Earrings, bracelets, necklaces ... I love to make them all. Swarovski crystal beads bring sparkling colors and visual texture to my jewelry designs. Czech Republic glass beads offer rich deep colors, with individual 2-tone Czech beads often possessing unique color shading within the clear glass of the bead. For warm colors, I like to make bracelets from the natural beauty of obsidian and jasper beads.

Swarovski heart crystal bead earrings.

I made these earrings to show how flipping a Victorian style chandelier earring drop such as these look. I actually like the right one better with the heavier part of the chandelier towards the top. I remade the left earring to match the right one.

These heart shaped Swarovski crystal beads are available in sizes 16-28mm and in several different color.

The ones I purchased are 18mm and Heliotrope color.

The gold plated chandelier piece by itself is 1.25 inches in length.

I put a short head pin through the heart bead, carefully bend the head pin up behind the heart bead and formed an eyepin.

I put and open jumpring through the eyepin and closed it.

Next I snipped the end of the chandelier drop and slipped the jumpring with the heart hanging from it into the snipped area of the chandelier end. Then gently closed the snipped area. If you enlarge this photo and look at the extreme end of the right chandelier you can see where I snipped it through.