Create your own lucky charm with this do-it-yourself charm necklace! Imagine a pretty mix of small Preciosa Ornela 11/0 seed beads, where colors and symbols meet to create a piece of jewelry that's both elegant and truly personal. These Czech pearls, renowned for their quality and brilliance, create a pretty, colorful base for five lucky charms in stainless steel, specially selected by Perles & Co. The mix already contains all the matching charms: all that's left is for you to compose your own unique and meaningful necklace.
This jewel is part of our DIY jewelry collection"Les Oracles", DIY creations inspired by the world of talismans and symbols that protect us. Each piece tells a story of luck, confidence and reassurance. Whether necklaces, bracelets or earrings, Les Oracles transforms your jewelry into truly contemporary amulets. It's up to you to create your own lucky charm and let your instincts speak for themselves by choosing the shapes and symbols that speak to you.
With Preciosa Ornela seed beads, the possibilities are endless! You can follow our color suggestion or compose your own palette from our wide selection of Seed beads. Pastel shades, metallic finishes, matte or transparent effects... Have fun creating your own gradations or combining your favorite shades for a piece of jewelry that truly reflects you. And thanks to our ready-to-use mixes, technical sheets and DIY tutorials, whether you're a beginner or an expert, you'll be able to personalize your creations and give life to colorful jewelry full of good energy!
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Start by cutting a piece of wire, about 40 cm wide. Pass the wire through a Crimp bead and then through a wire guard. Slide the clasp into the wire guard to secure it, then pass the wire back through the crush bead. Crush it with a pair of crush bead pliers. Then cover with a bead cover.
If you need further information, please see our video "How to use Crimp beads".
Prepare your charms: slide 2 eye beads and 2 freshwater pearls onto a nail and form a loop using round-tipped pliers. Bend the nail so that it makes a right angle (90°) from the bead. Leave about 1 cm for a medium-sized loop. Cut and wrap the rod around the round ends in the opposite direction to the right angle.
For more details, watch our video on "Forming a loop on a nail".
For other charms, simply attach rings to each one.
You can now start stringing the beads. First I strung about 68 beads, then the bird charm.
Continue threading the beads and charms. You can string them in the order shown in the photo, or in any order you like. Here, after the bird, I've strung a freshwater pearl, the tree of life charm, an eye pearl, the shark tooth charm, an eye pearl, the dream catcher charm, a freshwater pearl and the eye charm. Between each charm, I strung 32 seed beads.
After the eye charm, re-string 68 beads and close the necklace: pass the thread through a Crimp bead, back through a wire guard and again through the Crimp bead. Detach the extension chain from the clasp and hook it onto the wire guard. Crush the bead with crush bead pliers and cover with a bead cover. Cut the protruding wire and your necklace is complete.
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