The EASIEST Beaded Rings In The World! Make Them! Sell Them!

Hello, hello, welcome back to my channel, my lovely, lovely friends. I love a ring, don't you? And I thought today we'd have a look at these gorgeous little rings, super easy to make, super cheap to make, perfect, perfect if you're wanting to sell them for a little bit of extra cash, that kind of thing. So we're going to have a look at these two. I'm going to tell you the variation and we'll have a look at how to make them and they're as easy as one, two, three. So let's get going. Stay with me and I'll show you how to make these. A very beautiful and a very, very dear friend of mine in the States very recently sent me some absolutely gorgeous beads, like a friend kind of gift, you know, and some of these beads are just beyond beautiful. I'm not going to name them, but you know who you are. A very, very huge, huge thank you to you. You're a wonderful and a very beautiful soul and I love you very much. In these boxes, there were lots and lots and lots of beads and lots of eight millimetre beads, which I like to use quite a lot. And I was just messing about and having a look at how I could use some of these lovely beads. I've been recovering from a little bit of mental health issues and some physical health issues and some family issues and only just recently sat back down. I know it sounds boring to some people, but on this channel, we don't shy away from talking about how crafting helps with our mental health, do we? And this lady just put eight millimetre just for fun on this bag. And you know what? Totally agree with her. So come up with a little ring design that you can just use for fun, for selling at craft fairs, you know, for all that kind of thing. So stick with me. We'll have a look at these. We'll have a look at making these, but not just one and then two and then three different designs. All right, so stick with me and we'll have a look at how to make these. So my friends, let's have a look at these little beauties just for fun. I've made one with the one central bead and the two, or you can make a central bead with just the one on either side, or indeed you can just make one bead. How cute are these? Absolutely, absolutely brilliant if you've got craft fairs and things like that. Yeah, I mean, you can knock these out really pretty quickly and, you know, sell them for, you know, a few pounds, a few dollars, whatever. Yeah, excuse the banging. I'm recording a couple of videos at the same time actually today, excuse me, and my neighbours have decided, you know, as they can. I think they may be new neighbours, but hey-ho. So all you're going to need is some eight millimetre beads. So thank you, my beautiful friend, for sending me these. And just because you've put eight millimetre just for fun, this is definitely a fun little design, I think. You're also going to need a few little seed beads. Now I'm using five O's. You can use six O's. These ones are six O's. These ones are five O's, so you can see a little bit of difference. I mean, look how cute they are. I really like these. And you are going to need some wire, obviously. So I'm using 16 gauge here. So I've just cut off four inch, 10 centimetre lengths. That would cover most ring sizes, I would imagine. You're going to need a little bit of glue, jewellery glue. And what else are you going to need? A ring mandrel. And we'll go through the rest of it as we go through, shall we? Also, a tip for you is to use clothes pegs. So if you have some clothes pegs, this will help to put the ring in here so that, you know, you can leave it so that the glue sets because we need to have the glue setting around inside the stone. So I'll stop gabbling now, stop waffling, and we'll go ahead and make a couple of these pretty rings. I'm going to show you how to make this one, and I'm going to show you how to make the singular one. Now if you wanted to make this one, you know, with the two beads either side, essentially it's exactly the same thing. You just put four beads on into the two, and you'll know what I mean in a second. So let's make the first, the first one here with the one bead. So take your little piece of wire. Now you're going to bring in your ring mandrel. This is my trusty stainless steel. Now my best advice is if you're making a ring size, is to go up a ring size when you're bending it round, and that will also spring as well. So if I'm making an S, S and a half, I'm going to go for a TT and a half to start with. So bend your wire around. I'll try and do this under the camera, which is difficult. Bend your wire around, because normally I would do it at a different angle to this, until your wire crosses like that. Give it a bit of a squeeze with your thumb, and it'll just spring back ever so slightly, which is fine, isn't it? So there we have our hoop. The next thing we want to do is to come in with the plier, and we're wanting to cut a flush edge here, like this. Mind you, a flush edge, Sammy, come on now. Mind your eyes, as always. That's my catchphrase, mind your eyes. And then we want a flush edge on the other side, like this. So essentially we've got a large jump ring, yeah, which is pretty much what that looks like. So if you're making it for yourself, pop it on your finger. It should be slightly too big, is what we're getting at, what we're aiming for, okay. So if you're making these to sell, just make various sizes of them, yeah. I'm going to start doing some fairs again, excuse me, next year, hopefully. So I should be making lots of these, and hopefully selling lots of them too. Now then, so the next thing we want to do is we have to get this bead on in the centre. So come in with your pliers, and what you want to do is to