Add sparkle and personality to your DIY projects with beginner-friendly beading techniques! This category covers everything you need to know to start creating your own beaded jewelry, decorate clothing, or add detail to accessories like bags and headbands.
Learn how to choose the right beads and thread, attach beads by hand or machine, and follow easy patterns—even if you’ve never beaded before. From delicate designs to bold statement pieces, beading is a fun, relaxing craft that lets you customize your style one stitch (or string) at a time.
Summer is the perfect season to add colorful handmade accessories to your wardrobe, and nothing feels more fun than creating your own trendy beaded jewelry. From coastal-inspired phone wristlets to playful fruit bracelets and beach-ready anklets, these beginner-friendly DIY projects are stylish, affordable, and easy to customize. Whether you’re planning a tropical vacation, heading to …
A Coastal Charm Beaded Phone Wristlet is the perfect handmade accessory for summer vacations, beach days, festivals, farmers markets, and everyday errands. Designed with soft ocean-inspired colors, playful beads, and a secure wrist strap, this easy DIY project keeps your phone close while adding a stylish handmade touch to your outfit. This beginner-friendly beaded phone …
Bright, playful, and packed with personality, a Summer Fruit Beaded Charm Bracelet Stack is the perfect handmade accessory for sunny days. Inspired by strawberries, lemons, cherries, watermelons, oranges, and colorful tropical fruit, this cheerful bracelet set adds a fun pop of color to beach outfits, vacation looks, festival style, and everyday summer clothing. The best …
A boho beaded anklet set is the perfect handmade accessory for summer. Delicate seed beads, freshwater-style pearls, natural colors, gold accents, and tiny beach-inspired charms come together to create a relaxed, effortless look that pairs beautifully with sandals, swimsuits, linen dresses, denim shorts, and barefoot beach days. Instead of wearing just one anklet, layering two …
A chunky beaded sunglasses chain is one of the easiest ways to turn an everyday pair of sunglasses into a fun summer accessory. Colorful beads, faux pearls, playful charms, and gold accents can instantly give basic sunglasses a boutique-inspired look while keeping them close at hand during beach days, vacations, festivals, and outdoor adventures. This …
A coastal beaded tote bag charm is the perfect way to give a simple straw tote, canvas beach bag, or everyday handbag a playful summer makeover. Inspired by seashells, ocean colors, pearls, natural wood, and beach treasures, this easy DIY accessory adds instant personality to your favorite summer bag. The best part? You do not …
Do you have loose and worn out shoulder straps on your favorite camisole top? Transform the top into pearl strap cami that you can continue to wear over and over again. If you have more than one knit camisole top, then I have the perfect upcycle projects for you. I’ve put together knit cami top refashion …
The exposed shoulder straps, mini length denim dress has delicate hand beaded cherry embellishments all over the front. Upcycle old jeans into a cute beaded cherry mini dress for a brand new stylish summer look! If you loved the results from the Susan Alexandria inspired DIY beaded bag, then you will love this tutorial too! So …
Follow along with this DIY tutorial to learn how to make beaded bag from scratch. It’s really not hard to make a bag with beads, it just takes time and patience. Is the beaded bag trend still happening? Thanks to British brand Shrimps and New York based indie designer Susan Alexandra, the beaded bag trend is a …