A present...shhhhhhhhhh!

I made a present last night. I am pretty sure that the recipient doesn't read my blog - so I'm going to go ahead and post it. This necklace is for my boyfriend's brother's fiance (what a mouthful). We can't make it to their engagement party, so I wanted to make her something special.


She is Buddhist, so I chose a nice copper Buddha pendant. I'm stoked any time I can play around with our Soft Flex Metallics beading wire. It makes everything look so pretty!


In the project shown above, I used:

• Soft Flex Metallics beading wire in copper color - .014/Fine
• Artistic wire in brown - 20 gauge
• brown delicas
• 3mm & 4mm crystals
• 2x2mm copper crimp tubes
• magical crimping pliers
• regular crimping pliers
• cutters
• bead stoppers
• round nose pliers
• chain nose pliers
• wire whacker
  

I love mixing and matching different mediums. I used Artistic Wire to create a chain on one side and a double strand of Soft Flex Metallics beading wire in copper color to weave on the other side.


This is my favorite part, I created my own toggle clasp (not a new concept - but I haven't done this in quite awhile). I didn't have any copper clasps on hand. So, I used the Artistic Wire in brown. I created the toggle bar using my round nose pliers and chain nose pliers. I use the wire whacker to work harden it so that it won't easily pull out of shape. I chose to use the regular crimping pliers for the end. I prefer to just use the magical crimping pliers for embellishing: to anchor a bead in place on the wire, on earrings or dangles. I feel more secure using the regular crimping pliers where the clasp attaches. That part of the design really needs to be strong.

So that's that. Now, I need to make one like it for myself. I was thinking about maybe using my new resin pendant in a similar design. This might look better in the antique brass color of the Soft Flex Metallics beading wire line. Hmmmm......