Hi there. Sandy here. Welcome to another jewelry making video on my YouTube channel and my
blog. Today we're going to be making a bracelet using a rather unusual and unique closure.
I think you'll enjoy applying it to lots of different projects.
So for today's project, I'm going to be using these clay beads. They're just beads I found
at AC Moore in the Nicole's Bead Shop line and they're kind of cool because they have this iridescent
paint or something in the crevices and I really like that because this makes it so that they
will go with just about any colors that you want for accent beads. I chose to use these
little 6mm olive jade beads today, but you could go with something with quite a lot of
contrast like these red ones. Those are really pretty or even blue crystals look very nice.
It kind of brings out the sparkle. Or if you wanted a more subdued look, something more
pale like this serpentine would work, but I'm using six of these 23mm clay oval beads
and so I have seven of my 6mm olive jade beads and 14 of these little 6mm bead caps. The
only other things you will need are a button for the closure. I chose this rather funky
looking button from my button jar. You'll need two crimps, two crimp covers, a bit of
bead stringing wire and some seed beads and for tools all you'll need are wire cutters
and crimping pliers.
So what I'm going to do is just on some bead stringing wire string an alternating pattern
with my beads and my bead caps and I've actually already done that right over here. Just my
olive jade bead with a bead cap on either side alternating with the clay beads. That's
all there is to it.
Now the next step is to make our closure. Very simple. I'm going to start with a crimp
on one of the pieces of wire and some seed beads and what I want to do is make enough
seed beads so that when I loop it around back through the crimp I will have a loop that
will just fit over my button. So now I've threaded on all of my seed beads, put my wire
back through the crimp and then of course you just want to test and make sure it just
goes over your button and then you can use your crimping pliers to flatten that crimp.
As always, test and make sure that that's tight. Trim off the excess wire and then for
a nice finished look, I'm just going to put a crimp cover over that crimp and I like to
use my crimping pliers to pick up and apply my crimp. It holds onto it nicely. Just squeeze
the crimp cover over the crimp and we're nearly done.
The next thing to do is to slide on the second crimp on the other end. Slide on the shank
of your button and then slide the loop back through the crimp. Pull that up, don't pull
it too tight. Leave a little bit of slack. Flatten that crimp and cover it with a crimp
cover and you're all done.
So here's another look at the bracelet we made today. I hope you liked this project
and that you'll give it a try. Making your own button and seed bead loop closure is a
nice way to add a different kind of closure and also something unique and if you're out
of toggles and lobster clasps, it's a great alternative.
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Thanks for watching. Happy creating. Bye bye.