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.

Sea Shells for Jewelry Making

Right from our childhood days we have been accustomed to the tongue twister – “SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE”. Did you know that sea shells could be the perfect ingredient for exotic beachside jewelry to be worn with your beachwear during the summer sea getaways?

Currently the hottest trend in summer beachwear jewelry – one that is endorsed by most of the Hollywood celebrities and which occupied reams of newsprint and the cover spread in the People magazine – is sea shells jewelry, belonging to the genre of oceanesque/marine/aquatic beach jewelry.

In fact no Hollywood film or pop music video featuring bikini clad babes is complete without that ubiquitous piece of sea shell necklace adorning the necks of beach beauties!

The fashion jewelry industry is in a tizzy over transforming lobster shells, anchors, clams, starfish, corals, oyster shells, coconut shells and various other kinds of sea shells into Object d’Art which can spice up a regular ensemble in a jiffy.

Sea shells are versatile ingredients and can be used to create large cocktail rings, single pendants, long charm pendants, cuff bracelets, charm bracelets, dangling earrings, ear tops, necklaces etc.

The other USP of sea shell jewelry is that sea shells come with natural readymade patterns on them and the patterns are varied, they are available in all kinds of shapes and sizes from big to small to tiny, from smooth glossy finish to matte finish to a ribbed surface and therefore doesn’t require much additional detailing or patterning.

Moreover sea shells can be colored to match the color of your outfit. The greatest plus point of sea shell jewelry is its super cheap price – you can get hold of mindblowingly pretty and exotic sea shell necklaces at $1 only! The dirt cheap rates are of course because of their bountiful abundance on the sea shores. Most fashion jewelry stores, online stores, boutiques stock exotic and eye catching sea shells jewelry.

If Elsa Peretti of Tiffany’s was responsible for introducing and unveiling the mystical and magical magnificence of sea shell jewelry to a bedazzled awe-struck world, then modern designers have carried the craze further by experimenting with hand painted sea shells and teaming up sea shells with swarovski crystals, colored stones, mother of pearl, corals, oriental pearls and setting them in platinum or sterling silver or white gold or gold or copper or brass to create exquisite pieces of marine art.

In fact sea shells jewelry combined with bones, horn, stones, wooden beads, mother of pearl shells, and other such natural marine materials form the mainstay of Balinese and Philippine and Hawaiian jewelry.