hi I'm Kitty and I'm Jennifer and we're the O'Neil sisters we're going to show you how to make this gorgeous dangling bead necklace what we love about this necklace is that when you wear it there's a lot of movement from those dangles we also love this ombre look the way the colors go from turquoise to blue to green and light green we're going to show you all the tools that you need to make the wrap loops that hold on the dangles we're going to tell you all about the materials the crystals and the head pins and then we're also going to show you how to put a clasp on to chain and if you have any questions or comments go ahead and post them and we'll respond so let's get started here are the tools and materials you need to make the dangling bead necklace for tools you need round nose pliers chain nose pliers and wire cutters and then you also need a tape measure and that's you can measure your chain next you need chain and we've chosen what's called an open loop chain for this project open loop means that the loops are slightly oval and elongated and leaving enough room for wire work to go through the inside of the loop you don't want a really tight small chain for this project we also need 21 head pins and these head pins are silverplate and they have a little ball on the end because it's cute and then you also need a lobster clasp and one jump ring then you need the beads and we've chosen twenty faceted crystal rondelle's and we have them in four different colors we've got turquoise periwinkle this dark green and light green and the important thing here is that all of these beads are the exact same size and shape these rondelle's are six millimeters wide and that's the amount of space that your bead will take up on the head pin and they're eight millimeters in diameter when you're doing a project that has a lot of beads like this where you need different colors at the same shape and size bead it may be hard to find that kind of variety at just a craft store so you might have to go to like a bead shop yet bead shops have a lot more variety and a lot of colors and you can buy them individually the beads individually and not on big strands which can save some money too lastly you need one bicone that's about a three millimeter crystal bicone and that's for a finishing touch that will show you at the end the first thing we need to do is measure and cut our chain and we're going to make a 16 inch long necklace because we measured around our necks and that's the length we like you can measure a necklace that you already have and make it that length we also are going to add one extra inch to the length and the reason we're going to do that is when you make a necklace with chain and use a lobster clasp as your clasp you can make it adjustable so we can make it so we can clasp it at 16 or if you give extra room in the chain we can clasp it at 17 and make it a little bit longer that just gives us some adjustment then we just cut our chain here and when it comes to cutting chain there's really no magic to it and no mystery you just slice right through one of the loops just like that you want to hold on to that end so it doesn't fly off that that's a good idea good idea so you don't get any injuries while you're crafting here so you can see that's a broken link that I just cut out of the chain and now we have our seventeen inch long piece of chain and we need to find the center of that and the center is important when it comes to this necklace because our beads are going to line up on either side of the center so all I did was fold the chain in half and pinch where the center is you could also take your tape measure and measure half of 17 and half 17 to find your center but it's easier just to fold it in half and then I'm going to mark where the center was with a head pin that's just temporary but just so we can build out where our beads go and now we're going to lay out our beads and to do that we're just going to dump out our little beads here in the order that they're going to go and on the chain and we decided that we liked them going in sort of this color merge or ombre look so we're going to go from this light green to the darker green to periwinkle and then to turquoise and we want to start lining up our beads at the center where this head pin is we're going to put a bead on either side of the center and the where they line up is important with these loops you want to skip a loop in between each of our beads so the chain has links that will lay flat against your skin and then links joining those links that will perpendicular you can see that we want to put the bead on a flat link each time flat length flat link and in between we have a perpendicular link and that means when you do that and we'll make sure that the beads hang the same way all the way across the necklace and stem don't some don't stick out or poke out the wrong side or one one like flipping up over the top of the chain exactly it happens if you just sort of do it willy-nilly without a plan that can happen so we're just going to keep lining these up and the size of these beads ended up sort of matching the size of the links of the chain spacing so for this necklace you're just going to skip one link in between each of these beads if your beads were bigger you might need to skip more than one link and it's important that you skip an odd number and now we're ready to make our dangling beads that go on our chain to do that we're going to take a head pin and slide our first bead onto the head pin all the way down to the end and then I'm going to hold on to the bead so that it's firmly pressed against that ball and I'm going to make what's called a wrapped loop to do that I'm going to use my round nose pliers and I'm going to grasp the wire of the head pin right above the bead with the very end of my round nose pliers and I'm going to make a 90 degree bend in my wire by pulling the wire toward me next I'm going to reposition the pliers to the top part of that wire and where I do this next step will indicate or will dictate how big my loops are in the necklace and they'll it'll be the loop that's holding this dangle on so I'm going to show you a little trick that we do we're going to take a sharpie and we're going to make a mark on our round nose pliers where we want to make our wraps so she's going to make a mark so that all the wrapped loops on the necklace are always the same size because if she made some of the loops at the little tiny end of the pliers and she made some might be at the fat end of the pliers then loops are going to be all different sizes and this way she's going to make a mark on both sides of both the jaws of the pliers and then all her loops are going to be the same size it makes it look just a little more finished a little more professional all of your loops are the exact same size so it's a good thing to do and don't worry about marking up your pliers like this because you can remove the marks with nail polish remover but they're also just going to rub off anyway I was just about to reposition my pliers grabbing onto the wire that's 90 degrees right at the bend at that point where I'm gonna make my first loop so I'm going to pull the wire around the top jaw of my pliers all almost all the way you'll see I can't go all the way she's saying the shape of the pliers create the loop rather she's not bending the pliers or anything to make something round right I'm not you seems like you would go like this or something with the pliers really you're holding them still the whole time now I'm going to reposition my pliers to the bottom jaw and pull the wire all the way around to making my loop you see I've got a complete loop there but before we wrap the loop we need to feed it on to the chain