bring just ever so slightly to make that straight. Can you see how that's straightened a little bit? So we just pull this down so that our ring is not circular at the top, but it has a flat section at the top. I'll just bring that in a little bit more, and I'll show you what I mean. Can you see how we're round here, but then we have a flat section at the top here. So both of the wires need to still meet in the middle, but it's kind of flattened a little bit here. Now that's so that we can get our bead on without it sort of springing out. The next thing we want to do is to just open this ever so slightly, like a gate, just a little bit like this, okay, so that we can get our bead on. Now I like to glue mine. You don't have to because the tension that you provide when wrapping will bring it in, but you know, if you want to glue it, I would, just because it makes life a little easier. And also, you know, you can make a few of these, get your little pegs and have them all lined up, you know, and you can, and then overnight, perhaps you can come back the day after and make them all. So I'm just going to pop a little bit of jewellery glue. Obviously, when you're using glue, be very, very careful, make sure that you're in a well-ventilated area, that kind of thing. I don't want anybody coming back to me feeling woozy, because they've been sat in a very small space with a lot of glue. Right, so open that up slightly. I'm going to pop our bead on. Where are you bead? Here we are, hole, put the hole, open that up, and then pop that back in. Now you'll notice that it springs slightly. Can you see that? This is where our little peg comes in. So make sure that the bead is centred and then open up the peg and grasp. So that will hold everything in place. So then you just put that aside for a couple of hours or overnight or whatever. Yeah, so do as many as you want. And then you have this, so everything's nice and secure. So this is the one I, here's one I made earlier. Oh dear. Now then, with the two bead version, which is this one here, before you put your bead on, just pop on two little seed beads and then glue your bead in. All right, I'm sure you understand, and I don't need to demonstrate that. So we'll put that to one side for now. So here we have our ring. So we need to now come in, actually, I'll just pop that one on so you can see what I'm making as I make it. We need to come in now with our 0.5, and I think that is 24 gauge, I think. Something like that. 24 gauge. You can use a 5 or 6, as long as it's got a little bit of stability to it, a little bit of handle, you know. And I'm going to use about 30 centimetres, approximately 12 inches. You will have a little bit left over, but I like to have a little bit to grab onto, you know. Actually, when I've wound this round, we'll see exactly how much it is that you need. You probably need a little bit less, but never mind. So we're going to start our wrap down here. No, wait a minute. Yeah, we'll start it here. So I'm going to wrap the wire around a couple of times like this, just to secure it. And then I'm going to wrap, I think, six times, which should be enough. Let's have a look. Yeah, probably six or seven wraps. That's one, two, three, four. And then wrap it around. It will move, don't worry about it at this stage. Yeah, and then through. How many do we have here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Yeah, seven should be fine. Seven should be fine. Now push that up as far as you can with your nail. Now this, hopefully, will be glued into place so that you'll be fine with that. You see? And then wrap that around your bead. These beautiful, just for fun, thank you, anonymous donor. Aren't they beautiful? So much fun. Wrap it around as tightly as you can until you get to here. And wrap that underneath and through like this, so everything's nice and taut. And again, you want seven wraps. So that's one and two. And each time, making sure that everything's nice and neat. These are absolutely fabulous little rings. Very cute, easy to wear, and absolutely superb for selling. You know, if you've got a fundraiser at school or, I don't know, you just want to make yourself a little extra cash, which, you know, in today's economy, nothing wrong with that, I don't think. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, and one more. And through we get. Here we are. So here we have our one side wrapped. Okay, so the next thing we want to do now is to make sure that everything's squished up nice and tightly. Everyone's happy, which they are. Can you see that? Then the next thing we want to do is to turn it around and go back the other way. Excuse the banging, knocking. So we just want to bring that over and start wrapping around about here. So we want to go over the top a couple of times. So we have like a double coil, if you will. Can you see that? Around. So that's three times. Back over so that we're ready to wrap around the other side thus. Okay, can you see? And then back through. And again, replicate the other side three times. Now at this stage, I'm going to just chop off that little edge there, that little tail, just so that everything's nice and neat and not getting in the way. That's once and through. Actually, we do have a little bit too much wire here, don't we? So maybe and then for the third one, maybe, I don't know, nine or 10 inches would probably be fine. And then under. So as you can see here, we have a beautifully wrapped ring. Can you see that? How cute is that? So even though we've glued it, I just think the glue gives it a little extra stability whilst you're wrapping. I've tried it without the glue and the bead sort of either popped out or it messed me about a little bit, which