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- Sep 13, 2013
Personalize Your Own Jewelry - Making Your Own Bride Necklace
Summary: A new selection of personalized jewelry lessons; this is a first one that is about making your own graceful bride necklace with pearls, buttons and chains.
To personalize your own jewelry requires a series of capabilities including creativity, sensibility, sharp eye for trends and nimble mind. Factually you need to find a proper way to make the personalized jewelry for a specific occasion; therefore when planning to make your own necklace, for example, for a wedding, what materials do you prefer and color?
Materials and tools:
Square Shell buttons
8mm white glass pearls
0.3mm silvery copper wire
0.3mm tiger tail wire
Silvery iron chain
Crimp beads
Crimp bead covers
Eye pins
Head pin
Round nose pliers
Flat nose pliers
Wire cutters
Instructions:
Step 1: make the upper layer of the necklace
1st, pick a piece of 30cm tiger tail wire, loop one end and secure it by crimping with pliers;
2nd, use a silvery crimp cover to hide the crimp bead;
3rd, string about 38 pearls, loop the other end and crimp it in the same way as in 1st process;
4th, cut off excess wire and tuck the end into beads; the beaded chain is done;
5th, thread pearls onto eye pins and make two beaded links;
6th, attach them onto both ends of the bead chain;
7th, the upper layer of the necklace is done.
Step 2: make the lower layer of necklace
1st, cut 4 pieces of iron chains that all measure 11cm;
2nd, pick a piece of copper wire that is about 15cm long and use it to combine button, pearl and chain together;
3rd, the lower layer of the necklace is done.
Step 3: finish the bride necklace
1st, prepare 4 eye pin beaded links, 1 head pin beaded dangle and 2 piece of 14cm iron chain;
2nd, add bead links and 14cm chains to both ends of lower layer;
3rd, connect the upper layer to the lower layer;
4th, attach S hook and eye clasp to the end of the whole necklace and hook the little bead dangle to the end chain.
The final look is like this:
Tada! This personalized bride necklace is done. You see, making your own necklace is not as difficult as you expected; making a bride necklace is simple with this tutorial. If you have any good ideas about personalized jewelry making, just tell us!