How to make your own phone charm
Alice de Maison Scarlett
It’s THE trend right now: customizing and personalizing your phone with a little bling and whimsy. This jewelry accessory doubles as a strap, allowing you to keep your smartphone close at hand at all times. Wear it around your neck like a necklace, across your body like a belt bag, or on your handbag like a lucky charm—the choice is yours. One thing’s for sure: in addition to keeping your phone secure, it adds a chic and fun touch to your cell phone.
Contents:
Removable whenever you like, attach and detach it as you please thanks to its small lobster clasp. It adapts to your lifestyle and your wishes.
Here is a little step-by-step tutorial to help you create your own quickly, without glue, DIY skills, or extraordinary knowledge—just a little patience and some materials all the same.
Of course, the suggested supply list is not exhaustive. Depending on your tastes and wishes, you can adapt everything so that your creation truly reflects you. Play with colors, letters, and lengths—it’s up to you. Don’t like gold? Choose silver.
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Materials list:
- 5x1 mm fine gold-plated open jump rings
- Box of 6 mm white heishi disc beads
- Heishi disc beads
- Fine gold-plated lobster clasp
- Jar of white letter beads
- Gold-plated brass disc beads
- Beading thread
- Gold Miyuki bead
- Heishi bead gold-plated brass spacers
- Sun charm
Step 1
First, cut a piece of nylon thread for bead weaving about 50 centimeters long. If you wish, use a fairly fine needle to help you thread the beads more easily. The first step is to thread 40 gold seed beads. Once they have all been placed, tie a small knot after the last one so that the beads that follow do not cover them.
Step 2
Choose thirty heishi disc beads in the colors of your choice and place them on the thread. Alternate with a gold disc-shaped spacer bead, then thread 30 white disc beads. Alternate again with a gold spacer bead and four white discs. Finally, add the sun charm.
Step 3
Repeat the same step: 4 white beads, one spacer bead, 30 white beads, one spacer bead, 10 colored beads, and finally a spacer disc.
Step 4
Next, add forty white heishi beads and a spacer disc, then six more white beads and two discs. We have reached the center of the necklace cord.
Thread the remaining beads symmetrically until you reach the sun charm.
Step 5
Here, for a little fun, add a spacer bead and have fun creating any word you like with the alphabet beads. Depending on your mood, thread them one after another or separate them with white, colored, or spacer beads. Let your creativity shine!
Step 6
Continue threading symmetrically until the end of the necklace. Make sure to finish with 20 gold seed beads.
Step 7
Place open jump rings at each end of your creation. Tie a surgeon’s knot to ensure your piece of jewelry is secure. Add the lobster clasp to one side.
Step 8
All phone cases normally have small openings where you can slip a thread through. Do so, and add small beads if you like for even more flair. Here too, make sure to tie a very secure knot.
Step 9
Attach your necklace cord to the end of the thread connected to your phone case and admire your work!
A little idea: The phone strap would pair perfectly with another current trend: gemstones and crystal healing. Lapis Lazuli, Hematite, Ruby, or even Quartz—each stone has its own properties, so have fun creating a strap that gives you both style and well-being. So, are you sold?
If you’re not a fan of the idea of attaching this pretty cord, which you put so much effort into making, to your phone, there’s an equally stylish solution! Did you know that eyewear jewelry is also incredibly on-trend? By replacing the clasp with small tips designed for glasses, you can create an amazing glasses chain! And to protect your frames properly, don’t forget your glasses case, otherwise you’re opening the door to scratches, cracks, warping, and annoying little specks of dust. Glasses are like jewelry. If you love them, take care of them!
