Project 205-1
Buckle Clasp Bracelet

By Katie Hacker

Sponsor:
Pure Allure

 
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Create you own style with new designer metal components from Pure Allure. These beautiful castings feature fine hand-set Swarovski® crystals and allow you to make your own designer-looking jewelry at home.

Materials Needed

1 metal magnetic buckle clasp with inset rose Swarovski® crystals
3 metal sliders with inset rose Swarovski® crystals: Faith, Love, Hope
3 metal 12mm beads with inset rose Swarovski® crystals
12 rose Swarovski® crystal 4mm bicone beads
2 pieces of 9” long .015” diameter flexible beading wire
2 silver 1.3x1.8mm crimp tubes
Beadalon® Designer Ergo cutter
Beadalon® Designer Crimper


Instructions

  1. Hold the beading wires together and string a crimp tube and half of the clasp. Bend the beading wires in a loop and string them back through the crimp tube. Use a crimping tool to crimp it.
  2. Hold the wires together and string a 12mm bead.
  3. String a Swarovski crystal bicone onto each strand.
  4. String one beading wire through the upper holes on the “Faith” slide. String the other wire through the lower holes.
  5. String a Swarovski crystal bicone onto each strand.
  6. Repeat steps 2-5 twice.
  7. Hold the wires together and string a 12mm bead, a crimp tube and half of the clasp.
  8. Bend the beading wires in a loop and string them back through the crimp tube. Use a crimping tool to crimp it.

Suggested uses for molding compound: Vintage buttons you want to recreate, fragile items that would break if molded with regular mold material, but will not become damaged using the molding compound.


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