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Tuesday Tips and Tricks!

I love to create crystal jewelry that has colors that graduate from one shade to another. How can you pick the perfect colors without having them directly in front of you? Check out our “Shop by Color” page of Swarovski Crystal colors! We have arranged the crystals by color and shade, so all [...]

Tuesday Tips and Tricks!

I get asked all the time, “What is the best glue to use with ICE resin and a glue-on bail?” And I have to say, its ICE resin! ICE Resin is self healing so you won’t see the “glue lines” around the bail and it will seal right onto itself to make the [...]

Tuesday Tips and Tricks!

Do you find yourself wanting to give chain maille a try, but don’t know which of our jump rings will work with each pattern? Have no fear- we did the research for you! We tested every round open jump ring that we carry and created charts in our Chain Maille FAQ for each [...]

Tuesday Tips and Tricks!

If you have ever worked on a bead weaving project with Swarovski Elements Crystals and found that your thread keeps breaking, you may have cursed your project and tossed it to the side, too frustrated to fix it and continue. Don’t worry, it’s not your fault that the thread breaks, you may just [...]

Tuesday Tips and Tricks!

My tip today will help you make the same size simple loops (see technique here), on any wire work project with lots of simple loops! If you are working on a piece of jewelry with multiple simple loops and the same size bead this tip works great. Bend the head pin at the top of one [...]

Tuesday Tips and Tricks!

When you’re learning new beading techniques at home, you probably come up with lots of questions that you don’t know the answers to, and you might even start wishing you had just taken a class so you could ask the instructor for answers. Well, for today’s tips, I have any easy short cut [...]