Filigree and Fireworks Bracelet

What You'll Need

• 1 (1 package) - Silver Plated Curved Lobster Clasps 8mm (10) (FCL-2507)


• 1 (1 package) - Vintage German Glass Faceted Cabochons Beads Cobalt Blue 14mm x 10mm (6 Beads) (BCP-2756)


• 1 (1 package) - White Color Coated Brass Stamping By Ezel - Ornate Round Filigree Burst 36mm (PND-00010)


• 1 (1 package) - Red Color Coated Brass Stamping By Ezel - Dapt Round Filigree Burst 26mm (1) (PND-9962)


• 1 (1 package) - White Color Coated Brass Filigree Stamping By Ezel - Small Round Connector Link 18mm (2) (PND-00333)


• 1 (1 package) - Czech Fire Polish Glass Beads 8mm Round Red Ruby (25) (BCP-3820)


• 1 (1 package) - Czech Fire Polish Glass Beads 8mm Round Cobalt Blue (25) (BCP-3857)


• 1 (1 package) - E6000 Industrial Strength Glue Adhesive (1/2 Oz) (XTL-1053)


• 1 (1 package) - Tarnish Resistant Silver Color Copper Wire 22 Gauge 20 Yards (18.2 Meters) (WNT-2230)


• 1 (1 package) - 6mm 19 Gauge Open Jump Rings Silver Plated (x100) (FJR-5160)


• 1 (1 package) - 4mm Open Jump Rings 21 Gauge Silver Plated (x100) (FJR-5140)

Tools You'll Need

• Beadsmith Jewelry Fine Round Nose Micro Pliers (XTL-5514)


• Beadsmith Jeweller's Micro Pliers Chain Nose Flat Nose (XTL-5511)


• Xuron Sharp Flush Cutter Pliers - Wire/Soft Flex (XTL-5600)

Instructions:

1. Start by placing a small dab of E6000 adhesive on the underside (rounded side) center of your red dapt round filigree stamping. You can use a toothpick or small piece of wire as an applicator. Place in the center of your white ornate round filigree stamping and press to bond them together. If any glue spills out the back holes, just wipe away with your finger.


2. Place a dab of E6000 adhesive on the flat underside of 1 vintage German glass cabochon in cobalt blue. Center into the dapt red filigree stamping your were working with in the last step. Press into place and let dry.


3. Place a dab of E6000 adhesive on the the back of another vintage German glass cabochon in cobalt blue and center on one of your white filigree stamping small connector links. Press into place, wipe away any glue that seeps out the back. Set aside to dry. Repeat this same step with your other white connector link.


4. Cut a length of wire about 12 inches long. On one end of the wire, create a simple wire loop. Thread onto the wire 1 Czech fire polished 8mm round glass bead in cobalt blue. Create a simple wire loop right after the bead. Cut off excess wire with flush cutters. Pick up that piece of cut wire, repeat this step with another 7 cobalt blue beads and 8 Czech fire polished 8mm round glass beads in ruby red.


5. For this step you are using the beads from the previous step with a simple wire loop on each end. Using the process of opening one of the simple wire loops the same way you would open a jump ring, and linking it to another simple wire loop, then closing the one you opened, create 4 "chains" of Czech beads with the pattern red, blue, red, blue.


6. Take one of the bead chains from above with a red bead on the end, open the simple wire loop and attach it to one of the open work holes on the outer perimeter of the white filigree from step one. Take a second bead chain with a red bead on the end and attach it via its simple wire loop to the open work hole adjacent to the previous one you linked to.


7. Look at your white filigree and find the two openwork holes directly opposite from the ones you attached beads to in the previous step. Into these two holes, repeat the entire previous step.


8. You are building your bracelet. The same way you connected the bead chains to the white filigree above, connect your white connector links (which have the blue cabochons glued on) to each side of the bracelet. See the photo.


9. Open a 4mm silver plated jump ring. Attach it to one of your white filigree connector links through an open work hole on the side opposite where you connected your beads. Before closing the jump ring, link onto it a 6mm silver plated jump ring. Close the jump ring.


10. Go to the other side of your bracelet and open another 4mm jump ring. Link it to one of the open work holes opposite where your beads are. Before closing, link onto it the loop at the bottom of your lobster clasp. Close the jump ring.


11. Happy 4th of July!