Preparing Jewelry to be Made into a Charm Bracelet
Lesson 2 from: How to Turn Junk Drawer Jewelry into Top Drawer AccessoriesBlair Stocker
Preparing Jewelry to be Made into a Charm Bracelet
Lesson 2 from: How to Turn Junk Drawer Jewelry into Top Drawer AccessoriesBlair Stocker
Lesson Info
2. Preparing Jewelry to be Made into a Charm Bracelet
Lessons
Lesson Info
Preparing Jewelry to be Made into a Charm Bracelet
I'll show you some finished charm bracelets here and if you can get a picture of these so these air made with several different objects that were found that were made and so what we're going to do is put one of these together which these air one of my I love charm bracelets I love the way they sound and I love that they can collect stray pieces so that's what we're going to make toe wear the supplies you need are pretty simple you need some bobbles and some necklaces that air no longer wearable or maybe you want to change up and I've got in here a collection of I've got hearings that you can take apart I've got broaches that have buttons sewn on them I've got uh piece of c class this one happens to have a hole in it e don't think he ever I always get that that that lucky I've got these little charms that I don't know where he got these but you can take these apart and use the individual pieces and I've also got I think these air called cabs for short like cap shawn's but these you can ...
find a lot of times at the thrift store they are meant to be glued onto something so we will show you how to do that and hearings that maybe I can't find the other piece of we'll take those and then we'll also talk about these little coins and things that we collect I think I got this one in hong kong when we were there, so I brought it back can't use it so let's just turn into memory so those air what you need for that you need some all purpose scissors and you don't really need these super sharp these air just to have in case you need him what you do need are some assortments of pliers, jewelry, pliers you can buy these a big box craft store as a set and they're pretty inexpensive you don't have to go expensive, you can but you don't have to like any craft, you can go deep in gear, but you don't have to do these so the kind that I use our wire cutters that have a flat side so you can cut the wire, neil nose pliers are flat pliers. You need a pair of these these air really helpful there on this like having an extra hand to bend their very helpful and I actually have two pairs of these because then you can hold them like this and it is very helpful. I also have you don't have to have these because the other the wire cutters will work that these have the flat side on the front so you can get in really close when you're trimming wires I have, um these around pliers and these are helpful if you're bending wire into a loop these air very helpful to have and like I said, these come in sort of an all purpose set that you can get it's really helpful to have a pair of tweezers just for picking up things if you need it and this last thing will take some explaining that this is a split jump, a ring, a set of pliers and I'm going to explain what that means, but this doesn't usually come in the set, but you need tio if he used the type of jump rings that I use, I'll explain why that's important to have so you need some jewelry, glue, there's, tons of jewelry glue I think the most all purpose one is the east six thousand it works really well you can find it anywhere and it's nice and strong because I find that the hardest part of holding these things together is the jump rings and the glue so with the right pieces they work really well. I also use hypos cement because it has a tiny little opening in the top and allows you to get really detailed even if I could get that back in there, but it allows you to get really, really detailed like focus and yeah, that one's really very tiny thank you you're also going to need metal chain and I and what I'm using today is considered like a base metal chain so it's a costume jewelry type of chain and you need a type of chain that the loops are large enough for us to get these jump rings through so charm bracelet chain with like an open loop he could certainly go all silver with this if he wanted to just be more expensive but for costumes or we're just going to use base metal base metal chain and you just need uh I usually do the length of my wrist and I add an inch and a half or so and then I use something called head pins and I'll show you what these look like you can again get these in a big box craft store these are just straight pins that have one edge is just a blunt edge and one edge is actually kind of a larger edge so it stops the pieces from sliding off the other side. You can get these closed and flat like this and you can also get them in a loop on the end which there's a called I pence's air for like hearings and things like that and then if you're going to do why air wrapping which today what we're going to do is going to be accomplished with the head pens but it's the same it's just a length of wire that you could cut to size and wrap the same way. We're going to wrap the head pins today, but that's, what you need, it sounds like a lot you can see. I keep these in a box all together, and I just pull him out whenever I, uh, make jewelry, and it doesn't, you know, take a lot of a lot of room. I just keep them in my craft room.
Class Materials
Bomus Materials with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Disappointing!! This is such a basic course with the instructor having less knowledge on the tools, materials and all pertinent information that would make it a tutorial that I would purchase. The instructor has surely taken "her" time meddling deconstructing and putting things together for minutes as if she has not much to talk about with awfully long .... gaps of silence and at one point commenting on " Well, this can be done if you give me 30 minutes!" ( Putting a bead through a jump ring! ). She does not seem to have a "better" system on putting this on without fuss that I and perhaps the students may know! I suggest that if Ms. Blair has had it prepared to get the beads she needed, do a research in youtube and really know beyond whats presented then it would sell. The students seems to even suggest and identify the materials for her ! Her tentative use of words and even contrasting themselves made it more confusing to follow along! Example , " Let's now do this .. You can do this ... but you don't have to" , "Let's use this ...but you don't have to" ..."Where is? ... I forgot to bring it ... then proceeded to do it anyways". and MORE :( I suggest that Creativelive would screen their instructors thoroughly and not based it on just a book somebody authored etc. Experience is MORE RELEVANT and the ability to convey a thorough knowledge and burning passion of what their teaching. I really want to learn more about Beaded Jewelry and Creating Clasp etc... I am sure there are a lot out there! Amazon book best sellers with high commendations from their reviews and YouTube. Keep up the great work! Creativelive !!! I am a fan.