PS I Made This
Share great title, great book. Part designer DIYPart fashion Part lifestyle inspiration guide. I counted 27 projects in this book. All are practical and with easy (obvious) to follow instructions. Sample Trendy Fashion Project 1 How to Make a Fancy Ruffle Shirt (Upcycling a plain boring white t-shirt) Sample Trendy Fashion Project [...]
How to: Ying-Yang Friendship Bracelets
Share This friendship bracelet video tutorial with Chinese Ying-yang symbols celebrates several holidays together, from Chinese New Year (January 23), to our North American Valentines Day (February 14), to Carnival (March) in Latin America, where friendship bracelets were originally invented. This is a very happy friendship bracelet with lots of Chinese red for good luck. [...]
AAA t-Shirt Bracelet: Leopard, Knotted, w Gold Chain
Share : HANDMADE JEWELRY EXTRA-ORDINAIRE. Old t-shirt + leopard design print + knot + gold chain = fabo bracelet. Absolutely wonderful. Let’s make some. This fun tutorial video is long and chatty, so I’ve summarized the steps here for you. Cutting up a tee is just step 1…. Designer Connie Yu goes a mile [...]
Felted Ring
Share I did discovered something new, that’s just so cool that I wanted to share it with you: Did you know that if you take a bit of (your favorite) mohair wool yarn and you wrap it loosely around your finger 2-3 times, and you go about your business of cooking and cleaning, along with [...]
Tribal Jewelry: Get Creative with Bungy Cord
Share Oh, we all crave creativity. But sometimes copycat-designs are ‘just the thing’ to shave off time of making something ‘unique’. Here’s a novel idea that looks so ‘belonging’, that could be made with recycled items. I’d long to make it one day: a tribal necklace a la designer Proenza Schouler’s Resort Collection [...]
Glam Necklace for Cheap: Recycle yr Credit Card
Share I had a golden name necklace when I was about four years old. Did you too??!! (Am I giving my age away now??? Yes, it was long time ago.) ;Well, these old fashioned name necklaces are back. Big time!! How so? New York Celebrities are wearing these instead of the LA glam girls’ beaded [...]
How-to Make a Luu Chan Wrap Bracelet
Share Even if you’re not clicked-into the Los Angeles celebrity-scene, you might have seen these little wrap bracelets. They are THE RAGE in Hollywood. If you’d buy Luu Chan’s, you’ll realize that what once was a tribal friendship bracelet, has transformed into a pricey heirloom. That’s what happens when you add diamonds and precious stones. [...]
Back-to-School with Easy-to-Make Friendship Gifts
Share Time to celebrate going Back-to-School with flirty gifts that create smiles on the first day of school and help continue friendships. Fun Fashion Friendship Gifts that are Easy to Make Sure, there is the good-old classic friendship bracelet (click link to learn how to make it). But let’s go beyond the simple ‘threaded [...]
Fabulous Glamorous Fabric Beads
Share Here’s the tutorial for this easy to make beads, these fabulous, glamorous beads are made with fabric strips wrapped around simple cotton balls. Stitch the fabric down and embellish with contrast-colored shiny glass seed beads in a free –form pattern. As simple as that. Don’t they look glorious? source photo & original design: Alma [...]
DIY Bejeweled Bookmark
Share Step-by-Step Instructions 1. Collect materials: string, or strip of leather, or yarn or jewerly wire coverd in fabric,….. ~ or equivalent.. + pretty beads + tools to attach beads. 2. String them together, creating a long beaded jewel for the book bottom end, and a tiny beaded end-jewel to be topping out of the [...]
Creative Linky Party
Share Linky Party-time. Last week, I contributed a day’s worth of lessons from my jewelry repair workshop. Today, my Linky Party contribution is an overview of all 50 jewelry articles we have on this site, many of which I bet you’ve never seen before. Bookmark this page for future reference, and link up your own [...]
Art & Creativity :: Linky Party
Share Doing anything creative? Show us: it’s Linky Party-time. My contribution to the linky party is today’s Jewelry Repair Workshop. Please do link up your contributions below. Jewelry Repair Workshop – Lessons From Day 1 Today was Day #1 of the “jewelry repair workshop’” that has been desperately needed in our home. I repaired [...]
Every Creative Girl’s Dream
Share This guy just has to be every creative girl’s dream: tall and good looking, organized, and best of all: he helps you find stuff as he remembers where you’ve put your things…!! May I introduce you to: … … Mr. ‘Craftbox’ ! This wonderful guy (.. ahem, Craft Storage Furniture) may perhaps be [...]
How to Make a Bead Necklace
Share This tutorial features the necklace-making basics. You can find the basic beading instructions on how to make a necklace in this video.
Bead Embroidery Earrings
Share Fancy these earrings !!! I mean, fancy making these !!! When I see jewelry like this I completely presume that they are ‘not make-able’ by me. Yet, as designer Sherry Serafini promises, I can do it too!Amazing. Arizona Sunset Earrings Those who sign up for our newsletter (see sign-up on the top [...]
