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Hi. This is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to make this
pretty necklace using a Patera findings glass vial with metal surround
and a little encased flower inside. The flower I actually beaded using wire and
some 11/0 seed beads.
The tools you're gonna need for this project are
some green seed beads. These are Czech and they are size 11/0. Then I also pulled out
some pink
those in 11/0.
I have some
flat back rhinestones. They are size ss12.
You're gonna need a pair of tweezers.
I have a magic pick. It really helps to pick up the flat pack rhinestones.
You're going to need some e6000 adhesive,
a pair of wire cutters
and some twenty-six gauge craft wire.
You're also going to need one of these great findings and they come in an array of colors. We have a
antique silver, bright silver, antique gold and antique copper.
For this project I'm going to use the antique gold. I just wanted to show you the variety of these findings
available. They're really
quite nice. They have a screw off lid
and then you can put whatever you like into the vial. They've got a little
stopper in there.
So to begin
I'm going to clear off my workspace on my beading mat.
I'm going to take my twenty-six gauge wire and I'm going to cut about
ten or eleven inches. I'm not gonna be too picky on this. I'm just gonna
eyeball it.
While I'm here I'm also going to myself
another couple inches.
I'm just going to set that aside for now.
So to make my little flower
I'm going to put
onto my wire
seven of my pink
seed beads
which are going to be my first flower petal.
Once I've got seven on there I'm going to slide them
to the midway point.
Again I'm not being too particular here. I'm just eyeballing it.
I'm going to them down
and pinch them together.
Now I'm going to take,
you can see where my two wires, going to overlap them by twisting them.
So one. Two.
So just two quick twist.
Separate my wires out.
I'm going to bead on another
seven of my pink beads.
I'm going to let those slides all the way down to the base.
Now I'm going to
bring them together as well.
You can see I've actually taken
the wire which they were strung onto and I've put it
behind the other wire.
I'm going to pull it
so that they're crossing.
I'm just gonna do a quick
twist.
Separate my wire out again.
I'm going to
you guested it
another seven of my pink
beads onto my wire.
Slide those down.
Fold it in half so that your beads form a petal shape.
On this one I'm actually going to take the wire
and pull it all the way around between the other
petals I've got going.
The great thing with wire is it is flexible and it does stay put.
So you really have a lot of flexibility with how you want a wire work this.
Remember it's totally up to you. You are in charge.
If you wanna go in a different direction that's totally fine as long as
you're just forming that nice flower petal shape.
I try not to over twist my wire just because I don't want
my petals to become too separated and far apart. I find that if I make too many
twist
then the petals actually look like they're really spaced out and not like a
tight flower.
Put my final seven on there.
Pull them all the way down.
Going to twist.
I kind of want to make this a little bit more secure so I'm taking that wire around
the back
and pull it up
through
my other flower's
petal and back down
and pull my other wire to the back as well.
Now I've got two wires
hanging out the back.
So there I've got my flower.
Now I'm going to just
twist my wires.
You can see how they're starting to twist.
Once I've done a couple twist I want to do a leaf because I wanna green leaf
up near my pink flower.
I think I'm going to make this a smaller leaf. So I'm just gonna
put five little
green seed beads
again size 11/0
onto my wire.
So I've down this on one wire.
I'm going to wrap the wire around.
Make those come together to form a petal.
Just twist my wires together.
Now this main is going to be the stem of my flower and like a lot of
flower stems it's gonna be a little bit irregular. I'm okay with that. I kind of
like the effect.
So I'm going to twist a little bit more.
I'm going to add another leaf. This one I think is going to be a little bit bigger.
I'm going to put either seven or eight
of the green beads on here.
I've got seven. I'm going to go with that.
I'm going to twist around and you'll notice what I'm
doing is I'm actually taking that wire
and I'm twisting it up and back over instead of
back this way. What that does is it gives a little bit more of a rounded shape
I find
to my leaves. You could just go ahead and twist it the other direction. It will give it
a little bit of a flatter shape.
