Breastfed With Love Bead Cores

(16 customer reviews)

US$11.00US$175.00 ex. Vat

Breastfed With Love Bead Cores for charm beads in solid sterling silver, sets that do not need gluing, for your clients’ Chamilia and Pandora style bracelets. Perfect for beads containing your clients’ breastmilk, placenta and umbilical cord, first curl, petals and flowers and other elements. Please check compatability!

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fit them easily with doming punches

15 Piece Doming Punch Set

15 Piece Doming Punch Set to make life easier when flaring two-part A+B bead cores like Forever In My Heart Cores/Breastfed With Love/Always With Me/Blank/Custom. For making breastmilk, cremation ashes and lock of hair large hole beads for European style bracelets.

Description

Gold vermeil Blank Bead Cores for charm beads for European style bracelets – gold plated solid sterling silver. Inserts that fit resin, polymer clay and glass donut beads to make them look perfect on any Biagi, Chamilia or Pandora bracelet. No need to glue!

A set for one charm bead consists of a part A and part B. Part A is inserted through your charm bead’s core, the part B placed over the top and flared gently with a 6mm doming punch and a wooden doming block. You can also use a 6mm ball bearing (included) and a lightweight hammer, but the doming punch method is easier, both methods are shown below.

These are the cores we use at Tree of Opals made by the same people for us for the past 4 years. The blank cores are regularly requested on our Breastmilk and Memorial Jewellery Group (here) so here you are – you are a community we are so proud to have brought together! It’s suitable as a breastfeeding and baby keepsake (breastmilk charm beads, first curl charm beads, placenta and umbilical cord charm beads) but also as a memorial for your clients (cremation ashes charm beads and hair and fur charm beads).

Cores For Charm Beads – Compatibility

Perfect for use with our

Please note they are not compatible with slim, super slim, small or large beads due to length of the core. For inserts which are compatible with charms of a different length core please click here for our glue-in charm bead inserts. For advice on making keepsake and memorial jewellery see our blogs here. Don’t forget, we sell bead mould masters too so if you’re able to make your own bead moulds, we’d recommend buying medium, faceted or honeycomb bead masters.

These cores are sold by the set, so for one charm you would just need to purchase one core set. They are much wider than other inserts on the market so they’re ideal for covering up the sanding area on resin charm beads and slight colour run on glass beads.

How To Fit A Blank Bead Core

Here is a video showing you how to fit a core with the ball bearing (included) and a lightweight hammer like this one

Here is a video showing you how to fit a core with a doming punch set and a wooden doming block

 

All Bead Tutorials

Kit Contents

If you’d like to buy these cores as a kit you’ll receive:

You can also request some practice ashes here. You’ll also need to provide yourself (not included):

Follow our tutorials here to prepare your clients’ elements or buy a pack of 5 or 10 sachets of Breastmilk Preservation Powder here! Not recommended for engraving, sorry (due to gold plating).

Stock Images

You can download some stock images here (coming soon!). They’re royalty-free and Creative Commons 00 so you’re free to edit and use for your own purposes but we ask you to let your clients know in the image description that they do not necessarily reflect your own work and are for guidance only. You can Photoshop in your own charm beads and add your own watermarks as desired. More coming soon – feel free to submit your own royalty-free CC00 images to benefit the community, so long as you are happy with no attribution required, which means that someone using the images doesn’t have to credit you for the photo.

Blank Core Sizing

in depth specifications
10mm wide core flange on two part core set. Covers 10mm sanding area on charm beads
8mm length core tube on part A of two part core set. For 6 or 7mm wide charm beads
4mm wide smallest internal diameter. Ideal for bracelets 4mm wide or smaller such as Pandora or Trollbeads
5mm wide internal tube diameter. Ideal for bracelets 4.5mm wide or smaller such as Pandora or Trollbeads
5.5mm wide largest internal diameter on part B. Charm bead hole will need to be at least 5.5mm wide
10mm total set length of charm bead with core fitted

7mm length charm bead is perfect for the core length (medium and faceted)
7mm length charm bead is perfect for the core length (our medium charm bead mould and faceted charm bead mould are 7mm in length and fit perfectly)

lampworkers
5mm mandrel with bead release, ideal for use with fitted bead cores
donut bead graphite mould – the black and blue charm is the perfect size for our charm cores

5mm mandrel with bead release, ideal for use with fitted bead cores
5mm mandrel with bead release, ideal for use with fitted bead cores
donut bead graphite mould - the black and blue charm is the perfect size for our charm cores
donut bead graphite mould – the black and blue charm is the perfect size for our charm cores

Gold Plated Sterling Silver Vermeil

The silver in these fitted cores is 925 solid sterling EcoSilver. Please see our blog on Types of Solid Silver which explains the care instructions for the silver and the metal content. Please see Types of Gold to learn more about gold vermeil (plated solid silver). Please note, these are not solid gold and should not be sold as such. Please check your country’s laws in regards to selling vermeil. These are not hallmarked because they do not weigh over 7.6g silver and the gold is only plated.

