Jewelry Designs Look Much Better Online When They Spin

Look at the fantastic GIF or animated image I found on the Klimt02 international jewelry design website! An animated product that spins to show all angles of a jewelry piece will show off your work to maximum effect, as Australian jewelry designer Julia deVille illustrates with the spin view of her Pave Rook necklace. Here's a video I found showing many other product "spins" to give you ideas of how you can show off your work better on your website, blog, or Etsy store.

The video will steer you to the Swiftspin360 website, and I'd like to direct you to their 7 Steps to Creating a 360 Product Spin. Join the website in order to freely access their articles and downloads. While the pitch is to photographers, if you're a jewelry designer with a camera, we'd like you and our jewelry design students to experiment with creating some beautiful product spins of your special work!

If you're interested in learning more about wedding planning, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Fun Cocktail Rings

The Carrotbox is a site dedicated to all those wonderful rings made of glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite, metal, and even stone.   Malene Glintborg from Sweden has shared with us her unusual vision of fun cocktail rings. I love this slice of lemon ring - got margarita with that?

Cocktail ring by Malene Glintborg

For those crafty people who likes to fold things - take a look at her origami ring below. 

Origami ring by Malene Glintborg

For a very urban and trendy look, there's the Skyline ring with a silhouette of a city's skyscrapers.  The Skyline also comes in a necklace and bracelet form.

Skyline ring by Malene Glintborg

Are you interested in taking a great jewelry design course and learning more about how to make your own jewelry or get started professionally in this creative field? Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Make More Than Jewelry With Your Materials.

Holli Brown Mosaics

Have you ever looked at something in a store and said I can make that. If you are crafty, you see DIY projects as something you are excited about. Sometimes it turns out that it was not as easy as we thought to make. Don't let that burst your bubble. Maybe you didn't find the right project for you. If you are still determined to persevere on with a DIY project with materials you have sitting around, then these projects should get you thinking about what to do next with those beads and chain hanging around in your jewelry supplies. 

Eiffel and Empire

Think about revamping a pair of shoes you never wear anymore by either blinging up the heel with crystals, or gluing on rhinestones, or replacing the center strap with a chain to dress it up. 

Halter tops are great projects to play around with. Changing out the neckline or tank top straps with some chain, or beads, will give it a new and refreshed look. These recycled tops found on ebay inspired me to recycle some of my tired old tanks. 

Best Phone Cases found on Etsy.com

Add some beads to a summer straw hat, like this one by Melissa Odabash. The turquoise stones are great for summer but you can get creative with whatever color beads you like. Best Phone Cases on Etsy has fun gluing all sorts of things to their phone cases. 

Mirror by Georgia Peachez

Every one has materials they have no idea what to do with. Start recycling them and get creative! Make sure you have fun while doing it. This mirror by Georgia Peachez looked like it was fun to make. 

Are you interested in taking a great jewelry design course and learning more about how to make your own jewelry or get started professionally in this creative field? Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Jewelry Inspiration: Here's Looking at You, Kid

The Carrotbox is a site dedicated to all those wonderful rings made of glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite, metal, and even stone. Alice Matsumoto from Vancouver, BC, Canada has a ring shop and has kindly given us permission to inspire our jewelry lovers at Sheffield with her discoveries. In this post, Alice focuses on some eerie rings that watch you.

There's something vaguely, disconcertingly alien—sentient, even—about these "hose rings" from Germany's Höllwerk (Astrid Zipp & Christine Maxand). It's like they're looking at me! I, for one, welcome our new ring-shaped overlords.

Bonus

Here's a ring that''s definitely looking at you. Glass and silver ring by Mexico's RXVrings (Ruben Viramontes), who makes lots of eye and skull jewellery.

Even more jewelry:

• Fisheye Jewelry (California) - dyed eyeballs
• Pernille Schou-Elsass (Denmark) - simple circles
• Anna Von Bergmann (Germany) - cabs & cords

Are you interested in taking a great jewelry design course and learning more about how to make your own jewelry or get started professionally in this creative field? Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Sheffield Jewelry Tool Give Away

To be entered into the Sheffield jewelry blog give away, for the chance to win this Mandrel 4X tool by Bead Smith, leave a brief comment below telling us who your favorite jewelry designer is and why. Who inspires you to want to make jewelry of your own? I know it can be impossible to pick just one, for some people, so it is ok to pick more than one. Enter by leaving your brief description in the comments of this post, with email so we can contact you, letting us know who inspires you and why you are inspired in order to be entered to win.

The winner to receive this multi shape mandrel as a gift from us will be selected, at random, 6pm Monday May 6th, 2013. 

With this multi shape mandrel you will be able to form wire into several shapes creating jump rings, toggles, pendants, earrings, scrap book embellishments and more. 

• Select the mandrel shape you want and insert it into the handle.

• Attach wire to desired size level on mandrel.

• Make round loops in 8 different sizes, oval loops in 4 sizes, square loops in 4 sizes and triangle loops in 6 sizes.

• After forming be sure to harden with Plastic Hammer and Bench Block to hold shape firmly.

GOOD LUCK!!

Look forward to hearing from you!

If you're interested in learning more about jewelry design, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

Request a free Sheffield School catalog describing our distance education courses.

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Update on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 12:33PM by Sheffield Admin

Congratulations to our Sheffield jewelry tool winner Lori Wilson!!

Lori will be receiving her new mandrel in the mail soon!

Thank you for all of your input, the answers were absolutely great to read! We randomly select a winner by picking a name out of a hat. There will be more opportunities coming up to enter to win jewelry making tools and other jewelry making items. Check in to the Sheffield blog regularly so you don't miss them.