• Swarovski beads and crystals add style.Nick White/Digital Vision/Getty Images
  
  Although you may have packed your bejewel craft kit or Bedazzler away in your basement decades ago, you can relight that creative fire without reliving your preteen years. You can give items, such as jewelry, ornaments, clothes and even your boring cell phone cover, an elegant touch by adding Swarovski beads and crystals, or using them as the primary elements of your design.
  
  

Phone Covers

• Cell phone covers are practical items that you easily can transform from drab and boring to showy and savvy. Using glue, you can strategically place Swarovski beads and crystals on your phone cover to replicate those pricey, jeweled covers sold in malls and nail salons. Design your own cell phone cover using Swarovski beads and crystals or make one as a gift for someone else.
  
  

Jewelry

• The possibilities are endless when it comes to the jewelry designs you can create with Swarovski beads and crystals. You can make drop earrings, embellished hoop earrings or stud earrings by buying the necessary hardware at a bead or craft store. Embellish cuff bracelets by affixing the crystals and beads to them, either with a sturdy glue or by stringing them onto wire. Create crystal-and-bead embellished choker necklaces by buying the wrap-around cord, stringing on the beads and crystals, and then securing the ends.
  
  

Clothing Design

• Bedazzling clothes isn't just appealing to preteen girls. You can use Swarovski beads and crystals to replicate the expensive jeweled designs and patterns seen on designer jeans and clothing. Simply mark the pattern you want to appear on the jeans or other items of clothing and glue or sew the beads and crystals onto the fabric, or use a Swarovski crystal applicator if you are adhering flat back crystals to the clothing.
  
  

Ornaments

• Ornaments make great gifts, especially when they're studded with Swarovski crystals and beads. You can make ornaments for your own tree or someone else's that will sparkle and shimmer in the holiday lighting. String the beads and crystals onto gold-plated copper wire or jump rings to create ornaments shaped like wreaths, crystal balls or candy canes. Attach a piece of ribbon or wire to the ornament to hang it on a Christmas tree.