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Ocean Life
Designed by:Jessica L. Rosenfeld
Skill Level: Beginner

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Materials:

  • Soft Touch™ .019 Wire - approx 22 inches
  • 2 inch Sterling Silver Head Pin - 1 head pin
  • Sterling Silver Fish Hook & Eye Clasp - 1 clasp
  • 4mm Fire Polished Beads - 56 beads
  • Sterling Silver Star Shaped Spacer Beads - 38 beads
  • Teeny Tiny Whale Beads - 1 bead
  • Teeny Tiny Orca Beads - 6 beads
  • Teeny Tiny Dolphin Beads - 8 beads

Tools:

  • Flush Wire Cutters
  • Bead Crimping Pliers
  • Round Nose Pliers

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Instructions:

  1. Place one 6 or 4mm bead, one silver spacer, one Blue Whale, one silver spacer, and one bead onto head pin. Make into a bead dangle using round nose pliers, using a wire wrapped loop.
  2. Cut approximately 22" of beading wire from the spool.
  3. In the middle of the strand, string beads in the following order: one bead, one spacer, one bead, one spacer, one bead, one Black Orca. Then, one bead, one spacer, one bead, one spacer, one bead, Bead Dangle made in Step #1, one bead, one spacer, one bead, one spacer, one bead, one Black Orca, one bead, one spacer, one bead, one spacer, and one bead
  4. Now gather the beads you have just strung at the middle of strand, and bring the two ends of the wire together. Pass both strands through one Blue Ceramic Whale bead.
  5. On one strand of the design, string one bead, one spacer, one bead, one spacer and one bead, then a Blue Ceramic dolphin.
  6. Repeat step 5, but this time use a Gray Dolphin.
  7. Repeat step 5, but this time use a Black Orca.
  8. Repeat step 5.
  9. Repeat step 6.
  10. Repeat step 7.
  11. Finish off with one bead, one spacer, one bead, one spacer and one bead.
  12. Pass wire through one 2mm crimp tube, through one end of clasp, and back through crimp tube. Secure using crimping pliers. Cut off excess wire using flush Cutters.
  13. Repeat steps 5 through 12 for other side of design.

Projects not intended for children under the age of 13. The information on this instruction sheet is presented in good faith, but no warranty is given, nor results guaranteed. Soft Flex® Company disclaims all liability from any injury to anyone undertaking the construction of this project as a result of improper safety precautions.

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