This app was built by an avid bead maker and inspired by my love of beaded jewelry. The app includes a vast selection of materials, designs, and tutorials for creating your own handmade jewelry with beads.
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Beading Designs
Beading designs can be the most gratifying part of making jewelry. These pieces are your babies. The imagination and images from your mind’s eye are what you give birth.
Beading designs are what make you a ‘handmade jewelry designer’. The designs and possible combinations are countless.
But…what if you don’t see yourself as a jewelry designer? What if you don’t think you’re creative? What will you do for inspiration? We are all different in the arena of creativity.
We are all creative in some way. When it comes to making jewelry there are those that like to just work with their hands, simulating other’s creations. And yet others have original ideas racing through their heads ready to give their ideas life.
Let’s discuss it a little further here, jewelry making ideas and where to find the creativity for beading designs.
Discover Your Creativity in Beading Designs
Let’s focus for a moment on some topics that lead to beading designs. These topics provide a few effective guidelines to assist in your thinking, shaping and molding your thought process while becoming a jewelry designer.
Let’s talk just a bit about each of these to get your creative juices primed.
- Patterns
- Styles
- Trends
- Cost
- Colors
- Events
- Beads
Beading Patterns
Beading patterns can be the start to all great beading designs. Creating beaded jewelry patterns is the combinations of beads and components. There are 4 different types of patterns and an example of each.
Random
Irregular, unpremeditated pattern with no rhyme or reason.
Repeat
Symmetrical
A center focal with each side identical creates a mirrored pattern equal in balance and proportion
Asymmetric
Bead combinations and materials are endless but these will be the basis to the start of your design. Do you lean to one pattern more than another? How will you differ with each piece you create? Time will tell.
Jewelry Style
Style is a very personal mode of fashion. It speaks to what that person is about and their taste in fashion. Styles are used as expressing oneself and the genre one likes to exude. Styles can be classic and simple, big and bold, brass and sassy, fun and festive, chic or funky, current or retro. Varieties, options, choices and interest are all factors played in your taste of style. Style can also represent the type of jewelry you wear; i.e. hoop earrings vs. dangle earrings, both can be dressed up or dressed down depending on the event or occasion.
Consider style with your beading designs.
Fashion Trends
Trends come and go based on taste, crazes, fads, themes and moods. What trends do you see today? Can you remember other trends from the past that still lend themselves to today’s styles? Do you have a trend you follow or like to wear? Think of some of these as you begin to think beading designs.
Canvas of Color
Color stimulates our senses. When you think about creating a design do you think in color?
Do you have a favorite color or a least favorite color? Do you find specific colors exciting and alluring or boring and dull? Colors speak to us, set our moods, lift our spirits or calm us down. Colors can make us hungry or subdue our appetites, make us happy or sad, confident or disinclined.
Did we say that color stimulates our senses? There are classes and studies and books and lectures on how colors affect our human senses. There are charts on what moods and emotions color create in us.
Our birth months are represented by colored gemstones. Every school and sports team is represented by colors. A change of seasons brings about a new palette of colors.
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A little video we thought you may find helpful on using a color wheel for beading designs and helping with your thought process.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/yrGcXTlpIww
How do you use color in your everyday life? How will you use color as you move forward beading designs? Share your thoughts and comments with us.
Special Occasions or Events
Designing jewelry based on a special occasion or event on your calendar can also play in this game of designing jewelry. How much jewelry do you wear on a regular basis? Does it depend on an event?
What type of occasions do you attend that lends itself to wear jewelry; church, work, sports events, plays, the movies, dinner out or just every day?
Keep the occasion in mind as you begin to gather the components to create that jewelry design that speaks to the event. When designing jewelry based on events, allow it to talk to you. It will help in your creations, a bracelet may be designed to go with that little black dress but still lend itself to the jeans and jacket event. The possibilities are endless. What does it say to you?
Beads [a.k.a. ‘Eye Candy’]
Maybe you have seen a beautiful focal bead that you may like to incorporate into a design. That would mean the whole design would revolve around that one focal beads. Pictured here is one of our favorite focal beads we love creating designs around. We call her our ‘bead-at-home-mom’ beads, although it could be green hair but we see curlers. She is a fun bead regardless.
Price Point
How much do you plan to spend on supplies? Do you have a budget set for yourself? Buying beads, materials, tools and storage all add up to dollars. Beading is relatively inexpensive but you can run into $100’s of dollars either based on quality or the quantity of beads and how much inventory you accumulate.
Then what will you do with your creations? Will they be for you, gifts to family and friends or a means to earn extra money?
If you accumulate inventory to sell your designs there will be the added cost in marketing and packaging as well. All of this can play a huge factor on the type of designs you create or at least create in the beginning.
But if fine jewelry is your taste with gemstones and precious metals, then cost and price point will play into purchasing those higher-end supplies.
Depending the type of beads and supplies you choose, your purchase can cost as little as 1 cent and on up towards $10 per bead and anything in between.
Learn from someone who has ‘been there, done that’. In the beginning we rushed out, bought a bunch of beads without knowing anything about beads or their quality. We had a fresh taste for making jewelry and dove right in head first. We were attracted to how they looked behind the packaging and the price tag. Once we got our treasures, called beads, home we ripped into them. Couldn’t wait to get them out of their packaging. Disappointment immediately followed. They were not what we were expecting, but then we didn’t really know what to expect, we had no experience.
We kept them to use for practice but a big lesson was learned that day. Temptation to these tantalizing treats are very real!! Start slow, get to know your supplies, build your stash a little at a time.
Beading Tip
Allow yourself time to become familiar with available product before investing very much money.
Don’t be lured into a sale or the fact that a bag of beads may cost under $2. If that’s the case then only buy one package and not the whole lot. Resist the temptation and learn your material and product first, it will save you money in the long run.
In Conclusion…
There are many facets to incorporate in your beading designs to be an effective jewelry designer whether you are designing for yourself or others, making gifts or product to sell.
Learn what speaks to you.
- What is your mood for the day?
- What is the weather?
- How much time do you have?
- Do you have all of your materials available?
- Is the design still in thinking process?
There will also be those times that the design you have in your mind’s eye doesn’t turn out quite like you expected. Will you be flexible enough with your designing to change your course mid-stream? Every facet to designing will not necessarily play into the equation with each piece of jewelry you create. Use it as a check list or just for reference.
