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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Silver plated dangle earrings with 8mm Erinite Swarovski® crystal beads using silver plated filigree bead caps.
The numerous faceted sides of the 8mm Erinite Swarovski® crystal bead nicely catches the light adding a touch of sparkle.
This earring design uses two
silver plated filigree bead caps for each of the 8mm Swarovski® crystal bead. Top view of the silver plated filigree bead cap is shown as insert within photo of the earring.
I wanted a bit more silver accent so for this design so I placed a 3mm silver plated corrugated double cone bead above the top filigree bead cap of each bead. The top right
insert on the photo shows the corrugated double cone beads.
Earrings are made using purchased dangles that are about 1.5 inches long. Photo below shows the dangles as purchased.
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Overall length of these dangle earrings, excluding the ear wire: 2.25 inches.
Material list for each silver plated earring:
2- 1.5 inch sterling silver ball ended head pin
2- 8mm round 5000 Erinite Swarovski® crystal bead
1- silver plated earring dangle of chain links, snipping several of the link chains shorter than the longest one.
4- 9x3mm silver plated filigree bead caps to fit a size 8mm bead
1- silver plated earwire. The dangle for this design is placed directly within the eye loop of the earwire. I did this by carefully opening the eye loop of the earwire and inserting
the eye loop of the dangle. Then carefully using a flat faced plier to then closed the earwire's eye loop.
2- 3mm silver plated corrugated double cone beads
Click to view large photos of each color of the mentioned Swarovski® crystal.
Click to view what tools were used.
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