Coastal Jewellery Making Lookbook

Join us on the Cornish coast to make your own handmade jewellery using crystals, charms, gemstones and even sea glass...

All the jewellery designs you see below have been handmade using Kernowcraft's jewellery making supplies! You'll find jewellery making kits and links to particular products and categories to help you recreate the looks and make them your own. Each design is beginner-friendly, with minimal tools needed to complete the looks - plus you can easily customise these designs with your favourite gemstones and supplies. Whether you want to make yourself a treat or get making ready to give as gifts for Christmas or birthdays, there's plenty to be inspired by!

Elegant crystal point pendants for a quick gift

A simple and elegant crystal pendant complete with bail hung on a ready-made sterling silver 45cm curb chain. A perfect necklace for crystal lovers!

Choose Your Favourite Gemstone Pendant

We have so many beautiful styles of gemstone pendants for you to choose from! Most come with bails, so you can simply add a necklet chain to complete the look

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Complete With A Necklet Chain

At Kernowcraft, we sell loose chain or ready-made necklets and bracelets in various lengths, complete with a clasp so you can use them straight away

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Use Simple Wire Wrapping Techniques To Create Beautiful Dangly Earrings

Featuring coastal inspired bead and charm earrings! This beginner-friendly design requires a few tools and wire wrapping techniques to complete the look. Wire wrapped apatite gemstone beads are attached to sterling silver sand dollar charms and sterling silver earwires for a unique design.

Shop the kit to get the step by step instructions plus the shopping list to make it for yourself. Or experiment with your favourite gemstone beads and charms instead!

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Shop Beginner Friendly Ring Settings

Our ring settings are perfect if you're after a quick make or a last minute gift. Most our our settings are beginner friendly, just check out the product descriptions for instructions on how to set with your favourite gems

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Complete With Your Favourite Gemstones

We pride ourselves on stocking high quality gemstones in a range of shapes and sizes to suit you and your designs! When using a setting always ensure you choose the correct sized stone

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Experiment with mixed metals

Slide on our sterling silver starfish charms onto our rose gold 24mm hoop earrings (also available in sterling silver) for a quick make! We love this combination of mixed metals, with the contrast of warm rosy tones and icy silver!

Create a simple charm necklace

Another quick and easy make! Featuring our popular sterling silver whale tail charm with bail, which can be easily attached to your favourite chain. We've used our satellite chain as we love how it adds a little more detail to this minimal and modern necklace.

Explore our range of charms and chain to create your own necklaces - don't forget that most charms will require a jump ring to attach to your chosen chain.

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Charms are such a great way to add some fun and personality to your designs! We have so many to choose from in a range of styles. Create simple necklaces, add to charm bracelets, earwires or hoops

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Shop Earring Hoops

Browse our range of sterling silver and rose gold filled earring hoops, with various sizes to choose from. Perfect for adding charms, beads, gemstone donuts and more! Here we've glued sea glass pieces into bell caps and slid them onto our hoops for a beautiful coastal design

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Make your own bead & charm elastic bracelet

It couldn't be easier to make your own bracelet! All you need to do is add your favourite gemstone beads to Clear Stretch Magic elastic thread - adding charms is optional but we love how it can be easily customised to create the perfect personalised gift.

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Go minimal with briolettes

We love the pop of colour of these aqua blue chalcedony briolette beads! They're also faceted, which makes them sparkle beautifully in the light. We've created a simple design by wire wrapping the bead using sterling silver wire and hung on earwires - follow our tutorial on how to wire wrap a briolette here.

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Play around with gemstone shapes

How wonderful are these apatite nugget beads? The best thing about beads is that they come in an array of shapes and sizes. Whether you love smooth beads, faceted or rough stones - the possibilities are endless!

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Explore Gemstone Beads

There are so many ways to get creative with gemstone beads! With the wide range of shapes and sizes available, you can experiment with lots of wonderful designs

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Clear Stretch Magic Thread

This thread is a clear, strong and stretchy thread and is so easy to use to create beaded bracelets secured with a knot. Tip - add extra security by adding a dab of glue to the knot!

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Turn your beach treasures into something you can wear...

If you have a stash of sea glass and not sure what to do with it, why not turn them into necklaces that you can gift to friends and family! Use Devcon 5 Minute Epoxy Glue to attach your sea glass to our glue-on bails and attach ready-made chain - it couldn't be easier.

Watch our glue-on bails in action

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Beginner sea glass jewellery designs

Sea Glass For Beginners

Find even more inspiration with Kernowcraft

Discover Beginner Kits

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Tutorials & Inspiration

Be Inspired

Huge thanks to Niki Thomas for showcasing our beautiful jewellery making supplies

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What Our Customers Say...

Claire Hall

Kernowcraft is my go to for all my gemstones! Their stones are the first ones I show when offering my clients stone choices and I can't recommend their customer service enough! This is a company that cares!

Sarah Tiley

Whenever I feel unsure as to where to purchase any stones or jewellery requirements I always go back to what is familiar. Thank you Kernowcraft for being true to your customers.

