DIY 6 Easy Breezy Jewelry Ideas from eCrafty.com

Got a Minute? Make Anne's Sparkling Seas Crystal Charm Bracelet We love this idea! So simple and so pretty! Anne took one of our ready-to-wear aqua crystal rondelle bracelets SKU 430.2 and simply added a few of our new sea themed charms with some of our jump rings and came up with this wonderful summertime charm bracelet.

A Few of our Favorite Things Charm Bracelet
One of our newest, most favorite customer requested items is our 1151 Charms Mega Mix. Becky made a nearly instant charm bracelet by using our already assembled chain maille bracelets and attaching a few Mega mix charms with just a few jump rings. There are SO many themed charms in each package - it's easy to whip up a themed bracelet of your own in very little time.

eCrafty Charms Mega Mix Over 100 high-quality lead, cadmium and nickel-free charms sure to be a hit for quick jewelry and crafts. Great idea for troops, groups or girls' night. See ALL of our Mega Mix items here




Summer Seas Wrap Bracelet Here's what our friend Shenoa made with some of our   sparkle,  water-color and color-themed sparkling rondelle mix beads on memory wire. Just make a simple loop to finish each end. A great project to share with beginning crafters!



Pop Art Zebra Stretch Bracelet Look what our friend Becky whipped up with our new resin zebra beads and a few chunky lampwork cubes! So cute! These beads also fit well on our 1240Z ball chain necklaces (as do several styles of our new resin beads). See all of our resin beads here:



Coral Sunset Sparkle Bracelet Shenoa took the same bead combination ( our sparkle, water-color and color-themed sparkling rondelle mix beads)  as in the memory wire bracelet above and strung an easy breezy mixture on our add a bead bracelet cuff. Very easy - really pretty!

Make Easy Message Jewelry with our New Alphabet Beads



Here's an easy idea for crafters of all ages - use our new natural wood beads on our 1240Z ball chain necklaces to spell out your favorite inspiring phrase, your best friend's name, monograms, funny phrases, etc. Here we used our new 1216 natural wood alpha beads on a simple ball chain necklace. You can easily add larger holed bead from our 1155 Bali Bead Mix to dress it up.

How to Make a Chain Maille & Pearls Bracelet
I love this tutorial from Saved by Love Creations - we are sharing it here for you to try. This is actually a VERY easy process - whether you make earrings, bracelet or both -

eCrafty.com has Mega Mixes of both 1501Q Silver Jump Rings and White or Ivory Pearls - plenty to experiment with to get the look you'd like.

 

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1 Minute Jewelry DIYS: Recycled Garden Catalog Pendants from eCrafty.com

1 Minute Pendants made from1. an upcycled garden catalog and 2. our FREE Vintage Flowers Seed Packets download printable sheet.

1 Minute Jewelry DIYS: Recycled Garden Catalog Pendants 
I don't know about you, but right now I have a great assortment of garden catalogs filled with way more pictures of lovely flowers than I can absorb!

Why not repurpose them as wearable art? I've used our 1-minute pendant kits and our instant pendant kits to do just that - it's as easy as peel, stick, trim and insert.

The top loops/bails are large enough to work with any of our organza neck cords, ball chains, leather cords or rubber cords. Once your supplies are laid out and your scissors are close at hand, this project will take 1 minute or less! Watch out, it can be habit forming!

Consider the two minute version and add a little snippet of type or words on top of your image before you stick your epoxy dome dome. Consider the five minute version and make a little custom dangle out of our headpins, crystals, glass pearls or lampwork beads. Easy, fun, and full of springtime! Enjoy!

Use this FREE printable download sheet Vintage Flowers Seed Packets to inspire you! Happy creating from eCrafty.com!

Free Printable! Vintage Seed Packets from eCrafty.com!If you don't have a flower catalog handy, enjoy this  FREE printable Vintage Seed Packets from eCrafty.com! Original file size is 300dpi - this will be very LARGE on your screen but will result in a very crisp 8 1/2 x 11 printed sheet for collage, decoupage, our 1 minute pendant kits, bamboo domino tiles, unfinished wood blanks, more! Enjoy!

