How to Make the Aqua Treasures Bracelet

Published December 2012
Designed By Katie Hacker / Content Supplied by Beadalon

Aqua Treasures Bracelet

Techniques:

Crimping, Stringing

Materials & Tools:

5 aqua 20mm shell disk beads
6 aqua/brown 10mm ceramic lentils
6 silver stardust 12mm disk bangles
6 gray 8x9mm potato freshwater pearls
6 gray 5x6mm rice freshwater pearls
6 Pacific opal 6mm crystals
6 Pacific opal 4mm crystals
12 black diamond 4mm crystals
.018" diameter Satin Silver Beadalon 7
Silver Elongated Cable Chain
6 silver Pinch Bails
17 silver Head Pins
6 silver Eye Pins
12 silver 4mm Jump Rings
18 silver #1 Crimp Beads
Silver Lobster Clasp
Crimping Tool
Round Nose Pliers
Chain Nose Pliers
Wire Nipper

How To:

1. Cut a 7" length of Elongated Cable Chain.

2. Open the first link on the chain and connect it to a Lobster Clasp.

3. Pass a Head Pin through a black diamond crystal, leave ½" and make a basic loop. Attach it to the first link on the Cable Chain. Make five more identical dangles and attach them to the following links on the Cable Chain: 7, 13, 19, 25, 31.

4. Pass an Eye Pin through a potato pearl and make a basic loop. Attach one loop to a stardust disk. Connect the dangle to the second link on the Cable Chain. Make five more dangles and attach them to the following links on the Cable Chain: 8, 14, 20, 26, 32.

5. Pass a Head Pin through a black diamond crystal and a lentil and make a wrapped loop to connect the dangle to the third link on the Cable Chain. Repeat for the following links on the Cable Chain: 9, 15, 21, 27, 33.

6. Cut a 2" length of Beadalon 7 and pass it through the fourth link on the Cable Chain. Hold the wire ends together and pass them through a Crimp Bead. Crimp it. String a 4mm Pacific opal onto one wire end and attach a Crimp Bead to hold it in place. String a rice pearl onto the other end and attach a Crimp Bead to hold it in place. Repeat for the following links on the Cable Chain: 10, 16, 22, 28, 34.

7. Attach a Pinch Bail to each 6mm Pacific opal crystal. Connect two Jump Rings together and attach one to the Pinch Bail loop; repeat for each Pinch Bail dangle. Attach one dangle to each of the following links on the Cable Chain: 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, 35.

8. Pass a Head Pin through an aqua disk and make a wrapped loop to connect it to the sixth link on the Cable Chain. Repeat for the following links on the Cable Chain: 12, 18, 24, 30.

9. To fasten the bracelet, connect the Lobster Clasp to the last link on the Cable Chain.