because if you finished it if you went ahead and wrapped it around it would be a closed loop and then you can't give it on to the chain and you'll do that you'll make that mistake you'll be like on a roll you just wire wrap in and then you'll close it up and if you do that you just cut it with your wire cutters throw away that head pin and just do it again just start over it's no big deal now here's where it helps that we marked the center of our chain because we want to start this color of our necklace one link over in the chain so I'm going to slide my wire of my head pin onto that first link that's to the right of the center link and once she's grabbed the chain with the head pin she doesn't need to keep track of where the center is anymore right she knows the center is the link just one over from where she's working exactly so now I'm going to wrap this loop to do that I'm going to hold move the chain out of the way here I'm going to use my chain nose pliers for that I'm going to grab across the loop to hold it firmly and so it keeps its shape I'm going to grab the end of the head pin wire and I'm going to pull it twice around the little neck that I created perfect like that and now it's closed and it'll stay on your chain now and I'm going to use my wire cutters or flush cutters to cut this little end and I want to get it as close to the neck of the wire as possible so I'm going to use the flush side of the wire cutters you can see one side is angled and one side is flush if you cut it with the angled side towards your project you would wind up with a pointy piece of wire sticking out you don't want that so use the flat side of the brush cutters towards your project and then let's see here I'm holding onto the end firmly this isn't one having a long piece so yeah let's go that off to the side and then if you do end up with a little bit of a poking out and you can always use your chain nose pliers to just sort of push the end down and now you can see we've got our first bead on our chain and I'm going to go ahead and lay that out again and you're going to want to do this in between every dangling bead component you want to lay the chain back out so that you know which lengths are facing up and which are you know that the flat ones and which are the perpendicular ones you're going to need to put the dange each dangling component on the same side that is the hanging down side of the chain see here it's on the bottom of that link not the top of that link when you pull the chain firmly like that it sort of lays the links back out so you can see kind of untwist it yeah so my next one's going to go on this side of that link so you just take another head pin slide on the same color bead we'll do five of these in a row and then she's going to do the same thing again with the chain nose pliers or with the round nose pliers just going to make a little neck grab the wire like that 90 degrees I'm moving up to where we made our mark she's letting the tool do the all the work it's like a mandrel I'm going to reposition to the bottom job my pliers at the same mark and pull the wire around to make my loop that and now I want to carefully feed this and into that link this is the trickiest part is making sure you get in the proper link on the proper side of the link so and she can she can double check our work by holding the chain up and making sure that they both hang in the same place so I'm going to do that just to be sure oh that's great it looks right and I'm going to go ahead and wrap my loop so I'm going to grab my chain nose pliers for that actually going to switch hands here grab across my loop pull the wire around the neck twice that's her wrapped part of her wrap loop and then I use my wire cutters or flush cutters we don't cut the chain yes that's definitely an eyeful not to cut the chain hold on to the end and we're going to hold it up and make sure that that looks right so far so good that's correct and we're going to stretch it back out and we're going to get ready to do our next because you're just going to do the same thing again to put on the third bead this chain we got this chain at a craft store and it came on a card like wrapped around a card and it was just about as much as we needed but it also comes you can buy it on a spool if you wanted a huge amount of chain you can buy it in bulk like that that's really nice because you can get a lot for for not very much and if you were doing like a lot of gifts if you're making a lot of presents for a holidays or something that'd be a good way to buy the chain if it doesn't need to be special so now that we've got all of that dark green on our chain we're just going to continue on adding those beads to the right making sure that we skip every other link in the chain and then we'll start with the next color which is this periwinkle just to the left of the center and continue beating with our wrapped loops all the way to the end until we're done with the turquoise and now that we're done with all our dangles we just need to put on a clasp to do that we are going to attach this lobster clasp using a jump ring so we're going to take the jump ring and we're going to open it using both the pliers that we have our chain nose and our round nose pliers I'm going to line up the opening of this jump ring you can see that there's a little cut in the jump ring there I'm going to put that in between the chain nose and round nose pliers grasping that jump ring on either side and then I'm going to rotate opening this jump ring like it you'd open a door and that's to keep it from losing its round shape then I'm going to feed that on to the very end link inner chain and I'm going to feed on the lobster clasp then I'm going to close this jump ring the same way we opened it with two pliers holding the jump ring on either side of the opening and then rotating it like I'm closing a door and then I'm going to just flatten out that little where it's closing with the chain nose pliers and now that end is done and we don't need to put a jump ring on the other end of this chain because the lobster clasp can hook through any one of these links but it doesn't really look finished so we're going to show you a little trick to make your jewelry look finished to do that we're going to add a little beaded dangle similar to these beaded dangles on the very end of our chain so I'm going to take the last of our head pins and I'm going to feed on our three millimeter bicone if I can get it through the little hole there sometimes it helps to have readers if you can't see very well and then I'm going to make another wrapped loop just like the wrapped loops that we made for our beaded dangles here so I'm going to grab the wire at the end Bend it move up to our mark which are starting to fade yes they are and I'm going to make almost finish my loop and then I'm going to feed it on to my last link in my chain you can do this if your when you make a bracelet and then that little dangle will hang off the end it looks super cute makes it look really finished so I'm going to use my chain nose pliers to grab actually let me do it this way grab my loop and I'm going to wrap the wire twice you'll see jewelry in stores jewelry stores especially handmade jewelry they often have this little finishing touch and then I'm going to cut the wire with my flush cutters and not cut the chain cut the chain or myself and then I'm going to put the lobster clasp attach it to my chain at the end and you can see that we've got a little finished and now here's our finished necklace and those crystals really Sparkle it's amazing that by learning just one simple technique you can create such a cool necklace and now you can practice your rap lips and make your own dangling bead necklace