Cuff Bracelet with Preciosa Seed Beads, TierraCast® Focal and Antique Copper-Plated Steel Focal

Embroidered Focal

Place the 47mm fancy flower focal over a sheet of Lacy's Stiff Stuff™ then trace around the focal, onto the sheet, creating a template. Remove focal from sheet.

Repeat using a scrap of leather, creating a leather template.

Shake the bottle of E6000® Spray Adhesive then apply to the first template created in Step 1. Place focal over the template and apply pressure for approximately one minute.

Set aside to dry.

Cut one foot of Toho Beads® nylon thread then thread a beading needle, almost doubling the thread to make it easier to work with, but leaving a tail so you are working with only one thread.

Bring the needle up from underneath the Lacy's Stiff Stuff and through the center hole in the focal then string one opaque yellow #11 seed beads onto the needle. Bring the needle right next to where the string came up then bring the needle down through the same center focal hole. Pull taut.

Repeat until there are a total of eight seed beads to fill the hole.

Use this technique to fill in the rest of the holes in the focal, using colored #11 seed beads of your choice.

Cut one foot of Nymo® nylon thread then thread a beading needle, almost doubling the thread to make it easier to work with, but leaving a tail so you are working with only one thread.

String one opaque ruby red #11, one opaque orange #11 and one opaque ruby red seed bead then bring the thread back up from underneath the Lacy's Stiff Stuff on the opposite side of one outside petal of the focal.

Repeat, stringing seed beads around the focal in its entirety, making sure the unstrung thread is hidden behind each petal.

String one opaque brown #11 seed bead and one opaque rust #11 seed bead then pass the thread back through the first seed bead strung in Step 6.

String one opaque brown #11 and one opaque rust #11 seed bead then pass the thread through the next adjacent #11 seed bead.

Repeat for a total of three times using one opaque brown #11 and one opaque rust #11 seed bead.

Repeat once using opaque rust #11 and one black #11 seed bead.

Repeat Step 8 along the edge of the focal until the needle passes back through the first seed bead strung in the same step.

Tip: It may be necessary to cut additional lengths of wire.

String two opaque black #11 seed beads. Pass back through the last seed bead strung.

Repeat until the needle passes back through the first seed bead strung in this step.

Repeat Step 10 for a second row of opaque black #11 seed beads. Pass the needle through several adjacent seed beads to secure then trim excess thread.

Embellishing the Cuff

Place a piece of paper on the inside of the bracelet so that the paper is curved with the bracelet. Make marks onto the paper where the bracelet is shaped, forming a template.

Place the template onto the scrap leather then cut, forming a padding to later be applied to the inside of the cuff.

Mix Devcon® 5 Minute® Epoxy according to manufacturer's instructions.

Apply Devcon to the inside of the bracelet component then apply the template created in Step 12. Set aside to dry.

Place one 39.5x11mm hammered rectangle focal into the largest depression in the dapping block.

Place the largest dapping punch on top of the link and strike the top of the punch with a wood mallet. Repeat, working your way around the focal, forming it to the shape of the dapping block depression.

Repeat in smaller depressions until the link is curved to the shape of the bracelet component.

Tip: When dapping, you want to work slowly, so approach this with patience. If you move the metal too quickly it will crease rather than curve.

Place the link over one side of the bracelet component where you want the link to be secured then make marks where the metal shows through the holes.

Use a hole-punch to punch a hole in the metal. Use hole-punch pliers to make the hole punched larger.

Repeat to the second hole so that both holes on the same side of the bracelet component are punched.

Repeat to the opposite side of the bracelet component.

Place the hammered rectangle focal over the punched holes so that the holes on the rectangle focal are aligned with the holes on the bracelet component.

Insert the bottom half of the rivet through both holes and place head down on a flat anvil. Place the top of the rivet through the other hole and into the bottom half of the rivet.

Align the concave end of the setting tool on the rivet. Strike the end of the setting tool with a hammer to set the rivet. Repeat as needed.

Repeat to secure a rivet into the remaining hole.

Repeat to the opposite side of the bracelet component.

Use the whipping knot to attach the focal onto the leather scrap template created in Step 1 to secure the two together, completing the focal.

Mix Devcon 5 Minute epoxy according to manufacturer's instructions.

Apply Devcon to the center of the bracelet component and the back of the focal completed in Step 17. Set aside to cure.