is fine. I just think the glue is a step which is helpful. Okay, so just squish that and burnish that so that you don't have any sort of sharp edges. And there we have our pretty little one beaded ring. Isn't that cute? Cute, cute, cute and really, really saleable, I think, if you wanted to sell these. So let's have a look at this version, shall we? Just put that on there. I mean, stack them, wear lots, I do. So we've been through this section here. I don't need to tell you how to do that again. Make your ring the size that you want. Before you put your main, your big bead on, just pop two little seed beads on. As long as the beads fit on the wire, it's fine, isn't it? So you would use whatever you like. So again, I'm going to use, you know, a length of wire, you decide, you decide the size. And again, we're going to start on one side. Obviously, you don't want to look at how to do this, this version with the seed beads on, you know, you don't have to just whip through it. If you've kind of got the principle and you think, you know, you can do it yourself, totally fine. There we go. Just squeeze things in a little bit. Use the same amount of wraps. Just do it just before the seed beads. That seed bead's going to be annoying and keep moving, but trust me, trust the process. When I say that when you push that up, everything slots into place. Yeah, so I'm going to do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and then 7. I hope you enjoy making these actually, guys. This is so pretty, so much fun, really, really cute. All you have to do is just pop that up. You can get rid of this section now if you like. Okay, so as you can see here, we've got our wraps, so we want to go around the seed bead firstly. Just give yourself a little bit of space around the seed bead like this. Can you see? Around the seed bead and then it'll be a little bit wiggly at this point. Don't worry. Pop your wire under. Can you see that? And then over the top so that you've got one wrap in between. Wind it around your centre bead like this and bring your other seed bead up. Can you see? Then holding things into place, go under and through like that and then around your seed bead so that you've got that secured into place. Can you see? So we've gone around the seed bead, under, around, under and then around the opposite way around that and then we want seven wraps around here. This is the point now where you just have to make sure that everybody's hutched up nice and neat. Don't worry about all of these guys here because you can move those around in a bit. Okay, so seven wraps. I'll do that quickly. One, two, hopefully my hands aren't in the way. Three, four, five. Squish things up if you have to. Six and then seven. There we go. So as you can see here, this guy has just moved around a little bit so that's absolutely fine. You just have to pull that back into place. Super easy. Just jiggle that around like that. Can you see? We're putting things back into place. When we go for our second, you know, our reverse wrapping, everything settles into place. So if you're finding that these wraps move a little bit, don't worry about it. Just pop them back into place thus. Right, so now we need to reverse and essentially the same as what we did for this one. We just need to come round. Actually, I'm just going to pull that out of place. We just need to come back round for three wraps. That's one, two and then three and over and as you can see here, we want to go back around that guy there. Can you see that? So it encompasses your seed bead and then under again and then back round. So can you see here? We've encompassed that seed bead. Can you see that? Lovely and we want to bring that around the other side of our eight millimetre like that. You see? Again, don't worry, you can pop all this into place and we want to go back under, back over. So here I'm just going to get rid of, again, this little tail so it's out of the way and just squish all of that into place. Get rid of that. You see? So we've come round. Don't forget with this you can either, you know, slow down the video or just pause and go back if you need to re-follow it. So we're back here and we want to encompass that seed bead on the other side. Can you see that? And then we want three wraps over the top of this that we've previously done. Super, super simple. So that's one, using your fingernails if you have to, just to pull things into place and then that's two and then the final one. And how pretty are those? So my beautiful friend over there in the US, thank you for sending me these gorgeous, gorgeous beads, as you say, just for fun. I mean, look at that, just for fun and I've found making these really good fun so I hope you enjoy this little video. Thank you very much. Just snip that off so, you know, wrapping the, you know, the couple of beads. That one maybe would take probably seven or eight inches, this one nine or ten perhaps. You can work it out for yourself. And then you just need to tighten that into place and make sure that everybody's happy. And there we have, my friends, a beautiful triple wrapped bead. Yeah, so we have the singular, the triple, and the one with five. So it's as easy as one, two, three. Have lots of fun making those, my friends, and let me know in the comments how you get along, what kind of beads you use, that kind of thing. And if you want to share what you've been making, come and join us over in my private Facebook group. All you have to do is just answer the membership questions and come and show us what you've been making. We're a beautiful, beautiful set of people in there and everybody's happy. Safe place. Okay, so one, two, three. Enjoy and I'll see you in my next video. Bye, guys.