Jewellery for Valentine’s Day

Projects and Ideas for Valentine's Day Gifts

Check out our projects and design ideas for jewellery for Valentine’s Day.  We have lots of ideas using seed  beads, crystal beads and metal charms.  These valentine themed ideas are easy to adapt to create earrings, bracelets, pendants and bag charms.  They would make pretty gifts for a loved one any time of the year!

Ideas for Jewellery for Valentine’s Day

A simple suggestions is just to add some pretty crystal hearts to go with a Valentine’s Day theme

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Celtic chain maille and crystal hearts bracelet and earrings

This dangly charm bracelet uses a variety of crystal and metal heart beads and charms to make a fpretty piece of jewellery for Valentine’s day.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Heart charm bracelet

Bead-weaving with small beads is a great way of making jewellery for Valentine’s day.  These pretty brick-stitch heart motifs by Kerrie Slade make a lovely necklace, bracelet and earrings set.

Jewellery for Valentine's Day
Charming Hearts Earrings
Jewellery for Valentine's Day
Charming Hearts Necklace

Fire-polished beads are also great for making heart pendants, like this little heart which make a lovely pendant or charm for a phone or bag.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Preciosa Made for You heart

Try varying this design by changing the beads, for example adding seed beads in a contrasting colour

jewellery for Valentine's Day
fire-polished heart pendant

Seed beads can also be crocheted and attached to a wire frame to make a heart

Jewellery for Valentine's Day
Preciosa Crocheted Seed Bead Heart

Try experimenting with a variety of other beads to vary the design

Preciosa Crocheted Bead and Seed Bead Heart
Preciosa Crocheted Bead and Seed Bead Heart

Two-hole beads can also make unusual heart designs.  The Kheops par Puca triangular beads make a lovely heart pendant embellished with seed beads and tiny puffy rondelles.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Kheops par Puca heart pendant

Two 2-hole Amos par Puca beads make a really pretty heart motif which can be used in a variety of ways.  Here they make an easy but elegant necklace

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Amos par Puca Valentine Necklace

They are also make unusual pendants which used inside circular wire frames.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Love you Pendant by Puca

This Starman design uses beads in contrasting shapes and colours to make an unusual pair of themed earrings.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Ginko Heartfelt Earrings

This dramatic necklace uses a traditional colour and romantic lacy design to great effect.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Preciosa Lacy Valentine Necklace

You can also try using sparkling crystal flatback stones to cover a traditional heart – or to create little heart shapes motifs

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Heart pendant embellished with No Hotfix flatback stones

Or try making  your own wire-frame and embellishing it with tiny seed beads to create a unique pendant or decoration.

jewellery for Valentine's Day
Wirework heart pendant or decoration

Projects for the Preciosa, par Puca and Starman jewellery can be downloaded from our website.

 


Laura Ells