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Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com
and I want to show you how to make the Betty bracelet. I have an example here
in pink, black and pearl. It's a fun retro color scheme
I'll show you how to make it in the color variation of aqua
All the other components are the same but you have this pretty aqua beads
instead of the pink. So this is a really fun multi-strand bracelet
with a toggle clasp. See what it will look like on the wrist
and this is a exclusive kit through beadaholique.com
and you can find it on beadaholique.com along with other kits
but I wanna show you in this video how to make it from start to finish
so included in your kit you're gonna receive 22 of
these pretty little pearl beads, you'll get 6
small black beads, 8 large black beads,
10 of the aqua beads and 5 fluted beads which are really
pretty cathedral beads, you'll get 2 jump rings,
a toggle clasp, 2 strand reducers
and 35 eye pins. So we're gonna construct
this beautiful bracelet in this color scheme with these ingredients and the
tools you'll need
is a pair of chain nose pliers, a pair of round nose pliers
and a pair of cutters and that is it. I'll show you how to do this
It's actually really easy. It's the same technique over and over again
So to start we're going to place a pearl bead
onto a eye pin
just like so. Slide it all the way down to the base
and then you'll make a simple wire loop right after the bead
you can take your chain nose pliers, bend your wire to the side
take your round nose pliers, grip the wire
and then bend
the wire up over-the-top of the round nose pliers
rotate, continue
bending it. Where the wires criss-cross
take your cutters and snip
off any excess wire and normally I would say go through right now and clean up
your loops, make sure that they're neat
you would straighten that loop up but because of the way this is constructed
you're gonna need to open up all these loops anyway so don't worry about having
them perfect right after you make them
so for the pearl segment you're gonna make six of these
so again I'll show you how to do this. I'm actually going to show you a slightly different
way. So you saw that a bent the wire with the chain nose pliers before
you can also, if you're going to be making a lot of these the wire's flexible enough you can
just bend it with your finger if you want
and then it's the same technique from there, you just take
your round nose, grip it bend the wire up
over-the-top, rotate the pliers
continue bending. Where it overlaps
sniff off the extra wire and put that aside
YOu want to make six of those
One more tip here, you see that my loops are going in opposite directions
if that happens just go ahead grip one loop with one pair of pliers
grip the other loop with the other pair and twist
wire is great because it's flexible. Of course you don't want to overwork it or do that too
many times but one nice twist like that
and the wire will be fine. I made 6 little pearl segments. Now I'm gonna
take these little black beads
and do 6 segments of them the same exact way
put one on there, use your fingers or use your pliers
to bend your wire to the side, grip it
up over,
rotate the pliers, pull the wire around
snip off the excess. It's the same technique
over and over again
We've got the single pearl segments done and the little black bead
segments done
now we're going to do one that is a pearl, a
larger black bead and another
pearl. You've got those three
then right after the last pearl we're gonna make a simple wire loop
see what that segment looks like
and so you're gonna make a total of 8 of these
So we've got the pearl and black bead segments. We've got
8 of those. We've got six of the little black beads
We've got 6 of the little pearls. Now we just need to make the little segments with
the fluted black beads and the aqua beads
again it's gonna be the exact same technique and these each are going to be
single bead segments. Just put the black bead
onto the yet pin, bend that wire,
grab it,
rotate
your pliers, complete your loop
snip off the access
so that's one of the blacks. You'll do the other four
and then the Aqua is the exact same process of course. So just one aqua bead
Do all of those and then I do wanna show you one little quick tip too
before
I do all these. So you've got all these little ends here
you'll even more when you finish these, if you want to
you can grab the tip of
the end of the wire, bend it around and then go in with
your chain nose pliers, bend that back
and you've just made yourself a new eye pin
I'll show you that one more time. Take
the wire, bend it around and
bend that back and you have a new eye pin
So all these little scraps can go to good use. You can use them for another project
but right now I'm gonna finish
making may beaded segments
I've made all of our segments and now it's time to connect them together
I'll clear off these old wires. Again don't forget to reuse them
so this is the pattern we're gonna follow. We're gonna start by making one
of these side beaded chain segments
Follow this pattern here making one of the side
beaded chain segments. Grab your chain nose pliers
and grab a pearl because you see we start with a pearl and go to a black bead
so we're gonna take our pliers and we're going to
open the simple wire loop on the side of the pearl
the same way that you would open a jump ring. Twist it
apart and away from each other. You're not going try to pull it apart. You're going to
twist. You can see what that looks like. Link onto it
one of the black bead segments and then we're just going to
twist it back in place and close it just like a jump ring
so moving along you can see that we now need a pearl
black bead pearl segment. Open up the simple wire loop on that end
slip onto it the simple
wire loop at the end of the pearl black bead pearl segment
and close that. You can see now we've got three of these connected
together
forming a chain which is going to work our way
a long so open up a simple wire loop
in this case we're gonna had an aqua bead and close the loop
the other side the Aqua bead. The loop is already kind of open for us because we
didn't really clean up our loops after we made them
and we're gonna go ahead and add-on
another pearl black bead pearl segment
close the loop
go to the other side, open the loop
put on an aqua bead, close the loop
see the pattern forming here
see what we've got. So we're up to there
so we need to add another pearl
black bead pearl segment and another aqua bead
and another pearl black bead pearl segment
see what we got. We just need to add
one more black bead, one more pearl and we've made that entire length
and you'll notice with this particular design
both of the side segments are identical. You'll just make
another identical beaded chain segment just like this one
I've got two identical now. So now we just need to make the
middle one. To do that we're going to take a black bead first
open up that simple wire loop
place onto it a simple wire loop
from the pearl beads segment, go to the other side of the pearl
open it up, attach the simple wire
loop at the end of
the fluted black bead, close the loop, go to the other side
link onto it an aqua bead
close the loop
make sure you get your loops good and closed
and another black bead
see what we've got so far
We've a black bead pearl, fluted black bead
an aqua bead and a fluted black bead, another
aqua bead,
a black bead,
aqua,
black bead,
another aqua bead,
and then your final large fluted black bead,
your final pearl bead,
and your final small black bead
We've got all of our chain segments now
so we have to connect them together
and you'll do that using a strand reducer. You'll see that you have three loops on
one side
and one loop on the outside so that loop there is going to connect to your clasp
and this one here is the three interior ones are going to connect
your chain segments together. So you're going to go ahead
and again open up that simple wire loop
that's really the story of this bracelet is simple wire loops
Link onto it
the loop on one side of the strand reducer
because these are your side chain segments and we've just closed up that simple wire
loop
now we're gonna go ahead and attach
the middle one the same way
and one more end one
you're almost done. Do the exact same process now
on the other side. Make sure that your segments don't criss-cross, you want them to
be nice and
even. Attach the one that was on the outer
edge of this strand reducer to the outer edge loop
of the second strand reducer. You don't want it too kinked up
make sure it's laying nice and flat
got all those connected together and all you have to do now is
add the clasp and for that you're going to use a jump ring
open a jump ring by taking two pliers
grabbing at either side what the slit
opening, this is an open jump ring at the top
you going to twist
the sides apart from each other. Go ahead and
link that to that outside loop of the strand reducer
place onto it 1/2
of your clasp and then close
the jump ring by twisting back in shape. Do that with the other
side of the clasp on the other side of
the bracelet
and your bracelet is finished and if you're not familiar with how toggle
clasp works
go ahead and put the bar
through the ring and then it holds it in place
so this here is the Betty bracelet. It is an exclusive kit
from beadaholique.com You can find it online
along with other kits as well. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial
and check out the other ones that we have for kit techniques
and a whole bunch of other projects.
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