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Sugar Skull Necklace

Make a colourful skull necklace for Day Of The Dead!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/sugar-skull-necklace-3 • Posted by Cat Morley

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

0 h 15

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
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Description

Instructions

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    Gather together your supplies. You'll need some skull beads, which you can either buy or make out of clay (check out my other how-to). To accompany, you'll need a headpin, two small pearl beads and one glass bead to go with each skull.

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    Place your skull and other beads on a headpin.

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    Bend the headpin by 90 degrees above the top bead.

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    Fold the remaining wire around some needle nose pliers and snip off where the wire loops.

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    Slip the loop on to some chain and close.

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    Repeat for your remaining beads. Now here's a little trick. I'm allergic to chain that's not silver, so I only used a small amount of metal chain for my necklace but attached a jump ring and a clap to either side of the chain.

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    I can then attach this on to a longer silver chain. It's a great way to save money, if you're allergic to cheaper metals like me, or to change the length of your necklace easily.