Star Patterns and Combining Shapes

Stars can be a fun and colorful way to design your jewelry. One option is to stick to the traditional design, combining it with geometric earrings to create a light-catching and brilliant look, such as the design here. However, experiment with additional designs such as using seed beads to create an explosion of stardust, which goes well into combining geometric shapes together. Using just the concept of triangles and squares, you can create the below design, a minimalistic but impressive look that mimics the look of a starburst.

Or use circles and triangles and you get an exciting yet clean design, highlighting the gemstone featured in the center of the open circle while the individual lines coming from the inner circle create an almost star-like appearance behind the triangles.
Squares can serve a similar design choice as circles, drawing the attention to areas, but also can act as lines on the body for the eye to follow. How you might ask? Just turn them slightly and your square is suddenly a diamond, which indicates the paths for your eyes to follow. With the inclusion of gemstones into the design, you can highlight the gemstone and make it the centerpiece attraction such as this design here. The eyes are drawn immediately to the stones in the center, and then the slightly thicker gold around it acts to block the eyes from focusing on anything around the gemstones.

Similarly, you can use designs that incorporate the square and little to nothing else to maintain the minimalist design. Use square shaped gemstones or open components for negative space and you have a chic and simple design, or turn it sideways and you create a diamond-shaped pendant or necklace to draw the eye. Use elongated gemstones, the baguette cut, to create slimming designs that require little work to match them to outfits.

You can also use diamond-shaped focals, especially the Swarovski® crystals, for geometric designs as well as beautiful crystals all in the same look.