Hi everybody, its Cara. I'm here with part three of my tutorials on
how I make my charm bracelets. In the last one I showed you how to use split ring or a jump ring and how I attached all
my charms, how I figure out where I want them to go, so here is the bracelet
with just the charms and hopefully you can kind of see how they're pretty
evenly attached. Like I said I counted it all out and get them as even as I can because
it makes my little OCD brain happy.
So after I finish with those two charms then comes time for the beads, so here
is all the beads I have set up so far. I have a variety of some clear, some blacks
and purples a little bit of bling that I added to some of them. I have them all
ready to go, I am planning on using all of these but I never know for sure until I start adding everything and I've
already got them on the split rings.
I want there to be more dangle in this bracelet
so I'm putting everything on kind of bigger split rings but let me show you how
I would put together one of these. I would start with a head pin, let's see,
if I can get one of those, okay and then I would pick, this is the head pin I'm using,
like I said I think in number one the head pin is just the one that has the
flat end like a nail and I will pick let's see mm-hmm, I usually just kind of
play around with them until I find something that I like and let's see, we'll
try, maybe one of these little, of course it's not cooperating with me right now. Try one of
these little rhinestone ones, so put that on there first and then maybe one
of these round clear ones, like that and then see what this pretty purple one
looks like. I like that. Maybe, let me see about this one kind of the lighter, hmm I think I kind of
like that one.
Let me see before I move on, let me try one more, bit of a darker
purple maybe that way nope, that way, maybe let me mix these around a little bit.
This is literally what I do with every single one, figuring out which way I like it.
That almost looks like a little person with a big fat head. I think I will
skip that one. Let's see I just kind of want to get a little bit more purple
on here, that's kind of cool, that one's kind of square.
Okay I think I'm gonna go with that one. So now
that you've had it you have it picked and they're all on the head pin as you can see, you have
to cut off the extra part, that's your top of that head pin that you're not
going to use. So I usually, depending on how big I want my loop to be, leave about
round about that much, it's probably, let's see we'll do this. It's about a little over like a
little over a quarter inch, maybe even a little bit less and again this
depends on how big you want your loop.
So you have that, we can see it and hopefully
I didn't cut it too short, then you take your curved pliers and again I apologize I don't know the exact names for
these and you, near the base of the wire or the head pin where it meets the
bead, you take that and bend it in about a ninety degree angle or as close as you can get, depending on the beads
of course, the shape of the beads. You see that, maybe if it’s up against the
background that, okay and then this is where the curved pliers come in handy because
you're gonna then take it and bend it backwards, curving it over the pliers trying
to, which this one's not cooperating, trying to bend it into a loop shape.
So that you can either attach it to a jump ring
or split ring or directly to a chain and I'm not doing a super great job
because I'm nervous at doing this, on camera and these are by no means perfectly rounded, like I said
before I'm not a professional, I just get it to where I can you know I think
that the shape looks decent enough to put on a bracelet and you want to make
sure that that end is as far down as possible and connects and closes, obviously.
So it will stay, let's see hopefully you guys can see the little loop, so it'll
stay on the bracelet and then basically I would take one of my split rings and I could add it to
this split ring to the chain and the charm all at the same time, but I don't want to do that because I want you
guys to see, and I've found a little way that I kind of cheat this tool, I think
you know most people just use it to open it up a little bit like that, if you leave enough room
and you turn it that little part that sticks out longer opens it up a little bit
wider and if you're quick and get it going, then it doesn't hurt your
circle, doesn't change the shape.
So then this would be ready to put on to the bracelet.
So after those are all done the next thing will be all the buttons which I have
ready to go and the buttons are also put on either with a split ring or a jump
ring and it just depends on the button itself on how you're gonna do it. Some of these buttons like this one have this
shank on the back, I think that's what that's called and you may be able to
use a split ring on that and you know from my earlier video, split ring is gonna hold it on better.
Sometimes though they're too thick and you can't get
this split ring to work so you go to the jump ring. Also if you want to use
buttons that are like this one, that don't have that shank on the back, then you can
attach it just like that using a jump ring. I have a variety of buttons here,
I'm planning on using them all but again I won't know until I'm actually
putting the bracelet together.
This is a mix of vintage buttons, these are
vintage over here, these in particular are glass vintage buttons and there's a
metal one and then these are some just plastic beads I picked up in a variety of places. So I hope that answers some
questions with how you create your beads and attach them and I will be back with the fourth and final tutorial,
which will show the bracelet mostly completed and we'll probably put on
the last button or bead together. So you can see how I do that.
So thanks for watching and again if you have any questions
or comments leave them down below and I hope wherever you're at you're having a great day, bye.
