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Hi this is Becky Nunn from Nunn Design
I'm here at beadaholique.com's studio to make a fun pair of earrings
very similar to what you're seeing here but in silver
for this project you'll need a couple of bead caps
ear wire, a head pin
a chaton setting and a chaton
and some crystal clay. In the first step
we're gonna go ahead follow the manufacturer's instructions and mix
together
our crystal clay until it's fully mixed. You shouldn't have any kind of marbling
once the two clays are completely blended
you'll want to peel an inch off, a small amount of the clay
and roll it into a nice little ball
we're going to go ahead and put that ball
down into the base of the bead cap
taking a second bead cap and pressing it down
into there
then we're gonna take our head pin and poke it through
the bead cap
Often I am working with a pair wet wipes handy
so that I can wipe away any of the excess clay that will get onto the metals
or onto the head pin. Then with my
remaining bit of clay go ahead and pinch off another tiny small ball
Press that down
into the center of the bead cap. I'm using the back of
my toothpick with a little bit of bees wax, it comes inside the crystal clay
kit to press that clay down into the bead
cap creating like a little nest and that is where the
chaton is going to go. Picking up the
chaton with your
bees wax toothpick place it into the center
now you have a cute little dangle
It will take about two hours before you'll want to
bend or cut your head pin
So just go ahead and set that aside and let it dry and now you can go ahead
and assemble the chaton prong setting
you can take some of your crystal clay that you had leftover
and place it down inside of there to prevent it from sliding
or you can hold it
and using a pair of flat nose
needle nose pliers, start on one corner
oops that's why it's nice to have that
crystal clay in there, it might move around and press
slightly on one corner bending that edge down and turn it
and press down the opposite
corner
and turn it
now it's very set in there. You're going to bend down
this side and bend
down the final side
if you wanted to create a project where you only wanted to have one loop
you can use a pair of flush cutters to cut off
that second loop all the way to the edge. It's been
over two hours since we created this little guy
and we're ready to go ahead and trim off the access
of the head pin about half of an inch
will be left and trim it away
you can save that extra little piece if you'd like to make
another project using your remnants of the crystal clay
then using a pair needle nose
round pliers go ahead
and start to bend your wire
into a nice little loop, bring it down to the base
when you have a nice round loop, open it up slightly
and thread your prong setting
and close it up
then we're gonna go ahead and open up slightly
our ear wire, thread it down
and around closing it
and now you have a super fun
pair of earrings. In this part of the video
I'll refer to it as the Becky Nunn dog and pony show where
we're showing all kinds of other examples of how you can use the prong settings
in some cases mixing them up with crystal clay
here's where we're just using straight prong settings
and some of the Nunn Design beads along with interesting
jump rings. Here's it's matching bracelet
and these are just all linked together
with some small jump rings and finished off with a lobster clasp
simple simple. Here are some examples
like the previous one we did but instead of using
the crystal in the base, I just used a little daisy flower
at the bottom to create a fun little dangle
you can stack different kinds of
chaton colors or sizes to create looks like this
and in this sample I used bead caps
and chaton settings to create fun little accents
throughout the whole entire bracelet. This is Becky Nunn for beadaholique.com
and I hope you've been inspired to create some really fun projects.
Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!