How to Make Jewelry for Everyone

Whether you are a beginner looking for information on how to make jewelry for the first time or you are an avid jewelry artist looking for jewelry design ideas or more tutorials to make wire jewelry, you'll find lots to explore.

Be sure to take a look at our newest tutorial, some Green Fairy Steampunk Cufflinks:)

Hi!  I'm Christine Gierer, and this is my lovingly tended jewelry making site. Look around and you'll find...

Easy to understand jewelry making information (even for beginners!).

Instructions with detailed pictures so you can clearly see how to make jewelry easily achieve stellar results.

Some especially popular areas are the friendship bracelet patterns and the section on how to make hemp jewelry (also known as "macrame jewelry").

If you are interested in beading projects, you'll find some easy and not so easy stringing projects. There's a great beginner bracelet tutorial as well as lots of other bracelet making and earring making projects if you want to make beaded jewelry.

I started making mommy bracelets a few years back. These have proven to be a hit whenever a new baby is due or when mother's day rolls around. These practically sell themselves. I get lots of inquiries everytime I wear the one I made for myself. If you want to make a great gift that people will rave about, be sure to check out my free tutorials on these special bracelets.

 

Share Your Jewelry or Get Inspired

For projects and inspiration by fellow How-to-Make-Jewelry.com readers like you, you can't beat my Handmade Jewelry Galleries! You'll find beautiful work in the gallery. A personal favorite type of jewelry is necklaces. I can't get enough of them. Looking at the necklaces and other jewelry visitors are sharing just make me want to make more and more myself!

You can see a few of my own earring making projects too if you'd like..

Learn New Techniques

I try to introduce new techniques from time to time. Resin jewelry making is becoming increasingly popular and you might want to check that out if you've never tried this easy and inexpensive way of how to make jewelry.

There is also a great polymer clay skull bead tutorial shared by a reader who kindly let me post her tutorial.

Into steampunk? Or just want to know what the heck it is? Take a look at the steampunk jewelry making pages for some inspriation, and to share your work too.

How to Make Jewelry with Silver Smithing Techniques

Silver jewelry making is always popular. If you've wanted to try learning how to make silver jewelry this earring tutorial will teach you key silversmithing techniques like...

• Piercing
• Using a butane torch to ball wire
• Making wire-wrapped loops
• Forging,
• And how to make a brushed patina.

Jewelry Making Tips and Tricks

Get jewelry making tips and techniquesto learn how to make jewelry more easily, achieve quicker, faster results, and take your jewelry making to the next level.  I'm a sucker for tips and tricks that make any project faster, more fun, or more simple to complete.

Find Jewelry Making Tools and Suppliers

• Everyone that makes jewelry has favorite place or two for getting jewelry making supplies. I share my own favorites.
• I've also started building a directory of materials for easy jewelry tool and supply shopping too
• Of course you'll also need tools. If you are a beginner just learning how to make jewelry and wonder which jewelry making tools to use, which ones are best,  and even more importantly, which ones are a total waste of money, you can learn more too.

Jewelry Business Advice, Training, and Articles

For Jewelry Business advice I recommend you check out my other website Handmade Results. It's primarily for jewelry designers that want to sell on the internet so if that's you, you'll love the jewelry marketing advice you'll find there.

Free Newsletter

There is tons more on the site that I haven't yet mentioned. I encourage you to look around, explore the site, and if you like what you see, sign up for my "I'm Making Jewelry in my Jam Jams" newsletter.  I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to learn how to make jewelry, or who wants to improve on what you are already doing. It's getting rave reviews so I bet you'll love it.  Sign up now and you'll get a free wire work tutorial too. 

Some Extra Tips for Navigating This Site

If you've never visited before, start with one of the links on the left side navigation bar or one of the many links within the above paragraphs.

This site is structured so that every page can be reached within a maximum of four clicks from the homepage so this is your best starting point. If you are looking for a frinedship bracelet project, start on the friendship bracelet page on the left side navigation bar. This will bring you to the next page which is an overview of the pages related to that category. You will likely find the link to the page you want somewhere on that secondary page. If not, try the most closely related page and that page may also be an umbrella page that links to a third level of links. The third level is the last level other than any outbound site links.

If you have been here before and can't remember where you saw something, try doing a search of the site.

Just want to see the most recent changes (within the past few days)?  Check out What's New (you can also get to this page from the link on the top horizontal navigation bar too).

Love helping out others?  Visit the Jewelry Ask and Answer pages to read the posted questions and share your insight. You can of course ask your own questions related to how to make jewelry there too.

If you're here for some jewelry supply resources, my bead and jewelry supply resource pages have links to beads, findings, and tools, - and anything else you'll need for making jewelry.

And if you stumbled here because you aren't looking for how to make jewelry and are shopping for discount rings or something like that, then you've been led astray.  None of that stuff here ~grin