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Typewriter Key Jewelry Quick DIY with pre-cut alphabet and charm bases, glass domes

How to make typewriter key jewelry ~ nearly instant charms and pendants with our 20mm pendant/charm bases, 20mm glass domes, and our simple pre-cut typewriter alphabet sheet!

Jewelry Ideas Made with our "In Black and White" Freebie Collage Sheet

Beyond Black and White! 6 New Inspired Projects for You!


Wow! We had an amazing response to our "In Black and White" freebie download collage sheet from the July newsletter and Facebook post. We hope you find these 6 projects as inspiring as we did! Click on any photo to for a closeup.

First up, Kristine Richards joins us as a regular contributor and creative force extraordinnaire. Lucky us! She works in many mediums - this time she used polyclay along with our clear epoxy domes and favorite inks, wire and crystal faceted beads to transform our "In Black and White" freebie download collage sheet into the gorgeous necklaces you see here. Hang on to your collage sheets ~ there's more to come! This is probably do-able for a medium-level crafter. For a detailed project sheet (PDF format - printable instructions) on Kris' necklace, just e-us.

Next up, our friend and coworker Hannah Greenberg came up with a different rainbow interpretation of our "In Black and White" freebie collage sheet - using watercolors on a black/white printout. She trimmed and rolled the colored squares of paper inside of our mini glass bottle charms. The results are gorgeous - and probably just the right level for beginning crafters.  For a detailed project sheet (PDF format - printable instructions) on Hannah's' mini bottle charms, just e-us.

For our bead loving readers, our friend and co-worker Cheryl Satterlee came up with two ingenious ways to incorporate our ball chain necklaces with our spunky black, white and pink lampwork beads. Her latest creation is a new twist on a beaded necklace and chain using 20 gauge wire and assorted glass pearls.


Here is another variation on this new technique from Cheryl. She chose the focal bead with the largest hole for the centerpiece of this pendant. Again using 20 gauge wire she threaded a mixture of focal beads, spacer beads and metal bead caps onto the wire. But this time she created a loop at the bottom and threaded the wire through the center bead twice. The tops are just loops of wire connecting the pendant to the ball chain.  

For a detailed project sheet (PDF format - printable instructions) on Cheryl's ball chain technique, just e-us.
Last but by no means least, our friend and co-worker Shenoa Satterlee (Cheryl's granddaughter) made a beautiful necklace for Grandma Cheryl in all of her favorite colors. Here she used one of our Batik Focal beads as the center of this design. She created a pattern of beads and chain for this necklace. Try one of ourJewelry Makers Mixes in your favorite colors. A few findings of jump rings, headpins, chain and clasps are all you need for a gorgeous new necklace.

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Thank you to our wonderful contributors this month:

Kristine Richards lives happily ever after in the mid west, taking time to smell the roses, create poly clay and lampwork beads and jewelry, attend craft and bead classes, spend time with her family, all the good stuff. There is probably a more accurate bio to write on her - but the newsletter deadline is near! We'll do a formal bio on her project sheets. Welcome Kristine! You are our fairy godmother of craftiness!

Cheryl Satterlee lives happily ever after here in Northern California with her family and grandchildren nearby. We're very grateful to have her help on EVERY front! Packing up your orders, looking after things that would normally slip thorugh the cracks, and creating beautiful jewelry in her spare time. She is multi-talented and enjoys beading, baking and babysitting for new family members!

Shenoa Satterlee lives here in Northern California just a stone's throw from Grandma's house. She is a bright, industrious middle schooler who happens to love absolutely everything about the theater ~ writing! acting! singing! lights! camera! action! She has helped us a lot over the summer here in the office. Thank you Shenoa!

Hannah Greenberg also lives here in Northern California, works hard in high school, love to dance, and does some amazing bending of wire and beading of beads in her spare time! We're lucky to have her here helping us and thinking up so many COOL new uses for our craft items!