How to Make Beaded Candy Cane Christmas Ornaments with Crystal

This three-dimensional beaded candy cane ornament is made up of 4mm crystal beads; it is so cute and exquisite, right? Just prepare some 4mm red and transparent crystal beads and follow this tutorial on how to make candy cane ornaments; you will get your own candy cane Christmas ornaments.

Materials on making beaded candy cane ornament

4mm transparent bicone crystal beads
4mm red bicone crystal beads
4mm red faceted round crystal beads
4mm green bicone bead
2mm white seed beads
Black DIY cord loop
Tiger tail
3mm copper wire
Wire cutting plier

Tutorial on how to make candy cane ornaments

Step1: make basic beaded candy cane ornament

1st, according to the left diagram, make two "A" with 4mm transparent bicone crystal beads, 4mm red bicone crystal beads and 2mm white seed beads;

2nd, according to diagram B, connect two "A" together with transparent and red bicone crystal beads;

3rd, connect both sides of "B" with seed beads and bicone crystal beads, you will get the basic candy cane Christmas ornaments as the bottom right corner picture shows, at last, thread the wires to adjacent beads to fasten the beaded candy cane ornament, cut down excess wires.

Step2: Make a beaded bow with wire

1st, cut off a 20cm copper wire; thread nine 4mm red faceted round crystal beads to the middle of the wire, cross both wires through a green crystal beads and tighten, then cross both wires through nine red beads and tighten;

2nd, thread the upper wire down through the green bead, add 6 red beads to left wire and thread to wire back through the last but one bead to the sixth last bead, after fixing the wire, cut down extra wire, do the same to the right wire;

Step3: Finish making candy cane Christmas ornaments

Connect the beaded bow to the candy cane with copper wire, then make a beaded loop to candy cane with white seed beads, at last, connect a black cord loop to the beaded candy cane ornament.

The final look of candy cane Christmas ornaments is like this:

Well, I've finished how to make candy cane ornaments, do you like this three-dimensional beaded candy cane ornament? You can hang it to your key ring as decoration, or you can send it to your friends as Christmas gift, anyway, I hope this tutorial on making candy cane Christmas ornaments can help you a lot for making handcraft.