Making Button Jewelry

If you are sick and tired of run of the mill sleek and light weight precious metal jewelry and want to try out some thing adventurous and out of the box, button jewelry might just be the right thing for you. Button jewelry is, well, made of buttons, as the name distinctly suggests.

Button Jewelry

It is very cheap, inexpensive, light weight, easy on the pocket and soothing to the eyes, unique, innovative, creative and perfect for party wear. It can be teamed up with casual day wear, party wear, and cocktail evening gowns and thus versatility is its other USP along with affordability.

The designs are breathtakingly beautiful and stunning and will make you the cynosure of all eyes if you sport a button jewelry creation, either handcrafted by you according to instructions given in free jewelry designing websites or purchased from the countless online jewelry stores. If you want to make them yourself, you will find that it is very easy and like child’s play.

Buttons can be utilized to create necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pins, brooches, and cufflinks. There are online stores which sell antique Victorian button jewelry and 19^th century curiosities which will inspire admiring glances and hushed conversations. The meticulous artistry featured on these Victorian era button jewelry will leave everybody spellbound for you will look resplendent in a slice of history come alive.

Antique Victorian Button Jewelry

Antique Victorian button jewelry can feature designs like perfume caskets or bunch of grapes on buttons made of ivaroid, 19^th century metal, mother of pearl, ornate black glass, colorful shell and ivory, pewter, 19^th century tinted metal with picture engraved on it, art deco designs, Czech glass, brass, bakelite, glass, small ocean pearls, unstruck dice, crystal, glass, rhinestone, mixed metals, celluloid, sea shells, vegetable ivory, oxidized silver and ornate metal.

There can be golden or silver or bronze accents on the buttons. Often the buttons are ensconced in sterling silver pendants and in most cases the buttons are in eye catching patterns and bright colors like blue, green, yellow, orange, red, peach, black, pink etc.

Button jewelry is not very difficult to make and you can take the help of BEAD AND BUTTON MAGAZINE for reference, patterns, designs, styles and techniques. There are also websites and e-books and e-magazines galore which contain instructions, techniques, step by step well illustrated guidelines for creating button jewelry and the best part is that these websites are absolutely free.

Let your creative juices flow and unleash the artist inside you by crafting your own button jewelry.