Denise Mountain Pike

I recently ordered a couple of replacement stones from you and I'd just like to say how happy I am with my purchase and very impressed with the friendly helpful service you gave. Thank you very much.

Kim Thomson

I have been using Kernowcraft since 1997 and still regularly recommend them to all my students.

Julia Schofield

I’ve used Kernowcraft as a supplier for findings and pearls since beginning my business 8 years ago, because I know I can absolutely rely on the quality I get. The service is pretty impeccable too.

Helen Bowles

I felt compelled to write to you, as I'm so impressed with your quick service! I've been a Kernowcraft customer for years and have never had anything but reliable, efficient service from you.

Lenna

Hi, just a quick email to thank you for my cross and chain - I love it. What a speedy service - ordered it yesterday and wearing it tonight. Thank you very much.

Janice Scragg

Your website is easy to use, your products excellent, nice friendly service on the phone and delivery quick, excellent. Thank you and well done Kernowcraft. Gold star!

George Inglis

Great looking website, one of the best I've seen and used. Good search function, good range of products, good prices and great advice for jewellery makers of all abilities. All-in-all a great site and one I'll use again and again.

Mihaela Ciubotaru

I am very happy with my products... it is wonderful to have a reliable source of materials and gems with a fast delivery and a lot of tips on how to use the tools we buy.

Joel Martin

Great, easy to navigate website with wonderful clear photographs. I look forward to receiving my order... it's going to be like Christmas!

Catherine Warwick

Just received my order that I placed only yesterday. I wanted to say thank you! I am delighted with the choice of cabochon, setting and books. Now I have to read up on how to set it! FABULOUS SERVICE - Thank you!

Frank Wilson

I have grown as a jewellery maker over the last year or so due to the encouragement the team have given me - they are all experienced jewellery makers or keen crafters. They have helped to guide me through my inventory, offered helpful tips and advice on all manner of silver working.

Claire

I just wanted to say a big thank you for the beautiful sapphires that arrived today. Hannah picked out just what I wanted and I’m over the moon with them.

Hayley Meredith

I just wanted to say thank you for the amazing service from Kernowcraft. I find your website easy to navigate, products good quality and the delivery is second to none!

Lynn Carson

I bought the sand dollar charm to make a holiday bracelet. It’s really lovely, subtle and pretty detail. Perfect piece and exactly as described.

Jenny Kirkwood

Love the service you get and appreciate the range of products on offer. I just used the alligator tape for the first time and found myself asking - where have you been all my life?

Vivienne Sadler

Always too many temptations, but a joy to look through. Thank you for such good service. I have to be very strict with myself when I visit your website!

I added a special request for moonstones with strong blue/green flashes and received 3 briolettes which were exactly that - some of the prettiest moonstones I’ve seen. Thank you!

Jill Hammersely

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to the team, particularly the ladies that helped me yesterday. Delivery took less than 24hrs, that's amazing. The quality of both cabochons and settings are stunning.

Jaquie

It can be difficult to order gemstones online - no such worries with Kernowcraft - you really do care about your products & clients and it shows.

Lauren Jodie Piercy

Beautiful gemstones and a lot of choice. Running competitions and being interactive as well really sets them apart. Keep up the interesting content.

Christine Wood

Just want to say a very big thank you for your quick delivery and excellent service. The stones I ordered arrived this morning, the quality and price are second to none. I was delighted with my purchase. Thank you so much.

Lydia Farrow

Just to say that I have always had the best possible results for every order - however small and all your products are of excellent quality.

Dorota Todd

I just wanted to say how impressed I am with the quality of pearls in my recent order! Thank you so much for taking time and matching them into pairs, it's very appreciated. Thank you and I am definitely going to buy at your store in the future.

Rhiannon Piper

The opal I received is absolutely amazing and just perfect. Its such a beautiful stone and I tried it with my wedding dress yesterday and its just set it off so well.

Gloria Williams

I just came across your online shop and my first reaction was wow! It has everything i need to carry on with my jewellery making. I've seen things that i have been looking for and couldn't find in so many other shops!

Helen

Just wanted to say thank you for picking such beautiful stones for my order. I'm halfway through making a ring for my daughter and the rose cut rainbow moonstones are particularly yummy. Thank you!

Daniel Coe

The customer service I have received from you and the help has been second to none. If only all companies were so helpful and understanding that i am a complete newbie. The retail world would be a better place.

Deborah Roberts-Barter

I have sent a couple of email enquiries today, which have been really quickly answered. This customer service is what made me order with you straight away!

April Luescher

Beautiful quality and colours - I rarely buy semi-precious stones anywhere else these days. Very helpful, superb service, speedy delivery. What more could anyone want?

Eve

The stones are excellent quality, and the special request I put in for dark citrines and paired malachites has been met perfectly. I am delighted with Kernowcraft, and will be back!

Maggi Henman

I’ve just had my first order from you and I am so pleased with the fast delivery and the quality of the products. The satin cords and the findings really finished off my ceramic jewellery.

Marshal

Thank you to the lady who went to a great deal of trouble to find a very small opal that fitted a bezel cup. The work is now complete and looks very nice - my wife is delighted with the result.