Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to wire wrap
rhinestone cup chain onto a bangle bracelet. I have these Nunn Design
bangle bracelet. It's very easy to use.
you end up with a good looking, very fashionable piece of jewelry
so what you're going to need is some twenty-six gauge wire
I'm using artistic wire, it's really flexible and soft
so it's really easy to wrap the rhinestone chain. I've tried first using
twenty four gauge, it was just a little too heavy
it didn't really lay flush against my bangle as you can see the twenty six does
so
do use twenty six
then you're going to need a bangle bracelet
now I have two bangle bracelets here and I'll show you what's going to work
well for technique and one what's not on this one
it's rounded. I'm also concerned about how narrow it is because there is actually
narrow chain out there, that would work fine with that
but I'm concerned that it is tapered around the edges whereas this one is
nice and squared off and flat. Let me just show you real quick
my problem
so this one here
see how it wobbles a lot
as you lay it on it is rounded
we're going to see on this one because this is flat the chain actually sits on there
it's going to help to have a flat surface
so you need the bangle, wire and rhinestone chain
I'm going to use turquoise here and I'm actually going to do it on the silver bangle
for the video purposes you can see it a little bit better
you're going to need about nine inches but I would suggest you start with a
foot
just because the rhinestone chain
does actually cinch up depending on how tight you stretch it, you might need
a little more or a little less than the nine inches. I want you to have plenty
and then you're going to need a wire cutters
and a ruler
so let's begin and open up my wire
I've got
gold wire on a silver bangle using a gold chain so you can see it a little bit
better
now in terms of how much he need measure yourself
thirty inches
that's eighteen
twelve
that's what we're going to use to start
grab my wire
from one end leaving a tail about four inches
go ahead
take your chain and lay it down on top of your bangle
and this is the most difficult part of the entire process is just getting it
started
we wanna lay
our chain
against the top surface of the bangle
anchor it in place. Do that
by wrapping your wire around
do whatever you need to do to just anchor it in place. We're going to go back at the end
if need be re do our wrapping on the first one
just need to secure it
if you luck out, you did a great secure, you won't need to rework it but don't worry
about it you will be able to if need be
that is now on there
great thing about wire you can straighten it out a little bit if you need to
if it gets in your way
okay holding the one that you just anchored
go ahead
pass your wire under
through the bangle
come back around the top side
and over that little metal bridge that makes up the cup chain
pull it down, you see I flattened it a little bit my finger against the hard
bridge of the bangle
back through
the bangle
back up
if you want
you can flattened that wire a little bit
just by holding it with your fingers it does flatten it
what we're starting to do is starting to make our wraps
it get's far easier the more you do it
just in the beginning the chain is so wobbly it makes it a little bit more difficult
back
and over
keep working your way down
keep going all the way around look, at it from different angles if you need to
find out whichever way is easiest for you
and just going to go all the way around
you see it got a nice flat spirals. They are not sharp really, actually quite nice and
flush instead. I'm going to do this all the way around and when I get back to
this point I'm going to show you how to finish it off
almost to the end, I just have a couple more wraps to do. You cam see what this
looks like
and because you're going between every single link you have these nice evenly spaced
wraps
I'm almost to the end. I'm going to do a couple more
I don't want you to cut your chain yet so we do have this tail right here
wait until you think you've got your last wrap done
or almost your last one
all right so I would look at this and I think I need one more in there to make it even
at this point
see if you want to slide your links closer together because you can. It's
flexible
so if you do
you need to add an extra link or two
or you can leave them spaced out how they are. If your wrappings are quite loose
they might want to slide on their own. At that point you might want to
slide them down to fill in any gaps and get a gap later
Slide them down just a little bit
I'm going to cut
my chain
cut it so that
I want this one to be my last one
I'm going to finish off my wrappings
go in between that bridge right over that little piece of metal anchoring it
in place
one more to do
on this very last one
what I want to do
I wanna make three nice neat wraps. I've got one
two
three
and that's nice and secure and you don't have them overlapping at all. Doing
three is just the right width
so I don't want to cut
my wire and the underside. I want to cut it along the side
so that when you put your bangle on, I'm pressing it down and make
sure that's nice and flat
it's not going to cut your skin at all
go back to beginning, remember where I said we could
be a little bit looser in our wraps and just do whatever we need to do to
secure them. I want them to look a little bit neater so I'm going to undo
two of them
and I'm going to go back
and rewrap the other two
we have three and three
and I think that looks tighter
and do the same thing over here. I'm not gonna cut on the underside, just cut
on the side
press that down
make sure I don't feel it underneath
and there we go. That's where you've secured your chain on both ends
and then all the way around the rest of the way it's got nice even interval
wire wraps
so that is how do you wire wrap rhinestone cut chain onto a bangle
bracelet. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!