Earrings, bracelets, necklaces ... I love to make them all. Swarovski crystal beads bring sparkling colors and visual texture to my jewelry designs. Czech Republic glass beads offer rich deep colors, with individual 2-tone Czech beads often possessing unique color shading within the clear glass of the bead. For warm colors, I like to make bracelets from the natural beauty of obsidian and jasper beads.



Blue Turquois with Swarovski earring and bracelet with gold accent

Gold accented bracelet with natural turquois and Swarovski® bicone crystal beads.



See below for material list and comments for making the bracelet.
Approximate length of bracelet: 6.5 inches


Material list for bracelet:

Gold Plated lobster clasp

Gold Plated 4mm soldered closed jumpring for ending ring

Gold Plated spacer bead cover (for usage to hide ending crimp beads). You can see that I hadn't finished this bracelet yet as I have not crimped the spacer bead next to the ending 4mm soldered closed jumpring

Stretchy stringing material so that I can easily slide this bracelet on over my hand.

Gold Plated spacer beads used as crimp ending beads

4mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

4mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

4mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

6mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

6mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

8mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

8mm natural Turquois beads. I purchased two strings of natural Turquois, one a wider bead with dark veining, the other string a more solid color Turquois.




The pattern is:

4mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal bead

4mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal bead

4mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal bead

4mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead


6mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead


Natural Turquois 8mm bead, I selected non-veined for the further out two natural Turquois beads.


6mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

6mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm white alabaster Swarovski® bicone crystal beads

6mm turquois Swarovski® bicone crystal beads


8mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

Natural turquois 8mm bead, dark-veined (middle turquois beads)

8mm gold plated double cone corrugated spacer bead

Natural turquois 8mm bead, dark-veined (middle turquois beads)


and so on back out to the other end of the bracelet


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