Spacer Beads
If you make jewelry to sell, then necklaces are usually your bread and butter. They sell well and customers expect them to be expensive, maximizing your profit. Necklaces are easy to make too, especially if you base them around a pendant or focal bead.
With a pendant, the stones are set on a bezel using a pinch bail. This looks very clean and professional and you won’t have to worry about wires breaking or coming loose. You can also string a pendant onto a chain or a piece of wire just like a bead. What could be easier? However, these very-simple necklaces’ usually sell cheap.
Color
If the pendant you chose has multiple colors, try to incorporate most of these into the rest of the necklace. Use beads of these colors, along with similar colored thread. This allows appreciation of the whole necklace design, rather than focusing on one color.
Harmony
Use beads that are similar in quality to the stones in the pendant. If the stones in the pendant are gemstones with beautiful facets, use quality faceted beads. If the pendant has tumbled stones with lots of inclusions, you should use baroque beads that won’t take the limelight away from the focal pendant.
Spacer Beads
Add different sizes and shapes of metal beads and findings for professionalism and to enhance the focal bead, but without drawing too much attention to themselves. Spacers are also useful to add-design and to economize on the beads used – saving you money.
Focal bead
Large beads, like frame beads, can also be used as the focal point of your necklace instead of a pendant. Use different sizes and color beads in your necklace for effect, variation ads style. Finally, choose the catch to match, attached with jump rings. A dainty necklace uses a tiny clasp, whereas a heavy necklace needs a larger, stronger catch.
This article comes from the new book How to Make a Killing Selling Bead Jewelry available at http://www.easytofollowbooks.com/book100salespage.htm
By Nigel Hay Mckay
To see or purchase his pendant beads click: http://www.mrbead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=pendant
What to put on my homemade earrings?
I just started getting interested with earring making. Well i got some sapphire beads and silver spacers and made some pretty awesome earrings.
My dad told me i should get more original.
Do you know of anything i can use or put on my earrings? thanks!
shells
wooden beads
little pieces of chain
feathers
beautifully-shaped cut-outs from colored plastic/metal
tiny papier mache molds/sculptures
tiny clay/play-doh sculptures
ceramic
wool/string/yarn/fleece/satin ribbon
crochet/tatting/knitting motifs/lace
tiny artificial flowers made with ribbon or fabric, etc…
fish bones
claws
i’m going wild here 
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mix & match any of the above …..
hope these get your creative juices flowing
all the very best & have fun
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