Golden Snitch

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  Step 1

  Okay so I'm going to show you how to make this one first :)
  For this you need:
  Around 10 inches of wire (I used silver)
  Hot glue
  Fine gold glitter
  Thick paper or card stock

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  Step 2

  Take you 10 inches of wire and cut it in half so you have 5 inches.

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  Step 3

  At about 2 inches ish (wow that was really accurate sounding..) make a small loop going outwards with your pliers

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  Step 4

  Using the big part of your pliers make a sort of wave shape

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  Step 5

  Then using the small part of your pliers make a loop, this time on the inside.

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  Step 6

  It should look something like this by now :)

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  Step 7

  Repeat steps 4 and 5 as many times as you want. Here I have 2 loops, but I have also made them with 3 and 4 loops.

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  Step 8

  Take the top part of the wire and fold is backwards over itself so the ends will stay together.

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  Step 9

  (Sorry this picture isn't very good)
  Then close the loop so that it's secure where ever you want the wires to meet. Cut off any extra.

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  Step 10

  Now it should look something like this!

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  Step 11

  Repeat steps 3-10 with the other piece of wire, going the other way. Try to make the two sides as close to being the same as possible (Hah. Unlike these ones.. Hypocrite much? XD )

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  Step 12

  Plus in your glue gun and lay down newspaper so you don't get hot glue on whatever surface you're working on.
  Get a piece of your thick paper/ card stock.

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  Step 13

  It doesn't matter what colour your paper is because you will be covering it glue and glitter anyways...
  I have no clue why I ended up using orange/red paper.. I guess its good cause it shows up well XD
  It doesn't really matter what size your paper is either, but using a full sheet is probably a bit much to work with and you have to make sure when you cut it that however big you want the middle of you snitch to be, will fit on it.

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  Step 14

  (Sorry about the random angle of this picture, I was trying to work fast so the glue didn't dry before I got the wings and glitter on)
  The next few steps you want to do quite quickly so the glue doesn't dry before you finish.
  Put a drop of hot glue on your paper.
  **Remember that hot glue spreads out, so don't add too much all at once or your circle will end up too big**

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  Step 15

  (Another picture with a weird angle, sorry!)
  Stick the wings in the sides of the glue.
  I also added some more glue right on top of where I put the wings to make them more secure.

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  Step 16

  Cover in gold glitter! :D

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  Step 17

  Wait a bit (15-30 seconds) so the wings wont move when you pick it up, and shake off the extra glitter.
  It helps a lot if you have paper under everything otherwise the glitter ends up EVERYWHERE.
  Don't forget to make sure all the edges are covered in glitter after you shake it off.

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  Step 18

  Once its completely dry you have two options depending on if you are going cover the back side in glitter or not.
  If you aren't going to, then you should cut the execs paper off.
  If you are covering the back in glitter (and therefore it doesn't matter what the back looks like) you can just pull the paper off the whole back.

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  Step 19

  If you want you can flip it over and cover with either hot or white glue

  the first one I did I used white glue for the back side and it took too long to dry (cause I'm really impatient) so I decided to use hot glue for this side, but the side wasn't as smooth as with white glue, so if you have the patience not to touch it every 30 seconds I'd say go with white glue.

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  Step 20

  Cover in glitter and shake off excess.
  Let dry. (BE PATIENT)

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  Step 21

  And your done! :D
  You can add a chain if you want, but I'll take about that later.

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  Step 22

  Next I'm going to show you how to make the snitch with the bead

  I originally tried making 2 separate wings, putting a piece of wire through the bead and making loops on the end of that wire and attaching it to the wings, but it didn't look great, so this is what I came up with.

  For this one you just need around 10 inches of wire and a golden sphere shaped bead.

  This one is harder to make so I would recommend trying the other one first to get the hang of it.

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  Step 23

  Do steps 3-10 using the full piece of wire (all 10 inches) using the same measurements (Starting the first loop at around 2 inches from the end).

  Add the bead.

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  Step 24

  Okay now comes the difficult part.
  You have to make the other wing, but you have to do the steps backwards.
  Confused yet? Don't worry its not that hard.
  First start by making the bottom loop.
  The easiest way is to look at your other wing and just mimic it as best a possible.

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  Step 25

  Add the other wavy shapes and loops and then top outside loop.

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  Step 26

  Figure out where you want the end to be. It should be right beside the bead so the bead doesn't move too much.

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  Step 27

  Cut off the extra wire (If there is any) and then wrap the top wire under and behind the base wire like you did with the other side.

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  Step 28

  And there you go!

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  Step 29

  You can add a chain to them if you want.
  I only added one to this one because it was the first on I made and I wasn't planning on making the others.
  What I did was I took a chain I already had (that wasn't important and I never used) and found the approximate halfway point. I opened one of the chain links from that place, detached it from the other side of the chain and re-attached it to the little loop at the top of one side of the snitch. Then I opened the chain link at the end of the other side of the chain (where I had just taken the first piece of chain from) and attached that to the other side.

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  Step 30

  These are all the ones I've made so far :) Hopefully I will get more gold beads soon.
  In this picture, the top left and middle left were the ones I used for the tutorial.
  The bottom right is what happens if you add too much glue, the snitch becomes a little fat looking XD
  And the small one in the top right corner I only used 4 inches for each side and started the first loop at 1.5 inches. The wings are curved up because its laying on its back (because its wings are curved). I'm going to make it into a bracelet because its small enough :)

  Hope you liked this how to and I'd love to see your version if you make one! :)

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  Step 31

  <-- The one I had put on the chain :)

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