FAQ
How do I contact you?
❤️ You can email me at inkray.art@gmail.com or message me on any of my social media pages.
Facebook: inkray
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How do I care for my Jewelry?
🩷 Store your Jewelry either hanging up or laying flat. Preferably in a cool, dark place.
❤️ If your fringes start to kink up: lay your earrings on a flat surface, hold the earring in place by pressing the top of your fingers against the top of the earring, then gently run your other hand from the top of the fringes to the bottom, slowly rocking them back and forth as you go. This should relax the thread and get them to lay flat again.
🩷No matter how tempting, you should avoid running your fingers down Earring fringes while wearing them, this can bind the thread.
❤️ Please avoid:
- Exposure to liquid or extreme temperatures (I.e. pools, hot tubs, showers or saunas).
- Exposure to direct sunlight or extended periods of time in the sun.
- Exposure to excessive makeup, perfumes, lotions, hair products, and any sprays. Earrings should be put on at the very end of an outfit, like the cherry on top!
🩷 Do not sleep with your Jewelry on.
❤️ Most beads are made from Glass, any excessive weight or pressure can lead to breakage.
What materials are used?
🩷 All of my earrings are finished with a 20g ear wire/hook. They are either Grade 1 Titanium(F67 Implant Grade) or 14/20 Gold filled with a Brass core. Both options are nickel free and safe for sensitive ears. All ear wires are sanitized before being shipped.
❤️ The Thread is either a strong Japanese nylon, or braided micro-fused bead thread.
🩷 Seed Beads are all either Czech or Japanese glass.
❤️Accent bead material varies, but are either Glass, Shell, or occasionally Acrylic. Each product page contains what materials were used when making them.
🩷Almost all of my seed beads come from Small Businesses. Northland Visions is my local bead store, I highly recommend them!
❤️I shop Indigenous Owned as much as possible. Other recommendations would be: Powwow Bling, Beaded Edge Supply, Sundaylace Creations, and Prairie Edge.
🩷 For accent beads, the sources vary wildly; the majority are from Small Businesses on Etsy. If you want to know where I got accent beads for a specific pair, please message me!
❤️ A lot of my packaging(jewelry boxes, tape, cardboard honeycomb, tissue paper) comes from Amazon. I am currently waiting on compostable mailers from a Small Business to replace the regular bubble mailers I had been using!
Where do you get your designs?
🩷 I make all of my designs! Some are just numbers scribbled on paper, others are meticulously planned and tweaked over several days or more.
To my fellow beaders:
❤️ I don’t mind if you copy my designs for either personal use or gifting, however; if you want to make and sell a design of mine, I charge a fee. Please message me to arrange payment(I accept payment through PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle).
🩷I will eventually sell digital patterns, but for now you would have to just use a picture as a pattern.
❤️If you make a design of mine for personal use, please tag me, I’d love to see what you made and also connect with fellow artists :)
🩷You can find me on TikTok and Instagram @inkray.art
& on Facebook as inkray
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If you have any unanswered questions or comments, please reach out to me at inkray.art@gmail.com.