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Design by Dwyn Tomlinson
Lots of people want to know just how to use these perforated screen findings - and they are so easy to use - that once you see how it's done, you won't be able to stop!
Component list.
| 1 | Perforated Screen Findings - 28 mm Domed Disk with Pin Back - Silvertone (1) |
| You will use approximately 4 feet or so. | Artistic Wire - 28 gauge Round Wire - Non-Tarnish Silver Plate (Spool) - or similar light-weigh wire in a colour to coordinate with the backing. 28 or 30 gauge is good. |
| Handful of assorted beads. |
I used:
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| 3 | Semiprecious Stone - 20 mm Six Petal Stoneflower - Dark Turquoise (Recon) (1) |
| 2 | Glass Flowers - 20 mm Bigger Saucer Flower - Dark Aqua (1) |
| 3 | Commercial Lampwork - Simple Leaf - Greens (1) |
| 2 | Commercial Lampwork - Simple Leaf - Aqua Blues (1) |
| 1 | Glass - Liddle Ladybug Beads - Opaque Red (1) |
| 6 | Sour Apple Squops (1) |
| 2 | Glass Flowers - 5 x 8 mm Button Flowers - Ghost Opal (1) |
| 6 | Glass Leaves - 7 x 12 mm Leaf - Ocean Voyage (1) |
| 4 from | Glass Leaves - 14 mm Flat Paisley (hole front to back) - Limon (10) |
| 3 from | Swarovski Bead - 4 mm Faceted Bicone (5301) - Capri Blue (25) |
Play with your beads and arrange them until you get a pleasing design, or at least a general idea of where you are going. We will be working from the lower layers to the top.
Separate the front of the screen from the back if you need. Cut about 12 inches of wire. More than this and you will get all tangled up. In a nutshell, we will be stitching the leaves on with wire and pretty much making it up as we go along.
Poke the wire through a hole, from the back, and out the front. Leave a 3 inch tail. Choose a hole that is most near where you want the bead on the front to be, so this would be any outer hole. Thread the wire through the bead, and back through the next hole. Twist the wire back with the tail.
Move to the next hole, and repeat with the long wire. Through the hole, add the bead, back through the next hole, twist back onto the long wire to keep it all under tension. 
Check your progress on the front.
Continue to add beads around the outside edge, twisting the long wire back with the short to keep tension on the wire. Don't overtwist - just 2-3 turns will do. The back will look a little messy as you work around the edges.
Add the focal flowers - as these have a single center hole, thread though a bead and back down through the bead and through the screen.
The next two flowers have a saucer flower underneath to make them stand out further from the composition.
| Make a spray of leaves with a lady bug on them. Start with the lady bug and a fresh piece of wire, about 6 inches. Thread Ms. Ladybug onto the wire, to the centre and fold the wire. Hold the wire in your right hand, and grasp the ladybug firmly in your left forefinger and thumb and twist 2-3 times. |  |
| The wire will twist at the ladybug bead. |  |
| Separate the ends of the wire and add a leaf on one wire, leaving a half inch of wire from the ladybug. |  |
| Fold the wire around the bead |  |
| Grasp the left in your left hand and twist. |  |
| Fold the leaf down by the lady bug and repeat with another leaf. |  |
| Add a button flower the same way |  |
| And another leaf. Then twist the two wires together for a ways. |  |
| Poke the spray of leaves in amongst the other leaves, and poke the two ends of the wire in through separate holes, and twist on the other side. |  |
| Make another spray of leaves and flower. |  |
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| Insert this spray of leaves too. |  |
| By now the "bouquet" should be looking nice and full. If there is a hole, add a leaf or flower. | |
Twist all the loose wires together on the back, and trim them - not too short.
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| Sit the back into position. Make sure it is oriented so that the pin back is the right way up, and that the prongs can all fold down without hanging up on a leaf. |  |
Fold down the prongs with a pair of pliers. et Voila! Wear and enjoy! By the way, using a flat back screen finding (instead of a pin back) and gluing it on a sturdy magnet will give you a great, fun, happy fridge magnet.
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Tools needed:
Tools - Cutters - Flush Cutters - (1) - for cutting wire
Tools - Pliers - Chain Nose Pliers - Foam Grip Handles - (1) - to close prongs.
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