Hello and welcome to another jewellery making video brought to you by keepsakecrafts.net, today we're making a fun summery dangly charm bracelet, using ocean themed charms and some sea glass or faux sea glass beads.
To make this bracelet, you will need a bracelet, which is just the length of chunky chain, with a clasp. And I found this in my local craft store all made up, all together with the clasp and the chain. You'll also need some charms and this was a package of 10 ocean themed charms and some sea glass. Now you can purchase sea glass, these are actually faux sea glass these are translucent polymer clay, mixed with a drop of alcohol ink. Let the alcohol ink evaporate completely and then mix it in and bake them and make yourself some beads or you can just buy sea glass beads. You'll need a few spacers, I have here some sterling silver plated spacers, some sterling silver plated head pins, some jump rings. For tools you'll need chain nose pliers, wire cutters and round nose pliers. So the first thing I’m going to do is make dangles out of my sea glass charms and just spacer on a head pin and then the sea glass, and then another spacer. Grasp the wire of the head pin right above where the last bead comes, where the wire comes out of the last bead. Bend at a 90 degree angle, tuck in your round nose pliers and that's kind of chunky chain, so I’m going to make slightly larger loops than I might normally. Go ahead and bend the wire around the round nose pliers as far as you can go and then reposition and finish your loop, so it should be at a ninety degree angle from where you've started. Now I’m going to wrap these onto the chain, I’m going to put one on every other link of chain, so i need to open that slightly. You just bend it so it's open and then pop it onto the chain, hold on to the loop with one pair of chain nose pliers and then grasp the wire with another pair and just wrap around that little bit of wire that's exposed. Then use your wire cutters to trim off the excess wire, since that’s silver plated make sure and save that you can recycle it and then tuck in that end so it's not sharp and repeat to add one sea glass piece to every other link of your chain. So once all of the sea glass charms are on, now you can take your sea creature charms and arrange them however you would like to have them spaced on your bracelet, and then use jump rings to attach them. The way you open a jump ring is grab one side with the pair of chain nose pliers, grab the other side with another and twist one side away from you, while pulling the other towards you, and then I’m just going to pop that on my charm and put it over my chain and then close it up again. Repeat to add all your charms and your bracelet is done, so here's another look at the bracelet we made today. It's a fun summery design, but of course you could make it with any kinds of beads and charms you like, for any season or style that suits you. Thanks so much for watching keepsake crafts videos up on the screen are two more videos you might enjoy. Please be sure to click like if you liked this video, hit subscribe so you don't miss a thing and check out my blog keepsakecrafts.net where I have lots more charm jewellery making and sewing and crafting ideas and inspiration. Happy creating, bye bye.
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