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Dangling Necklace With Flower Beads And Silver

Dangling necklaces, can you ever get enough of them? I certainly can not, and after having made these polymer clay beads, I simply had to combine them with some silver and wire work.

The small beads were made from the scrap clay I had left after making the big ones. You can see how I made these beads in this tutorial.
So, are you ready to start? OK! Here we go:

What you need to make this dangling necklace:

• 10 Polymer clay beads proximately 17 mm.
• 9 polymer clay beads proximately 10 x 5 mm
• 1 focal pewter with 7 loops, 44 x 33 mm (Firemountain gems)
• 3 small point back crystals
• Sterling silver wire 1.5 mm (15 gauges)
• Sterling silver wire 0.8 mm (20 gauges)
• 20 4 mm round silver plated beads
• 18 3 mm round silver plated beads
• 20 8 mm spacer beads
• 58 bead caps
• 1 10 mm rumpring
• round nose pliers
• chain nose pliers
• wire cutters
• mandrel 10 mm
• mandrel 4 mm
• mandrel 2,5 mm
• Hammer
• Anvil

Step 1: First you will make the big bead links for the dangling necklace. Cut a length of 8-10 cm from the 0.8 wire and make a twisted loop in one end. Add one 4 mm silver bead, one bead cap – opening towards the silver bead, one spacer bead, one bead cap – opening towards the large bead, one large polymer clay bead. Repeat on the other side and close the end with a twisted loop.	Repeat with the rest of the large polymer clay beads. Put them aside.
Step 2: Now you will make the small bead links for the dangling necklace. Cut a length of 6-8 cm from the 0.8 wire and make a twisted loop in one end. Add one 3 mm silver bead, one bead cap – opening towards the silver bead, one small polymer clay bead Repeat on the other side and close the end with a twisted loop. Repeat with the rest of the small polymer clay beads. Put them aside.	Step 3: The silver links of the dangling necklace: Cut a length of 10 cm from the 1.5 mm wire. Make a loop on one end.
Wrap the wire over the 10 mm mandrel. To get the right length to the first loop, put your thumb on the wire. The loop shall start at the end of the width of your thumb.	Remove the mandrel. Make a loop on the other end and curl it up so that the beginning of the wire lies snugly inside the loop. This side of the wire link is a bit longer than the first one you made. Make 8 more links.
Step 4: Put the links on your anvil and flatten the curved side a little bit with your hammer. Then use the round side of the hammer to make some texture on the flattened area.	Step 5: Use the 4 mm mandrel to make 24 jumprings with the 1,5 mm wire. Put each on the anvil and hammer it slightly flattened.
Step 6: Use the 2,5 mm mandrel to make 6-8 jumprings with the 0,8 mm wire. If you have a rock tumbler, put the links and all the jumprings into it and polish them for 20 minutes. This will make them very shiny and nice.	Step 7: Attach three of the small beads in the three bottom loops of the focal pendant . Use three of the thicker jumprings for this. Because of the shape of this particular pendant it was incredibly difficult to attach something in the loops inside the pendant, so this is where the pointback crystals comes into the picture. Simply glue them onto the three bottom loops. I managed to hang a 4 mm Swarovski bicone with a bead cap in the upper one, but it was not very easy, hence the crystals.
Step 8: With a jumpring, add one large bead link to the bottom loop of one of the silver links. Add another on the curved edge of the silver link. Continue joining bead links and silver links until you have 5 beads on each side.	Step 9: Attach a thick jumpring to each of the bottom bead links. Add one more to join these two and attach the pendant with it as well.
Step 10: On the other end of the necklace, attach the last silver link to one of the beads. This will be the clasp. Attach the large jumpring to the bead on the other side. This ring must be so large that the loop from the clasp can fit through it.	Step 11: Attach the small polymer clay beads to each of the loops on the shorter side of the silver links. And that completed the dangling necklace. Go and wear it with pride.

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