Make it Tonight! 4 New Inspired Holiday Project Ideas for You!

Get inspired! October's a great time to get a relaxed start on gift-making projects. Here's four wonderfully elegant yet simple jewelry ideas ~ easy and beautiful, you can make these tonight. Each project below includes a clickable supply list. Click any picture for detailed view.

Christmas Flowers - Our brand new single flower shaped millefiori glass beads are the inspiration for this sweet bracelet. Cheryl used the flowers as dangling charms and more millefiori glass coins in red and white as the core of the bracelet. Our new magnetic barrel clasps makes putting on your new bracelet a snap.

• 1168 Millefiori Flower Beads
• 1870X Millefiori Glass Coin Beads Red and White
• 1326 Iridescent Glass Spacers
• 1125j Glass Seed Beads, white
• 1505z Ball End Headpins
• 858a Silver Plated Magnetic Barrel Clasps
  

Blossoms of Red & Green Necklace Get in the Holiday spirit with this necklace using our Millefiori Single Flower Glass Beads. These 12mm beads are cut out in single flower shapes in a rainbow of colors. For this project, Cheryl chose the red flowers and green flowers only out of the 30 beads on a strand. Combined with red, green and clear seed beads as well as bright silver ridged spacer beads, Cheryl has created a very festive necklace. She chose to make her design in a matinee length at about 22 inches. We are sure you will be inspired to make your own holiday creations to enjoy this party season.

• 1168 Millefiori Flower Glass Beads
• 514 Bright Silver Ridged Spacer Beads
• 763 Silver Tiger Tail
• 1606R Silver Crimp Beads
• 1606T Crimp Bead Covers
• 1505V Antiqued Silver Metal Floral Toggle

Snowflake Ice Earrings and Bracelet, features our antiqued silver metal snowflake charms. Cheryl combined the snowflakes with our Aurora Borealis Crystal Cube spacer beads for a cool winter look. Add some bright silver ridged spacers and you have a darling set ready to wear or give for holiday parties.

Snowflake Ice Bracelet, features our antiqued silver metal snowflake charms and coordinates wonderfully with our snowflake earrings above. We used another of our super strength magnetic clasps for no fuss easy on/off.

You will need:

• 633 Antiqued Silver Metal Snowflakes
• 716a Clear AB Crystal Cube Spacer Beads
• 514 Bright Silver Ridged Spacer Beads
• 1558 Silver plated french earring hooks
• 1300 Square Rainbow Cubes Mix
  
• 763 Silver Tiger Tail beading wire
• 1505Y Toggle clasp
• 1606R Silver crimp beads
• 1606T Silver crimp covers
• 858a Silver Plated Magnetic Barrel Clasps

About the designer: Our friend and co-worker Cheryl Satterlee wears many hats here - packer, designer, copywriter and inventory tracker. When she's not here, she switches hats to mom and grandmom!

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Make it Tonight! New Miami and Phoenix Necklace Designs

October is a great month to get a relaxed start on your gift-making and gift-giving ideas. Here's two wonderfully elegant yet simple jewelry ideas you can make tonight ~ easy to string samples and supply lists shown below.

This Miami necklace, by Shenoa Satterlee, makes you want to hop on a plane today! The aqua blue shell beads combined with olive green crystals and white clear seed beads invoke the sky, sea and sand of a tropical paradise. You will need:

• 2 1001A Aqua blue coin shell beads
• 1 1180N 6mm olive green crystal bicones
• 1 1125j 2mm white clear glass seed beads
• 1 763 Silver Tiger Tail beading wire
• 1 1505Y Toggle clasp
• 1 1606R Silver crimp beads
• 1 1606T Silver crimp covers

Phoenix, an orange tabby cat, is the inspiration for this whimsical design A classic combination of bicone crystals and bali bead spacers is transformed with the addition of our cat charms and a cat/fish toggle clasp. Another inspired design from Shenoa. This is an easy project with dramatic results.

• 2 1180W 6mm gold amber crystal bicones
• 1 1503B Bali spacer beads
• 1 1505X Cat face charms Toggle clasp set
• 1 763 Silver Tiger Tail beading wire
• 1 1606R Silver crimp beads
• 1 1606T Silver crimp covers

About the designers: Cheryl and Shenoa Satterlee are our dynamite grandmother and grandaughter jewelry design team. Cheryl wears many hats here - packer, designer, copywriter and inventory tracker. When she's not here, she switches to her most favorite hats of all as mom and grandmom!