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.

Silver plated dangle earrings with blue glass beads.

I purchased these beads at a craft store. One set of glass beads are clear with a blue streak. The other glass beads have more blue within them.

Earring is made using a 6 inch silver plated flathead pin bend to form the shape of the earring.

Once the beads are placed on the headpin I formed a eye loop at the open end of the head pin.

I bent the head pin around a pencil to form the upper "U" of the dangle. Note I placed a short length of small link chain where I would form the "U".

The free end of the link chain is placed within the eye of the leverback earring.

Overall length of these dangle earrings excluding the ear wire: 2.75 inches.

Material list for each earring:

1 - 6 inch long (.028' thickness) silver plated flat head pin

2 - glass beads with a good bit of blue within them, beads are about 3/4 inch in length

1 - glass beads with a steak of blue within them, beads are about 3/4 inch in length

3 - 6mm White Alabaster Swarovski bicone 5301 crystal bead. I usually use the color White Alabaster as one of my Swarovski® crytal when I want a soft white bead within my design.

1 - 6mm Lavendar Swarovski bicone 5301 crystal bead

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