DIY | Beaded Fish
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...
DIY jewelry blog with guides and creative ideas
Make your own jewellery with Smyks.com
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.
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DIY | Macramé Motifs
Created onIn 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...
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DIY | Men's Bracelets with Heishi Beads
Created onDIY | 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...
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DIY | Daisy chain stitch – jewellery with seed bead flowers
Created on | 1 comment(s)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...
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DIY | Double Daisy Chain
Created onDouble Daisy Chain Bracelet See our related blog post: DIY Daisy chain stitch - jewellery with seed bead flowers . We have used the following materials to make this bracelet: ...
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DIY | Square Stitch Icons
Created onIn this blog post, we show you how you can use the square stitch technique to make beautiful bead icons with images and symbols, ready to hang on a necklace. The small Delica beads are perfect for making images and motifs out of beads - the theme...
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DIY | Jewellery for Confirmation and party
Created onConfirmation jewellery - tradition, symbolism and personal style There are many things that need to be taken care of for the confirmation and it's not just the dress and hair, but especially the jewellery that needs to be found and...
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DIY Silver Jewellery for the Confirmation
Created onJewellery for the big day We have here collected some inspiration for you so you can make your own jewellery for celebrations, such as a confirmation. This collection was made with sterling silver components, but of course you can make...
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DIY | Confirmation jewelry with Delicas
Created onFind inspiration for your confirmation party Here you find some examples of festive jewellery inspired by traditional Danish confirmations. On this occasion the girls are dressed elegantly in white. Consequently, this little confirmation...
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DIY | Mini-bracelets with Delica beads
Created onIn this blog post we’ll show you how to use the popular small Japanese Delica seed beads for making bracelets Delica beads, which are usually used in peyote stitching, bead weaving and embroidery, have shown to have...
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DIY Peyote stitch jewelry
Created onIn this blog entry, we’ll show you a line of jewelry and pendants based on the simple beading tecniquie Peyote stitch. The different tube shapes are all made in the same way, only varying in length and width. We have created a...
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DIY | Mala meditation chains
Created onMake your own DIY Mala necklace for meditation Malas are traditional Indian meditation chains with 108 beads. According to the ancient Vedic scriptures, the human body consists of 72,000 energy channels called nadis. There...
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DIY | Bracelet Sets for Men
Created onDIY | Bracelet Sets for Men In the following blog post, we show you how to make various men's/unisex bracelets with leather, magnetic clasps, chain and beads. There are endless possibilities - you just have to know the methods. Once...
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DIY | Chokers with Seed Beads
Created onDear reader In this blog post, we at Smyks.com have been working with seed beads in new bead patterns that are incorporated into beautiful tight choker-style necklaces. The looks can vary in style from the truly romantic to the more...
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DIY | Beaded Bowknots
Created onDear reader: In this blog post by Smyks.com, our designer Charlotte shows you how to make cute bowknot jewellery. The bowknot as an elegant symbol of love and faithfulness is experiencing a revival and we predict that it will become the...
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DIY | Men’s bracelets
Created on | 1 comment(s)It’s not only women who love to spruce themselves up. Men love showing individuality and personality through jewelry too – and what’s more personal than designing your own bracelet with the many leather cords and...
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DIY | Stars with Delica beads
Created onGreen star made of Delica beads We used the following DIY components for this star: Delica beads, size #11 Beading thread, FireLine, 6LB, 1.5m 1 closed ring, 4mm, gilded sterling silver...
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DIY | Bracelets with Mini Fruits
Created onBracelet with Bunches of Grapes We used the following components to make this bracelet: Miyuki seed beads, size #11, luster salmon Miyuki seed beads, size #11, light green Miyuki...
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DIY | Exclusive Macramé Bracelets
Created onAll the examples presented here are made with the basic macramé knotting technique. We show you how you can decorate the otherwise simple bracelets with beads, cubic zirconia, links, pendants and crimp beads. We...
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DIY | Mini-Duo Daisies
Created onMini-Duo Daisy Earrings We love the Danish spring! This is why in this DIY blog post we have focused on flowers - the eternal jewellery theme. The Japanese manufacturer Matubo produces the slightly overlooked, but beautiful ...
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DIY | Paracord Bracelets
Created onDIY Army Bracelets / Survival Bracelets, Brecelets with Paracord In this blog post by Smyks, we go through a few techniques you can use to make the popular knotted macramee bracelets with parachute cord which are also...
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DIY | Friendship Bracelets
Created onDear guest In this jewellery blog by Smyks, we teach you a knotting technique that is particularly up-to-date. It is used to make the popular friendship bracelets, among other things. This technique is a bit time-consuming but not...
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DIY | Peyote Stitch with a Twist
Created onHere we show you how to make your own version of the popular beaded bangles. These bangles are made with seed beads and the sewing technique peyote stitch - with a twist. We offer a wide range of seed beads so you can design your...
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DIY | Duo Bead Jewellery 2
Created onSuper-duo beads and Mini-duo beads are quality glass beads by the Japanese company Matubo. The beads are very uniform in size and shape and feature a soft oval shape and two parallel holes. This special shape and the...
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Duo Bead Jewellery
Created onSuper-duo beads og Mini-duo beads are quality glass pearls by the Japanese company Matubo. The beads are very uniform in size and shape and feature a soft oval shape and two parallel holes. This special shape and the...
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DIY | Jewellery with chains and charms
Created onWe used various techniques to make these pieces of jewellery. You find the respective step-by-step instructions in the following guides and blog posts: DIY The famous loop - How to make an eye over a bead or pearl...
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DIY | Necklaces and semi-precious stones
Created onTriple necklace with tourmaline beads and two chains We used the following DIY materials to assemble this nacklace: Tourmaline beads, faceted, 3mm (38cm) Figaro chain with facets, 0.40mm,...
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DIY | Jewellery with Tila beads
Created on | 1 comment(s)In this DIY blog post from Smyks.com, we show you how to make a series of stylish bracelets and finger rings with the beautiful Miyuki Tila beads. Tila beads from Japanese Miyuki are flat square beads with two parallel holes, which...
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Bracelet with faceted semi-precious stones
Created onHow to make a bracelet with small pearls of semi-precious stones Smyks.com has a large selection of small beads in semi-precious stone , which are well suited for many jewelery purposes. In the following we show how they can be used...
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DIY | Jewellery with memory wire and rubber cord
Created onHere you find inspiration and instructions on how to make your own bangles and hoops with memory wire and rubber cord . Memory wire is spiral wire sold in loops. It is quite thin so beads can be threaded...
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DIY | Colour trends autumn winter 2018
Created onIn this blog post Smyks‘ jewellery designers Charlotte and Anne present an overview over the latest colours in fashion: In this autumn and winter season you can choose between many vibrant and complementary colours – unlike the...
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DIY | Jewellery with seashells
Created onMake your own jewellery with cowrie shells or other seashells and conch shell horns. Cowrie shells is the name of the pretty seashells we used for the macramé bracelets. In this blog post we want to inspire you to make...
Be inspired by our many DIY guides
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.
From Hollywood to your hobby workshop
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.
Jewelry guides for both adults, children, and the young-at-heart
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.
We love to design and create DIY guides
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.
How our DIY guides and videos are made
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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