Here you can learn how to make your own beautiful, trendy, and modern jewelry with beads, charms and other materials. You can find guides for earrings, necklaces, bracelets, brooches, and much more!
At Smyks.com, we constantly keep an eye on the latest fashion trends so we can create current designs that harmonize with the trends of the time. You will also find classic designs that never go out of style - we want to share the joy of DIY beading and jewelry making with you, no matter what your personal style and taste are.
Our guides have all in common that they are thoroughly described and easy to follow, even if you are completely new to the world of jewelry making. Therefore, you will find ideas and guides for many easy and creative accessories you can make at home on this page.
Most designs are both inexpensive and quick to make, but turn into the finest jewelry that you can look forward to showing off. With our large selection of beads, pearls, jewelry parts, charms, chains, wire, and tools, you can also put your own personal touch on your next jewelry.
Open the Pandoras Box of creativity and have fun in Smyks' creative DIY universe!
You will find the step-by-step guides here and our more detailed blog about different design further down the page.
Make a Christmas Tree with Seed Beads and Wire Charlotte from Smyks shows you how to make a decorative mini Christmas tree with seed beads and copper wire. Decorate it with a star, miniature candles, baubles and a garland. Choose between a...
Make your own stars with Miyuki Delica beads in size #11. This photo tutorial shows you how to weave a five-pointed bead star with an open centre. Use your beaded stars as Christmas ornaments, gift decorations or pendants for earrings. We...
Make your own DIY Christmas stars with small beads In this blog post, Smyks' designer Charlotte works with the well-known peyote stitch beading technique and explains how to make three-dimensional stars in beautiful colours and...
Make your own wooden bead Christmas decorations with copper wire. Follow four photo tutorials: a simple star, a snowflake, a double star and a small spiral Christmas tree. Hang your handmade ornaments on the Christmas tree or in a window, or...
Make Beaded Snowflakes and Ice Flowers with Bugle Beads Make beaded Christmas ornaments inspired by the patterns of ice crystals. We show you two designs using round seed beads, bugle beads and fine copper wire: a red Christmas crystal with...
Make your own Christmas decorations with beads and flowers. Follow the photo guide to a beaded wreath with acrylic flowers, then use the same wrapping technique to decorate wire hearts and stars. Start by shaping a star, heart or wreath from...
Make Your Own Little Beaded Angels for Earrings and Pendants Angels are not just a Christmas motif. Many people associate them with love, hope and protection. A little beaded angel can become a personal piece of jewellery or a meaningful...
Make Your Own Beaded Christmas Ornaments Make beaded Christmas baubles, bells and candy canes for your Christmas tree, window or a personal gift. These three photo guides show how to join beads with thread to create your decorations. Choose...
Make Beaded Mistletoe with Seed Beads and Wire Make decorative beaded mistletoe with green seed bead leaves, white berries and a ribbon bow. We show you step by step how to shape the leaves with gold-plated copper wire, make the berries and...
Create your own copper and gold Christmas decorations with beads, pendants and feathers. Explore nine ideas for handmade ornaments to hang on your Christmas tree, in a window or on a decorative branch. Combine warm copper shades with gold...
Earrings with large colourful bead fringes, often referred to as Greenlandic earrings, are more popular than ever, and the variations and patterns are almost endless. In this example, we use the well-known tubular Delica seed beads, but...
In this blog post, we’ll show you how you can easily decorate a necklace, bracelet or earrings with small, pretty beaded charms. You can use a necklace you already own, or buy a brand new one from our range. You can substitute the beads...
Dear reader, welcome to this DIY bracelet tutorial by Smyks.com! In this blog post, we guide you step by step through making your own beaded bracelet using beading wire (often called tiger‑tail), crimp beads, jade beads and a...
Beautiful trivets you can make yourself Would you like to give your dinner table a personal and creative touch? With wooden beads from Smyks.com, you can easily make your own pot mats or coasters that are both decorative and practical. Our...
Pearl Cluster Earrings In this blog post, we explore a simple and inexpensive way to make beautiful and exclusive pearl earrings with a selection of pearls gathered into a pendant that looks like a bunch of grapes. For this...
Unique Summer Necklaces with Ceramic Beads and Semi-Precious Stones In this blog post, we dive into creative DIY necklaces made with ceramic beads —perfect for capturing the feeling of spring and letting your imagination...
Dear reader In this blog post, we will show you how you can make your own statement necklaces with beautiful semi-precious stone beads. You decide which stones you want in your necklace. Maybe beads in a beautiful colour or gemstones...
With a variety of heart-shaped beads , you can create everything - from minimalist earrings to more intricate designs. The heart works perfectly as the centrepiece of a piece of jewellery, but can also be combined with other beads and jewellery...
