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- May 11, 2015
How to Make a Beaded Butterfly Charm Statement Necklace
Summary: This tutorial is to display you how to make a beaded butterfly charm statement necklace with crystals and pearl beads.
Do you love butterfly? Have you ever made butterfly charm jewelry? Here my tutorial will give you an inspiration. Today I choose some crystal beads, glass beads, pearl beads, and some seed beads to make this beaded butterfly wings. Hope you will love it.
Materials needed in beaded butterfly charm statement necklace
Blue Drop Transparent Acrylic Beads
AB Color Faceted Crystal Glass Beads
Blue Faceted Transparent Glass Beads
6mm AB Color Bicon Glass Beads
6mm White Glass Pearl Beads
4mm Blue Faceted Glass Beads
2mm Silver Glass Seed Beads
Iron Jump Rings
Iron Bead Tip
Iron Headpins
Tiger Wire
Lobster Claw Clasp
Wire Cutting Plier
Flat Plier
Round Nose Plier
Scissor
Instructions for beaded butterfly charm statement necklace
Step 1: Make the head of butterfly
1st, prepare two long enough tiger wire, string 4mm Blue Faceted Glass Beads, a 6mm white pearl glass beads, 12 2mm silver glass seed beads, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, and a 4mm blue faceted glass bead;
2nd, cross the tiger wires through a 6mm white glass pearl beads; tighten the tiger wires;
3rd, thread a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead to b tiger wire in left side and a tiger wire in right side;
4th, cross a and b tiger wires through a 6mm white glass pearl bead; thread a blue faceted transparent glass bead and 3 6mm white glass pearl beads to both a, b tiger wires;
5th, thread a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, and a 4mm blue faceted glass bead to both, c, d tiger wires;
6th, cross c tiger wire through the second and third 6mm white glass pearl bead in a tiger wire;
7th, repeat the same procedure in the left tiger wires;
8th, string 4 6mm white glass pearl beads to a tiger wire, cross a tiger wire through the second and third 6mm white glass seed beads I referred above, repeat the same with b, d tiger wires in the left side;
9th, cross two tiger wire above through a blue faceted transparent glass bead; string a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead to a tiger wire;
10th, cross a tiger wire through 3 6mm white glass pearl bead so that it can be together with b tiger wire;
11th, repeat the same procedure in the left tiger wires;
12th, thread a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead, a 4mm blue faceted glass bead to both c, d tiger wires;
13th, cross the tiger wires through the 6mm white glass pearl beads in the bottom next to 2mm silver seed beads.
Step 2: Make wings of butterfly
1st, string 2 6mm white glass pearl beads, a AB color faceted crystal glass bead, 3 6mm white glass pearl beads, a AB color faceted crystal glass beads, and 3 6mm white glass pearl beads to a, b tiger wires;
2nd, thread 4mm blue faceted glass bead, a 6mm white glass pearl bead to c, d tiger wire, repeat four times;
3rd, cross a, c tiger wire through a blue faceted transparent glass bead, repeat the same to b, d tiger wires;
4th, string an AB color faceted crystal glass bead, 3 6mm AB color bicon glass beads to both tiger wires in left and right side.
Step 3: Finish making beaded butterfly charm statement necklace
1st, string 4mm blue faceted glass bead, string an AB color faceted crystal glass bead, 3 6mm AB color bicon glass beads, 4mm blue faceted glass bead to both tiger wires in left and right sides;
2nd, string continue the pattern until it reach the ideal length;
3rd, prepare an iron headpin, string a blue drop transparent acrylic beads and a 6mm white glass pearl bead to it;
4th, make a loop in the end;
5th, attach the beaded dangle to the bottom side of necklace;
6th, connect the two ends with jumprings, iron bead tips and lobster claw clasp;
7th, make a small chains with some jumprings, attach it to the end of the necklace to decorate it.
Tada, I have finished my beaded butterfly charm statement necklace.
If you love butterfly, I’m sure you will love this beaded butterfly charm statement necklace. In nature, butterfly is colorful. You can see many different colors of butterfly. So you can also choose many other charming beads to make beautiful and rainbow beaded butterfly.