Terrorific Tuesday Runs With Scissors Bracelet

We interrupt this blog post for a special announcement: I'll be at the Middleton New Jersey AC Moore for their Grand Re-Opening on Saturday October 18th doing demos and signing books from noon to 2pm! Come and see me if you live in the area!

Here's my offering for next Tuesday's Terrorific Tuesday Round Up. It's a very simple to create charm bracelet using a genius bracelet blank from the folks at Fusion Beads and fabulous ceramic beads from Earthenwood Studio. You can change it up to suit your style or make your own quirky charms to add to the mix, in fact I encourage you do to so. This is much more of an "impatient crafter^TM" idea than last week's design, this one you should be able to whip up in about an hour or so. I think this is one of those ideas you could work a whole Runs with Scissors costume around.

Or you could just wear it because it's fun. It's certainly got year round appeal in my style book.

Until Saturday...craft on with you bad selves.

xoxo
Madge

Runs with Scissors
Terroriffic Tuesday #2
Free Project for Personal Use Only (No resale please)
Copyright 2008 Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter^TM

This wonderfully wicked bracelet features beads from Earthenwood Studio combined with CRYSTALLIZED^TM-Swarovski Elements crystals and a scissors button from Streamline. For those who know the hazards of crafting far too well and yet continue to play with sharp objects, toxic substances and messy paints and inks, this bracelet is for you. Scary? Yes but oddly appealing and incredibly simple to whip up at a moment's notice.

Materials
Skully Muertos Charm Earthenwood Studio
8 candy red pumpkin pair beads (a.k.a. four pairs)
7 8mm eight ball beads (can be replaced with bones or mini hearts)
7 mini skull beads from Mexico
16 3mm crystal vitriol rounds
14 3mm jet rounds
7 4mm black diamond rounds
7 4mm Indian red rounds
1 metal scissors button/charm
1 sterling bracelet blank with loops
23 5mm silver plated or sterling jump rings
36 silver plated or sterling head pins

Tools
Round nose pliers
2 pairs chain nose pliers
Wire cutters

1. Create 16 coiled dangles using pumpkin beads with 2 crystal vitriol rounds on each side of the beads to prevent the head pin from sliding out.
2. Create 7 coiled dangles using mini skulls with 2 jet rounds on each side of the beads to prevent the head pin from sliding out.
3. Create coiled dangles for 7 mini eight ball beads.
4. Create coiled dangles for 7 black diamond rounds and 7 Indian red rounds.
5. Assemble the bracelet by attaching the charms in the following pattern: Attach scissors and ‘Skully' bead to a bracelet loop on a jump ring using two pairs of chain nose pliers to open and close ring, attach a pumpkin bead on a jump ring to the next loop, attach a mini skull on a jump ring to the next loop along with an eight ball and the Indian red and jet beads on the same loop on a separate jump ring...continue alternating between single pumpkin beads and mini skull/eight ball/crystal combo working around bracelet loops until you reach the final loop and pumpkin bead.
6. Check the jump rings carefully to ensure they are closed. (Designer tip: Make sure when you are closing each one that you are creating tension in the ring so it remains secure. There should be no exposed space between the two ends of your ring. You do this by pushing them gently together as you pass the ends by one another until they click into place.)

Sources
Skully, eight ball and pumpkin beads Earthenwood Studio, crystals CRYSTALLIZED^TM-Swarovski Elements, bracelet blank Fusion Beads, jump rings and head pins Beadalon, scissors button Streamline, Mexican skull beads Eyes Gallery Philadelphia