Flower Clay Bead Earrings
Share The tutorial about fruit-shaped clay beads left something out about our craft making adventures of that day. Today I want to share what did not show but made: LOVELY flower-shaped clay beads. They are so sweet, they look like candy. I’ve made them into peaceful earrings by adding a few other charms as well. [...]
How to Make Fruit Shaped Beads
Share Let’s Pretend it’s Spring….. Saturday I bought our first little strawberry seedling. Full of promise. Completely inspired, as we could not wait for it to bloom, we made these adorable strawberry earrings. How to Make Fruit Shaped Beaded Earrings Materials Needed Self-drying clay Round-nosed pliers Acrylic or kids paint (gloss medium [...]
Love is .. Handmade Earrings
Share Love is… a pair of handmade crystal angel earrings for a girlfriend. Materials 2 long metal pins with eye 3 small pastel-colored glass crystals or other beads 2 angel charms 2 earring findings Step-by-step How to Make Angel Earrings 1. Open the loops at the ends [...]
Barbie Just Got a Stylish Jewelry Set
Share … and Bratz too! Yesterday we just spent a lovely afternoon making bracelets. This jewelry set was to accompany a new Barbie to be gifted that just looked ‘too plain’ according to my little friend. This new Barbie to give away to her buddy for her upcoming birthday (see picture) needed a bit of [...]
How To Decoupage Wooden Bangle Bracelets
Share To me this is a great summer craft: making decoupage wooden* bangle bracelets. It’s so easy & fun, and your decoupaged bangles will be ready to wear within a few hours. * Note: I am talking about wooden bangles here. However, let’s use that term liberally. You could use use plastic, paper or [...]
Bead Jewelry: How To Make a Wired Center Bead
Share Over the weekend, I actually set some time aside to zone out, play, learn and make something new. I have made wired beads before for various jewelry pieces, but I never made a largish wire-wrapped center bead. So, I played with some of my beading, wiring jewelry & other craft resources and when I [...]
How to Make Pearled Hair Sticks
Share Hair Accessories Always wondered how to…. Get an elegant 1930’s hair do up? Look like a gorgeous Chinese princess? Take your hot hair out of your neck to cool down in summer? Our Australian-based guest writer & handmade jewelry designer from Chinese origin, Deborah Davy (Two Cheeky Monkeys) offers us at Fine Craft [...]
Give-Away :: $50 Gift Certificate :: Contemporary Jewelry
Share Introducing Lisa Leonard. Do you know her jewelry yet? Well, you’d be delighted to, because she and her jewels are gorgeous. Very hip, very simple, very now, very easy to wear. And Lisa? Lisa is one of those people who you could find creating necklaces in the back of her high school class. [...]
How To: Beaded Bracelet
Share Friday already… One day left to prep for Mothers’ Day…. Don’t panic. You still have enough time to make this lovely beaded bracelet as a Mothers Day gift. How to Make a Simple Beaded Bracelet 1. Peek in your mom’s wardrobe and see which dress definitely needs some jewelry. 2. Go [...]
50+ Cool Recycled Crafts for Earth Day – part 2
Share Happy Earth Day everyone. Hope you enjoyed the recycled craft ideas for desk accessories that we posted yesterday. Today, we want to show you Unique Furniture * Home Decorations from Recycled Materials, as part of this series of 50+ cool recycled crafts for Earth Day. This simply means an extra 50 green craft ideas, [...]
50+ Cool Green Crafts for Earth Day – part 1
Share Earth Day is (Thursday, April 22), so we’re treating you to 50+ new ideas for crafts made with recycled materials and cool eco-design. Crafting with recyclables is hip. In fact, some of the things we’re going to show you are best made with recycled materials rather than with new material, as [...]
Zipper Flower Brooch, Necklace & Earrings
Share .. thinking ‘When is mothers day again’????!! Well, in the US it’s May 9 this year, 2010. So soon. Want to make something unique for Mother’s Day that does not cost an arm nor a leg and that is environmentally friendly? OK. I intend to show you a couple of different homemade mothers day [...]
Fashion Jewelry & Accessories Ideas from Italy
Share I just did a whirlwind tour of 3 cities and am showing you a couple of my creative, artistic and fashion craft finds today. I’ll make a free tutorial for the top necklace, if anyone requests it, as I intend to make it. And perhaps also the silk rose handbag… Let’s see what I [...]
Beading Technique: How To Knot a Pearl Necklace
Share Last week, I went to the Saturday market in a little neighboring town called Civita Castellana, Besides being a hub for artisan ceramics, this town was actually founded on the fact that it was the perfect stop between Florence and Rome. On the grounds of this ancient trading place, today is still [...]
Tutorial Polymer Clay Bracelet & Earring Set
Share A fun and easy polymer clay jewelry set make a great Valentine’s Gift for a girl friend. Tip: You can use this tutorial as the basis, from which to make more complex designer jewelry. Even changing the colors to chocolate, powder blue and off-white will shift the style of the piece to be more [...]
