Hi everyone, I’ve had a few requests to show how I make some of
the silver charms and gold charms that I hang on my
mixed-media pages and mini books. I showed these on previous video and so I
just thought I'd share some the more basic techniques here and some of the
materials that you will need for those. So most of my charms start with one of
these, which is a head pin and it's like an ordinary pin and you've got the pin
head there which stops your beads falling off, but obviously it hasn't got the
sharp end like a real pin would and I tend to use the longer ones, which are 50
mil or two inches long and just because it's less fiddly.
You can buy an inch long and various sizes and but I find them
quite fiddly to work with any smaller, so the two inch ones or the 50 ml is
what I would normally use and they come in a range of colours. So you've got
your gold and silver, antique gold, bronze and there's a black one as well that
i've seen and so it depends what type of project and you're working on as to
what you'd need. The one I'm going to show you how to make is this one here, so
the head pin runs through the centre. You can't really see the tip of it there.
Because I’ve got an extra bead at the bottom and then you attach your beads and
obviously whatever type of fastening or clasp be like at the top, so to make
this particular one then I start with a spacer bead which these are three mil
spacer beads and again you can buy these in the various colours to match your
findings and the reason you might need those and firstly obviously as the name
suggests, they create a bit of space between your main beads and if you use
inexpensive beads then obviously you'd want to space those answer a little bit,
but if you're using a large bead like this, you often find the holes are too
big to stay on with the tip of your head pin.
So you'd use a spacer bead at the bottom, just to make sure that's
secure. So I'm going to thread my first and spacer bead onto the head pin and
then I'm going to thread my main beads which is a lampwork bead. This is 20 mil
Lambert bead, okay and then I'm going to add another one of the round spacer
beads, the same as the one at the bottom. The next type of bead I used on here,
these are also spacer beads, but these are a different time. These are daisy
spacer beads and these particular ones I think are three mil or four mil, so
quite small beads.
I'm going to take one of those and this basically is to frame the
next coloured bead, which you can see that the pinky coloured bead that and
this one is the natural gemstone beads. You can see those two well and it's rod
Knight and it goes particularly well with the heart-shaped bead that shows. So
I'm going to thread the rhodolite bead onto there and then another, have the
daisy spacer beads and then to finish, I'm going to use another one of the
silver spacer beads. So you can use whatever type of beads that you have, I
tend to use a lot of the gemstone, natural gemstone beads but they can be quite
expensive and I also use a lot of the Swarovski crystals which again can be
expensive and so if you're just practicing you might want to start with maybe
acrylic or glass beads which tend to be cheaper and the next thing you need you
do need some jewellery pliers for this.
These are round nose pliers, because the ends of them are rounded
and that's what you need to form a loop at the top before you add any
attachments. The other type you can get are the flat nose pliers, which
obviously a flat inside but these ones you just grasp with the tip of your
plier and then you literally take your finger and bend and your head pin around
there and then remove your pliers. And you will need some wire cutters, mine
came in a set. You can buy these a reasonable price in assets. You've got
everything you need and then what you need to do is just nip the wire and so
you've got enough wire to form a loop and join it together. So I'm just going
to nip that there and then you take your round nose pliers again, this is going
to be a little bit tricky. I'm trying to do it in film but you need to take
your round nose pliers right at the very ends trying to focus the camera. I
don't think it's going to focus too well so close up be you nip them right near
the end and you need to just twist them so that that loop will join together.
I'm just trying to do this quickly and then you need just to make
sure that that loop is closed and it's going to help those beads in place and
then you can manipulate it. If you're not quite happy, it's not straight and
you can obviously manipulate a little bit, but just make sure that it has
actually closed up at the top and sometimes I do take my flat nose pliers at
this point as well and just flatten it a little bit and close the loop. Look a
bit more at the bottom and it is probably the trickiest part, but with a little
bit of practice, you can do it relatively quickly. The next thing we want to
take our jump rings. These are open jump rings which means when you twist them
they're going to open. This one has just been partially opened. What's important
when you're using the jump rings, you don't pull them apart, that way you
actually twist them and towards you to open them.
Okay so they look like that when they're open and then you can
hook onto here. Obviously it needs to go on the loop of your charm and then if
you've got any clasps or fastenings that you need to go on. For mine I tend to
use 12 mil lobster clasps and but obviously it could be jewellery finding or
anything like that, and to make earrings and or whatever it is that you do in
and once you've got it on your jump ring, then you use your jump ring to attach
where you've just formed that hook with your head pin and then you would twist
it closed again, just twist it until it shuts and then you have your finished
charm.
Okay probably take a bit more time on yours, the other type you
can use, you can use these all the findings called eye pins. These have a loop
in them already and I use these if I want to make something that's look a bit
longer and dangly and these have got jump rings in between so I'd start off
again exactly the same way. I'd start with and one of the eye pins, got one out
and probably start with taking these beads. So you start with your beads and
then you might want and possibly a spacer bead in between and this time instead
of adding lots more beads, you might as I say, might add your spacer bead but
not much more.
You'd form your loop straight away, you would cut that off, okay
and then before you close your loop, you'd want to attach a jump ring onto
there or you can add your jump ring afterwards. Perhaps it might be easier if
you beginning to close your loop and then add your jump ring. I'll show you how
to do that and just close your loop as you did before. Then you need your jump
ring which you need to twist as we said before, twist to open, put it onto the
loop and then you would take your head pin and also attach that. Then close
your loop, so you're starting to get that more jangly effect. Then you would
take your next bead and you do exactly the same thing. It make your loop okay
cuts it and close it and then you'd carry on with the next one, so you'd put
another jump ring onto there, another eye pin onto there and carry on until
you've got as many charms on there as you actually want.
It would look very long, one look something like that with the
same finishing technique at the top. So I hope that's been useful for somebody.
I do hope it's focused enough because it's quite detailed and please leave a
comment if you want any more information on supplies or techniques or anything
ok thank you for watching, bye.
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