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- Dec 18, 2013
How to Make a Long Beaded and Wire Wrapped Cell Phone Charm within 3 Steps
Summary: This tutorial is going to show you how to make a beaded wire wrapped cell phone charm within simple 3 steps.
Today, I would like to make a cell phone charm which is composed of three different parts: the colorful quartz beaded link, floss wrapped heart link, wire wrapped irregularly shaped S link and glass bicone dangle. In the following, I will tell you the specific steps about making this cell phone charm.
Necessities for the beaded and wire wrapped cell phone charm:
Colorful quartz beads
6mm turquoise bead
6mm blue painted glass bead
6mm red pained glass bead
10mm clear round faceted glass bead
6mm pink glass bicone bead AB color
0.8mm silvery brass wire
1.5mm purple aluminum wire
1.5mm red aluminum wire
1mm purple nylon thread
Golden heart link
Head pin
Loop cord
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter
Instructions on how to make a cell phone charm:
Step 1: Wrap heart link with thread
1st, cut a 35cm length of purple thread and fasten one end to heart link;
2nd, start to wrap the heart link with purple thread;
3rd, finish wrapping and hot glue other end to heart link;
4th, cut off excess thread.
Step 2: Wire wrap irregular S link
1st, cut a 20cm length of red aluminum wire and loop one end with round nose;
2nd, do even coiling with 0.3mm red brass wire
3rd, while the coiling reaches 10cm long, cut off excess brass wire;
4th, wire wrap the coiling part into zigzag pattern;
5th, leave 3cm tail and cut off excess aluminum wire;
6th, loop the cutting end with round nose.
Step 3: Make beaded link
1st, cut a 15cm silvery brass wire, and loop one end with plier;
2nd, slide 3 quartz beads, 1 blue painted bead, 1 turquoise bead, 1 clear round faceted bead, 1 red painted bead and 2 quartz bead onto wire;
3rd, loop the other end with plier.
Step 4: Connect links together
1st, coil purple aluminum wire around round nose twice;
2nd, cut out 2 jump rings;
3rd, combine the three links together by the jump rings;
4th, make a dangle with pink bicone bead;
5th, attach it onto wire wrapped link;
6th, attach loop cord onto bead link.
The final cell phone link looks like this:
Tada! I have finished my ethnic style cell phone charm. As for this sort of beaded and wrapped cell phone charms, I believe a little variation can inspire you to create more versions of the cell phone charms.