Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Make good valentines day gifts – the best Valentines day crafts of love

Looking for some homemade Valentine ideas? These felt bracelets are fun and easy to make. You could be very creative with this project by creating any design you can imagine. With a little help, it would also be a great craft for kids to show off their creativity.
valentine friendship bracelet

Prepare the Materials:

Steps:

Step 1:
Fold the orange cord in half. Tie a double connection knot about 1 cm down from the top. Click here to see how to make a double connection knot.

Step 2:
Start braiding your bracelet by using the double coin knot and then thread two natural green jade jadeite beads. Click here to see how to make the double coin knot.

Step 3:
Continue braiding your bracelet with Two complete double coin knots. .

Step 4:
Thread two natural green jade jadeite beads and tie two double coin knots.

Step 5:
Repeat the same step 4.

Step 6:
Thread the Jadeite spacer beads on the end of cords. Then tie an overhand knot. Make sure the knot is larger than the bead so that it will never be slipped out of the cords.

Step 7:
Trim off the excess strings and burn the tail of cords.

Step 8:
Done it!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Good valentines day gifts - heart friendship bracelet fishtail friendship bracelets instructions

As the month of love approaches, we thought we’d combine friendship and hearts into one Valentine’s Day themed tutorial: a heart friendship bracelet!

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You’ll need:

925 Sterling silver heart-shaped charm pendant X1

8-mm 925 Sterling silver flat bead X1

No.72 Orange cord: 1 meters

No.72a Pink cord: 2 meters

Others:Scissor, Measuring tapes ,lighter

 

Steps:

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Step 1:

Fold the orange cord in half and tie a double connection knot so that you have a loop.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 2:

Fold your knotting cord (pink cord) in half to find the center and place it under the knot.

 

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Step 3:

Take the left pink knotting cord and weave it over the left strand of orange cord and then under the right orange cord.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 4:

Now, grab the top strand on the right side and weave it over the right orange cord and under the left orange cord.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 5:

Keep working in the same pattern (over-under-pull, over-under-pull) until you reach the half length of your wrist. Then string a heart-shaped charm pendant.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 6:

Continue to braid until you reach the desired length.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 7:

When you get to the end, tie the two strands of knotting cord in a knot at the bottom. And trim the excess cords, burn the tail of cords to ensure that the bracelet will never be slipped off.

 

 

 

 

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Step 8:

Tie an overhand knot after string the silver flat bead.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 9:

Trim the excess cords and burn the tail of cords.

 

 

 

 

 

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Step 10:

Done it!