Instructions for a Beaded Swarovski Crystal Heart Necklace

Swarovski Crystal

Choose your bead colors and lay your design out on a clean work surface. You can work from a pattern in a book or create a design on your own.

Measure out a length of beading cable and cut with small wire cutters or regular scissors. You can eyeball this measurement, but cut the length about 2 inches longer than you think you'll need. This extra length allows for attaching the clasp.

Tape one end of the cable. The tape keeps the beads from sliding off the end. Leave about an inch of cable on the taped end so that you'll have enough room to add the clasp.

String your beads, working from the design you laid out.

Place a crimp tube and a cable guard at the end of your design. Add either a spring ring clap or a lobster clasp and slide it over the cable guard.

Loop the end of the cable back into the crimp tube and through the last bead in your design. This creates the end loop with the clasp on the end. Crimp the tube shut with needle-nose or chain nose pliers.

Remove the tape from the other end and add a crimp tube and cable guard to that end of the beading cable. Add the clasp ring that came with your clasp then repeat the cable loop and crimp as you did on the other end.

Trim the cable on both sides so that the ends are hidden under the last beads. Your crystal heart necklace or bracelet is ready to be worn.

Swarovski crystal hearts can be purchased in several colors and can be strung on beading wire to create necklaces or bracelets. You can purchase Swarovski crystal heart beads online or at craft stores. To create your beaded heart necklace, decide on the size and number of crystal hearts you want to use, and choose complementary round crystals or seed beads to fill out your design.