Christmas Ornament Rubber Band Bracelet

There is still time to get creative before Christmas! I love making handmade gifts for my family and friends! Especially using loom bands because I can make a quick gifts in ten to fifteen minutes each! This fun ornament bracelet is using "Dress It Up! Buttons" and is oh, so cute!!! I used the "Vining Leaves" no loom instructions to make it look like garland.

Supplies: 

Green Loom bands
Dress It Up! Ornament Buttons
Loom Hook
Hooked On Rubber Band Jewelry Book by 11 year old Elizabeth M. Kollmar

Directions:

1. Follow the Vining Leaves directions on page 27 of the book. Do the first motif and at B7 use a band that has a button threaded through it.

2. Continue as many motifs as you need to fit your wrist and using a button at each B7.

3. Bind off and give to a friend for Christmas!

* 300 count Loom Bands on sale for .77 each (reg $2.99) until December 21, 2014

Pumpkin Rubber Band Bracelet

Hi this is Danielle with a project to inspire you for Autumn!! Halloween and Thanksgiving are right around the corner I hope you are just as excited as I am!! I love the cooler weather and going to the pumpkin patch! Also, pumpkin spice desserts are my favorite!

This pumpkin bracelet is perfect to accessorize your Halloween costume, or to wear just for fun this holiday season!! Let's get started!

 

Supplies needed:

  Orange and green Loom Bands
  One plastic or regular crochet hook
  One S or C clip
  
Directions:

1. Twist a band into a figure 8 onto the back end of your hook. This will be your working end until you slide and turn. It's ok if you don't have a double ended crochet hook! It will work!! 

2. With the exception of the foundation band, use two bands as one for every step throughout.  For band one, only pull through two loops. Also, two double loops counts as one loop. All following motifs pull through one. (A small and big pumpkin counts as one motif.)

3. Pull through one (orange) band on hook
4. Pull through one (green) band on hook)
5. Slide and turn so that you are using the working end of your hook.
6. Pull through one (orange) band on hook.
7. Pull through one (green) band on hook.

8. Pull through all six bands on your hook. Band on hook. Then bind off.

9. Here is what your first small pumpkin should look like!
10. Now let's add the bigger pumpkin to it!!
 
Note: Also, don't forget to use two bands as one for the following steps, and count the doubled loops as one loop!! 

11. Pull through one (orange) band on hook
12. Pull through one (orange) band on hook
13. Pull through one (green) band on hook

14. Slide and turn
15. Pull through one (orange) band on hook
16. Pull through one (orange) band on hook
17. Pull through one (green band on hook

18. Pull through all 8 bands on hook (orange) band off hook 

19. Bind off
20. Now continue adding small and big pumpkins until you have reached the desired length of your bracelet!

21.Your bracelet is now complete!!
 
For even more cool off the loom projects check out the new Hooked On Rubber Band Jewelry Book at your local Craft Warehouse!!
 

Craft Warehouse Design Team Member Danielle Wallace

Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight feature article where we introduce to you another Craft Warehouse Design Team Member. Danielle Wallace is one of our active followers on Facebook and Instagram! That's how we met and got to know Danielle! She loves scrapbooking, crafting, music, and rubber band bracelet making! We love all her designs on her Instagram feed!

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Another bracelet I made for Breast Cancer Awareness. This design I created!! What should I call it? #rainbowloom #RLoom4aCause #BreastCancerAwareness

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We love her creating one for Breast Cancer Awareness month!

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My first bracelet with beads!! #beadladderbracelet #rubberbandbracelet #craftwarehouse

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Danielle says, "I have always enjoyed arts and crafts! I started scrapbooking about 15 years ago. My Mom inspired me to start scrapbooking! Also by looking at pictures on Instagram and ideas on Pinterest, it has inspired me in crafting!! Watching videos on YouTube gives me great ideas too!! Also my favorite singers inspire me when creating!!"

Make sure to join us tomorrow for Loom Band Wednesday where Danielle will share a Halloween no-loom bracelet with us!  

