Bracelet Design Ideas

One of the exciting aspects personalized bracelets is the vast design opportunities. By choosing a personalized piece of jewelry, you have the chance to give input into the type of metal or gems used, as well as the design itself. The benefit with this is that you, more than anyone else, you know his personality, lifestyle, and character so the gold bracelet would be designed specifically for.

Obviously, you want the customized bracelet to be perfect so the first step is gaining some design ideas. As mentioned, this would involve looking at his life and personality but also looking at various bracelet styles and designs. For this, we recommend you spend time online, looking at national and international jeweler designers to see what is offered. Chances are you would take elements from a number of designs along with your own input and come up with something completely, unique.

With personalized bracelets, you could go with something elaborate, large, and detailed or, a clean design made of simple gold. The type of gold would also be a consideration. For instance, there is white and beaded or the bracelet could be designed with a combination of the two.

Beaded bracelets are great fun to make and to wear. As far as beaded jewelry goes, bracelets are great because they are an "easy" accessory just slap one on with your favorite t-shirt, sweater or shirt. Most easy beaded bracelet patterns can be stitched up in an evening or a weekend, and you can make them as casual or as dressy as you want. Try designing your very own beaded bracelets with a few of these easy ideas.

One easy way to make a knockout bracelet is to take a single stitch - like right angle weave - and work it using crystals or fancy glass beads. You can make a sparkling tennis bracelet in an evening using some crystal bicones and seed beads.

For something a little bolder, make a base of open-weave squares using single needle right angle weave and embellish the open squares with different glass or crystal beads, or use pearls and tiny seed beads. Right angle weave lends itself to dozens of great ideas for making easy beaded bracelets.

Making a flay peyote stitch bracelet is a great way to master both even count and odd count flay peyote stitch. Using a larger size seed bead such as a size 8 Delica or a size 6 seed bead will make it easier for you to see where you are stitching and make the bracelet quicker. Add a decorative trim using smaller size 11 seed beads, and you will have a unique creation all your own.

Once you are more familiar with flat peyote stitch, you can add some texture to your bracelet by including shaped beads like triangle beads, drop beads and peanut shaped beads. Or skip the seed beads entirely and use cube shaped beads. You can also experiment with increasing peyote stitch to make a ruffled edge bracelet. For more unique embellishments, try stitching on some antique buttons or use a button and bead loop for your clasp.

Creating a braided gemstone bracelet is a great project for beginner, and makes a great looking piece for more advanced jewelry designers as well.. If you can braid and use a bottle of glue you already have all the skills required to create one of these bracelets. Large hole gemstones are available in a variety of colors, so customizing this easy to make leather bracelet is no problem.