Hi
this is Julie at beadaholique and I want to show you how to embellish an
adjustable bangle bracelet. These are very popular right now, they are super
trendy, see them with celebrities wearing them, you see them in the fashion
magazines. This is a bangle bracelet that is adjustable. You see how this
slides and there's a lot of different possibilities for embellishing it.
You
can put charms on the outer ring, on the inside,
or if you want to you can put on the loops. If you're going to put them on the
loops I would just recommend just squeezing that loop just a little tighter
shut, so then you can hang a charm on the loop. A lot of different things you
can do with these and oftentimes you'll see people wearing them stacked. So
perhaps there'll be a set like this, which is like a yoga inspired set, where
they're all to a theme and you wear three or more at a time, but you don't have
to keep them to a theme. They actually look really good, mixed metals combined
together and just different ones combined on your wrist and that's really the way
to wear them, but you can wear them singularly as well and I have a couple of
different examples here to show you, the variety of things you can do with
them.
Here
this is really simple, it just has a single charm on it and that's very nice
and elegant and you could pair that with this as well, you could also pair it
with other ones. Then here we have a sports themed one, this is great as your,
if you're making a gift, you can really personalize it. I actually pulled out
some other charms here, just to give you an idea for personalization. Mom if
you can do that for this one here or 10k for a marathon, a little athletic shoe
for someone who loves to run, perhaps a sailboat for someone who loves to sail.
We
have hundreds of charms on beadaholique.com that would really let you personalize these, it's a fun
sports themed one. One thing I do want you to keep in mind though is you are
going to want to always make sure you have the flexibility of that interior
movement. So don't pack this so full it can't then do what it's meant to do
which is to be adjustable. I have this one here I wanted to show you, just kind
of a fun themed one of the bird and arrow, a nice bright red Swarovski crystal.
Here's
a Paris themed one, the Eiffel Tower of course and the Wii symbol re showed you
the yoga set and then I even have like a jingle bell holiday Christmas one with
snowflakes and some jingle bells which are fun. So I do want to show you how
you'd put one of these together, so I'm going to embellish this one with the
letter K, an initial charm, our designer Karlin actually came up with this
design and her name starts with K. I think that this should be hers, so first
off I'm going to start by setting a Rivoli into a tierracast setting so this is
a Swarovski crystal, it's very vibrant and you can see I just turned my cap
over, punctured the top seal of my e6000 glue and now I'm just going to squeeze
a little bit into that.
Well
it does not take much, this glue is incredibly strong. These are not hard to
make, this is some of the quickest and easiest jewelry you'll find, which again
is why it is a really good gift item, but it's fun, it's fun, it's very
on-trend very fashion-forward and is quite fun to make and to choose your different
beads. So next I'm going to make a few little baubles. I have a pair of wire
looping pliers instead of round nose pliers, definitely you can make loops with
round nose pliers but I love these wire looping pliers because they do some of
the work for me. I'm sure you've seen them in my other videos, so I am going to
actually make a simple wrapped wire loop in this case. I could have made a
simple loop, if you're going to do that just make sure your loop is big enough
to get around the wire part of the bracelet.
I
do that with my other baubles as well, these are Swarovski crystal faux pearls
which are lovely. I remember when I was growing up my grandma gave me a charm
bracelet and she would always give me a new charm on every holiday or birthday
or you know special occasion and that was so special to me and I feel like
these bangle bracelets are kind of the modern equivalent of that, and it's nice
if you do have someone in your life who you might want to, you know, start a
tradition with you, can either give them a new bangle with decorations for each
special occasion or give them a you know, a blank one to start with.
Maybe
just a charm or two and add to it as you go along, but I still have my grandmothers charm bracelet and I think that's a
nice thing to do. See I made that loop a little bit different, I grabbed it
with my pliers which is a good way of doing it, to clean up my loops as I go.
Now I’ve got everything ready to attach, normally I'd let that dry for, you
know, an hour or two before I progress to the next step, but for the purpose of
the video I want to keep going.
So
now I'm going to take a pair of chain nose pliers on each side of the open jump
ring and just twist the jump ring open. Now remember you can put these wherever
you want. I'm going to put most of my baubles on this bottom adjustable bar,
don't be afraid to mix metals with these, I actually really think it's quite
striking when you do put silver and gold together. I have an example of that
here on this Christmas one. I think that's really pretty, now one thing you can
do too, is you don't have to just do one jump ring per bobble attaching it, you
can go ahead and take the bobble and the charm, put them on the same jump ring
and then attach that and they're going to attach this to the outside. Close it
back up, so now I’ve got some of the charms that move around and some that are
fixed in the middle. That is what the finished piece looks like, so you can
find all of these products and more along with a lot of project ideas and other
videos relating to these at beadaholique.com.
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