Win A $200 Gift Bag Of Chainmaille Supplies!

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Win an Amazing DIY Jewelry Starter Kit from Blue Buddha Boutique!

We’ve partnered with AllFreeJewelryMaking.com for this fabulous $200* giveaway, perfect for someone new to chainmaille!

*Technically the value is $199.10 … So close, tho! 😉

Visit their webgiveawaysite and enter to win an Amazing Jewelry Starter Kit! One lucky winner will receive a SIGNED copy of Chained, 2 Euro Tool Precision Ergo Pliers, 1 Jar of Tool Magic, 1 Mini Bead Work Surface Mat, a $25 gift card for Blue Buddha Boutique merchandise and a Starter Guide, as well as packs of rings to make jewelry:

  • * 1 Pack of Practice AA Rings
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Japanese Cross Pendant
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Box Bracelet
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Reversible Japanese Lace Bracelet
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Ripple Earrings
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Helm Chain Necklace
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Rondo a la Byzantine Bracelet
  • * 1 pack of rings to make the Easy Earrings

The deadline to enter is October 25, 2015, at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

ENTER NOW!

Good luck! :-)

New Satisfaction Guarantee for Blue Buddha Kits + Instructions

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We Guarantee You Can Succeed in Making Beautiful Jewelry

rebeca mojica making chain mailleOver the past decade, countless chainmaillers have told us:

“Blue Buddha Boutique instructions are the best!”
“I couldn’t understand this weave until I tried it with your instructions!”
“Your photographs are so clear!”

Since Day 1, I’ve tried to create instructions that are crystal clear. We have a very rigorous tutorial creation process and we’re always improving. And so it is finally time for our big announcement…

We’re so confident that our chainmaille tutorials are the best that we now offer no-risk purchasing. Buy any standard Blue Buddha Boutique kit with instructions and your satisfaction is guaranteed. If for any reason you cannot assemble our kit following our instructions, let us know and we’ll credit your account.

Look for this icon to indicate that your kit/instructions qualify for our Blue Buddha guarantee. Beta versions of instructions (a.k.a. “sale” instructions), free instructions, variation tutorials and a few other items aren’t eligible. See the fine print of our guarantee for full details.

READ THE FULL GUARANTEE

This type of guarantee is unprecedented in the chainmaille industry (and maybe even in the jewelry-making industry!) and we’re excited to offer this to you. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time. Some people have told me that I’m crazy for doing it, but we are so sure of our instructions that we’re putting our money where our mouth is.

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Now, it’s true that not everyone learns the same way. So our instructions aren’t going to be right for a small percentage of the population. And that’s fine—our guarantee means that if you try it and discover our instructions aren’t for you, you can still purchase something else, and you haven’t lost anything except a little bit of time. And for those who love our instructions or have always wanted to try them, now you can buy them with 100% confidence.

So what are you waiting for? Go get some projects, and tackle them with the full understanding that you can do it! Because you’ve got Blue Buddha backing you up.

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Fall/Winter 2015-2016 Color Forecast for DIY Jewelry Inspiration

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Earth tones, washed-out pastels and dashes of bright color

Here in Chicago, cooler air is rolling in, which can only mean one thing – autumn is upon us! The changing of seasons is a great time to be newly inspired. This fall and winter, colors are a mixture of neutral, earthy tones with subtle pastels and the occasional pops of color.

Experiment with these palettes and your designs will follow the same trends as Pantone’s Fashion color forecast and runway designers featured on Fashionisers.com! This is a great chance to check out color combinations that you’ve never tried before.

TIP: Print out the palettes below, cut out the swatches and play around with mixing and matching on your own. Or, check out our post featuring 6 sample projects using the Fall/Winter color forecast.

Purchase jump rings on their individual metal pages listed below, or all at once on our Ring Picker page!

Enameled Copper Jump Rings

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Anodized Aluminum Jump Rings

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Anodized Niobium Jump Rings

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Silicone Rubber Rings

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Beads and Glass Rings

glass rings and beads 2016 color paletteBe sure to check out our blog post with specific ideas on how to use these palettes in Blue Buddha chainmaille designs!

October Birthstone Inspiration (Opal) for DIY Jewelry Projects

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Create birthstone-inspired chainmaille jewelry for October

Our featured October birthstone-inspired kit is a variation on one of our beginner chainmaille patterns, Flowers. Purchase all-in-one, limited-edition kits on our seasonal page.

If you’d like to customize a different color scheme, check out the supplies list below to create a necklace and matching earrings. Purchase jump rings from our aluminum jump rings page.

  • * qty 7 – 14mm White Opal Glass Rings
    * qty 24 – P16 ALUM – 16 SWG (1.6 mm) 5/16″ (7.9 mm) for Flowers (Möbius) units* qty 16 – N16 ALUM – 16 SWG (1.6 mm) 7/32″ (7.1 mm) to connect flowers to glass rings
    * qty 10 – D18 ALUM – 18 SWG (1.2 mm) 1/8″ (3.2 mm) for earwire, and to connect the end N16s to the chain
    * qty 2 – H18 ALUM – 18 SWG (1.2 mm) 3/16″ (4.8 mm) for clasp
    * 1 lobster claw
    * 2 earwire + rubber ear backs
    * cable chain

Opal Color Inspiration

Many opal stones come with hints of iridescent seafoam, pinks, and even more colors depending on the stone’s origin.

Click an image to purchase:

aquamarine swarovski crystal faceted bead Aquamarine Swarovski® crystal bead
silver grey Miyuki® seed beads
white enameled copper jump rings white enameled copper jump rings
silver niobium rings silver lining anodized niobium jump rings
Crystal Satin Swarovski® crystal bead
seafoam seed bead seafoam Miyuki® seed beads
seafoam czech glass ring seafoam glass donut rings – Czech glass rings in 9.4 mm or 14 mm outer diameter

 
 pink anodized aluminum jump rings rose anodized niobium jump rings
vitrail cosmic ring Vitrail light Swarovski® crystal cosmic ring

 

 

Celebrating 80,000 orders!

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Thank You For Helping Us Reach 80,000 orders!

Wb3-crewe just received our 80,000th order! Woo-hoo!

We’re giving the lucky customer who placed this order an $80 gift card. But we want to share the love with everyone … since really, you ALL helped us get here!  So, for the next 80 hours*, take 8% off your entire order with coupon code 80000.

Plus, everyone who uses the coupon code will automatically be entered to win an $80 gift certificate! (Only one entry per person will be counted in our drawing.)

From humble beginnings in the spare bedroom of my home, to a small studio space, to a MUCH larger warehouse, Blue Buddha has been helping people create beautiful jewelry for many years. (OK, technically, our crew has fulfilled more than 80,000 orders, but we’re just counting from when we switched over from hand-written and copy-paste MS Word/Excel receipts, over to our database in 2009. We’re also not counting orders from our store in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, as the shop has a different sales system than our online ordering one does. Technicalities, schmecknicalities. ;-P

We want to thank you, all of you amazing customers, for making this happen. We are happy that there are so many of you who love making chainmaille, and who are inspired by our products. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We look forward to the next 80,000 orders!

*Offer valid through Saturday, September 26, 8:34 pm (CT). Cannot be combined with other coupon codes; however, you CAN stack it on top of our normal mix ‘n’ match discount, meaning you can save up to 28% on base metal rings and 13% on kits & instructions purchased together!