Hello and welcome to another jewellery making video brought to you by keepsakecrafts.net. Have you ever had just a few beads but not enough to make a charm bracelet or maybe just a few charms and you didn't know quite where to use them? Well how about making a half bead, half charm bracelet? This is a fun kind of project to use up supplies that you may already have on hand.
To make this half bead half charm bracelet you will need some beads and some 925 silver charms. I have here these ten millimetre pink stone brick beads and then i have five charms. I thought these were cute, the cats and the birds together. You will also need some chain to put your charms on and you'll need some bead stringing wire to put your beads on. You'll also need some spacers to go between your beads, a clasp, this is a toggle clasp. To fasten the wire you'll need crimps crimp covers and a nice thing to have of these wire protectors and then depending on the kind of charms you have you may need head pins and maybe a few little colourful beads to go in there or you may need jump rings.
The first thing you need to do is determine the length of your bracelet. I like to make a bracelet about seven and a quarter inches, that fits me well, however if you have a bead with some depth to it like these, you'll need to account for that and make it a little bit longer. So I’m going to figure on my bracelet being about seven and a half inches and then your clasp. Generally you can measure it but most clasps end up taking up about an inch so i will need six and a half inches of bracelet. So the first thing I’m going to do here is cut a piece of bead stringing wire and this is great, this is forty-nine strands. There's actually, there's the picture this shows you there's actually 49 strands inside this little strand, believe it or not, and it makes it very flexible.
So I’m going to cut like a 12-inch piece and the first thing we'll do is slide on a crimp and then one of these bead protectors. It kind of looks like a horseshoe and you just not a bead protector or a wire protector, you just slide the wire through one of the little holes and then back down through the other and then I’m going to put on an end of chain. I'm not cutting this chain yet because I’m not sure how much length my beads are going to take up, so we'll just leave that on there. Slide that crimp back up so it's over both wires. My preferred method of finishing crimps is just to squash them flat with a pair of chain nose pliers, leave a little bit of slack in the wire, make sure that the wires are parallel not crisscross over each other and then just squish, there you go.
Always test your connection, make sure it's nice and strong and then you can trim off that excess wire, feed the crimp, the flattened crimp onto the crimp cover and then use actually a pair of crimping pliers. You've got the rounded parts that will hold on to that nicely and then just gently squeeze it closed and if you need to you can take a moment and shape it so it's nice and round and there we go. And now it's time to string on your beads. These are some little brass spacers that I had and I thought they would do nicely. To tie in the pink beads with all the gold coloured metals on the other side and then you want to just go ahead and string the length half of the length you need for your bracelet. I decided I needed about six and a half, maybe a little bit more, so I’m going to string just over three and a quarter inches of beads.
So that actually worked out to just about exactly three and a quarter inches and then you just go ahead and finish the other end in the same way, sliding on a crimp and then a wire protector and then the round part of your clasp. So work has ground to a halt because I seem to have a helper, there's my project and there's my helper say hi to everybody Mr. Cheech. I guess he's decided to take on a supervisory role. So you can tell here that I’ve finished adding the beads and the clasp and also you can probably tell by the paw and a helper, but now it's time to check the measurement. You can at this point wrap it around your wrist or check it on a ruler if you're making it for someone else and get an idea of how many links you need to leave on the chain and my figure of about eight and a half inches was just about right. So then we'll just use chain nose pliers to open a link and remove the length we need and then i can just take the other half of my class hey and these jump rings seem a little small to me, so I’m actually going to double up on them.
I thought they were pretty, the twisted wire, but they just seem a little wimpy so I’m using my fingers cuz it's a pretty fine gauge but you have a little bit more control if you use two pairs of pliers. You can attach the other end of your toggle clasp and the reason I chose to put the bar on this end, was so that I’d be able to bend it to close it. So once you have your chain on now it's just time to add your charms and you can decide where you want them and lay them out and I’m going to put on these little pink beads because I can and it kind of ties in this side with the other side. So if you have charms that don't use jump rings but need a wire wrap, then you'll just slide it onto a head pin and I put my little bird on a decorative head pin. Grab it with chain nose pliers, bend at a 90 degree angle.
I'm going to make this loop kind of big because this wire is a little thick, so I’m going to go way down here. Start the loop, reposition the pliers so i can finish the loop. Twist the loop open a little put it over the link that I want it on and then use chain nose pliers to close that loop and hold it and use another pair of chain nose pliers to wrap that wire around. It's a little tricky because of the shape of this bead but you can do it and then trim the excess wire and if you need to tuck in that sharp end these pliers to do that and then the other beads are simply added with jump rings. Hold with a pair of chain nose pliers, position the split at 12 o'clock, push one side away from you pull the other towards you and then go ahead and close, and there you have it a fun bracelet. Half charm bracelet, half beaded bracelet. So here's another look at the project we made today. I hope you enjoyed it and that you'll give this a try. We throw it out, a kitty cat helper, consider how you can dig around in your stash and find just a few beads that you've really liked but didn't know what to do with them or just a couple charms that you've enjoyed but weren't quite sure how to use and here you go a piece of jewelry that you'll really enjoy. Up on the screen are a couple more videos you may enjoy watching. Thanks so much for watching keepsake crafts videos please be sure to check out my blog keepsakecrafts.net where i make lots more crafting and sewing and jewellery making projects with ideas and inspiration, click the like button, the thumbs up if you like this video and be sure to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss a thing. Thanks again for watching you have a good one.
