Thursday, June 25, 2009

Starting Up Your Glass Bead Craft Business

By Rick Amorey

If you want to make a unique kind of jewelry for yourself or your friends and family members, you will find that one of the best materials that you can use is glass beads. Beautiful and wonderfully exquisite, glass beads offer a lot of diversity when it comes to making handmade jewelry. Learn how to make the pieces that you are interested in below!

You'll find that you can get started with little effort and with hardly any problems at all when you consider making glass bead jewelry. Even people who are brand new to the process can get some handmade beaded jewelry that is wonderfully and surprisingly unique. Below, I present some advice at getting started on making handmade beaded treasures.

The first thing to consider would be what supplies you're going to need. Remember that besides the beads, you will also need some jewelry wire that will let you string them. Other than that, you'll also have to look for accent beads that you might want to incorporate into your jewelry design, clasps and closures (which are also known as findings), as well as wire cutters and pliers that will add that finishing touch to your jewelry.

These supplies are readily available at any craft store in your area, and you'll soon realize that there are a multitude of options open for you. When you go to the fabric or craft store, for example, you'll find that there are also plenty of books on crafts. These will help you decide the design you want; and with just a little bit of work, you'll get the results that will make you happy.

Wanting to make your own glass bead jewelry will of course lead to having to think about which glass beads you'll want to use. This becomes easier if you have already been to the craft or fabric store; you'll already have a fair idea of what you want. So look for the materials that you need, don't compensate, and amazingly crafted glass beads in no time!

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