DIY | Men’s bracelets 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 like sapphire , ruby and ...
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 | Tassel earrings with Seed beads and Delica
Created onEarrings with seed beads are currently setting the trend. Here we show a little collection of earrings which can inspire you to start your very own earring production. We used different techniques for our pieces of...
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DIY | Tassel earrings with headpins
Created onIn this blog post, we would like to give you some examples of tassel earrings which are a lot easier to make than the popular but quite complicated version we showed you earlier. This time, we used Delica beads and threaded them on...
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DIY | Earrings with tassels
Created onEarrings with tassels are currently on-trend and this trend will continue throughout this year’s spring and summer season. These earrings are statements – you are free to wear them as long as you want … or as short as...
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DIY | Tassel earrings with seed beads
Created onMake your own seed bead earrings inspired by Oscar de la Renta’s gorgeous tassel earrings. The instructions are detailed and it takes time to sew all the tiny beads together, but you will be rewarded with a fantastic result –...
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DIY | Earrings with enamel circles
Created onWith Smyks’ colourful enamel coins with gilded edge you can easily assemble simple but striking earrings with bars or rings made of oxidised or gold-plated sterling silver. Here we show you some examples. You don’t need tools...
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DIY | Chokers
Created onThey are back! Now, chokers are the new it jewellery. You can choose a classic and simple velvet ribbon or you can create your own designs. All chokers have in common that they are wrapped tightly around the neck. If you want to make...
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DIY | Jewellery with precious stones
Created onGet ready for a dash of inspiration for simple and easy to make necklaces and earrings. For this collection, we chose the precious stones sapphire, emerald, ruby and aquamarine. In our web shop, these top quality beads are available in...
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DIY | Necklaces with large gemstones
Created onIn 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...
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DIY | Jewellery with ball chain
Created onIn the picture above you see a little collection consisting of earrings, necklaces and bracelets made of different kinds of ball chain. It is quite fast and simple to assemble pieces of ball chain and wide cord ends to...
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DIY | Customised jewellery
Created onClick here to see the stardust coins used for these earrings. In the illustration above you see a little DIY collection consisting of necklaces, bracelets and earrings made of jewellery parts in simple...
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DIY | Necklaces and earrings with feathers
Created onSmyks has got a wide variety of jewellery feathers to pick from. In this DIY article we will show you a delicate jewellery collection made with turkey and Guinea fowl feathers in various colours. You can combine the different...
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DIY | Summer bracelets with tassels or gemstones
Created onThis year, small delicate bracelets are – again – a huge summer success, and they come in numerous variations and colours. Here we show you a few examples of what you can do, braid or knot with beads and cord. If you...
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DIY | Accessories with feathers
Created onAccessories with feathers continue to be in vogue. Here you find some examples for hairbands, hair clips and brooches with feathers and instructions on how to make them. Smyks has got a wide range of decorative feathers for your own...
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DIY | Delica jewellery with locking bead
Created onJewellery with the tiny and colourful Delica beads has become amazingly popular – and the trend continues. Here we show you a little collection of bracelets and necklaces with Delica beads stringed on silk cord or polyester cord. The...
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DIY | Rings with semi-precious stones
Created onIn our new blog article we present you a little collection of rings with half-drilled semi-precious stones. We have chosen the more unsusual gemstone cuts, teardrops and cube beads, to create rings with a striking and distictive...
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DIY | Simple earrings
Created onHere you find a little collection of simple, elegantly shaped earrings made with jewellery parts from Smyks.com which are very easy to make. We have combined round and cubic shapes in different ways and thereby created interesting contrasts....
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DIY | Scandinavian minimalist earrings
Created onMinimalist jewellery with geometric shapes at Smyks Smyks.com here presents a collection that celebrates the simple aesthetic of minimalism through jewellery in geometric shapes that can be combined in countless ways. With jewellery...
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DIY | Earrings in geometrical shapes
Created onSmyks.com has a large selection og unique beautiful geometrical shaped drops and pendants made of Sterling silver and gilded Sterling silver in stock. These geometrically shaped components can be combined in numerous ways and are...
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DIY | Earrings with Feathers
Created onSpring has come and you will observe that there is a lot of jewellery featuring feathers out there this season. Meanwhile, we have come up with some inspirational DIY earrings for which we have used pheasant and Guinea fowl feathers....
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DIY | Simple shapes in Sterling Silver
Created onMaking your own jewellery in silver doesn’t necessarily have to take a long time. Neither does it have to recquire an extensive knowledge in the technical area. Here you will find a little inspiration, with the newest additions...
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DIY | Jewellery with Chains
Created onI have created a new little collection of earthreads, necklaces and bracelets, in which chains are the main theme. I’ve used half-drilled pearls and teardrops, as well as a variety of pendants. All of...
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DIY | Macramé bracelets
Created onBeautiful knotted DIY macramé bracelets In this blog post, we show a number of examples of beautiful and feminine bracelets made with the well-known macramé knotting technique. The bracelets, which you can easily make yourself,...
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DIY | Jewellery with cubes
Created onSmyks has acquired a selection of beautiful cube-shaped semi-precious stones, available in labradorite, amazonite, moonstone and carneole. The cube shape will provide your collection with a whole new special and elegant look....
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DIY | Jewellery with half-drilled beads
Created onSmyks has gotten a hold of numerous new, delicate half-drilled beads and this collection aims to give you some ideas, as to how they can be used as earrings and necklaces. Half-drilled beads are beads, where the hole does not penetrate all...
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DIY | Exquisite jewellery setpieces
Created onAre you in need of inspiration for beautiful jewellery this december month? Then you are in luck, because there is a wealth of inspiration coming your way down below. This time, I have chosen to make some beautiful examples with...
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DIY | Jewellery with zodiacs
Created onToday we are going to show you how to make your own jewellery with zodiac constellations. Zodiac constellations are a common denominator for the 12 groups of stars, stretching out in the night sky. Figure out which group of stars are...
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DIY | Earrings with glass charms
Created onSmyks has acquired a new selection of mounted charms and connectors in glass. The glass is faceted, available in various beautiful colors and can be combined in a plethora of ways. Here, we have shown some...
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Everything you should know before buying a DIY jewellery starter kit
Created onDIY jewellery kits: how to get started What is a DIY jewellery kit? A jewellery kit consists of a collection of loose and semi-finished jewellery parts, beads, ear hooks, wire, clasps, etc. used to make jewellery, all packaged in a nice...
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DIY | Earrings with Zirconia
Created onSmyks has acquired an exclusive line of earwires and connectors. The earwires consists of oxidised sterling, with 4 small zirconia in each. The earwires can be bought in 3 distinct versions, and you can easily...
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DIY | Necklaces with rough semi-precious stones
Created onSmyks has acquired an exquisite new selection of rough semi-precious stones . The stones are without holes and are therefore suitable for necklaces, where you wrap wire around the stone and in doing so, create your own...
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DIY | Bracelets with wavy leather cord
Created onFall is in full motion, and with it, the new wave-shaped leather cords, which we have just acquired. What’s more, they can be yours in 5 different fall-inspired colors. Here, we show you how these wave-shaped leather cords can...
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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