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.

Painted pink glass and Swarovski® crystal bead dangle earrings.

These are easy to make earrings.

Slide the beads onto the flathead pin wire, then using needle nose pliers start to make the eyepin at the upper end of the flathead pin wire.

Be sure to place the soldered closed jump ring within the eyepin before fully closing the eyepin.

A flat head plier is used to carefully open the earwire for adding a dangle.

Normally this eyepin on the earwire is pre-cut for opening it and attaching a dangle.

show earwire and jumpring

Overall length of these dangle earrings excluding the earwires: 1.25 inches.

Material list for each earring:

1- 2.5 inch long (.028' thickness) gold plated flat head pin

1- painted pink glass bead is about 5/8 inch in length

2- 6mm Silk Swarovski bicone 5301 crystal bead

1- 4mm gold plated soldered closed jump ring (goes at upper end of the end to attach the dangle to the earwire)

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