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.
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Kakhi Swarovski® bicone 5301 crystal beads and frosted cranberry Czech Republic glass beads.
How to's for the earrings:
This earring design uses endless gold hoops as shown below.
Using eye pin ended head pins, I make up the two dangles for each earring and with needle nose pliers I added the eye pin shape to the top end of each headpin.
Slide this eye pin ended headpin dangles and the gold plated fancy shape spacer beads onto the hoop. End with the link chain being the last piece onto the hoop.
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When you are ready to close the hoop:
Carefully insertion the hoop's wire piece into the hollow hoop wire. I gently pushed (I used my fingers) to close the hoop.
If you need to reopen the hoop do so gently, just enough to pull the insertion wire out of the hollow hoop wire. You do not want to mess up the round circle shape of the hoop.
Remember to take into account the gauge of the hoop wire and the hole size of items you are going to slip onto the hoop.
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Overall length just under 2.25 inches excluding the fishhook earwires
Material list for the Czech Republic and Swarovski® earrings:
1- gold plated chain of 4 links, links about 1.3mm in length
1- 20mm gold filled hoops
3- 6mm gold plated corrugated round beads, used on the hoop
1- gold plated fishhook earwire
For the dangle with the 6mm Kakhi Swarovski® bicone 5301 crystal bead:
1 - 1.5 inch long (.028' thickness) gold plated eye head pin
1- 6mm Kakhi Swarovski® bicone 5301 crystal bead
3- 4mm gold plated corrugated round beads
2- 4mm gold plated corrugated double cone beads
For the dangle with the two 6mm frosted cranberry Czech Republic glass bead:
1 - 1.5 inch long (.028' thickness) gold plated eye head pin
2- 6mm frosted cranberry Czech Republic glass bead
1- 4mm gold plated corrugated round beads
3- 3mm gold plated spacer beads
Click to view what tools were used.
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