Discover two easy-to-make charm necklace designs using this gold-plated stainless steel choker. Add your own rhinestone charms or tarot card pendants to personalize it. These necklaces are all made of gold-plated stainless steel. Gold-plated stainless steel is a hypoallergenic material resistant to oxidation, perfect for creating jewelry that will last a lifetime. This short necklace features a beautiful, trendy mirror-finish chain that will flatter your neck. Open rings are welded directly onto the flexible chain. You can easily add all kinds of charms and pendants to it. Pay attention to the orientation of the rings on your pendants and charms. If the ring is facing forward, you’ll need to add connecting rings to attach them to the necklace, as shown in our beginner’s jewelry tutorial. Also, don’t choose charms that are too small, as the necklace might twist around itself.
In this video tutorial, I’ll show you two versions of the necklace: one with charms topped with PureCrystal adhesive rhinestones —perfect for the holiday season—and another, more understated yet still unique, that you can wear every day. In fact, the necklace with the tarot card charms doesn’t have any rhinestones, but the theme is unique. However, feel free to customize this necklace to your liking: a few crystals added sparingly, a single tarot card as the center pendant, and a few charm pendants will make your DIY necklace even more unique.
The bonus of this tutorial: I suggest customizing rings to match your charm necklace using the leftover rhinestones you didn’t use. You can wear these rings with the necklace to complete your party outfit or give them as party favors at Christmas or New Year’s Eve.
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Arrange your charms around the necklace before attaching them to make sure the ensemble fits. Then attach them using open rings if the ring of your charm or pendant is front-facing. To open and close a ring, nothing could be simpler: take two jewelry pliers with flat or round tips. Grab the ends of the ring on either side of the opening and rotate the two ends in opposite directions.
Do not pull the ring apart, as this will deform it. Slide the connecting ring onto the collar ring, then place the charm. Then close the ring by rotating the ends in the opposite direction to bring them face to face. At the end, go back and forth a little to make sure they're facing each other and that there's no gap between the two ends.
Then glue your rhinestones onto the charms. If the glue overflows, wipe it off immediately without waiting for it to dry, as you can't remove it afterwards. It's best to wait 24 hours before wearing the necklace. The glue hardens in 2 hours, but only holds well after 24 hours.
Here's a view of the necklace with the oracle pendants.
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