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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Siam Red Heart Swarovski® 18x17mm pendant with gold accent earrings.
These are easy to make earrings. No tools needed. Just slip your Swarovski® and beads onto the 20mm gold filled hoops. Quick to make, great as gifts.
Enjoying the sparkling beauty of Swarovski® crystals, I was delighted to find a nice color and style selection of 10mm to 18mm Swarovski® crystal heart pendants on the firemountaingems.com and eBay websites.
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The hole of this Swarovski® pendant was too small for the gauge of the main part of the hoop. The more slender gauge of the insertion part of the hoop fitted easily into the hole of the pendant. I found my long jewelry tweezers to be helpful in holding the hoop as I worked on this project.
How to's for the earrings:
For the earrings, I slide everything onto the hoop, with the Swarovski® pendant being the last piece onto the hoop.
With the pendant on the thin, insertion part of the hoop I align the hoop's insertion piece into the hollow hoop wire. I gently pushed (I used my fingers) to close the hoop.
The Swarovski® heart pendant hangs off the insertion wire that closes the hoop. Because the hole of the crystal pendant is smaller than the hollow wire of the hoop, the pendant stays centered at the bottom of 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.
Material list per earring:
Overall length just under 1.5 inches excluding the fishhook earwires
20mm gold filled hoops
6mm gold plated corrugated double cone beads
6mm gold plated corrugated round beads
gold plated fishhook earrings
17x18mm heart shaped Swarovski® crystal pendant
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