To make this half bead half charm bracelet you will need some beads and some 925 silver charms. I have here these ten millimetre pink stone brick beads and then i have five charms. I thought these were cute, the cats and the birds together. You will also need some chain to put your charms on and you'll need some bead stringing wire to put your beads on. You'll also need some spacers to go between your beads, a clasp, this is a toggle clasp. To fasten the wire you'll need crimps crimp covers and a nice thing to have of these wire protectors and then depending on the kind of charms you have you may need head pins and maybe a few little colourful beads to go in there or you may need jump rings.
The first thing you need to do is determine the length of your bracelet. I like to make a bracelet about seven and a quarter inches, that fits me well, however if you have a bead with some depth to it like these, you'll need to account for that and make it a little bit longer. So I’m going to figure on my bracelet being about seven and a half inches and then your clasp. Generally you can measure it but most clasps end up taking up about an inch so i will need six and a half inches of bracelet. So the first thing I’m going to do here is cut a piece of bead stringing wire and this is great, this is forty-nine strands. There's actually, there's the picture this shows you there's actually 49 strands inside this little strand, believe it or not, and it makes it very flexible.
So I’m going to cut like a 12-inch piece and the first thing we'll do is slide on a crimp and then one of these bead protectors. It kind of looks like a horseshoe and you just not a bead protector or a wire protector, you just slide the wire through one of the little holes and then back down through the other and then I’m going to put on an end of chain. I'm not cutting this chain yet because I’m not sure how much length my beads are going to take up, so we'll just leave that on there. Slide that crimp back up so it's over both wires. My preferred method of finishing crimps is just to squash them flat with a pair of chain nose pliers, leave a little bit of slack in the wire, make sure that the wires are parallel not crisscross over each other and then just squish, there you go.
Always test your connection, make sure it's nice and strong and then you can trim off that excess wire, feed the crimp, the flattened crimp onto the crimp cover and then use actually a pair of crimping pliers. You've got the rounded parts that will hold on to that nicely and then just gently squeeze it closed and if you need to you can take a moment and shape it so it's nice and round and there we go. And now it's time to string on your beads. These are some little brass spacers that I had and I thought they would do nicely. To tie in the pink beads with all the gold coloured metals on the other side and then you want to just go ahead and string the length half of the length you need for your bracelet. I decided I needed about six and a half, maybe a little bit more, so I’m going to string just over three and a quarter inches of beads.
So that actually worked out to just about exactly three and a quarter inches and then you just go ahead and finish the other end in the same way, sliding on a crimp and then a wire protector and then the round part of your clasp. So work has ground to a halt because I seem to have a helper, there's my project and there's my helper say hi to everybody Mr. Cheech. I guess he's decided to take on a supervisory role. So you can tell here that I’ve finished adding the beads and the clasp and also you can probably tell by the paw and a helper, but now it's time to check the measurement. You can at this point wrap it around your wrist or check it on a ruler if you're making it for someone else and get an idea of how many links you need to leave on the chain and my figure of about eight and a half inches was just about right. So then we'll just use chain nose pliers to open a link and remove the length we need and then i can just take the other half of my class hey and these jump rings seem a little small to me, so I’m actually going to double up on them.
I thought they were pretty, the twisted wire, but they just seem a little wimpy so I’m using my fingers cuz it's a pretty fine gauge but you have a little bit more control if you use two pairs of pliers. You can attach the other end of your toggle clasp and the reason I chose to put the bar on this end, was so that I’d be able to bend it to close it. So once you have your chain on now it's just time to add your charms and you can decide where you want them and lay them out and I’m going to put on these little pink beads because I can and it kind of ties in this side with the other side. So if you have charms that don't use jump rings but need a wire wrap, then you'll just slide it onto a head pin and I put my little bird on a decorative head pin. Grab it with chain nose pliers, bend at a 90 degree angle.
I'm going to make this loop kind of big because this wire is a little thick, so I’m going to go way down here. Start the loop, reposition the pliers so i can finish the loop. Twist the loop open a little put it over the link that I want it on and then use chain nose pliers to close that loop and hold it and use another pair of chain nose pliers to wrap that wire around. It's a little tricky because of the shape of this bead but you can do it and then trim the excess wire and if you need to tuck in that sharp end these pliers to do that and then the other beads are simply added with jump rings. Hold with a pair of chain nose pliers, position the split at 12 o'clock, push one side away from you pull the other towards you and then go ahead and close, and there you have it a fun bracelet. Half charm bracelet, half beaded bracelet. So here's another look at the project we made today. I hope you enjoyed it and that you'll give this a try. We throw it out, a kitty cat helper, consider how you can dig around in your stash and find just a few beads that you've really liked but didn't know what to do with them or just a couple charms that you've enjoyed but weren't quite sure how to use and here you go a piece of jewelry that you'll really enjoy. Up on the screen are a couple more videos you may enjoy watching. Thanks so much for watching keepsake crafts videos please be sure to check out my blog keepsakecrafts.net where i make lots more crafting and sewing and jewellery making projects with ideas and inspiration, click the like button, the thumbs up if you like this video and be sure to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss a thing. Thanks again for watching you have a good one.