Create a Beaded Charm Necklace using handpicked charms and one-of-a-kind colorful beads. We’ll share how to use wrapped loops to create this beaded charm necklace.
How To Make A Beaded Charm Necklace
Materials
Charms
Madame Delphine’s Metal Charms, Teapots (Blue Moon): teapot.
Madame Delphine’s Metal Charms, Travel (Blue Moon): glove, fan.
Tokens Metal Charms (Blue Moon): airplane, Eiffel Tower.
Beads
2 Brushed-silver round beads, 6mm
1 Ruby red faceted glass round bead, 6mm
2 Red faceted glass rondelles, 5mm
1 Aqua milk glass faceted round bead, 10mm
1 Blue milk glass faceted round bead, 8mm
1 Teal round glass bead, 6mm
1 Red Lucite donut, 9mm
1 Light blue Lucite flower drop, 14mm
1 Blue Lucite flower drop, 14mm
1 Aqua Czech pressed glass flower, 15mm
1 Red Czech pressed glass flower, 13mm
1 Red ceramic round bead, 10mm
1 Green floral Cloisonné bead, 7mm
1 Turquoise Cloisonné tube bead, 18mm
1 Cobalt blue lampwork glass bead, 10mm
1 Venetian glass bead, 18mm
Bicones
1 Teal Swarovski crystal bicone, 4mm
1 Cobalt blue Swarovski crystal bicone, 4mm
1 Red Swarovski crystal bicone, 4mm,
2 Dark green Swarovski crystal bicone, 4mm
2 Lime Swarovski crystal bicone, 4mm
Spacers & Clasp
1 Scrollwork silver-plated toggle clasp
2 Silver bead spacers, 6mm
2 Silver bead spacers, 4mm
2 Silver bead caps, 6mm
2 Silver balls, 2mm
Tools & Supplies
24-Gauge wire, silver-plated
2 Lengths cable chain, silver-plated, 3″
Round-nose pliers
Chain-nose pliers
Wire cutters
Ruler
Steps
1. Using the chain-nose pliers, open the last link of a 3” piece of chain and slide on one side of the toggle clasp. Close the link. Add your first wrapped loop component featuring a teal round bead flanked by two silver bead caps to the other end of the chain.
To make a wrapped loop component, slide a 3″ length of wire into the last loop you made and secure with a wrapped loop. Slide your beads onto the wire, and finish with a wrapped loop. Your next component will start through this loop.
Here’s a video we made showing how to make a wrapped loop:
Video How-to: How To Make A Wrapped Loop
2. Add a dangling charm component using a Lucite light blue flower and a teal bicone, followed by a wrapped loop component with a brushed-silver bead. To add a dangling charm component, feed a 3” piece of wire through the last loop of the previous component and make a wrapped loop. Slide a bicone onto the wire, then slide on the charm. Secure with a wrapped loop.
Add a wrapped loop component with a blue milk glass bead, wrapping the last loop around a red donut bead. Start the next component by wrapping the loop around the donut, then adding an aqua milk glass bead flanked by two 6mm silver spacers.
3. Add a dangling airplane charm component topped with a dark green bicone. Follow with a red pressed glass flower wrapped loop component. Connect to a wrapped loop component with brushed-silver bead.
4. Add a dangling teapot charm with a lime bicone. Next create a wrapped loop component with a faceted ruby red bead, then a wrapped loop component with a blue lampwork bead.
5. Add a dangling glove charm with a dark green bicone on top. Continue with a wrapped loop component with a faceted red rondelle, and then a dangling Lucite blue flower topped with a red bicone. Next create a wrapped loop component with an aqua pressed glass flower.
6. Add a dangling fan charm with a lime bicone, followed by a wrapped loop component with a red ceramic bead. Then add a wrapped loop component with a green floral Cloisonné bead flanked by two 4mm silver spacers.
7. Add a dangling Eiffel Tower charm topped with a blue bicone. Follow with a Venetian glass bead wrapped loop component and a faceted red rondelle wrapped loop component.
8. Create a wrapped loop component with a turquoise Cloisonné bead flanked by two silver balls, connecting the final wrapped loop to one end of a 3” piece of chain. Open the last link in the other end of the chain and slide on the other side of the toggle clasp. Close the link.