I'll show you in a moment what that will look like.
So I brought it around
I'm just going to twist it.
So let me show you really quick.
Here was a petal that I did a leaf that I did
were I took the wire and I went like
that and then up and around and then twisted it. On these ones which are a little bit more
round I actually took the wire
and went up and over.
It's a little bit different look. Neither one is right or wrong it's just what you like.
Now I'm gonna make another petal.
I'm going to put nine
beads on this one.
Let those slide down.
Curve that around.
You see how it made
a nice rounded shape. I kind of like that.
I'm just gonna twist
quite a bit.
Now I have my flower and leaves.
I what to take my vial.
Take the top off.
I'm going to eyeball where i want to cut off my wire so it stands
upright
in the container.
Now with these glass vials the glass does go almost all the way to the bottom.
It goes to about
the first or second
little
right here.
It's a little hard to tell since it is glass and looking into
a cavernous space.
I think I want it
just about like that.
Just going to take my flush cutters
and trim.
I'm going to see how the that looks. I might trim off a little bit more
because once you get this flower in it you're kind of stuck with it. You be able to take
it back out.
Alright I'm happy with that.
So now I'm going to take that piece of wire I cut previously.
I'm going to apply
some E6000. I'm going to use this as an applicator.
I'm just going to
grab a little
glob of glue
take my flower
put my glue in the center.
I don't want to overdo it
but I do want to stay on. There
that looks about right.
Take my magic pick.
What's so many here it actually allows you to pick it right up
and place it on the glue.
So there we go. I'm going to let that dry for a little bit because I want that
rhinestone to stay put.
While this one is drying I actually did make another one already and I'm going to
show you how to get
this flower
into this bottle and it can be a little bit tricky.
You'll notice that the
top
rim of the bottle is actually quite a bit narrower than the bottle itself.
So this is where
we have to do a little bit of trickery.
So I'm going to carefully lower my flower
into my bottle and I'm gonna have to bend
some of my leaves as I go.
Just it work in.
Carefully
just keep pushing
your flower into your bottle.
Try not to
compressed
the petals too much. You're going to have to do some to some extent.
Just keep pushing it in.
Then take your tweezers
help guide it in even further.
What I find is if a petal
looks a little too squashed
and try to push it out or you try to pick up your flower
and squished that petal against the rim,
the interior lip and try to
push it back into shape.
It is a little bit difficult and you're flower will
need something some finessing
that's where your tweezing come in.
WhatIi also like to do is I like to put a few beads at the bottom
so I'm going to scoop some up.
Shake them down
and there you go you have a little flower
trapped
in a glass vial.
So to complete our necklace if you have a pretty chain at home that you really like
that's quite long go ahead and use that.
I'm going to show you how to quickly put this on a chain.
Now I have three feet
of a lovely antiqued gold chain and what's nice about this particular chain
is each
individual link is actually a jump ring in itself and I'm going to go take advantage of that.
From one end
open that jump ring up
and thread it through the top
loop
of my glass vial.
I'm going to find
the midway section
of my chain.
Hold both ends together.
That's going to identify the middle.
Put that middle loop in there.
Close that back up.
Now our glass vial is on a chain
and I'm going go to the ends of of my chain. This is real simple. It's about
as
quick and easy and no fuss as you can get. For this project I think it looks great.
So I have a pretty toggle bar in a shape of a key. I thought that was kind of nice because
it's kind of a keepsake vial so we have a key.
And I just have a
round.
I'm just going to thing. I'm not using actually any external jump rings for this project.
I'm just using the chain itself.
Open that back up
there's a little loop on the back of my key toggle bar.
Close that.
Do the same thing on the other side.
And there you go.
It's portably the quickest easiest way I know to attach a clasp
and it really well.
We have a our
vial with our flower and it's attached to a chain with a clasp.
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