Brooch Pendants

I found some funky brooches at a yard sale last weekend and thought that they were so intriguing that I wanted to use them as pendants for brooches.  Here are the resulting necklaces and some of the techniques I used to make them.

Sun Pendant

Materials:

*Pendant

*Gold length of chain

*Purple length of chain (should be shorter than the gold chain)

*Gold head pins

*6 large beads

*6 gold seed beads

*Clasp

*8 gold jump rings

*Round nosed pliers

*Flat nosed pliers

*Wire cutters

Directions:

*Using pliers, open the first jump ring and loop it through the two lengths of chain and one end of the clasp and then close the jump ring.  Open a second jump ring and attach it to the other end of the chains and the clasp

*Slide pendant through the center of the gold chain

*Take one of the head pins and slide a gold seed bead onto it, then slide one of the larger beads onto it

*Using the round nosed pliers, form a loop.  Wrap the rest of the wire around the loop and cut off any excess wire

*Repeat for the remaining 5 beads

*Find a desirable spacing for the beads and attach to the gold chain using the remaining jump rings

Cat Pendant

Materials:

*Pendant

*One length gold chain

*One length pink chain

*2 gold butterfly beads

*4 gold jump rings

*Clasp

*Round nosed pliers

*Flat nosed pliers

Directions:

*Follow the same directions given for the sun pendant, omitting the inapplicable steps

Fish Pendant

Materials:

*Pendant

*Wire or fishing line

*Pearls

*Gold seed beads

*4 crystal spacers

*Clasp

*Crimp beads (if working with wire)

*Flat nosed pliers

*Round nosed pliers

*Wire cutter

Directions:

*Cut a section of wire or string slightly longer than you would like your chain to be

*Place pendant in the center of the wire or string. String pearls on either side of the pendant, adding crystal spacers when appropriate

*If you are using string, once the desired length of string has been beaded, tie the ends of the string to either side of the necklace clasp, or attach to a jump ring and then attach the jump ring to the necklace clasp

*If using wire, once desired length of wire has been beaded, curl over the end of the wire to form a loop. Slide a crimp bead over the loop and clamp at the base of the loop. Open a jump ring and slide the loop and one end of the necklace clasp into the jump ring, then close the jump ring. Repeat procedure for the other side of the chain

*Cut two more lengths of wire or string, each a bit longer than the space between the two spacers on the same side of the necklace

*Take one of the lengths of wire or string nad put on enough seed beads to fill in the gap

*Loop the wire or string through one spacer and fasten using a procedure similar to the one used on the clasp.  Thread through the bottom spacer and repeat thr procedure

*Repeat the previous two steps for the other length of wire