Flame Bracelet

The Flame Bracelet is so striking, you'll find yourself looking for things you can wear it with! Made with glowing ceramic beads, shimmering Swarovski crystals, golden spacers and beautiful borosilicate beads. The ones in the bracelet shown were made by Ginger Sanders of Carousel Beads. Ginger offers her beautiful borosilicate beads for sale on Justbeads.com, but if her beads are not available, there are several other borosilicate bead makers selling on Justbeads.com. Use the term "boro" in the on-site search engine and you'll find a nice selection.

Here's what you'll need to make a Flame Bracelet of your own:

1 - 22 mm oblong ceramic bead in Flame with Iris finish
2 - 15 mm oblong ceramic beads in Flame with Iris finish
8 - 8 mm round Swarovski crystals in Fire Opal, AB Finish
8 - 4 mm bicone Swarovski crystals in Hyacinth, AB Finish
4 - 6 mm X 10 mm Borosilicate Beads in Toffee or similar color
16 - 4 mm granulated Bali-type spacers, gold vermeil finish
2 - 10 mm pieces gold-colored Bullion
1 Gold colored toggle clasp
2 - Twisted Tornado Crimps, gold
12" Soft Flex Beading Wire
1.) Begin unwinding a 12" piece of wire from your spool of Soft Flex.

2.) Place a 4 mm bicone Swarovski crystal on the Soft Flex. Add a gold spacer, a round Swarovski, a spacer, a borosilicate bead, a spacer, a round Swarovski crystal, a spacer, a bicone Swarovski crystal, a 15 mm ceramic bead.

3.) Repeat the above, but use the single 22 mm ceramic bead on this set.

4.) Repeat Step 1 above. 5.) Add a Twisted Tornado crimp bead, one piece of the gold bullion and one end of the toggle clasp. Pass the wire back through the crimp bead and through the last couple of beads on the strand. Using flat pliers, squeeze the Twisted Tornado crimp flat. Turn the crimp over and squeeze the other side.

6.) Clip the wire from the spool, leaving a tail of approximately 5 inches. Repeat Step 5 above, making sure that the beads are all in place and that there are no gaps in the Soft Flex wire.

Enjoy your Flame Bracelet!