Lovestruck Button Bead Bracelet

Designer Jamie Hogsett
Skill Level Beginner

Materials
Soft Flex Metallics Beading Wire in Copper Color, .019 diameter
Soft Flex Beading Wire in Peridot Color, .019 diameter
Soft Flex Beading Wire in Pink Rhodochrosite Color, .019 diameter
2x2mm Sterling Silver Crimp Tubes - 18 pcs
3mm Sterling Silver Crimp Covers - 18 pcs
13x5mm Vintage Button Mold Czech Glass Beads - 6 pcs

Tools
Cutters
Crimping Pliers

Instructions

Step 1: Use two 6" pieces of Copper Color wire to string 1 crimp tube. Pass both wires back through the tube, leaving a good-sized loop, and crimp. Click here for crimping instructions. Trim the short wire tails. Cover the crimp tube with a crimp cover. Use both wires to string 1 glass bead and 1 crimp tube. Pass both wires back through the tube, leaving a loop the same size as the previous loop, and crimp. Trim the wire tails. Cover the tube with a crimp cover. Repeat entire step twice more, for a total of three copper links.

Step 2: Use two 6" pieces of Pink Rhodochrosite wire to string 1 crimp tube and 1 loop of one copper link. Pass both wires back through the tube, leaving a good-sized loop, and crimp. Trim the short wire tails. Cover the crimp tube with a crimp cover. Use both wires to string 1 Czech Glass Bead, 1 crimp tube, and 1 loop of a second copper link. Pass both wires back through the tube, leaving a loop the same size as the previous loop, and crimp. Trim the wire tails. Cover the tube with a crimp cover.

Step 3: Repeat Step 2, attaching the first Pink Rhodochrosite loop to the second loop of the second copper link and the second Pink Rhodochrisite loop to one loop of the third copper link. Repeat Step 2 again, attaching the first and third copper links.

Step 4: Use 2" of Peridot wire to pass through the connections of the copper and pink links, making sure to pass through both the copper and pink wire loops. Use one end of the Peridot wire to string 1 crimp tube. Use the other end of the wire to pass through the crimp tube in the opposite direction. Pull the wire ends until the Peridot wire forms about a 10mm ring, and crimp. Cover the crimp tube with a crimp cover.

Step 5: Repeat Step 4 four times, once for each connection of copper and pink links.

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Jamie Hogsett is a bead lover, jewelry designer, beading instructor, freelance editor, and the co-author of Show Your Colors. She is the author of Stringing Style and co-author of the Create Jewelry series: Pearls, Crystals, Stones, and Glass. Jamie's work has been published numerous times in Stringing and Beadwork magazines as well as in Beadwork Creates Beaded Rings, Beadwork Creates Beaded Bags, Beadwork Creates Beaded Earrings and other books and magazines from Interweave Press.