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Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com
and I wanna show you how to make the exclusive beadaholique.com kit
which is the Zelda necklace and this actually comes in two different
colorways
you've got one which are these with these purple iris beads and then we have
the other one which is with the green iris
so two different looks same necklace
and these are really easy to make and they're a classics stringing technique. So
if you're not with familiar stringing
and you're new to jewelry and you want a project to get you started this is a
great one. You're gonna be able to take the skills you learn
with this project and apply them to all sorts of other ones
and those skills are going to include how to string a necklace
use a crimp bead and crimping pliers and how to use a crimp cover and you'll end up with
the finish necklace
now what's nice about the exclusive beadaholique.com kits is you get everything
you need to make that piece of jewelry
included in the kit. The tools are not included but get all the beads
and the stringing material. That's going to include for this particular necklace and
I'm going to do the purple one
36 of these pretty purple beads,
17 of the fluted black beads,
18 of the small round pearl looking beads,
34 bead caps,
a lobster clasp, a closed jump ring,
two crimp beads, two crimp bead covers and
you're going to get enough wire to do a the necklace. You'll actually gonna get 36
inches
you're going to need part of it to do your necklace. You'll have enough left over to do
a bracelet or another necklace even. In terms of the tools you're going to need, these are
not included but they're great basic tools
if you are making jewelry, a pair of crimping pliers, I'll show you how to use
those
at the end the project, a pair of cutters
and then you'll need something to hold your beads onto your beading
wire. I like bead stoppers, they're really handy to use
if you don't have one though. You can just use a piece of tape. So let's get
started
go ahead uncoil your beading wire
be gentle with it when you're uncoiling
it. You don't want it to kink or bend
just work its way out. There we go
and now place a bead stopper a few inches
from the end. Now if you didn't have a bead stopper just take a piece of tape
I know it's a little hard to see on camera and just put it over the end
like so. Squish it together and that will stop your beads from falling off
If you plan on doing a lot of beading
bead stoppers are great. So to begin we're gonna start
with a crimp tube. Put that right onto
your beading wire, let that slide down to the bead stopper
now we're gonna go ahead and add one of the purple beads,
one of the Pearl, another purple,
a bead cap facing
up, fluted black bead
you see now because that bead cap was facing up that is
cupping the fluted bead,
another bead cap facing down and this
here is now our first sequence. See we've got purple bead
pearl, purple bead, bead cap, black bead,
another bead cap and we're just going to repeat 17 times
so again purple,
pearl,
purple,
bead cap facing up,
black bead and another bead cap
facing down. Just keep doing the
same pattern until you have strung
all of you're black beads and then we're just gonna add a few more purple beads and
another pearl at the end and then the other crimp bead
okay so we've repeated our sequence. We have a total of the seventeen black
beads strung on
and you'll notice now you've got three beads left. So you just wanna make the
end
match the beginning. So we're just gonna take those last three beads
put them on
at this point go ahead and lay out your necklace
and make sure that all your beads are correct because its very easy right now
to just take off your beads and put them back on in the correct order
but once you crimp those crimp tubes and you'll apply the crimp covers
you'll be kind of set, you could of course undo it and restring it but you won't
have
probably enough supplies. So go ahead and make sure that everything is correct
right now
and your pattern is consistent
so that looks good. It's time
to attach our clasp and I actually forgot at the beginning to mention you'll need a pair
of chain nose pliers which I just went and grabbed. You'll use those for your
crimp covers
I want to keep as much beading wire
intact as possible if you use it for another project
go ahead and scoot my bead stopper down a little bit
just so I can get another inch of beading wire that I'm going to be able to preserve
now going from the end that you just strung
take your tail and put it through
your closed jump ring slide
that down, take your tail
go back through the crimp tube
and the bead next to it. We just made a loop
and pulling my tail through that bead you can see what just happened
we've got the close jump ring attached,
got a little loop. I have room for it to breathe
so we don't want a big loop like that, we want
a nice little loop. Now we're gonna crimp the crimp bead
you've got a crimping pliers
and you can see they've got two notches
one is being shaped like
a crescent moon and one is more oval-shaped. The one you're going to use first
is the one which is closest
to the handles and that's going to go ahead and depress
the crimp tube and make it is this crescent shape and then you'll
go ahead and finish it off with the notch from the handles
actually these kits come with picture instructions
on how to do things like crimping a crimp bead. So you'll be able to see that
visually. So I've put my crimp
tube into that notch and it's secure in there
as closest to the handles and I'm going to just
squeeze. You'll see what happened
see how it turned it into more of a Crescent bean shape. It's got that
depression in the middle
so now I'm gonna rotate it, see I put it into
that notch furthest from my handles and I'm gonna squeeze
and it fold it over
so you've got a nice secure crimp. At this time
I'm going to trim off the excess beading wire just like so
and I've got some left over for another project. Now you wanna go to the other
end
remove the bead stopper. Make sure all your beads
go down towards the end that's finished and do the same thing
and go ahead and thread a tail through the loop at the base of the lobster clasp
loop it back around, go back down
through the crimp bead and the bead next to it and
pull
so at this point you wanna check before you crimp it
make sure you don't have any large gaps
I think that's a pretty large gap, I don't want a gap that
big
so gonna just pull it a little tighter
cinch up
that gap
now
gonna go ahead and crimp the crimp tube on this side
so again put it into that notch
closest to your handles and squeeze
and then rotate it
put it into the notch furthest from the handles
squeeze to fold it in on itself. Go ahead
and trim your tail
Almost done. We've got a necklace
now we just need to apply the crimp covers and the crimp covers are just gonna
make it
so that all your findings match. They are antique brass color for this particular
project. They're gonna cover
that silver crimp tube. Take my
crimp cover, put it into my chain nose pliers
with the opening facing outward
take it, put it over my crimp tube and squeeze together
it's almost like I just made a bead
it's like an open bead, the crimp cover
do that on the other side as well. Go ahead
Put it over
the crimp tube and squeeze
and there you a finished necklace. I'll show you how long it is
this one here
is about 18 inches which is a good standard size if you're considering
giving this as a guest
to close it
just attach the lobster clasp to the closed jump ring
and you have a finished necklace.
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