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.

Gold plated dangle earrings with 8mm Amethyst Swarovski crystal beads using silver plated bell shape bead cap

Gold plated dangle earrings with 8mm Amethyst Swarovski crystal beads using gold plated bell shape bead cap.

The numerous faceted sides of a 8mm Amethyst Swarovski® crystal bead nicely catches the light.

The gold plated bell shape bead caps and link chain for these earrings came from gold plated dangles similiar to the silver plated dangles ones shown below.

Silver plated bell shaped capped dangles

Silver plated bell shaped capped dangles

As you can see in the photo, I cut off and discarded the top eyepin of the dangle thereby releasing the silver plated bell shape bead cap from the link chains.

Overall length of these dangle earrings, excluding the ear wire: 2.25 inches.

Material list for each gold plated earring:

2- 1.5 inch long gold plated flat head pin

2- 8mm round 5000 Amethyst Swarovski® crystal

2- Gold plated bell shape bead caps

1 - gold plated earring dangle of chain links

1 - gold plated earwire

Click to view large photos of each color of the mentioned Swarovski® crystal.

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