Hello and welcome to another jewelry making video brought to you by KeepsakeCrafts.net
and AllFreeJewelryMaking.com. Today I'm going to show you how to make these great tangled
wire beads. That's right. Not just making jewelry from purchased beads, but I'm going
to show you how you can make your own beads and then turn them into these great earrings
or any other projects.
So to make these earrings you will need, of course, a couple of ear wires, two head pins,
some craft wire. This is what we'll be using to make our tangled beads and this is 22 gauge
craft wire. It's a copper wire that's been coated so it's silver in color, but you can
buy it in copper color, gold or other colors. Once you get so that you kind of know what
you're doing and are comfortable with working with wire, you can certainly buy gold filled
or silver coated, silver plated wire, but for now I like to use the craft wire. It's
a little less expensive and a good thing to work on. You also need a couple of bead accents
for your earrings. Since I'm not sure what size my earrings, my wire beads are going
to come out, I have this strand of different size beads. I think they'll be kind of fun
and I'll decide what size and find two in the same approximate size once I'm done making
the wire beads. For tools you'll need round nose pliers, two pair of chain nose pliers
and also some nice flush cut wire cutters.
So when working with the craft wire, I prefer if I can possibly manage to work right off
the spool. That way I don't waste any wire, as little as possible. Now the first step
in making these beads and this is optional, but if you want to have some interesting accents,
you'll need to thread on some seed beads for some color accents. So here you can see I've
strung 20 little glass seed beads onto my wire and now I'm beginning, I'm ready to start
forming for my wire bead. The first step is take a pair of round nose pliers, grasp the
end of the wire with the tips of the round nose pliers and then just twist your wrist
slow as you can and you want this end of the wire to touch itself. If it doesn't, grab
it again and twist again until it does. Once it touches, go ahead and grasp right where
the wire touches and then give that a bend. Once you've done that, you may have to grab
that loop again and just close it up and then go ahead and bend your loop back and that's
called breaking the neck and it basically gives you a nice point differentiation between
the loop and the wire.
The next step actually determines the size, the finished size of your bead and so I'm
going to take a pair of chain nose pliers and whatever width of pliers is holding onto
this piece of wire I'm gonna make it about 1/4", that is about half the diameter of your
bead or maybe a little less than half. So take your wire and make a 90 degree bend at
that point and now just take your wire and this is kind of a tricky part, just start
making a coil. You just have to free form it with your fingers and it zings. It kind
of zings away from you and just hold onto it with your fingers and start shaping around
that and as you get a little more shaped, it will be easier to hold onto. Now this is
really making the core of your tangled wire bead and once you've got something there to
speak of, maybe 5-6 wraps, we can now start pulling down our seed beads and these just
go on the outside of the bead and so you just take your thumb nail and scoot them down to
another wrap and keep that up. Here' I've gone ahead and done wraps and I used 12 of
those 20 beads which is about what I planned and I'm gonna have the wire end opposite that
first loop I made and then go ahead and use your wire cutters and cut it off about an
inch or so from the end of your spool. You can set your spool aside and then go ahead
opposite of where you ended go ahead and grab that wire with your round nose pliers and
make a loop and you can actually make a complete loop here and I'm actually going to hold onto
that loop with my chain nose pliers and just do a wrap and then I'm gonna tuck that in
with my chain nose pliers right back into the bead. Sorry I moved off camera on ya.
The cool thing about these is you don't really have to be stressed about making them perfect
to begin with because they're made out of wire so you just go ahead and shape them - and
then they go zinging like little springs. You can go ahead and shape them. Now I can't
even find that end. If I could find it I'd trim it off, but since I can't, I'm not gonna
worry about it and just use your chain nose pliers and position those loops so they're
pretty much opposite each other just like on any bead that you've ever seen before.
I've gone ahead and made a second tangled wire bead. I've also gone through my strand
and decided on these two and actually a couple of the smaller beads that were on the strand
and to make them into dangles, I'm just gonna slide a head pin through it and then grab
right where the head pin comes out of the bead with the tips of the chain nose pliers,
bend that at a 90 degree angle. Go ahead and grab that bend with round nose pliers, wrap
it around as far as it will go. Reposition my pliers, that's about as far as you can get, reposition
my flat pliers so I can finish that loop and then go ahead and trim where the wires cross.
Take your round nose pliers and finish shaping that loop, flatten it out nicely, get a nice
shape to it. There we go and then all I need to do is use chain nose pliers to open that
loop. Go ahead and pop your tangled wire onto that loop and then close it up with chain
nose pliers.
Next open the loop of your ear wire and slip on the other loop of your tangled wire bead
and close it up and then repeat for your other earring. Aren't those fun?
So here's another look at our finished earrings. Isn't that a fun technique? The great thing
about this tangled bead is that you can use it to make a necklace, like I did with the
summer flowers lampwork beads. You can use it to make any kind of earrings, you can use
it to make a bracelet. Just make these beads in any kind of wire with any color seed beads
to fill in for any beads you want.
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