String Art Pendants - Video Tutorial

Interesting way to make string art wearable art. Seems easy enough, not only that but learn how to make your own home made wire curler. Not sure of the technical name for it, but the thing that lets you wind wire into long coils. She uses a cheap simple bracket you can buy in most any hardware stores and some thick gauge copper wire. She then uses a thinner gauge wire to create the frame of the pendent and then embroidery floss to wrap the wire frames to create the string art. Use different colors of embroidery floss and or different wire frame shapes as well as different wire colors to get different looks and effects of string art jewelry.

Enjoy!



Cre8ively Yours
Andrea "Cre8"

Wire Cage Bead Tutorial - Jewelery

Today I wanted to quickly blog about a neat tutorial I just now got tweeted to me on twitter. It looks really nice and extremely easy. I do not make jewelry although lately I have been tampering a bit because I do make polymer clay beads. I would love to be able to make other types of beads that would compliment the clay beads and bobbles in a nice arrangement where they can be worn as earrings, charms, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, cell phone charms, barrette charms, sunglass buddies(tm) and other wearable dangles.

I have some copper wire which I picked up at my local Home Depot in the plumbing section, so when I saw this tutorial just now I got a hankering for making some wire cage beads. What about you? Go ahead give it a try. If you don't have copper wire it okay to use any wire you may have on hand. I myself may try with some floral wire about the same gauge and just test it out and see if I can get the same or similar twisting results.

CLICK HERE FOR TUTORIAL:

http://www.turtlebayjewelry.com/page.cfm/tut_cagebead

Cre8ively Yours

Andrea "Cre8"

Image of wire cage bead above property of www.turtlebayjewelry.com from the tutorial posted as the completed peice you will be creating.