Rainbow heart valentines pendant - wire wrap pendant

Hi guys, this is Nadia from Bunny Crafts and today I want to show you how to make this Valentine's heart pendant. I quite often make PDF tutorials and kits for the videos I put up on YouTube So I'll pop a link in the description below so you can take a gander over there and see if there's anything you fancy Don't forget to hit the subscribe button because I upload new stuff all the time. All right, let's get started So to begin with we're going to need to leave roughly about 20 centimetres to the right of the heart And we're going to be shaping the top section of the heart Now obviously the wire that we're going to be using here needs to be quite thick because there isn't much Structure to keep the stones in place So for this design, I've used 1.316 gauge wire which is strong enough to hold gemstones in place so you can see me shaping the top of the heart here and this is just the beginning stages and I'm going to do next is take my Bail making pliers and I'm going to create a little loop So this is for the chain attachment later on So obviously the more central that loop is the more central the heart will hang basically So I'm going roughly with about the the middle of the top of the heart if that makes any sense and This is where the loop is going to be. I'll show you later how to shift it if you didn't get it quite right So that's what it looks like. So the next step is to create the first swirl of For the stone for the first stone rather and and what we're going to do here is just take the wire and we are going to be twisting it in a clockwise motion and You need to place it roughly where? The heart the top of the heart curve ends and the rounder the section is the better so in other words The rounder you can get the better the stone will sit so you can see me here. I'm using my pliers to adjust The circle if it isn't exactly the way I wanted it to be so that's what it looks like so far So next I'm going to take my stone and the stone needs to sit in the loop just so enough so that it doesn't actually fall through but also not The loop doesn't need to be so small so that the stone will actually be lifted because the the smaller the loop the higher the stone will sit and the more it will sort of protrude and you don't want that so The small the better size fits the loop the better. Does that even make sense sometimes? I can't find the right words, but I hope you get what I mean So once the stone is placed in the loop We're going to take the wire and kind of fold it over the stone So you kind of lift it up a little bit as you twist so that it goes over the sort of girdle of the stone So the top is the table and the outside of the stone is the girdle and we want to use that Wire to wedge it in place basically like a sort of corkscrew Design and it just takes a little bit of practice. Just use a couple of pieces of wire to practice Before you actually start on the heart if you haven't done this before to get a feel for it The more practice you get the easier it gets as well So you want to make sure that you have one full revolution over the stone And if it's not exactly right you can use a pair of pliers to very very gently Squeeze the wire in place over the stone to make sure it actually sits nice and tight That's what it looks like so far So next we're going to create an anti-clockwise swirl It's basically like the vine setting that I taught quite a while ago now I think it's about a year ago that I made this tutorial. So we're going to go in an anti-clockwise direction and We're going to do exactly the same. So the loop should be roughly About one or two millimeters below the first and it needs to be slightly smaller Because we're going to use a smaller gemstone. The first gemstone is a five millimeter chrome diopside in this case You can also use six or four mil depending how big you make your your pendant and So again, it needs to loop needs to be just big enough so that the stone very comfortably sits without falling through and Once again, you can see me here. I go really really slowly and this gives you a lot more control over the wire and the stone and I know for myself that if I am new to a Technique and I'm a little bit unsure. I tend to rush things And I panic basically and I do things too fast and that's when you make mistakes So it's always it always helps especially with the setting to go really slowly and do the bends Really really slowly because you have a lot more control and also time to You know to think about what you're doing That's what it looks like with two stones so lastly, we are going to do the smallest of the stone obviously the Smaller the stone the harder it gets to do the loop, especially with thicker wire like this because obviously it's a lot stiffer then It would be with you. Let's say you one mil or your 0.8, which is your 20 gauge or 18 gauge And it really helps to have a good length of wire and if you're using copper You can use a much longer length than as if you were working with silver because the wastage isn't quite as dramatic You know, so you can do that so the smallest stone Which in this case is a three millimeter So I've used five four and three mils for this and I'm going to just adjust the loop you want to make sure that It doesn't protrude too much. So you manipulate it's always easier to do it before the stone is caged So I'm placing the stone and watch me here. I'm going really really slow and this is not just to show you but it's also to control the wire over the stone And this is how I would do all of my settings because I have a lot more control Over where the wire goes it really helps to give you a feel For how the wire behaves when you when you're doing this kind of setting and rotate it And bring it back down until the wire is kind of parallel with the top You can always very gently squeeze but not too hard because you will break your gemstones Ask me how I know So we're going to Then put a tiny little bend in the wire Just below the last setting kind of a 90 degree to bring The wire back in line with the top of the heart and we're going to shape it Next shape the heart itself The time Obviously you can do any size you like This heart is about three and a half four centimeters depending on How you adjust? the bottom so the next step is to shape The heart at the bottom so I'm putting a bend At the bottom and I should have put that wire on the inside because we're going to curl it So bend it up. We've got a little length left there So I've told you to use a little bit more wire than I have in case you want to Change the setting a little bit. I left it a little bit short and that's why I only did one loop With that inside wire, so if you have a little bit more wire You can do some other design options with that So the next step is to create a second kind of miniature heart on the inside So I'm just using my pliers. You can use round nose pliers if you find that easier And all I'm doing here is basically shaping the second part and again you watch me go really slowly because I could do more control Shaping the heart and try and keep it as symmetrical as possible my fine-tipped chain nose pliers are fabulous for the job because you have Good control over the wire and it's not too chunky. So I quite like these. I got these off ebay Sometime ago and I actually need to buy another pair because I use them all the time. They're great All right, so I'm just shaping the heart Obviously take much