My specialty is wire wrapping, I am a free-form type of designer. However, when you make jewelry for living, you must know many other techniques. I constantly experiment and learn. I break a lot before I make something. 😊 Today I was playing with memory wire. Honestly, I use this wire mostly for hoop earrings and simple coil bracelets, beach style. My problem is that I tend to like elaborate and complicated pieces. So today I ‘complicated’ a regular cuff bracelet design to the point that I spent all my morning on it. And when I finished and was ready to go out for my daily walk, it started to…
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How To Wrap a Dragon Eye Pebble – Steampunk Jewelry
I would like to show you how to make an easy wrap, steampunk style. I use this technique for my dragon-eyes pebbles, and after wrapping, I incorporate them in jewelry, like pendants and bracelets. This is how an eye will look like, after wrapping it. The wrapping is absolutely necessary, because it holds the eye in place. In wire wrapped jewelry, the artist never relies on glue, only on wire. The materials you need are: dragon eye pebble, crafts wire (I used copper wire 24 ga), metal gear (from crafts store or Amazon). As you can see, my pebble is not calibrated (not perfectly round), but that’s ok, it will…
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Tree of Life, Island Style
Tree of life is a great motif for every jewelry designer. There are hundreds and thousands of variations, one more beautiful than another. This is my interpretation of a tree of life, island style. I bet you never saw anything like this! My imagination is really wild 🙂 I came up with this tree of life pendant design at the beach, in St. Thomas; Magen’s beach, which is a sunset beach, with many trees. Most of the trees are palm trees, but there are some other trees too. A large Kiwi tree caught my attention … and that’s it… the tree of life pendant was born… my kiwi fruits are…
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How to Make an Eye Orb Pendant
In this picture tutorial I will show you how to make an ORB. It is basically a cabochon eye, wrapped with wire and made it in a pendant. This is our finished piece of jewelry. What you need: 24 gauge artistic wire (silver color copper wire) 2″ bangle or any other already made circular frame flush cutter and a set of pliers eye cabochon from any craft store Step 1 – Cut 8 pieces of wire, 24″ long and fold them in half.Step 2 – Attach the wires to the bangle, using 3 loops, as shown. Try to place them symmetrically. You will have 16 pieces of lose wires.Step 3 – Twist every…
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How to make a Wire Spider
In this post I will teach you how to make a cool wire spider charm. You can use it as a pendant or as a mobile ornament. I like to hang my spider charm from my car’s rear-view mirror. You can also make a larger version and put it on your desk or window sill. I hope you’re getting excited, it is a very cool project. There are many small steps, but I want to keep this tutorial short and sweet, therefore I am using picture collages to group the steps together. It will be much easier to follow. So, let’s get busy! You will need wire, pliers and cutters…
