Today’s bracelet in juicy, summer colors is quick & easy and uses only minimal supplies: beads, spacer bars, memory wire, wire cutters & round nose pliers.

I love the rather unexpected combination of sparkling crystals with these bright beads, but I can also see this looking great in several shades of turquoise. Really, any of your favorite colors would work great!

Btw, after wearing this bracelet  made the way I show in the video, I decided I didn’t like those beads dangling off the ends. Instead I remade it, beginning and ending with a spacer bar and having 6 beads between each spacer bar.

Enjoy the video and happy creating.

You can watch the Sparkleberries Cuff Bracelet Video Tutorial over at YouTube.

These directions reflect how I made the first version, the one I show in the video.

Materials:

• 3 8.5-inches pieces bracelet memory wire
• 78 6mm beads
• 6 3 hole spacer bars

Tools:

• memory wire cutters
• round nose pliers

1. Use round nose pliers to make a loop on one end of each piece of memory wire.
2. Onto a piece of memory wire slide 3 beads, one hole of a spacer bar, 4 beads and another spacer bar. If spacer bars have 2 different sides, make sure all are facing in the same direction.
3. Repeat stringing on 4 beads and a spacer bar until all spacer bars are used. String on 3 beads, trim memory wire to 1/2-inch from last bead. Use round nose pliers to make a loop with remaining wire.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 using remaining memory wire and going through remaining holes of spacer bars.
5. If you like you can add charm or bead dangles to the loops of memory wire.

Alternatively, you can add a spacer bar at the beginning, then have 6 beads between each spacer and end with a spacer bar. This will use 90 beads.

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