Crystal, My Inspiration and My De-stresser: December 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Inspiration 11 - Donut and Bicone

This bracelet is using 8mm Copper AB and 8mm light Colorado AB Swarovski Crystals. Combination with 6mm Crystals AB Rondelles and 8mm Smoked Topaz Bicone.
This is very easy to make and took me less than 20mins to complete. The thinking on what color combination to use took more than 3 hours.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Inspiration 10 - Butterfly Charm Bracelet

This beautiful charm bracelet is using 14K Gold filled and gold filled balls (suasa) with Swarovski crystals. The bracelets using the following Swarovski crystals
8mm 5040 Donut Crystals (Olivine and Jonquil)
8mm 5754 Swarovski Butterfly Crystals (Jonquil) as Charms
10mm Swarovski Heart Crystal AB colours (Vitrail Medium) as Charms

Inspiration 9 - Black Tone Bicone Bangle

This bracelets looks more like a bangle. Looks elegant with the black and white tone. Made from 4mm Bicone Swarovski Crystal and Silver Lined, Round Hole Matsuno Beads

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Inspiration 8 - Simple and Sweet

This bracelet I made for my boss as I copy the design from her. I like the design, simple and sweet. As she got a rose and light rose combination, decided to make a green tone .... so I put together the olivine and light olivine combination.

This blue combination is a gift for Cheryl, a lovely lady from Atlanta, USA. She is here in Malaysia working on a project. She had helped me a lot by getting some beading tools and gorgeous loose beads, findings from Atlanta. Thank you, girlfriend.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Inspiration 7 - Enhanced skills

Thanks to my sisters I am able to enhance my skills and creativity. They like all the fancy and dazzling designs, compare to me I like the simple design. This is the latest that I make for my youngest sister.

This is the one I put together for my eldest sister. The loose crystals bought by her husband in Sabah.

And this is what I had made for myself. Using 4mm bicone. The width of the bracelets is only about 10mm.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Inspiration - How I got started

This craze in making jewellery(bracelets in specific) all started when my sister gave me a beautiful swarovski bracelets as a Hari Raya present.

At that point of time I also got some spare time with me as I just completed a very stressful project. Trying to find a de-stresser and looking at the crystal bracelet..I knew then ... that is going to be my de-stresser. I started my research on the internet on jewellery making, buying crystal/beading books/magazine and looking for where to get the loose material.