Multi Color Rectangle Gem Bracelet | Jewelry 101

Hey Jill School and we are going to make a really simple little almost like tennis style bracelet using some jump rings. So this is going to be a fantastic beginner demo. Let's talk about what we're using today. The star of the show are these crystal connectors. You get five different colors and they are all backed in this really nice gold setting this little prong setting and you've got two sets of holes in them. Really really nice like that. And then they've got the four prongs on them all the way around with these really cool rectangle bead type connectors and so that's what we're going to use today. All you have to be able to do is open and close a jump ring for this demo. So if you're new to making jewelry you better you want to zone in on this demo because it is going to be super easy and beginner friendly. So and then we've got jewelry I mean we've got jump rings. I've got a set of 18 karat over stainless in the show. It's got the larger size jump rings in there which is what you're going to need for this project the larger of the three sizes. And then I've got this findings kit in here. This is a great findings kit so we're going to use the lobster claws and some of the jump rings from that as well. And then tool wise I've got two I for some reason have my flat nose pliers but chain nose pliers will do too. I don't know why I brought these two but all you need is two chain nose pliers or flat nose if you want to use flat nose. No you don't need any cutting tools you don't need crimping tools you don't need round nose pliers nothing just your chain nose pliers. So let's get going again this is what we're making we're making like a tennis style bracelet all connected with the jump rings like that so it's going to make a great stacking bracelet. Look at it shimmering in the light like that look at that oh it's gorgeous what a fun summer bracelet to stack with your other bracelets and it just lays so nice and flat on your wrist there. Gorgeous. Okay so there's gonna there's a lot of jump rings and opening of closing and closing of jump rings involved in this demo so that's what we're how we're going to streamline this project is make sure that we get all of our jump rings open and ready to go before we get going. If you don't know how to open a jump ring the best way to do it is with two pairs of pliers and so you want to find the opening and I've got that right there up at the top find your opening and you're going to grab either side of your opening with your pliers and you're going to rock it open tilt it open don't pull it open here I'll show you the wrong way to open a jump ring. This would be the wrong way to open a jump ring would be to pull it I can't even do it with if I had chain nose pliers I could do it would be like that pulling it like flat like open pulling the opening away from itself because we'll never get that back into a nice round shape like that so we just want to rocket our pliers back and forth to open it up that way let me put that aside so I don't accidentally use that so we want to get all of our jump rings open and ready to go that way we can just slide our connectors on and close them up so I'm just going to make myself a little pile of open jump rings before we get going okay and then we've got our pattern so my pattern that I did was the white a b lavender teal green and pink this prong is coming going the wrong direction fix that prong real quick before I add it to my bracelet I probably did that there we go so now what we're going to do is we're going to take an open jump ring just grab a hold of it on one side and we're going to grab a connector and you're going to run that jump ring through and sometimes you got to wiggle it a little bit to get it through both holes like that so we've got it coming through the back there and then we're going to before we close it we're going to attach our next one so we're going to grab oops that's going to be facing the wrong direction yeah so that's one thing you got to kind of get in your mind is like how to attach these so that they're all facing up so you just want to make sure they're facing the same direction before you close your jump ring and then to close your jump ring you're just going to rock it back and forth a little bit and you just kind of push a little bit with your pliers and put a little bit of pressure on the jump rings not too much because you don't want it to overlap but just gently rock it back and forth and get that seam nice and closed and make sure it's a smooth connection there and then that one is connected so then we'll move on to the next one so we'll grab another jump ring attach our connector like that and then attach our next connector and then it would be actually probably much easier if i had chain nose pliers these flat nose pliers kind of take up a lot of room so that can make it more difficult to get your pliers in there and to get it closed i to be honest i don't know why i brought these what did i do i went out of order i did go out of order oh no okay now we're right we're going in the right order now we're gonna do green after our pink we got pink on there now we just need to grab our green these are so fun i just that these colors i love like gem tones just kind of those rich colors so when i saw this i was like oh i want to use all those colors together and then we'll do our teal comes next there we go this is one of those things too that the more you do it the easier it gets to you figure out kind of how to hold the jump ring and how to hold your pliers so that you can attach these connectors really quickly and easily so it's like you get better as it better at it as you go down the bracelet just keep adding let's see we are about i think that's enough to finish my bracelet off okay so to finish this off we need a lobster claw and we are going to need a little bit smaller jump ring so the way that we're going to do it is we're going to take a large jump ring and we're going to attach it to one end and then we're going to close that and then we're going to attach another jump ring to that so that our lobster claw is because if i were attached to attach that lobster claw oh no that would be the right direction nope we're just going to go straight i was there we yeah we can just attach this lobster straight on here because i was thinking it was going to make the lobster go the wrong direction but it's not so we've got our lobster there on that end and if you want to use a little bit smaller jump ring there you can like the medium size that comes in the jump ring set that will go through these um you can use that if if that's too big of a loop there for you i was just keeping it consistent down the and so then we've got one jump ring on the other side and that's what we're going to attach our clasp to like that i don't know if i can get this on by myself oh i got it oh my gosh okay whoo there we go look at that look how pretty that is and so simple and so easy how cute i love it i'm wearing it today so cute and it lays really nicely nice and flat on the wrist and it's just fun and summery i love it look at how oh my it's just adorable and it just sparkles it look cute with like just another gold bangle with it or just by itself i'm just gonna wear it by itself today just like that so cute i love it cool i love when like just simple little things come together and they're so awesome like that all you need is some jump rings and your connectors and you're good hey guys thanks for joining me today i hope you enjoyed today's demo if you need any of the tools and supplies that we 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