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Great Gifts - Beaded Christmas Charm Bracelet

Create your own Christmas Charm Bracelet this year! This makes for an easy gifts which looks fantastic and fashionable. What a wonderful treasure to keep or to give away this holiday season!

Theme charm bracelets are a growing trend and very popular as gifts because they can be added to slowly.

Materials:

10 - 3mm silver-plated fluted beads 11 - 5x 5mm snake tube beads 3 - 6mm Beehive beads 2 - 3mm Beehive beads 5 - 4mm Emerald Glass beads 5 - 8mm Ruby Glass beads 1 - Gingerbread Girl Charm 1 - Gingerbread Boy Charm 1 - Christmas Tree Charm 1 - Christmas Wreath Charm 1 - Santa Face Charm 1 - Toggle Clasp Jewelry Wire - Twice the length of the wrist 2 - Crimp Beads 1 - Pair of Crimpers 5 - 7/8" head pins 1 - pair of pliers 1 - pair of round pliers

Steps: 1. Attach the wire to the jump ring on one end of the toggle clasp, by using the crimp bead and crimpers.

2. Take a head pin and string one emerald glass bead. Using the round pliers, create a loop. Make four more of


these.

3. String one snake tube bead, a 3mm silver-plated fluted bead, the head pin with emerald glass bead, one 6mm beehive coil bead, and another 3mm silver-plated fluted bead. Add the gingerbread girl charm.

4. Continue by adding another snake tube bead, a red glass bead, a snake tube bead, 3mm fluted bead, another emerald bead on the head pin, a 4mm beehive coil bead, and the Christmas tree charm.

5. Continue stringing until you achieve the desired length or finish off the beads.

6. Leaving 2 inches of wire, string a crimp bead and then loop the wire through the other toggle piece. Thread the wire back through the crimp bead and pull the wire with the pliers until the beads are snug. Crimp the bead with the crimpers, and thread the remaining wire back through the beads.

About the author:

Jane Hardenbergh is co-owner of Delight - Wholesale Jazz-Ups, Charms, & Embellishments. View pictures and more free jewelry project ideas online at http://www.JazzUps.com