Making A Jeweled Frame

Video Transcript

"This is John Mendez with Expert Village and I am working on a jeweled frame. I have already started part of it here on the corner and you can use all size beads. I try to stay no larger than about eight millimeters and anywhere down to about one millimeter. When you do larger pieces I recommend just doing them on the corners like this as a effect but you don't want to use large ones on the whole frame because then you will start using larger and larger beads and it will just get really really big and too bulky. So you want to stay in the four, five, six millimeter category. I am going to go ahead and take my hot glue gun, which is a high and low temperature glue gun. We are using the high temperature because you can manipulate the small beads that come out really good. You can just squeeze it out and dab and do a little twist and that is just about enough to hold one bead. And enough to hold it long enough so that you can put your enamel on between and let that cure, so this is a good size piece of glue to use for all of your beading on the frame. I am going to go ahead and dab that on there, a little shaky, and you don't have to put your beads on perfectly, you can put them on at an angle so that you can get some depth. And make sure when you do put it on, if you do raise it up off there a little bit. You are going to have like little valleys in there and that is what you really want so that you can get the enamel in there. That is what is going to hold all those beads together on to this frame. And there we have our starting for our frame. "