Do you love scrapbooking, card making, stamping, jewelry making, paper crafts, quilting, or fiber arts? We would love to invite you to submit photos of an original project, telling us something about it. If your project is picked, you and your artwork could be featured on the Craft Warehouse blog for our Designer Spotlight column! Email your entries to jenevans at craftwarehouse dot com!

Let It Go Rubber Band Bracelet

We are back for Loom Band Wednesday and our last "Frozen" inspired rubber band bracelet in our series! If you have missed the other two, click this link to check them out!

This cuff style bracelet is cute with just regular pony beads, but we love what Brietta did at our Salem Craft Warehouse store! She added alphabet beads to customize it into a "Let It Go" bracelet!

Supplies:

Turquoise and Purple Loom Bands
White Pony Beads
Alphabet Beads
Snowflake Charm
C or S Clip
Jump Ring
Ranger's Stickles Glitter Glue

Directions:

1. Use the glitter glue to color in your charm. Set aside to dry while you are creating your bracelet.

2. Create a Double Bead Ladder Bracelet. Watch this video to see how.

3. Before you start creating your bracelet, layout your beads in the order they go. Make sure to have all your alphabet beads facing the correct direction on the table so you know how to place them on the loom.

4. When you are finished with your design, place your charm on the jump ring and add it to the middle of your bracelet!

A big thank you to Brietta for all of her Frozen inspired bracelets! Happy looming and we will see you next week with another rubber band bracelet design!

Frozen Inspired Snowflake Rubber Band Bracelet

Last week I shared a new Frozen inspired rubber band bracelet that I loved by our "rubber band bracelet guru', Brietta, from our Salem Craft Warehouse store! Today, she has given me another and I have to say this one is my favorite by far!

I love how she adds beads around the snowflake charm. Each snowflake sits into the design of the bracelet almost looking like it is a part of the whole loom process but it isn't! All you need to do is create a the bracelet and add the charms and beads afterwards!

Supplies:

Loom Bands (Light blue, Blue, and White)
Loom
3 Snowflake Charms
Strand of Crystals (in the color of your choice, this one is done with white)
Clear Elasticity Beadalon Elastic Beading Thread
Needle

Directions: 

1. Create a "Flower Power" rubber band bracelet.

2. Thread your beads on to the Elasticity thread making sure there is a knot at the end of your thread. Place the other end on a needle.

3. Place charm in place on bracelet. Do steps 4-5 for each charm.

4.. Holding the charm in place, start using the needle to help you weave the beads in and out of the motif on the bracelet. Make sure to use the needle to weave the beads around the charm so that it will stay in place.

5. Knot the thread several times when finished in the back. A great tip to keep that knot in place is by putting a bit of clear nail polish on it to seal. When dry, cut the threads ends.

Join us next week with our last "Frozen" inspired rubber band bracelet! 

Frozen Snowflake Icicle Rubber Band Bracelet

I was in our Salem Craft Warehouse store when I saw the new Frozen Inspired Rubber Band Bracelets and I had to share some of them! I thought a great one to start off with is this beautiful Snowflake and Icicle one! 

Supplies:

Rubber Band Bracelet of your choice
Strand of Crystals (in the color of your choice, this one is done with white)
5 Snow Flake Charms
Jump Rings
5 Beadalon Head Pins
Ranger Ink Stickles Glitter Glue 
(Use the following with parent supervision)
Round Nose Pliers
Wire Cutters


 Directions:

1. Create the bracelet of your choice.

2. Color your charms in with the glitter glue and set aside to dry for several hours.

3. Thread five beads on a Head Pin. Use your pliers to cut and then close the wire to make a head pin loop. (see video below).

4. Add jump rings to all charms and head pin loops and hang from your bracelet! 

Design created by Brietta in our Salem store
 

Join me next week with another Frozen Inspired Rubber Band Bracelet on Loom Band Wednesday!

