Butterflies and leaves – what’s not to love about a garden necklace?
Today I’m using some beautiful leaf beads and some glass butterflies to make a garden inspired necklace.
It’s beautifully soft looking but also has medium high contrast which is perfect for me – if you watched my recent series of interview with Imogen Lamport from Inside Out Style Blog you will know exactly what I’m talking about. If you haven’t seen that, here’s a link to the Ultimate Jewellery Guide playlist.
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Here are the materials I used to make this beautiful butterfly necklace:
The tools that I used are:
Watch the video or follow the step by step instructions below.
This project is made up of a lot of components. We will make them first, then put it all together.
Cut a piece of wire, thread it through the hole of the leaf. Leave a tail of approximately 4cm (1.5”) and bend the wire up on both sides to the top.
Using your chain nose pliers, make a bend in the longest piece of wire so that it is pointing straight upwards.
Take the shorter end and wrap it around the longer end 2-3 times. Trim off the tail and tuck it in.
Using your 1-Step Looper or round nose pliers, make a loop in the long piece of wire.
If you haven’t used a 1-Step Looper before you can watch this video to find out all about it.
Repeat this until you have three leaf components.
Make a loop in a piece of wire. Add on a pink 6mm faceted glass bead. Make a loop in the other end.
IMPORTANT: Turn your loops so that they are facing in opposite directions.
Repeat until you have 12 of these components.
Join them into groups of three by opening one of the loops, adding another component, then closing the loop. Repeat this one more time.
Once you’ve joined them you will have four strands, each with three beads.
Make a loop in a piece of wire. Thread on the beads in this order:
Make a loop at the end. Be extra careful if you are using the 1-Step Looper next to the 4mm bicone as if the jaws get too close they can shave off a tiny piece of the glass. Give yourself a couple of millimetres space.
Turn your loops so that they face in opposite directions.
Make 4 of these components.
Make the butterfly connector in the same way you did the Lower Pink connectors, making sure the loops are in opposite directions.
You will need three of these.
Make a loop in a piece of wire and thread on beads in the following order:
Make a loop in the end and turn them to face in opposite directions.
You will need two of these.
The last component you will need is made in the same way. Thread the beads on in the following order:
Turn your loops so that they face in opposite directions.
Repeat until you have four of these.
Lay the components out as you see them here.
We are going to join them together with the 6mm jump rings.
Open a jump ring and thread on the Lamp Bead Connector, the Butterfly Connector and another Lamp Bead Connector. Close the jump ring.
Repeat that two more times until you have all four Lamp Bead Connectors and three Butterfly Connectors joined.
Onto another jump ring, feed on one pink string of the lower pink connectors, the lower loop of the butterfly connector, another lower pink connector and the loop of the leaf component. Close up the jump ring. Repeat until all the butterflies and leaves are connected together.
Next we will add the Butterfly Bicone Connectors to each end in the same way.
Using a jump rings, connect two of the Pink and Purple Connectors together. Repeat so that you have two of these components.
Connect one of these components to each side of the necklace using a jump ring.
Take a 4mm jump ring and thread on the last loop of the pink and purple connector and the loop of the clasp. Close the jump ring. You might find it easier to use a 6mm jump ring if you’re having difficulty getting it to close. Repeat for the other side.
I love how pretty and delicate this necklace turned out. There are lots of components but it’s actually pretty simple to put together. It just takes time to make all the components. It’s one of those necklaces that is going to wow your friends when they see it and you’ll know how easy it was to make.
In this week’s video I’m wearing my Red AMAZE Boho Teardrop Necklace.
I am also wearing my Clashing Bracelet made with lots of wire wrapped loops.
I made these Red 5 Minute Earrings in a short video which can be found here:
I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial. While it took a bit to make, it was well worth the effort. If you did enjoy, leave me a comment below and also share, share, share.
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August 10, 2023
Hi, my name is Carol Karl. I live in little old New Zealand. My family and I strive to live the most ‘real’ life we can – by that I mean that we eat real food, we live real lives and just generally be our most authentic selves.
