Hey guys, Andre Garcia here. Today I'm
going to be teaching you how to create a double layered necklace, for all of
you fans of layering your jewellery. Recently I’ve been layering my jewellery a
lot, but what I find it's a little difficult to find different necklaces and
measure different sizes in order for to have the whole layering look going on.
So I decided to create a layered necklace that's already ready to go, so I can
just grab it and put it on.
This tutorial is also helpful for those of
you that have charms and you want to create a simple gold necklace.
The first thing I'm going to teach you is how to create a one charm necklace
and then build from there and do the layering and whatnot. I highly recommend
if you're looking for charms to shop at Michaels or any other craft stores.
They usually sell them in bulk for pretty cheap, but you'd store the charms for
other projects or you can make them as gifts for your friends.
So yes let's go ahead and get started. You
need the following materials for this tutorial, the first thing you are going
to need is some jewellery chain. I bought these at Michaels and they sell
different colours of chain, silver, you have like a gold bronze and then gold.
So make sure that you grab one of these, you should be able to make a few
necklaces with this bead Landing it's six it's 96 inches long in total. So we
have those and you also want some charms, Michaels, Joanne's any craft store
will sell these like really cute little charms that are ready to go for you.
I ended up choosing for this tutorial to
go with these charms and that includes the Laughing Buddha, the evil eye and
the hamsa hand. So I’ll show you guys later what those are, so just make sure
you pick little charms that you like and then you are going to need some
jewellery pliers and the last thing you're going to need is some jewellery jump
rings and also your little claws to seal your necklaces and you need one per
necklace and you're going to need about two jump rings per necklace as well.
And that is about it as far as it supplies this tutorial.
So the first part of the tutorial I'm
going to teach you how to create a single gold charm necklace only using one
charm of course and I forgot to include that you also need some wire cutters
for this tutorial. So I'm going to go ahead and get my wire, sorry my necklace
chain ready. It's got off the packaging, so the first thing you want to do is
take your necklace chain and measure it around your neck so you can get the
measurement correctly of how long you wanted it to be.
I already put this around my neck and I
know the size that I want my necklace to be. Now I'm just going to take my wire
cutters and I'm going to clip that. So now I have my chain ready to go and this
is actually going to be very simple. Most of the charms that are sold at the
store already come prepared and ready with a jump ring at the top. So you're
basically going to be inserting the chain into that, like so, just like that.
It's ready to go and then on one end what you're going to do, is grab one of
your jewellery jump rings, open it with your pliers, insert it to one of the
ends of your jewellery chain, close it.
So now that you have that one on one side,
you are going to put another jump ring on the opposite side as well, but this
time around you are going to grab your claw, your jewellery claw and before you
close it, you're going to insert it in, then close and that's pretty much about
it. For the single charm necklace and I’ll show you it's just regular, open,
put it on the hoop and it closes and here we have our little finished product.
Now to assemble the double layered necklace, you need your necklace chain, some
wire cutters, your pliers, your jump rings, your claw and of course your two
different charms.
So what I went ahead and already did, is
already pre-cut and measured two of the chains. One measured 16 inches, the
other one measured 19 inches and I measured these around my neck. When I was
cutting my wire chain, so as you can see, I'm going to need two of those but
you want them to be due to different sizes of course. So you have the layering
that happens on your neck, depending on which charm you want at the top or at
the bottom doesn't really matter.
Take your first charm insert it through
the short chain and this is the one that was 16 inches, and now I'm going to
take my second charm, my little laughing Buddha that I found. Here insert it
through that and now as you can see I have the long one in the front and then
the shorter one goes directly underneath my neck and now what I'm going to do
is I'm going to double up my chain. When I insert it into my jump ring, so take
my jump ring and I'm going to insert the longer one in first then the short
one, close that and I'm going to repeat the same thing on the opposite side.
Longer chain first, shorter chain, but before I close the second jump ring I
want to go ahead and take my little cloth, insert it first then I can close it
and your necklace is pretty much assembled.
You take your little claw and close it to
the ring and there you have your two layered necklace all ready to wear. I hope
you guys enjoy this tutorial, remember customize it, make it in gold, make it
in rose gold, whatever you want and again these make really awesome gifts. I'm
going to go ahead and make these necklaces available for sale on my Etsy shop,
you can find the link right below and I'm selling jewellery, all of this here
to collect funds for a cause very dear to my heart. All the information is on
my blog as well. You can go to fancy me calm and just click directly on the
shop link and it should take you straight to my Etsy shop as well. So thank you
guys so much for taking the time to watch this tutorial and I will see you all
very soon.
