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Hi this is Megan with beadaholique.com
today I'm going to show you how to make the jingle all the way bracelet
from our jingle all the way exclusive beadaholique.com kit
and this is your bracelet that you're going to be making
its really cute, fun, festive
piece. It's a lot of fun to wear because the
bells move around. So what you're going to receive in your kit
is a foot of this pretty rolo chain
You're going to receive 27 of
these gold plated metal beads, 7 of the
green bell beads, 7 red beads
27 head pins. You're going to get 14 bead caps,
a lobster clasp, one large jump ring
and one small jump ring. So the steps involved in
this bracelet are all really simple, it's just repetitive
so the first thing you're going to do is
measure the chain for your bracelet. You are going to need a ruler
and you're also going to need a pair of chain nose pliers,
a pair of round nose pliers and a pair of cutters
so you can decide
how long you want your finished bracelet. The most common bracelet sizes are seven
or eight inch
for a bracelet like this it can have a little bit of a looser
fit and still be totally cute
so let's see. We have a seven inch chain on this bracelet
and the clasp and the jump ring
Your going to add almost three-quarters of an inch
so but the 7 inch chain this has a finished
fit of about 7 5/8, 7 3/4 somewhere in there
figure out how long you want your bracelet to be, how loose you wanted to fit
and cut your chain with a seven inch chain
it works out really nicely with a dangle
every other link
so use your cutters to cut the chain
just put aside the excess
now I'm gonna go ahead and assemble my bracelet
while I'm at it
Take the smaller jump ring. I'm going to
hold the jump ring with the little split at the top
and grasp each side
with a pair of pliers. To open the jump ring
you take your two sides and just
move them away from each other and you always want to open a jump ring by
moving the sides away from each other
and not from spreading the jump ring. You'll lose its shape if you do it that way
take your lobster clasp and place it on the open jump ring
and then place the end of the chain in. To close the jump ring
slide the two sides back
until they meet in the middle. Now you're going to attach your larger jump ring
to the other side and you'll open that just the same way. Move the sides away
place that jump ring onto the
open link at the end of that chain
and close the jump ring. You wanna make sure that that's
closed up as close to seamless as possible
so that's gonna be
all the hardware you need for the actual bracelet
and now we're going to make our dangles. First we're going to make
the dangles with the bells on them. What you're gonna do
is take one of the head pins, place a metal bead
on the head pin, place a bell
bead on the head pin, followed by a bead
cap and now we're just going to create a simple
wire loop. All you do
is grasp the head pin
right where it comes out of your bead and your bead cap
and using chain nose pliers bend that wire about a 45 degree angle
right where leaves the beads. Grab onto that
with your round nose pliers right above the bend and then we're going to
bend the wire around the round nose pliers, rotate the pliers
and continue the bend. Then you take a
pair of cutters, clip off the excess to give yourself
a little round loop at the top
you're going to do a lot of those go ahead and
repeat that with all of your bell beads and bead caps
and use a bead cap on each one of those. If you get any
head pins that are a little banged up it happens just go ahead and use your
fingers to smooth them out
now we have all of our little bell dangles
Next you're going to create the little bead dangles that hang between them
and this is very simple. All you do is take a head pin
place a metal bead on it and then
create a simple wire loop. You'e gonna do
just the same as you did for your bells, bend the wire above the
bead, grab it with the round nose and wrap it around
and trim. You're going to do that for
all 13 of your beads and head pins that are remaining
So now we have all the pieces that we are going to hang
on bracelet. Now we just need to hang them
on the bracelet. So if you're going to change
the length of your bracelet you're going to need to do just a little bit of
counting and figuring to see where you wanna hang
your dangles. If you have
seven inches of chain that means that it's going to fit perfectly
starting at the second link and hanging one dangle on every other link
and the good thing to keep in mind is if you're hanging
on only every other or odds and evens or something like that you're going to have
your
dangles hang all in a straight line because they're hanging
off of the chain that are oriented in the same direction. So you might if you
make it a little longer, you might wanna just have the extra
links at the ends to keep that nice every other link
line up because that works really well
I'm going to just go ahead and
I like to line it up so that the lobster clasp opens at the top
I'm gonna start with a green bow
closest to the clasp and the second link. To open up
our loops that we made I'm going to grasp
the side where the wire comes back
and meets the stem. I'm just going to push it away from you
or towards you. Open that loop up. Slide the loop
onto the second link in the chain and then just
twist it back closed and that's how you hang
it's that simple. We're just going to continue on
next will be one of the metal beads
skip the link that is sideways
and go into that second link, the one that's oriented the same as the
one we had on the last one and
close it up
then we'll do a red bell
open the loop
skip one link
close that up. I'm just going to continue
all the way across the bracelet. I'm going to alternate between
bells and beads and alternate the color
of the bells
you do wanna stop every few
things you hang and make sure that you hang them on the right
chain length and that they are hanging in the right direction, that they are all hanging in a
straight line.
When you've get to the end
your last red bell
should go right on the second to last
chain link if you're doing a seven inch bracelet so it works out perfectly
and now
you're all done.
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