Here you find inspiration for making bracelets with semi-precious stone beads. Pearl bracelets featuring slightly larger pearls, measuring 8–12 mm in diameter, have, like their necklace counterparts, become popular once again and can...
The beautiful baroque freshwater pearls are here to stay! Real pearls exude beauty in their own right and combine naturally with gold, silver, glass beads , crystal beads and other jewelry materials. Their organic shapes and smooth...
Dear reader: In this blog post, we present a range of colourful and creative summer earrings made from a variety of different jewellery materials. Acrylic beads and flowers in bright colours are the main element, combined with ear...
Most of these small flowers are assembled with headpins and finished with a loop and windings. Please read our DIY guide to find out How to make a loop . In addition to beads and flowers, you will need the following jewellery...
In today’s blog post Smyks presents a collection of unique and stunning necklaces assembled with a colourful mix of large and medium size gemstone nuggets. These pieces oj jewellery were created by Camilla who in her everyday life...
Earring with Seed Bead Fish In this blog post, Charlotte shows you how easy it is to make small fish out of seed beads. You can decide which size of beads you prefer, as the technique is the same. In this example, we have used...
Necklace with Pink Ceramic Conches We used the following DIY components to make this necklace: 16 ceramic conch shells approx. 80cm satin cord, 1.5mm, dark golden 2 cord ends, 5/4 mm, gold-plated...
In this blog post, we show you how you can make variations of the traditional macramé bracelet yourself. We used polyester cord to knot our examples of different motifs. The bracelets can be made with cord in any thickness, and the...
Summer is here! Now the time has come to decorate your ankles with glittering chains. All ankle chains are equipped with a chain extender. They can be placed high up on the ankle so that they are visible together with sneakers ... or they...
DIY men's bracelet with semi-precious stones In this week’s blog post we focus on braided bracelets with semi-precious stones for men. Smyks offers a vast assortment of semi-precious stones and fine gemstones...
In this DIY blog post from Smyks.com you will find inspiration and instructions on how to make your own beautiful necklaces with natural seashells and conches. Mix your seashells and conches with freshwater pearls, seed...
DIY | Bracelets with Heishi Beads for Men In this blog post, we show you how to create beautiful and personalised unisex bracelets and bracelets for men using flat, round heishi beads, elastic cord, wooden beads, steel beads, Buddha...
Summer is finally here - and with it comes an endless variety of beautiful flowers in all shades and colours! 😍🌸🌻🌼🌹😍 This year's fashion and jewellery trends dictate FLOWERS, so in this blog...
How to make your own earrings and bracelets with seed bead flowers Daisy chain stitch is a beading technique for creating rows of cute little flowers. Here you find inspiration and DIY guides for making bracelets and earrings with seed...
You can see our blog as an online jewelry school. Just like in our in-house courses, we try to guide you thoroughly and understandably, in our online DIY guides, so you can create the most beautiful jewelry in your own home.
The detailed explanations are always accompanied by either pictures or videos that show the procedure, and we also write which materials and which jewelry tools you will need.
You can freely choose whether you want to use our creative ideas to create jewelry exactly like ours, or if you want to be inspired to create your own designs. If you are not quite comfortable with venturing into your own designs yet, you can start by playing with the colors and choosing your own favorite beads, pearls and materials instead of our suggestions.
You can also start with one of our many jewellery kits for both adults and children, as well as advanced and novice jewellery artists.
We love creating current designs that fit perfectly into the fashion scene with the leading trends. Therefore, you will find plenty of DIY instructions for jewelry that do not look homemade but could easily be used on the red carpet or in the next fashion week if necessary.
That's actually where we get a lot of our inspiration from - and you might be surprised at how easy it is to create your own earrings, necklaces, and bracelets that look like the stars' on the dot.
Overall, we hope to show that there are plenty of creative things you can do at home without a lot of equipment or experience and that will look like a million with our DIY blog.
We don't believe that being creative is something you grow out of. That's why it's important for us to make guides that benefit different ages, skill levels, tastes, and needs.
It should be cozy and fun to do something creative, such as making homemade jewelry. We hope that our guides can provide an opportunity for a cozy afternoon in the world of beads and pearls where both children, parents, friends, and colleagues can slow down and gather around our jewelry universe.
As one of the only bead webshops in Denmark, we at Smyks are dedicated to developing new jewelry designs and DIY instructions for DIY jewelry. When you shop with us, you are directly supporting our work and ensuring that we can continue to deliver exciting content, guides, and inspiration to the delight of all jewelry enthusiasts such as yourself.
We have our own creative designer who gathers inspiration from everything from fashion to interior design when she puts together new collections and makes DIY guides. You can read more about Charlotte and her work here.
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