How To Make A Ring Out Of A Paperclip

Craft: Paperclip Statement Necklace

melissa
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March 27, 2015

necklace on mannequin Statement necklaces are so popular nowadays. I accept a special effect coming up and I wanted a special necklace to wear to information technology. I also didn't want to have to spend whatever coin on information technology.

I've had some extra paperclips for quite some time that I forgot virtually. I decided to try and create something useful from them. This is what I came up with! This is a chip time consuming, but simply requires a bit of patience no special jewelry making skills.

I'm happy with how this turned out and hope you lot have fun making your own. I have no doubt this will make a smashing conversation piece.

Total Fourth dimension: Under two hours

Yield: 1

Supplies:

50-lx i one/4 standard size paperclips. They can exist purchased at the dollar store.
40-50 one/iv" diameter jump rings
wire cutters
needle nose pliers
three head pins
5 glass beads
straight pins
foam board

Steps:

Y'all will be making your necklace on a foam lath. Every bit you progress, yous will anchor your necklace with straight pins. This will make it much easier to work on your necklace without information technology getting tangled. Brainstorm with 5 paperclips.

You will concord your clip so that your outside curve is on the left. Offset sliding your next prune on. At present you accept your start two continued!
Add your remaining clips for a base row of v.

Now adhere your first clip here before the bend.

Second clip here. Keep past adding 2 clips to each. You will terminate up with 2 clips hanging vertically from each horizontal prune.

You will now adhere a prune horizontally to the beginning two vertical clips. Stop your row.

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Add 2 more vertical clips to the lesser of each horizontal clip.

You will now need your jewelry pliers and then that you tin can add jump rings to your joints. Please be sure to run the ring through all iii clips. This is where your get-go 1 will go. Meet?

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Add together your second bound ring hither. Continue joining these areas until the stop of the row.

Paperclip Statement Necklace

You volition now add a jump ring here. Be sure to run the ring through the clips and rings, not just each ring. This makes nicer joints. Join joints in the same manner until the finish of the row.

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Add jump rings to your top row joints as well.

Y'all will at present join the ends of your beginning 2 clips with a jump band to create a "V". Repeat this for the unabridged row.

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Add together i more than clip to each ring.

You will now create a "V" with each cease clip.

Add a clip to the cease of each "V" and a jump ring to the center clip.

Add a spring band to the finish of each clip.

Add together a clip to the middle jump ring.

Add a clip here.

And hither. Run across?

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Join the ends with a spring ring to create another "V".

Add together a clip hither.

And here. See?

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Connect ends with a jump ring to create another "Five".

Add together a prune here and here.

Paperclip Statement Necklace

Add a jump ring to the bottom of your clips.

You volition now add together 3 small beads to a head pin. Create a loop and wrap your pin terminate around your stem so that you tin attach it to the center jump ring.

Join your ends with an additional jump ring to create 2 more "Vs".

Add ii more caput pin stems of two beads to each finish.

Join these jump rings with an additional jump ring.

These as well.

Reinforce each top corner with another jump ring as well.

You will now start at your corners and link together nearly nine clips for the "chain" part of your necklace. The important thing is to have the concatenation fit snug like a choker around your neck. This volition brandish the blueprint ameliorate. Encounter?