Choosing Frames for Making Jewelry: Part 1

Series Summary

Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays.

In this series of free video clips you’ll learn tips and techniques for making your own rock and stone jewelry. Expert John Mendez demonstrates the process of making a necklace step-by-step, offering advice on choosing the beads, stones, gems and other supplies like tools and wire you’ll need to get started. He also offers examples of rock jewelry that makes a great gift for a man or woman. With these easy instructions and a little inspiration you’re well on your way to becoming a jewelry designer.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm John Mendez with Expert Village and I am here to talk to you today about jeweled frames. And I am an expert because I have been making jewelry frames for twenty years. It started a long time ago with just extra beads and supplies that I had laying around that didn't match. So I created it just by gluing things together and it became a project that I really put a lot of effort in to and started to enamel them. It became more functional by doing it on frames. I have done challises. I have also done plate chargers. You can really much jewel anything that you want as long as you use the right glues to keep it all together and I will show you how to do that. "