Cut Out + Keep

Rainbow Charm Bracelet

Brighten up any rainy day with a rainbow charm bracelet.

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/rainbow-charm-bracelet • Posted by Cat Morley

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

1 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
Medium rainbowbracelet 1198293669

Description

Instructions

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    Lay out seven small dishes (jar lids work well) and place red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet coloured beads in to each. Choose a selection of different shapes and sizes of beads, including dangly beads and charms.

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    Cut a length of chain long enough to fit around your wrist loosely twice and then leave a little extra.

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    Fold the chain in half, leaving a longer tail on one end, attach a jump ring through the end of the chain and where it meets on the bottom strand (leaving the tail to hang. Attach a jewellery clasp to the jump ring.

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    Attach a jump ring to the middle of the chain at the other end.

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    Take your red dish of beads, two jump rings and an eye pin.

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    Take the eye pin and slide on three red beads, and open up a jump ring and slip on two charms or dangly beads.

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    Slip the jump ring to the bottom of the eye pin and close the jump ring.

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    Use a pair of jewellery plier to bend the top of the eye pin at a 90' angle. Use wire cutters to trim the wire, so that there's just enough left to make a loop.

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    Use a pair of round nose pliers to bend the wire in to a loop. Leave the loop part open.

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    Slip the loop on to the start of the chain and close the loop.

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    Open the second jump ring and slip on another red charm. Slip the jump ring on to the top chain of the bracelet and close.

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    Continue along using the orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet beads.

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    Draw a rainbow on to shrink plastic using a permanent marker to draw the outline and coloured pencils to colour it in.

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    Cut the rainbow out and punch a hole in the top center of it. Colour the back of the rainbow with black marker pen.

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    Shrink the rainbow in an oven and then colour in the edges with black marker pen.

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    Open another jump ring, slip it through the hole on the rainbow and then attach to the dangly tail end of the chain.

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    Your charm bracelet is now ready to wear.