Wire Name Necklace Tutorial_ Debbie Pendant with a Heart

Hey there, Heather Boyd Wire here. Today I had a special request from Debbie to make her name out of wire. So I'm going to use artistic copper wire, 20 gauge. I cut a large piece, it's about 15 inches long. It's going to depend on how big you want to make the pendant. And I'm going to start with the top loop of the D. So I have my round pliers and I will just make a little bit of a loop at the top because you need something to put like the jump ring in for a pendant. So if we do like a little loop at the top here and then you want to make the body of the D and you could either wrap it around a pen or your large round pliers. So it also depends on how big you want it. And then if you need to adjust this little loop at the top too, you can definitely adjust that if you need it bigger or smaller. So we'll just maybe bring it in a little bit. And then what I decided the D is really tricky. So what I decided to do with the D was just to go over here, like just over there and then bend it back and around. And if you want to help it out, just use your round pliers and careful not to nick it. And then you just bring it back here. So it's kind of bent underneath to there. And then all I did to finish this end, because it's always tricky to know how to finish the ends, is I just brought that around to make another kind of little loop here. But I'm just going to clip it there and I'm going to clip it flush. This took me several attempts to get it to look right because it's really tricky to get it to look nice and for it to be solid and to get all the little ends in. So then you can just bring that little end in there and it just sits kind of flush in there. Nice finish. And then you're going to go with the rest and do the rest of the letters. So we'll get our small round pliers again, get the small ones, and we're going to start with the E here. So we're going to go up and just keep it quite simple. The D might have been a little bit small, but that's OK. We're just going to get the idea. So we're going to do like just a little basic E and and then we're going to bring this around here. So it's going to start looking like that, the D and the E. And then we want to form the part of the B, right? So we're going to bring this one up here. OK, depends on how much distance you want between the letters and then take this. It's almost going to look like an L. So you're going to bring it down and it'll look a little bit like an L. Same thing. You can adjust it a bit if you want. OK, so that looks a bit like an L. And then you're going to bring this just across and then you want to form the circle of the B. So it looks like an L. And then we're going to take our round, larger round pliers and bring it around and just adjust it so then you have your B. And then we want to do another one that's the same. So we're going to bring it here and then bring this one up. Of course, it's always a little bit tricky to get them the same height. You could measure it if you want. So we're going to bring it here, bring this down, make sure it's about the same height, and you can adjust it a bit too if you can roll it a bit back and forth if you want. So that's the next one. Looks like an L. Bring that across and get the larger round pliers again. Bring it here. Check it out. It looks good. OK, bring that in a little bit more. And then we need the eyes. A couple ways to do the eyes. I've seen eyes before where they just like bring it up and then they just fold it back down again. But I kind of like it when there's a little bit of a loop, like a little bit of a dot. So you just bring it that way, get your small round pliers, bring it around back. OK, so it looks like just a little bit of a dot there. And carefully bring that back and then bring that down. So we have what looks like an eye and then we need another E. So we're going to bring this around here, bring this one down for the E. OK, like that. Try to get it about the same size. If you have to make it a little bigger, just unroll it a bring it here. And then to to put the like the finishing touches. So this is how the Debbie would look like that. You could put a jump ring in here. You could also put a jump ring in the B, but to make it nicely finished, you could bring it up and do a loop. But sometimes I like to do a little heart. So let's do a little heart on the end. So we're going to go down and up here, down and up, and then do one of your loops of the heart. Try to do it the same height as the loop in the in the Debbie, and then you're going to be able to put a jump ring in. So it's going to be the same on both sides, the same height. And then to finish the heart, you can just like do a little kind of a loopy thing here. Make it kind of fancy. Bring that in there and bring this one around. I probably should have brought the wire to the front, but that's OK. We can just do it this way. Bring this around here. OK, so once you have the heart, you just want to bend this to the back and finish it off nicely. So you're going to bend that around, push it right down, clip it, and then get your pliers. And you can do any name like this. And if you finish it up with a heart, it's good because then what you could do is you can put, I'll just hold it with these, you can put a jump ring here and a jump ring here to put it on a necklace. So thanks so much for watching the video. Give it a big thumbs up if you liked it. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for lots more DIY wire art and jewelry making videos, and we'll see you the next time.