Here is another addition to my Rhinestone Jewelry tutorials, A How to on making a chunky Rhinestone necklace as a Mother’s day gift. I have made this necklace colorful as My mom already has a monotone rhinestone necklace but you could make yours monotone if you prefer a sober look.
In this necklace I have gone beyond the usually wire wrapping method to create a bezel for the focal stone and used a found object – a Christmas ornament to create a backing. You can use any filigree finding to make similar pendants. No gluing required
Materials:
(All Rhinestones & settings from Beadmixer)
4 Octagon glass rhinestone amethyst purple 14×10 mm
3 Octagon glass rhinestone champagne 14×10 mm
2 Octagon glass rhinestone olive green 14×10 mm
9 octagon 14×10 mm Settings with 2 loops
1 silver snowflake ornament
1 square foiled rhinestone
10 silver tone jump rings
2 silver tone eye pins
silver tone chain & Lobster clasp
Method: To make things simple I have divided the tutorial into two parts – Pendant and the necklace after the first couple of steps.
1. Prong set all the 9 rhinestones in their respective settings. Check the link for detailed instructions on prong setting
2. Cut off the second loop of a champagne crystal. File to smoothen the edge.You can also use a single loop setting instead.
3. Make the Pendant
a) Place your square crystal( flatback) stone on the snowflake ornament such that the holes of the crystal are in the clear. You could also substitute the star with any filigree star or flower that you have.
b) Firmly fold down the points, one by one as though we are prong setting the stone
c) Thread an eyepin through the top hole (through the filigree)and fold. Bring it up and wrap to make a bail for the pendant. You can also use wire instead of an eyepin and make a bigger/fancier bail.
d) Using another eyepin or piece of wire, connect the single loop champagne stone to the pendant using a wrapped loop
4. Make the Necklace
a) Link the prong set stones in order – amethyst – champagne-olive-amethyst using jumprings
b) Cut 2 pieces of 5″ chain, add a clasp in between using jump rings and connect it to the rhinestone chain
c)connect the pendant it to the rhinestone chain using jump rings
Ta Da!! Your sparkly Chunky Rhinestone necklace is all done. That was pretty simple right? You can add beads in between or danglers to make it fancy. So Why a sparkly necklace for mother’s day – Why not?? Mothers too love their bling!!
Disclosure: The Rhinestones and Settings used are from the good folks over at Beadmixer which I received as a part of a tutorial exchange program by Totally Tutorials.
Do Take a look at my other Rhinestone jewelry tutorials here
– Crystal Love necklace
– Crystal Love earrings
– Fairy Lights Necklace
– Crystal Tassle Necklace refashion
I hope you find it interesting
Cheers
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