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Hi I'm Mackie Mullane and I'm a designer for Vintaj and I'm here today with
Beadaholique.com
to show you a creative clasp on our My Journey Necklace and Bracelet
I have all of these pieces out. I've got two arrows
I've got my centerpiece coin for the necklace
and part of the toggle that we're going to be making
also we have three different kinds of jump rings
and two different cut chains. So what you'll need is your
relief block,
a dry paint brush and water. You're going to need chain nose pliers
filigree shaping pliers and a hole punch pliers
okay so first I'm going to do the patina piece
I'm just going to get a little bit of the black
Black Onyx patina out on the side
Apply that to the piece
dab it on
kind roughly because I want it to look
aged, antiqued. I'm gonna take my
paper towel and wipe off that top layer
So there's your patina piece
next I'm going to assemble the necklace
so I'm actually going to be making this creative hook. So that using this
arrow
and here at the top I'm actually going to be
twisting the arrow so that when this comes back up around
on this both of the raised edges are going to be showing
take my second of pair chain nose pliers
and twist it around
grab on there and twist
so I like to make sure I have a nice grip up top
and towards the bottom. So once you finish that step you'll see that this actually
is the back of this side of the arrow and this is the good side
of the top. So now we're going to make it into the hook
so here I am going to hold on and I'm going to be shaping it around the large
end of the pliers. So I got the end
hold on tightly
and kinda change edges as you work
change sides and twist
and pull
and then go back to your larger side and I like to kind of
grip and then let go a little bit each time and then
grip again as we twist and pull up
and then up here I'm going to grab on with both of the pliers
and create a little bend in the piece
and then you can use your chain nose pliers
once again and bring that loop back up
more towards the center
then you have your arrow loop. I like to go in with a relief block
the light side of it and just
add a nice a finish and highlight to the piece
okay so now that you have those two pieces done, we're gonna go ahead and
finish up that necklace
so here I am taking a smaller jump ring that we have and attach that to the end
of the loop that we just made and then I'm going to actually use the flush
cutters and clip off
the extra small loop
run that through the chain
close it up
there's one
clip the other small off. Open the small jump ring
string it through and go ahead and close that because you're going to be
stringing
the larger jump ring through both ends of this
So now take a medium size jump ring
straight through the top of the pendant
and close and then take your large thick jump ring
open it
string it
through, go on your jump ring end of the
chain. Use both of your chain nose pliers to
close and then you have your
creative clasp of your necklace
so now that we have the necklace made we're going to go ahead and show you how to
finish up that bracelet
okay so here I pre-cut a standard length
of bracelet which is about seven and a half inches
then here we're
going to open this jump ring
string it through the under the chain
string it through the toggle end
attach. Take my hole punching pliers
I am going to go
right on the center of this arrow so I'm gonna punch through the back side
it's always easier to get a grip on it when you're on the debossed
side. Punch that
and you can see kinda as I punch that, I kind of bent the piece
I'm going to take my chain nose pliers and just straighten that out
and I'm going to take this medium-sized jump ring, attach it to one end of the
chain
string it through the
arrow, close it
and then I'm going to take this nice little finished
leaf and add it to the end of the arrow
open up a jump ring
string it through
and add it to your arrow
and then you have your bracelet.
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