Hi there.
Sandy here.
Welcome to another jewelry making video at my YouTube channel and my blog.
Today we're going to be making these cute earrings using Olive Jade teardrops and some
half tila beads.
So if you haven't heard of tila beads, I did a video on those a while back and they're
little square beads with two holes.
They're made by the Miyuki Company and they're very popular in jewelry making.
These are half tilas.
They're about 5mm across and this is the color Green Iris and we're going to take advantage
of their two hole nature to make a really cool pair of earrings.
So I have here just a 6" piece of bead stringing wire and I'm just going to put my teardrop
that's top drilled right in the middle and then I'm going to put some seed beads, three
works for this size bead on each side of my teardrop.
And if you tend to be fumbly, fumble fingered like I am, these little bead buds are wonderful
things.
Three beads on the other side as well and those just make nice spacers on either side
of your teardrop.
Next we're going to take one of our half tila beads and you can see it has the two holes
and one wire goes through each hole and then one seed bead goes onto each wire.
Now of course you can change up this design to suit anything you like.
You could stack the half tilas.
You could use full tila beads.
You could do more than one seed bead in between.
Whatever looks good for you.
And then I'm just going to repeat that pattern adding a half tila and a seed bead on each
wire until I have four half tilas and then I'm going to finish out with another three
seed beads at the end.
And here it is with all the bead stringing done and now you're just going to put two
crimp beads on one of the wires and these will show in your design so make them a color
that works.
And then you're going to send the other wire back through those crimps in the other direction.
Now make sure everything is pushed down as snug as you would like in your earring.
You can just kind of pull down on these wires, but then back it off a little bit and leave
some space because right in between those two crimps after you flatten them is where
you're going to put your ear wire so you need a little bit of space.
Unfortunately because of the way I designed this, my One Step Crimper isn't going to get
in there.
So unless you leave a big loop there, you'll have to use crimping tools and just use your
crimping pliers and just crimp those two beads.
And once you've done that, this is what you'll have and all that's left to do is trim off
that excess wire and get it nice and close so nothing shows and then open the loop of
an ear wire and attach it right in between those two flattened crimps.
And there you have it.
For the links to the tools and the materials used in this project, click here to go to
the accompanying blog post.
Here's another look at the project we made today.
It's a really different use of materials and kind of fun to experiment with different shapes
of beads.
If you have an idea you'd like me to try, please be sure to share it in the comments
below and I'll see what I can do.
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