How to Make a Colored Acrylic Bead Necklace with Cord Braided Bead Pendant

Acrylic beads are widely used in jewelry DIY projects. In today's DIY project, I'll use some oval acrylic beads to make a colored acrylic bead necklace. The unique part of the handmade colored acrylic bead necklace is the cord braided bead pendant. Now, let's see how to make this colored acrylic bead necklace with cord braided bead pendant.

Supplies needed in DIY the handmade colored acrylic bead necklace:

Oval Acrylic Beads
15x10mm Blue Faceted Drop Glass Beads
15x10mm Yellow Faceted Drop Glass Beads
2mm Silver Aluminum Wire
White Nylon Thread
Gray Nylon Thread
Purple Nylon Thread
Silver Lobster Clasp
40x0.7mm Silver Eyepins
70x0.7mm Silver Eyepins
Silver Jump Rings
Stainless-Steel Scissor
Needle Nose Plier
Round Nose Plier
Lighter

Instructions on how to make the handmade colored acrylic bead necklace:

Step 1: Make the first part of the colored cord braided bead pendant

1st, cut a piece of 2mm silver aluminum wire. Then, make a hoop on the two ends respectively (as shown in the picture);
2nd, cut three pieces of purple thread, three pieces of white thread and four pieces of grey thread. Then, fold them into half and add them onto the middle part of the silver aluminum wire (as shown in the picture);
3rd, make a knot with one of the purple threads and one of the white threads in the middle;
4th, add a purple oval acrylic bead to the other purple thread in the middle (as shown in the picture);

5th, make a knot with the purple thread (with purple oval bead) and the white thread (as shown in the picture);
6th, add 2 pink oval acrylic beads to the adjacent gray thread. Then, make a knot with the gray thread (with 2 pink oval beads) and the white thread (as shown in the picture);
7th, add 3 orange oval acrylic beads to the other gray thread. Then, make a knot with the gray thread (with 3 orange oval beads) and the white thread (as shown in the picture);
8th, add 4 green oval acrylic beads to the adjacent white thread. Then, make a knot with the white thread (with 4 green oval beads) and the white thread (as shown in the picture);
9th, refer to the above steps to make another such pattern on the right side.

Step 2: Make the second part of the colored acrylic bead necklace

1st, hold the middle white thread and purple thread together and add a blue oval bead；
2nd, on the left side, make the white thread as the stem and make knots with the other threads. On the right side, make the purple thread as the stem and make knots with the other threads;
3rd, hold the middle two white threads together and add an orange faceted drop bead;
4th, fix the orange faceted drop bead by making knows with the threads (as shown in the picture);

5th, make knots with the middle threads;
6th, add 6 blue oval beads to the two external white threads respectively. Then, combine the ends of the two white threads with the aluminum wire (as shown in the picture);
7th, make knots with the threads;
8th, add a yellow oval bead and fix it by making knots (as shown in the picture).

Step 3：Make the rest part of the colored acrylic bead necklace

1st, combine a silver headpin with a blue faceted drop bead. Then, make a hoop on the other end and add it below the colored thread braided bead pendant through a silver jump ring (as shown in the picture);

2nd, combine some oval acrylic beads with silver eyepins. Then, combine them into two chains. Add the colored bead chains on the two sides of the thread braided pendant respectively;
3rd, connect the two ends of the colored necklace through a silver lobster clasp and silver jump rings.

Here is the final look of the handmade colored acrylic bead necklace.

This handmade colored acrylic bead necklace is very beautiful, right? From the above instructions, we can see that the key process is braiding the threads with beads. Once you grasp the technique, you can see it's not that difficult to make. If you're interested in this colored acrylic bead necklace, try to collect some acrylic beads to make one.