How to Make a Cute Star Phone Charm with Seed Beads

This is a tutorial created for a fan on our facebook that asked for detailed instructions on making a cute colorful star phone charm out of 2~4mm seed beads. Here, as a craft fancier it is a great pleasure for me to show how I deal with it. Besides, by following this project, you’re able to make a more firm and inflexible beaded star pendant than ever.

Supplies needed for the star phone charm:

4mm Round Seed Beads (Red, Orange, Yellow & Green)
3mm Round Seed Beads (Red, Royal-Blue & Dark-blue)
2mm Round Seed Beads (Brown)
Cord Loop
0.38mm Tiger Tail Wire
Side Cutting Pliers

How to make the beaded star phone charm?

Step 1: Create the center beaded loop

1st, cut a 40cm piece of tiger tail wire;
2nd, slide five 4mm red seed beads and five 3mm red seed beads alternately on one end;
3rd, thread the wire back through the three firstly added beads (two 3mm and one 4mm);
4th, tighten two ends for a loop. Keep 5~7cm wire at the short end and fasten it by a crimp bead or something if necessary.

Step 2: Make the beaded corner of star

1st, string the following beads on wire: one 4mm orange seed bead, one 4mm yellow seed bead, one 4mm green seed bead, one 3mm royal-blue seed bead, one 3mm dark-blue seed bead and one 2mm brown seed bead. Push all beads towards to the center;
2nd, add one 3mm dark-blue seed bead. Next, thread the wire through the existed dark-blue one from bottom and then through the newly added dark-blue bead from top;
3rd, tighten the wire and you’ll get a triangle shape as picture show;
4th, add one 3mm royal-blue seed bead and thread the wire through the existed royal-blue one and the newly added one as did in before. Finally, tighten the wire slightly;
5th, add the rest 4mm green seed bead and 4mm yellow bead in same way;
6th, in the last procedure for adding the 4mm orange bead, you may need to extra string the 4mm red seed bead at center loop before thread through the existed orange bead;


7th, once tighten the wire you’ll get the corner as picture shows. And the rest work is direct the wire through the next 3mm red seed bead and repeat the 6 procedures on above.

Step 3: How to end the beaded star

Remove the assistive crimp bead on short wire, then weave both ends through the seed beads nearby to get them stuck firmly. Trim off the excess.

Step 4: Attach the cord loop

Find a location on the star and hook on the lobster claw clasp.

Done!

There we’ve the cute phone accessory finished! My partner has joked that the beaded star tends to be more like a starfish as its slim “arms”. So, if you’d like a more shapeable five-pointed star, try replacing the 4mm red seed bead at center with 6mm ones. Hope it can be useful! Just enjoy yourself!