Get a Blue Clue Memory Wire Bracelet and Earrings

Making beaded jewelry doesn't get easier than the Get a Blue Clue Memory Wire Bracelet and Earrings by Vicki O'Dell for Consumer Crafts. With light and dark blue crystal beads, string earrings of clustered beads and a memory wire bracelet that gives the illusion of stacked bangles.

Bracelet:

Materials:

• 4-coil memory wire bracelet, silver 1990-05
• 2 4mm Iridescent aqua beads 19814-022
• 2 Aqua mix bicone crystal bead packages SSR-113
• 6mm round corrugated sterling silver plated beads 1999-603
• Round nose pliers 1995-11
• Memory wire shears 1893-14

Instructions:

1. Cut memory wire to desired length, or leave whole. Curl one end of the wire as shown making sure that the ends are closed so that the bracelet won't snag clothing.
   
   
    
2. String beads on the wire in a random fashion, then curl the remaining end under to close the bracelet.
   
   

Earrings:

Materials:

• 4mm Iridescent aqua beads 19814-022
• Aqua mix bicone crystal beads SSR-113
• 6mm round corrugated sterling silver plated beads 1999-603
• Earring wires 1920-61
• Head pins 1990-36
• Silver plated steel cable flat chain 2001-44
• Precision pliers set 1995-14
   

Instructions:

1. Cut off 7-10 (depending on desired earring length) links of the flat chain. Repeat for second earring. Attach the chain to the earring wires. Add a silver corrugated bead to a head pin, make a simple loop and add to the bottom of the chain. Repeat for the second earring.
   
   
    
2. Add beads to head pins and continue making simple loops and attaching beads to the chain until the links are all full or you are satisfied with the look. Two beads will fit on each link.