Easy Beaded Bracelet Tutorial

I was in the mood for bracelets this week. I wanted to make a few that I could stack up my arm for fun so I dug around in my crafting stash to see what I had on hand. I came up with some simple (cheap!) metal bangles, some glass seed beads and some clear stretchy jewelery cord.

The process is super simple – just cut a length of jewelery cord about 5 times the circumference of the bangle bracelet you’re using for your base and knot one end of the cord. String beads along the entire length of the cord and knot the other end tightly against the last bead. Next use a hot glue gun to attach one end of the bead string to the metal bangle and wait a minute for the glue to set. Make one loop around the bangle and add another daub of glue to really secure the end of the string, then continue wrapping the beads around the bangle until you reach the beginning again. Secure the beads to the bangle with more hot glue. You should have an extra length of beads and cord at this point, so cut the knot at the end, slide the extra beads off and then re-knot the cord tightly against the last bead on the bracelet. I also used a bit of glue on each knot to make sure it was secure.

This method allows a lot of room for creativity – I used a mix of beads and just grabbed them randomly from the bag, but you could string the beads in a repeating pattern. I also made another bracelet which I didn’t wrap the beads as tightly around the bangle so that you can see the metal underneath.

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