better care to Get it nice and straight. It's a bit wonky in this stage Because I'm trying to show you how to do it. So it doesn't look quite as straight, but you can adjust it at your pace All right. So now I've made it a little bit more symmetrical and all I'm going to do here is take the Leftover wire on the inside of the heart and I'm just going to put a little swirl into it. This is to Put it out of the way basically because obviously you've got a loose end sitting there. So you want to Get rid of it and possibly the most decorative way And you can see me here again I'm squeezing the end quite hard which again brings it to a taper as I'm squeezing. I'm also rotating and Which gives you a nice sort of rounded curl and it brings the tip to a nice point and Then you can adjust, as I said, you know, the thicker wire is a bit harder to control. But yeah, that's what it looks like So next I'm going to hammer my wire now, this is personal preference how much you'd like to hammer You can also use a texturing hammer So if you're going at this stage, you're going to leave the heart as is without adding any more detail you can you know go to town and Hammer as you want. I'm hammering here from the back To kind of hide any dings that the hammer may put in in the wire If you like to have sort of texture you can do it from the front as well So I'm just flattening it out so that I Have a little bit of width to the wire and it looks quite nice once you've wrapped it So I'm going to do this to the outside as well So once I've done that you can see it's a little bit spread out and The next step is to bind The loose ends together. So for that, I'm just using my weaving wire and I'm going to start with Leaving a small tail or maybe about five centimeters. I don't really know what that is in inches, but it's not very long So just a short section with something to hold on to. So all I'm doing here is I'm going once around the outside wire so Then I'm going over both wires Feed it through to the back And make sure it's nice and tight and I'm going once around the inside wire feed it through to the back so Then once again Around the outside wire once wires Then around the outside wire Then we're going to continue. So it's basically once around Each wire and then around both So I've done that and the next step is to actually so I'm out of shot here a little bit Let's put a 90 degree bend. Oh, not really a 90 degree a bend at the bottom to follow the initial shape of the heart so what I'm doing here is Shaping it and I've Followed the outside wire has followed the heart on the inside because we're going to do next is Sort of swirl it out of the way and then we're going to bind this loose wire to the heart itself So once again, you can see me here squeezing the wire tip Before curling in and as I said earlier, this kind of gives you a sort of finer tip than if you were to just cut the wire And then kind of shape it until you're satisfied with how it looks And if you're not quite happy with the shape that you've created you can use Some pliers to help you shape the swirl And that's what it looks like so far So we're going to fill out the other side with the wire as we did on the one side. We're going to come across the other side So I filled out the other side and I've stopped where The inside heart has a little swirl because we're going to attach that swirl to the heart itself So I'm just going to go around the inner heart and the outer heart twice Like so before then continuing with the weave that we've just done which is once around the outside once around the inside wire and Then once around both Through and then this time it goes around both wires Then repeat the process going around each wire once Sorry, I keep going out of shot here. Sometimes it gets quite difficult to see what I'm doing All right, and so that's what it looks like So next so earlier I was talking about if you weren't happy with where the loop sits I checked with the heart and I actually didn't quite like how it was hanging So what you can do is grab a pair of round nose pliers and you kind of roll the loop into the direction you want it to travel very gently and The loop will shift and the wire will slightly distort But you can fix it With a pair of pliers. So you roll the loop into the direction that you want and then you just take your pair of pliers afterwards to kind of reshape the wire because obviously there will be a slight dent and where the wire was before and So you reshape it that way and yeah, nobody will be none the wiser and you've shifted your loop a little bit So that's what it looks like. So the next step is to create like a fan shape The wire needs to be quite long obviously because you're using a lot of wire. It's it's quite a lot of work It takes a long time roughly about an hour an hour and a half to do it You can starting by attaching the wire Halfway, so I've got half on the left half on the right Just a couple of loops around the inner heart and then I'm wrapping the wire on the right Around the outside heart about three times Is it three or five times? No, it's five times. So five times around the outer heart Can't really see anymore So as you can see to have that length of wire can be a little bit fiddly and it keeps getting stuck especially as You're trying to pull it through and it gets hooked on the settings and unfortunately that happens when you have got such a long length to work with but It's better than having to add in wire so I prefer to do that rather than you know use a shorter piece And then have to add in because it you know, there's potentially more wire endings to hook on All right, so it's five times around the outside heart. Once we've done that we come back in and We wrap around the inner heart once and then twice pull it through and Wrap it round And instead of going up. We're going to go through the heart one more time and Feed it through if you do it this way the wire has got something to grip on whereas if you Just hook it around once there's no loop that holds the wire in place and it's not It's not really there's not much structure. So you need to create one full loop around the inside heart and then You can come back to the top Sorry, if I give you if you give you don't make you seasick and with all the Shakenness with the wires a bit of a pain So we're going to repeat this on the left and on the right all the way until all the wire is gone And that's what it looks like So just keep working and you can see here on the left and the right the wire has reached the bottom on each side And what we're going to do now is we need to tuck it away Towards the inside because obviously that wire ending if you cut it It will just dig into your skin or jersey or whatever you're wearing at a time So you want to make it as snaggless as possible? so I've pulled it through to the front and Made sure that it's nice and tight before trimming it off So that's what it looks like so the next step is to create like a recessed look So what I'm doing here is I'm taking a pair of pliers I'm kind of squeezing the inner heart and I'm bending the wires inside so that it creates like a recessed look That's what it looks like on the back And the front and will look much better once you have put loss on it, which I've done here so the last step again, obviously you don't have to add beads and I just I always like to add beads to my design. So what I'm doing here is I'm feeding the wires I have to the fan that I've created slots