Create your DIY gold chain bracelet with a special touch: a clover charm that you'll make yourself using small aventurine heart beads and copper wire. In this tutorial, we'll make a multi-strand bracelet with three types of gold chain: a thin chain with gold beads on it, a decorated rectangle chain, and a slightly larger chain with a modern style. These fancy-design chains will adorn your wrist beautifully. On one of them, we'll add a malachite heart insert. Feel free to change the color of the stones or use another spacer to make your own lucky gri-gri bracelet.
This bracelet is suitable for beginners who already know how to open and close a connecting ring. If you're totally new to jewelry-making, we invite you to watch our beginner jewelry training videos, which will teach you more about the basic techniques involved in creating costume jewelry.
In this tutorial, we've used oval rings to prevent the chain or spacer from coming loose from the clasp. What's more, they take up less volume on the wrist than open rings. We've used a three-row sliding clasp for this DIY bracelet design, but you can also make the bracelets individually, using a lobster clasp on each. You'll find a suggested lobster clasp in the variation section of the equipment list.
Attach the end of the large chain to the center ring of the clasp. Connect the two with an oval ring. Connect only the ring part of the chain. Remove the bar part with wire cutters. Cut the chain to the size of your wrist +0.5 cm. The clasp will add an extra 1 cm of ease so that the bracelet doesn't pinch the wrist.
Also attach the medium chain to the clasp. Before cutting it to size, place your heart spacer in the center of the length of the large chain. Add the oval rings on each side to visualize where you need to cut to place the spacer.
Cut the middle chain. Attach the spacer and attach the other part of the chain to the other side of the heart spacer. Then recut the chain to the same length as the large chain.
Recut the thin chain before the ring, just before the gold ball. These rings are rounder, so it will be easier to thread a ring through them. Add the small chain to the clasp with a new oval ring. Cut the chain to length.
Let's move on to making the clover charm. Cut 12 cm of copper wire and thread an 11/0 seed bead onto it. Fold the wire in half.
Thread two more golden seed beads onto the two ends of the thread at the same time, then thread a heart bead. Be careful which way you thread.
thread a heart bead and a seed bead onto one end of the wire. Place the heart bead against the other heart bead, as shown in the photo. Pass the thread back through the heart bead, but do not pass through the seed bead. Tighten the thread.
Repeat step 7 on the other side.
Thread a heart bead and a seed bead onto both ends of the wire at the same time.
Pass both ends of the thread through a link in the center of the fine chain.
Grab the wire with round-nose pliers and wrap the wire around the tip of the pliers and then around the wires under the pliers to create what's known as a pigtail. Trim off excess wire and flatten with flat-nose pliers.
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