Welcome to our handy list of easy tutorials from the For the Love of Beads Blog!
Each post below features a step by step tutorial for creating your own piece of jewelry (or something else pretty) as well as a list of supplies required. Happy crafting!
Once your done, I’ll bet you want to get some good photographs of your work. If you need some tips, head on over to our helpful photography guide and get snapping!
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Branching off into a new craft can be incredibly daunting – the first few attempts at learning a new skill always feel so strange, almost hopelessly awkward, but everyone has to start somewhere, right?
For me that ’somewhere’ was a pegboard. An essential tool for forming wire into shapes which can then be put together, the pegboard is relatively easy to use once you get the hang of it. The trick of it is that wire has a tendency to spring back and, therefore, closing a shape can be the hardest part.
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