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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com
and today I'm going to show you how to make the Corrine necklace
from the Corrine necklace exclusive Beadaholique jewelry kit
and this is one of the colors. This is this the mint color
and that's the same color I'm going to
show you how to make here and
what you'll receive in your kit is a length of beading wire
a chain extender, a lobster clasp
a large closed jump ring, a small open jump ring
two crimp tubes, two crimp covers
22 bead caps
22 metal beads, 22
of your colored beads, so this one has the mint bead
you'll have twelve clear beads and 11 large black beads
and the tools that you're going to need are going to be a
pair of chain nose pliers, a second plier and it can be round nose, chain nose
whatever you're comfortable with for opening and closing jump rings
a pair of cutters, a pair of crimp pliers
and then I find it very helpful when I'm doing stringing I use bead stoppers
so to begin I'm going to
place a bead stopper
several inches from one another on my beading wire
it's just going to keep my beads in place so they don't fall off while I string
home
now on the end here, the crimp covers
kind of act in place of the metal bead, so
it looks like your pattern starts with a metal bead but it doesn't that's just
your crimp cover
so you're going to start your stringing with one of the clear beads
then
string a metal bead, colored
bead so I'm using Mint
you want to put on a bead cap, a black bead
and another bead cap and you wanna make sure that those are oriented
to sandwich nicely around the bead and
then a mint bead
and that right there is the pattern you're going to follow
so we're gonna continue this pattern
and you'll end with a clear bead
just like you did with the beginning. I'm going to put a bead stopper on this
end because I wanna work on the other end first
you could use that end I just want to trim it down a little
to attach a clasp to one side
going to place a crimp tube on the wire
bring your wire through
the loop in your clasp. Then you're going to bring your wire back down
through your crimp tube and bring it through
the next few adjacent beads
and then
pull it snug. You don't wanna pull it too tight
and on the first side the tension is not as important as the
second because you can just move it back down
pull your crimps tube
near to the end of your lobster clasp but
not right up against it, because you do want to still be able to
put your crimp cover on and have the clasp have free movement
so on the crimping pliers there are
two sets have grooves on your pliers, the one closer to the handle has a little
notch on one side
and the one closer to the tip is smooth. So what you do to crimp this crimp tube
is line it up in
the set of grooves closer to the handle of the notch
and squeeze. You're going to have a
flat kind of kidney bead shape to your crimp after that
then rotate ninety degrees so that
you have the sides of your crimp tube
in the groove that's smooth on both sides closer to the tip
and squeeze. You'll have a
crimp tube that is smooth around except for one side which has a seam
take your cutter
and trim the extra tail of the wire
close to where it exits that last bead
now
we have some extra wire here. It's kind of a lot to work with
I'm just going to trim off all but about four inches of the tail
so we have our clasp on this side, on this site
we're going to attach this to a closed jump ring so
first when you place your crimp tube on the wire. Put your wire through the jump
ring
you're going to
thread the wire back down through the crimp tube
and go through several of the
bead next to the crimp tube and now on this side
you need to make sure that your tension is correct. So you're going to
hold onto the jump ring
and pull the wires snug but not too tight. You do you want it to still be
flexible and bendable
I like to always work with it in a round shape
sometimes you can even go ahead and attach the jump ring to the clasp
to make sure that it's still going to be able to bend and flex but you don't want
a lot of extra room either
You kind of wanna make it snug
its the word I use usually
and again you're going to crimp that crimp tube by placing it into
notched set of grooves squeezing, rotating
ninety degrees, put it into the smooth side
and squeezing
then trim
off the extra tail of wire
now this necklace
is almost finished
we're just going to use these crimp cover to cover up our crimp beads
to attach them you're going to
take your chain nose pliers
and place the crimp cover
in the pliers so that the opening
is facing out towards the tip of the plier
and you don't wanna squeeze so hard that you close them
the cover but you do want to hang onto it
now place your crimp inside
the crimp cover and it will fit nice and snug
side to side and then you're just going to squeeze that shut
and sometimes it can close kind of unevenly
you can just get back in there with your pliers
straighten it out and make sure that it's
close it all the way
then it looks like a round metal bead. Now do that for the other side
and you can use the necklace just as this is
if you want an 18 inch necklace you can attach the lobster clasp to that closed
jump ring
and you're ready to go. If you'd like to use the chain extender you can
make it adjustable from 18 to 20 inches if you attach this
and to attach that all you'll to do is
take the little open jump ring, open the jump ring
by grabbing each side with
the break facing up and grab each side
with a pair of pliers and twist the sides away from each other, hang your chain
extender
onto a jump ring and then place the large jump ring on there
close it up by
sliding those sides back
to line up again and then you're all done with that and you can just
attach your lobster clasp anywhere along
the line in the chain extender to increase that length.
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