* Loom Bands 3 for $5 (regular $2.99) on sale until September 21st, 2014

Frozen Inspired Rubber Band Bracelet

 

I am so excited to introduce to you a new no-loom rubber band bracelet book to you, now in Craft Warehouse stores! I have been making bracelets with this book for two months now, just waiting for it to arrive in stores and you are going to LOVE it! 

Not only are the projects perfect for beginners, but you can customize every pattern and even advanced bracelet makers can have a good time!
I used one of the patterns in the book to create a Frozen inspired bracelet using our snowflake  charms!

I love this book! There are few tips and tricks I wanted to share with you before you grab it and head home to start making bracelets.

1. You do not need a loom! Two loom hooks are perfect to get started. One to work on and the other to use to slip stitches off and on again when needed. I love a long crochet hook so I can get more stitches on my hook, but it isn't necessary.

2. Grab some Locking Stitch Markers! These little hooks help hold each motif and design in place while you start another. It saved me so many unraveled bracelets! I love using them!

3. Switch your working end! The patterns in this book use double sided crochet hooks. I chose to just use my own single hook. It works just fine until I want to finish a motif or design and I have to remove 10 bands from a non hooked working end. No problem! Just switch the hook around and remove the motif just the same!

This Frozen inspired bracelet is using the "Full Shell" pattern on page 32. Here is how I created it.

Supplies:

Purple - 10 Bands (for each motif design)
Blue - 10 Bands (for each motif design)
1 Hook
C or S hook
4 Jump Rings
4 Snowflake Charms
Crystal Stickles Glitter Glue
Locking Stitch Markers
Hooked on Rubber Band Jewelry Book

Directions:

1. Follow the directions on page 32 to create your first motif in blue.

2. Place a locking stitch marker in the two bands left on the hook. Snap closed. Leave the bands on the hook to begin again using purple bands.

3. Continue your pattern until the bracelet fits your wrist. Attache a C or S clip at the end.

4. Use Stickles Glitter Glue on the snowflake charms. Crystal looks greenish when applied but it actually dries crystal white.

5. Let the glitter dry for a couple of hours. Then flip the charm and do the backside too.

6. When dry, hang the charms from your bracelet with jump rings!

* Loom Bands 3 for $5 (reg $2.99) and entire stock of Value Packaged Findings and Charms Buy one, get one free until September 21st, 2014

Loom Band Storage

Let me introduce you to a new way to store your loom bands! This 12x12 storage container is originally for scrapbooking supplies because it fits paper and other supplies perfectly. Then, when adding the 12x12 insert, you get the perfect storage solution for rubber band bracelet making! It is hard to find a container that fits both bands, hooks, and your loom! Look no further! Here it is!

I love that the large slot can hold my loom and then other spots are perfect for buttons, hooks, bands, and even my EZ Looper!

If you make sure to snap the lid closed all the way, the bands stay perfectly in place even with the container sitting upside down.

I hope this storage solution is perfect for those wanting to take their supplies on a trip or just wanting a better way to keep organized! 

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Glitter Crystal Rubber Band Bracelet

I was in our Salem Craft Warehouse store when I saw this rubber band bracelet and fell in love with the crystals and had to find out how it was done!

Supplies:

Rubber Band Bracelet of your choice
Strand of Crystals (in the color of your choice, this one is done with silver)
Beadalon Elasticity .05mm String
Jump Rings

 Directions:

1. Create the bracelet of your choice.

2. When finished, knot Elasticity thread to a jump ring. Thread five crystals on the Elasticity thread.

3. Attach the jump ring to the end of the bracelet. Then thread the string through your bracelet and have the crystals sit on the front of your design. 

4. Begin weaving the thread again through the back and to the front. Place five more crystals on the thread and weave the end to the back again.

 Design created by Brietta in our Salem store

5. Continue weaving and adding crystals to the bracelet until you reach the end. Knot the end of the thread to another jump ring. Add jewelry glue to the knot to keep it in place. Trim the excess of the thread.

Wear and enjoy!