Beatiful hand crafted designed jewellery

Just a few of my designs using dichroic glass and sterling silver.

To see these and many more please visit 

www.stevesmithjewellery.com

New designs are alway being added to my collection.

Great affordable gift ideas, unique presents and more!

I just love making this jewellery and this time I thought I should show my readers some earrings a Pendant and a bracelet in beautiful sparkling Dichroic Glass. 

As always with this type of glass it just doesn't show off the true colours that these hold. 

Great gift ideas for that someone special! 

prices on my shop page start at £6 plus P&P. The ones you see here are £15 for the drop earrings, £6 for the stud earrings, £15 for the Pendant and £15 for the bracelet plus £3 P&P.

The drop earrings measure approximately 5/8" x 1/2", the stud earrings measure approximately 3/8" and all my earrings are attached to 925 solid silver. The bails on the pendants are silver plated (nickel and zinc free) and this bracelet is gold plated on copper. The pendant can be supplied with a free 16" (approx) velvet style cord with adjustable chain end with lobster catch.

My jewellery is always supplied in presentation boxes or bags.

You can see more of my jewellery by clicking on the shop button above or by clicking here.

My own designed gadget for making earring display cards for stud and drop earrings.

Hi

I thought I would share another of my own design gadget thingy. 

The problem was how to make two slits and two holes in the display card for my stud and drop earrings.

Here is the printed 45mm x 45mm card reading for holes to be put in.

I had this crazy idea of making a hinged piece with cutters set in at the correct level. This is the second version as I stupidly changed the design of the cards. ooops.

And this sort of how it works. Open up the gadget. (you can now see the two nails sticking out and where they used to be.

Here you can see the gadget totally open, showing the two blades set for making slits for the drop earrings.

The printed, plain card sits into a template area.

With the card in place, the gadget is closed firmed, without fingers left inside.

Here, you can just see the two nails that have pocked the two holes in the card for the stud earrings.

Opening the gadget (must get a name for it) the card is removed. The card has a pair of holes and a pair of slits

Here, you can see how the drop earrings are hung in the slits of the card.

Now, drop earring set and put into a display box reading for those eager customers to see and buy.

And just to show how the studs are set, here is the final finished card with studs and set in a display box.

Quite good, if I say so myself. I like to have some things automated. Because they can take up so much time. 

Now, when I need a few display cards, I just get the gadget out and within a few seconds I have them done.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Thanks for stopping by

Steve

Matching Purple fashion Pendant and drop earrings.

A new creation from Steve Smith Jewellery

Gorgeous Purple Pendant with matching drop earrings. A must for any one who is looking for something unique.

The pendant is set on a silver plated bail and the drop earrings at set on 925 solid silver bail with 925 solid silver wires.

The set is £25 plus £2 p&p

To order, contact me via email at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Steve :o)

Great Gift Idea for someone special.

I've created again..... I just love making this jewellery and this time I thought I should show my readers my recent matching Earrings and Pendant in beautiful sparkling Dichroic Glass. As always with this type of glass it just doesn't show off the true colours that these hold. 

A great gift idea for that someone special 

prices on my shop page start at £5 plus P&P. The ones you see here are £10 for the drop earrings and £10 for the Pendant plus £3 P&P.

The earrings measure approximately 5/8" x 1/2" 

and are attached to 925 solid silver wires and bails and the pendant measures approximately 1"3/8" x 5/8" and is attached to a silver plated (nickel and zinc free) bail. The pendant can be supplied with a free 16" (approx) velvet style cord with adjustable chain end with lobster catch.

Both are presented in a hot pink shinny boxes.

You can see more of my jewellery by clicking on the shop button above or by clicking here.

Dichroic Glass Drop Earrings

DICHROIC GLASS DROP EARRINGS

Here are just a few more of my creations. I have many more as I just love making and creating jewellery I think its the alchemist in me.lol

Multi coloured but mainly blue drop earrings

Golden Yellow sparkly drop earrings

Hot Pink with a hint of stars drop earrings

All my earrings are attached to 925 solid silver findings and sold with a hot pink gift box. Drop earring price is £10 per pair plus P&P. Please contact me if you require further information by clicking here

To see more please click here 

A New Idea from a mishap......

As all my readers have seen, I recently had a go at making some very narrow drop pendants and for the most they were a success which you can see in my website or Etsy shop. This is one that I was really pleased with. Firing very small cabochons that I had previously done onto a narrow piece of dichroic glass.

I set the kiln going with a slightly different set of parameters and started the fusing process.

To my happy surprise this worked and a few hours later this pendant looked and felt great.

At this point of my posting I must tell there is a sad and then happy end. The sad part of this short story is whilst admiring this new creation, seeing the beautiful colours and feeling how tactile the the knobbly bits were. It slipped out out my fingers and fell directly on to my diamond file. With a pinging sound, this beautiful unusual drop pendant became a couple of scrap bits of glass.

Oooops, I said, well I had a few more choice words than that but you get the meaning.

The Happy Ending

This part of the story begins about a week later. Whilst in the studio contemplating life, the universe and everything or shall we have chips or pasty for dinner. I spot the fragments of what once was the drop pendant and the thought of reuse and lateral thinking began. I suddenly saw these two pieces of dichroic glass dangling on earring wires and then a image popped into my head of a new collection of knobbly drop earrings.

So, the next creative chance I get. The glass cutter is coming out and my new range begins. I cant wait!!!!

Hand Made Dichroic Glass Drop Earrings

Further to the request for stud earrings I've managed to successfully design and make drop earrings. These look absolutely stunning and are hung on 925 solid silver ear wires. The reason for using solid silver was because of peoples allergic reactions to the cheaper version of ear wires containing nickel based metals which as all sensitive people know can be very uncomfortable.

After many attemps and a lot of trial and error with matching shapes, colours and the overall feel. The finished pieces then had to be matched in pairs, this was a lot harder than first thought as with any hand made items any slight differences only adds to the appeal and uniqueness.

I am really pleased with the results and they are selling really well at £10 per pair.

If you are interested in any of my jewellery then please contact me on steve_walter_smith@yahoo.co.uk if you have any colour preferences I can e-mail a photograph of what I have in stock. Payment can be made by Paypal. All P&P to UK addresses is a flat rate of £2 per parcel and fpr worldwide it's £4.