or maybe contrasting colors like orange and black, or complementary colors like black and white. Of course, the material matters, too, and this is one part where more of the rules usually come to play. For example, we all like to be artistic and unpredictable, but gemstone beads probably won’t go well with plastic.

In the end, the fact that you’re interested in making bead jewelry indicates that you are creative, and you just have to let those juices flow.

The Need for Quality

If you’re like most bead jewelry makers, whether professional or hobbyist, you’d care about the quality of your beads and not just their appearance. Of course! What’s the use of a perfectly designed bracelet if the beads get chipped with just one uncalculated drop of your arm (and the bracelet) on a hard surface?

Of course, you’d like to give your bead jewelry extra care, but it’s different when you only bought it last week and it’s already scratchy and maybe even cracking around some parts. When it comes to quality, especially of Crystal Beads which tend to be sensitive, do not compromise.

Buy online because it’s a good place to find variety, it’s where the cheap but high quality beads are and it’s also where you can check customer reviews easily. In any case, just have fun in the exciting and creative world of beads.