Press Releases - Fire Mountain Gems & Beads

Beading Press Releases

Get the latest jewelry-making news from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. New product announcements, new jewelry-making and style resources, beading or beader's community events and more. This section gives you a direct link to what's hot in the beading world for your designing, fashion and business needs.

Clear Glass and Dichroic Glass Cabochons

Custom create glass jewelry components, or make artisan-style creations, quickly and easily with clear glass and dichroic glass cabochons.

Customizable Brooches

Introducing a fantastic new line of lead-safe pewter brooches designed especially for rhinestone chaton embellishment.

Pewter Charms

In keeping with one of the season’s hottest jewelry trends, over 80 new lead-safe pewter charms in antiqued finishes have been added to the existing collection found at Fire Mountain Gems and Beads.

New Product Releases

Skyrocket-Cut Cubic Zirconia

NEW exquisitely cut cubic zirconia for designer jewelry lines. The "skyrocket cut" displays luxurious faceting with irresistible light reflection and is an ideal choice to set into high-end designs.

Sterling Silver Rivoli Settings

Shop rivoli drop settings -- newly available in polished sterling silver -- to set off Swarovski crystal rivoli rhinestones with glimmering style.

SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS - Brand Optimization

Announcing a product brand optimization - SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS. As of June, 2010, CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements and STRASS® Swarovski® Crystal became the product brand SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS. Learn more in the press release.

New Product Releases

Apoxie® Sculpt

Introducing NEW Apoxie® Sculpt -- a fantastic two-part sculptural epoxy. With the sculpting benefits of clay and the adhesive power of epoxy, Apoxie® Sculpt is ideal for creating pavé designs with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS and for designing one-of-kind beads with findings containing built-in channels.