When designing a piece of handmade jewellery in the latest fashion the designer can let their imagination fly and create unique jewellery designs in bright and beautiful colours. The materials that are used in these designs can go from acrylics to semi-precious stones.

Gone are the days when we only wear handmade jewellery for special occasions and these pieces are traditional and crafted from precious metals like gold and silver set with precious stones. Today fashion jewellery is created in unique jewellery designs from many different materials. One of the things that are very popular at the moment is acrylics as these can be made into any shape or any colour and they can come opaque or translucent. Acrylic can be used to make beads in any size, any colour and any shape and they can be made into any shape so these acrylic shapes can make fun and funky earrings, bracelets and necklaces. These acrylic beads and shapes let the designer’s imagination create unique jewellery designs that are limitless.

Wood is one of the natural materials that can be used to make these pieces of fun and fashionable handmade jewellery. These can be in there natural colours where the wood is only polished so that the natural beauty shows through inspiring the designer in there unusual designs. The wood can be made into beads and these can be left plain or they can be painted bright colours and some of these will have designs painted on them and these can be anything from geometrical to flowers or animals. Mixing the painted designs with the plain colours can produce some unusual jewellery designs with earrings, necklaces and bracelet jewellery in all the latest fashion designs. You can use these pieces of bright handmade fashion jewellery to brighten up a dull outfit or bring a little bit of colour to a dull day.

Glass beads and pendants are another bright material that can be used to create bright and funky handmade jewellery. Glass beads can be mass produced in any colour, size of shape so that they can be used cheaply to create this lovely unique jewellery designs. Strings of bright beads in different lengths can all be worn together to create an unusual Bo Ho look. Earrings in every length and every colour so you can wear a different pair every day, bracelet jewellery in solid designs and bracelets that have been beaded on to elastic so that they will fit any wrist size.

Ceramic beads are also available in many bright colours and these have been used for centuries to create original pieces of handmade jewellery. You can find mass produced ceramic beads and also handmade ceramic beads and many of these have very pretty designs pained on them and this means that a single bead can make a beautiful pair of earrings. Unique pieces of jewellery can be created from pendants that are made from ceramics and the colours and the designs of these can be stunning. Many unique and original affects are achieved by the artist with glazes of bright colours on the ceramic pendants. These pendants can be hung on chains or pieces of leather and for more delicate designs pieces of ribbons can look very pretty.

When it comes to creating unique pieces of fashion jewellery it does not make a difference what material it is made from and the brighter the better. You can even make a piece of jewellery by platting coloured ribbons, by stringing shells onto thread or using recycled jewellery to create new. Earrings can be made from buttons, bracelet jewellery from leather, necklaces from beads made from paper. Whatever the material the design has to be bright and beautiful and fun to wear and it has to make a unique fashion statement.