How to Use Charm Bead Cores

Full blog coming soon with information on sizing lampwork glass beads and attaching the cores. You do not need a machine to fit these (in fact, a grommet press is not recommended and can warp the core). A piece of cloth and a 5mm or 6mm doming punch are all you need, just apply a firm pressure downwards to flare part A over part B. Do not press too hard or you will warp the core and need to use pliers to remove it. We will not replace cores damaged during setting.

We will include 6mm ball bearings with orders, which can be used with a gentle tap of the hammer to flare, be sure to put the bead on a soft cloth before you do it though! Video coming soon.

Pro tip – at Tree of Opals we like to make the client two charm beads with their elements (ashes, hair etc) at the same time. Remove both from the moulds and send the client a photo to check they’re happy and offer them a choice. Let the clients know that you will return the second one free of charge as a spare, and set their favourite with a core. Over half of our clients ask for the second charm to be set, which you may charge £20 for doing. So it’s always worth buying an extra core just in case!

Costing Cores For Beads

Over at Tree of Opals we sell beads with hair for around £140 (160EUR/170USD/240CAD/260AUD appx) and sets of them down to around £100, plus occasionally up to 30% off for large family orders, wholesale (funeral homes and crematoria, I used to do 30% off for 10 pieces or more for a breastfeeding group) or black Friday deals etc. The very cheapest I would sell a silver bead for would be £25 as a mystery piece/mystery order addon or for someone who wanted a second charm bead set when you’ve already made two. The profit margin on that is high enough to cover my overheads (websites, payment processing fees, my admin manager, moulds etc) and support my family.

Of course, you can sell beads for £15, and I have seen them that low, but only with silver plated cores. Clients will happily pay extra for a solid silver setting on any piece. We also sell glue-in charm inserts and a set is a little less expensive but they do not fit all the way through the core and will need to be glued in. This will take longer and occasionally they can fall out. These cores provide the most professional option and will set your business above others using glue-ins.

Cores For Charm Beads – Large/Custom orders

If you would like some custom charm beads made our minimum order quantity is 200pcs and your first order will include the cost of designing and making a “die stamp”. You can choose your brand name or business name, or your own special phrase. Please order our Branded Charm Bead Core Quote here and give us the details of your business, how many charm beads you sell a month etc. You can choose to have all or half of them gold plated.

Additional information

bead quantities

1 set for 1 bead, 10 sets for 10 beads, 20 sets for 20 beads

metal

solid sterling silver

country of manufacture

China

ships from

United Kingdom

16 reviews for Breastfed With Love Bead Cores

  1. leannemurdieee (verified owner)

    I am absolutely thrilled with this core. Excellent quality and excellent service as always. So so happy with it

  2. Rhea Mitchell (verified owner)

    The perfect finish to breast milk beads. They add such a personalised quality to the piece. Excellent quality and easy to use !

  3. melaniesmemorialjewellery (verified owner)

    Again another beautifully made bead core with such special meaning for new mommas. This is something that’s hard to find on the U.K. market and makes the breastmilk bead with this core really stand out.
    I’m sure as with the other cores from keepsakersupplies this will be extremely popular.

  4. Sophshumble (verified owner)

    Fantastic cores so secure and beautiful, my customers love them and so do i

  5. terezakaycross (verified owner)

    These cores are SO easy to use and the finish they give is amazing

  6. ludanchirnside (verified owner)

    These cores are absolutely gorgeous very easy to use (especially after watching the YouTube video!) I’ve made 2 so far for customers and can definitely see this becoming a firm favourite.

  7. m.cyphers (verified owner)

    I, and my customers absolutely love these cores. They’re the perfect addition to breastmilk beads and you genuinely don’t see anything anywhere else that’s even close to the quality! They cover just the perfect amount either side of the bead to cover imperfections and whether hammered or glued in, sit perfectly! Love all the text cores but especially this one

  8. shelbygraceteia (verified owner)

    These cores are the best! I love the saying on them and the quality is phenomenal.

  9. keepsakesbygeorgy (verified owner)

    I love those caps. They fit the beads so well, there’s no need to waste time finishing the end of the beads as the cores can hide the poring imperfections if I don’t pour too much resin. I’m only ordering caps from here!

  10. mrsemmabarrett (verified owner)

    I hadn’t used these style of cores before, but they were very easy to fit thanks to the how to video and they look great!

  11. thymelesswire (verified owner)

    Beautiful charm bead core. Easy to use and my clients love them too!

  12. mrsemmabarrett (verified owner)

    These are so popular with my customers. They are very well made and with thanks to the tutorial, very easy to fit.

  13. alihawthorn (verified owner)

    I love these cores! They give my charms the most beautiful finish and are very popular with my customers. Very easy to use. I look forward to receiving my next order of these 🙂

  14. llinola (verified owner)

    Love these cores. Really high quality and so easy to use. Much better finish than glue in ones!

  15. info18 (verified owner)

    These bead cores are the perfect finish to breastmilk beads. They add a professional look and are something a little bit different to what else is on the market. High quality product which my customers love.
    Will definitely be using again, thank you!

  16. amy.blackman1234 (verified owner)

    These look great, I’ve not used them yet but by appearance they look fantastic.

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