DIY silicone beads pack – Clip-on bag charm – mom + girl – Powder Lilac

Materials: silicone beads & Metals charm
Difficulty: Simple – Medium

This set contains all the supplies for making a homemade clip-on bag charm of silicone beads. In this case, specifically the bag charm with the girl in Powder Lilac and the text mom. We also name all the materials from this set above. Should you wish to replace an item, for example a brunette girl with a blonde girl, you can put it together yourself. You simply search for the supplies below and then replace the girls silicone lucky doll with another one. You will find the girls under the luxury beads department lucky dolls / LuckyJo Heads and Bodies.

A charm like this is very easy to make. We do recommend using a combination pliers for this. If you do not have one yet, you will also find it among our tools. First, a Clip-on hook is supplied. This is a round hook with a segment that can fold inwards. This ring is slightly larger than a standard key ring and therefore fits perfectly around the handle of a bag. We are going to attach the charms to this Clip-on Ring.

To start, the lucky doll. You will be provided with a charm. The small balls at the top and bottom can be unscrewed. After unscrewing one of the sides, thread the beads onto it. Then, press it firmly onto the rod (the entire screw thread must remain free) and hold it firmly in one hand. With the other hand, screw the ball back on. TIP: Some combinations are a bit "fuller". In this case, first press firmly onto the rod so you can easily screw on the ball. If you don't do this, the silicone beads may press onto the ball relatively quickly, even though it is only screwed a small distance onto the thread. This can be detrimental to the quality of the screw thread.

These charm we are going to connect to the Clip-on hook. You can hang these directly on the ring, but we find it more convenient to work with a carabiner hook. This is also because we are going to make a second charm. This is where the combination pliers comes in handy. You bend open the top loop of the charm, hook it onto the carabiner hook, and press it shut again. If you have a somewhat larger/coarser combination pliers, you can, for example, put a small piece of kitchen roll in between. This way, you won't damage the charm itself.

Next, we will create the "mom" charm. We actually make this in the same way as a regular keychain. You take the silver satin cord and fold it in half. Now you have a loop on one side and two ends on the other. Then we look at our charm that we already have. At the bottom of the snap hook we just used, there is a ring-shaped part, this is where we just made the metal charm. We will also make the mom charm here. You take the satin cord by the loop side and thread it through this opening a bit. Then you take the ends and put them through the loop and pull.

You can now start threading the beads onto this. Optionally, you can make a knot at the top before you start threading and pull your beads over it. We usually don't do this ourselves because we prefer to use smaller beads and you can't hide the knot very well in it. Besides, we feel it contributes little to a creation like this. It doesn't really add anything. After you have threaded all the beads on, we need to make another knot. For keychains we recommend not using a flat knot. The ends then tend to go to the left and right. What you do is you lay an e-shaped loop on the table, after which you pass the ends through this loop.

Slowly pull this towards the beads. Then make sure that the beads are as tight as possible on the cord against the keyring. Then, with your other hand, slide the knot as much as possible and tighten the knot. This way of making a keychains is a real must-have skill. The first time might require some practice, but the more you do it, the easier it gets! Cut off the ends about 1 cm after the knot. Another tip: briefly melt the ends with a lighter. I often light the lighter and, with a smooth motion, just pass the ends by/through it. This will prevent your keychain from fraying.