Hey everyone's & Deluca here. I'm going to show you how to
make a chunky charm bracelet. Now you can't, you don't have to make a
bracelet, you can just totally make a huge chunky charm if you want, but I just
thought it'd be fun to, to make bracelets and then if you want to use them for,
you know closures on mini albums or hang them on a mini album or something you
totally can. So I have just gathered a bunch of supplies, I’ve got some white
pearls and some little flower beads and some of these are plastic, some are
glass and we're doing a swap on LSH. I just posted it, it's called the chunky
bracelet swap or the chunky charm bracelet swap and that's why I'm doing this
tutorial, to teach or to show everyone, you know what I do to make mine.
I have a bunch of these little, these are the plastic that they
look metal beads. I've got a bunch of baubles in here, a big heart charm and
I'm using a large lobster clasp, it's very big. I've seen one of these cute
little baubles, I got these from twins moms and then I just have you know, some
bead caps, Charms that I want to add and then this whole bag of keys, because
you just you want to fill it up and you want it real chunky. I also have this
little pink chain and this pink will go with, you know the theme that I'm going
with pink. This is not going to be the bracelet for the charm swap this is just
when I'm making for a tutorial.
I'm using 20 gauge wire 20 gauge wire is very easy to use and
manipulate but you may want to go a little bit bigger and get 18 gauge, as that
will be a stronger wire, but I'm going to show you a way to make your charms
that they will not fall off. Its, it will be impossible. Okay so I'm going to
just get everything ready, I'm going to make some split rings so I'm cut a
large piece of wire off because I'm going to need a lot of split rings for
this. Actually I'm not going to make that many because of the way I'm going to
do mine, it's going to be a lot stronger. So I will make some, because I may
want to use some.
Okay so I'm just going to take this piece of wire here, let's move
this out of the way so you can see a little better and all I can do it with
this, but I'm going to show you on a paintbrush, because this may be easier for
you to do. I'm just going to take a paintbrush just like this and I'm going to
start twisting the wire around the paintbrush, just like this and trying to get
it as tight to the previous wire, wire as I can and just wrap it all the way
around. Kind of like you're making a spring. What you could use this for a
spring. Okay now I have this and I'm just going to cut off that little end
sitting there and then I'm going to cut about two or three at the same time.
You want some strong wire cutters for this, in the same place each time.
Okay so that's going to give me a few jump rings. Normally I would
just do a real long piece. Okay I'm back so now I'm going to show you now these
are the stuff I use these tools, I use the small round nose plier. I use these
needle nose pliers that have like the gripper, they have a teeth on it and then
my wire cutters. That's the only three tools I use, also I'm going to measure
myself and this is going to be a little bulky, so I'm just going to measure
this on myself and give it about an extra two inches, maybe and I'm going to
show you a sure-fire way that you will not lose any of your beads.
I also put it on a white background, I'm going to cut a wire about
two inches long, I'm going to take one end and I'm going to go to the side, so
it's going to be like that. Right, now I'm going to wrap this around my pliers
and I'm going to keep going and then I'm going to wrap that a little bit so I
have this. I'm going to take my lobster clasp, I'm going to pop it on the end
there and slide it through. Now that it's on the little circle, I'm going to
hold it with my needle nose and I should have given myself a little bit more
wire, but now I'm going to wrap it around the end, just like this. I have to
use my pliers because I left too small of a tail. I'm just going to pinch that
down, so if you see that's not going to come off. Making some links with and
I'm going to alternate the pearls and flowers and the pink crystals and
baubles.
So the big bubbles I'm probably going to want to do like one here,
here, here, some in between, like that. So that's what I’ll do, there's five there,
so I'm probably going to put them about an inch apart. Let's back up a little
bit, so you see what I'm doing. Okay so now I'm going to cut about two inches
of wire, I'm going to put my little bauble on it and then I'm going to bend my
wire around just like this and wrap that around the stem. I'm going to cut the
excess off and I'm going to pinch it down that little tail cuz that I don't
want that to be sharp and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a bead,
just like that and now I'm going to grab my wire, bend it this way, twist it
around the pliers and now I have a. So I'm switching to different chain, this
one's a lot stronger than the other one.
Okay so now I'm going to take my little piece of wire and my
bobble and I'm going to place it on the chain exactly where I want it to hang
and I'm going to hold the loop with my pliers and I'm going to wrap this wire
around the stem, the wire, and then I'm going to clip that little tail up and
I'm going to smash down that little tail, because that will be sharp. Okay so
now, that bobble will not come off unless the chain breaks, because the loops
are wrapped around the stems. Okay so now I have all the bobbles on and I'm
just going to start making little charms or little dangles with pearls and beads
and I’ll do a couple and regular motion and then after that I’ll just kind of
speed it up and you can watch me build it. So here we go. Okay so I pretty much
have this pretty full but I'm still going to fill a couple more spots and show
you those too. I have a part there, another really pretty crystal here, in this
here. So what I'm going to do is, I could either use a split ring like I made
earlier or I can do, I'm going to show you just a little trick with these.
I'm going to cut that off and start it over, so you can see. Okay
so here's the heart bead, the crystal and then there's my little wire. So what
I'm going to do is I'm going to twist the end into a little circle and use the
smallest part of my pliers and now I have a little tiny circle there and I'm
just going to take and I'm going to bend my wire, so I got that now. I'm going
to put my wire down on the wire or the bead there on the wire just like that
and I'm going to take my pliers, actually I'm going to add a bead. I think I’ll
add a heart bead, I'm going to put a little bead on there, actually this is a
pearl. Can you slide that down and now I'm going to take my pliers right above
it, about an eighth of an inch. I'm going to bend it toward me just like that
and then I'm going to wrap my wire around the pliers, just like that and I'm
going to leave it open and then I'm going to take my silver necklace or my bracelet and find a link that I want to add it to.
One that has you know a big space right here and I'm going to feed
the top of this wire through one of the chain links, just like that and then
I'm going to force the loop around, force the chain through the loop, just like
that. So now it's hooked on the chain and I changed my chains, I was using the
pink one but it wasn't strong enough and now I'm just going to wrap my wire
around. Okay and I don't need that much, so I'm going to clip off that tail
there and I don't want that tail showing, that's left, so I'm going to take my
needle nose and I'm going to crimp that part down, just like that. Now the
heart is hanging on there, just like that. I do it one more time with one of
these, this actually has a loop on it that's open, so I'm just going to take
one of my split rings and whatever you call these, I'm going to open it and you
don't open it you don't pull it open, you do that to open it. I'm just going to
slide that on, you find another space on the chain, have some room. Looks like
you need some more right here, so I'm just going to pop it on by those links
and close that and here's the end I added.
I added a bunch of split rings and then the lobster claws on this
side, so I can just keep adding and adding and hopefully this gives you an idea
of how to make it. Make yours, you can make your charms this way. There it is
on my hand, there's the clasp and it's quite a heavy bracelet because I used a
real strong chain and I did those the links by wrapping my wire around the
base. There's no rings that can open up, if there's like a lightweight charm I
just used the split rings. That's a lightweight charm, that one is but the big
heavy baubles I wanted to link it real strong and secure. So there you go, I
hope that you guys have fun making your chunk of charm bracelets and make sure
that you join the swap at a little scrap of heaven and make your own. Thanks
for watching love you, bye.
