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Step by Step

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. Mixing natural gemstone beads and cabochons with vintage glass beads and the oxidized findings lends importance to your art. The colors are rich and the markings are always interesting. The stones are very earthy and flattering to your face. Look for natural, not dyed stones, since the dye will change and fade over time. Steps to a Project. Note that I used filigree bead chain, filigree bead caps and ...

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The Cameo Lesson

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. A cameo or stone which measures 40x30 can be used in many ways when you first give it a dramatic setting. Glue the back of the cameo to front of brass frame #F79. Let the glue dry according to the directions on the tube. Then gently bend and wrap filigree piece #B33 around the first two items so that the ends of the filigree look like prongs holding the cameo in place.

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Create Unique Settings

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. When you find a beautiful cabochon in a non standard size, you may reject it knowing how hard it is to find settings for those stones. The lesson below shows you how to create a setting for any size or shape stone. Choose a flat stamping with openwork or a filigree as the base, which will allow lots of open areas from which to attach strands of beads or chain. Imagine straight lines around the shape o...

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Brooch Pins

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. My deepest gratitude to good friend and very talented designer Willie Zuniga who submitted this lesson on how to make a brooch pin. She is kind enough to share some of her techniques with you so that you can use that knowledge to make designs of your own. Start with setting #L52. Using small wire cutters nip off the loop. Glue the edges of the filigree to the edges of the setting. Susan adds this note:.

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Tiny Rhinestones

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. Earrings with tiny rhinestones add just the right touch of sparkle near your face. These earrings feature some of our items which hold tiny pointed back rhinestones. I used stones measuring about 1.6mm up to 2.5mm in this example. They are pp10 and pp18 size stones ( pp. Stands for pearl plate and ss. Means stone size. This is how rhinestones are measured.). How to set Tiny Rhinestones. If you make a ...

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Natural Elements

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. This design example, I will show you one way to use a gemstone pendant bead which might not be perfectly drilled or evenly cut. This happens quite often when using a natural element of any type. Shell cabochons, gemstones or handmade glass stones are not always perfectly even or smooth, but I always try to make use of them. I used #W288 as a connector to hang a drop from but also back to back as if th...

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The Layering Technique

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. It's fun to create beautiful jewelry from found objects and all sorts of available materials by using the technique of layering, combined with a bit of artistic ability and ingenuity. This was always the technique I favored during the ten years I earned my living as a designer. To the back of the setting an ornate flat stamping (#L101) was glued to give you. Note that I used a neutral combination of c...

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More Layering Ideas

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. In this focal point piece,. I gathered seemingly unrelated pieces of filigree, stampings and functional findings and then layered them together to create something out of the ordinary. The item numbers are shown below each piece used to make this pendant. Using a filigree piece like #B206 near the top of the pendant allows for necessary openings to attach chain, ribbon or bead strands. 6 Focal Point -.

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Filigree Beading Tips The Layering Method

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Ideas and Inspiration for. For Vintage Jewelry Supplies. Earrings = A Facelift? The Power of Creativity. Since 1989 I've been guided by my passion for designing jewelry of unique timeless style from the finest materials in the world. Now that my hands are no longer strong enough to earn a living doing what I love, I am sharing design tips, marketing experience and thousands of supplies with you here on these web sites. And www.DesignerJewelrySupplies.com. Susan Street, 2007. Visit us on Facebook.