Hi! This Megan with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you
how to make the Desi Earrings
and we're going to be doing this particular color which is
the gold
Desi Bridal earring
you can use any color
of rhinestone cup chain
pearl cup chain and
crystal chatons
that you want to combine
I have here a couple other examples, this is
the Desi earring in turquoise and I have the turquoise cup chain
pearl cup chain and a turquoise chatons
here I have it in rose
and then
I also made some ring combinations and this is with jet and turquoise
so
I'm using Nunn Design bezels for these specific projects
this is a Nunn
Design bezel earring, this is a Nunn Design bezel ring
and this is a twenty millimeter
bezel, so the inside is
a little under eighteen millimeters
so if you're going to use a different bezel you might need to experiment
a little bit with
the sizes of the cup chain that you use and the size of the chaton that you use in
order to make it fit
for this size
I'm using
for the outer ring
here
a 24pp
rhinestone cup chain
which has three millimeter stones inside the settings
for my second row
I'm using a 18pp
pearl cup chain that has a two millimeter pearl inside the settings
and than I'm using an ss29 chaton
which is 6.23 millimeters
and I've got the antique gold earring setting
and then I've got the brass and crystal
larger cup chain and the brass and white pearl
smaller cup chain. If you want to do them the way I've done them here I've matched the
chaton to the larger outer layer of the cup chain
find colors that match, you could also use
colors that you just think look pretty together
without being the same color, you can
play around with the combinations and
do it however you like. One thing to keep in mind is when you
are using cup chain
it can contract in
and expand out
I think it looks really nice when you take the time to remove the extra space
so that you get more crystals per inch
I happen to know
that I need thirteen
crystal links
to fit inside this bezel
to find that out
put it inside
and then see where it meets up with them all pushed together
it's going to be right there
if you're using a different size you can experiment around
and play and see what fits
go ahead and
make sure that fits
just like that
and then I'm going to
do the same thing with my
my inner layer pearl cup chain
it can be a little tricky to get it to lay with the
pearl side up. It wants to turn
get it started
lay that in
see how long you need it, for this we're going to use nine links
I'm just going to verify that that's going to fit
sometimes these chains
bend easier one way than the other or you'll get a certain segment
doesn't want to bend right
it's little fidgety but you can usually find a way that
makes it work
and then you can see that we have just about a perfect amount of space
for the chaton in the middle
now we're gonna glue this in
using E6000 glue
I have just a post-it notepad here as scratch paper
clean off the tip
and then just apply a layer of glue
to the bottom of the bezel
going all the way to the outside
clean off the edges if it gets on the edges
just
set
the outer layer
of the chain
into the glue
scoot it around a little bit
get it in place
if you need to use tweezers to adjust the
crystals and make sure that they sit right
it's a ready handy tool
a fine tip jewelry tweezer
and then
while that glue is still wet, just
lay
the center cup chain
right inside the first row
just like that
and now I'm using
a chaton
with a pointed back instead of a flat back because I need the height that the
point is going to give us
so it is a little tricky to get this point back
stone to sit flat here
to make it work
is I used a lot of glue
that's my big magic trick
fill
the space
you want
give it a decent amount of glue. You don't want it to overflow but you do
want it
to have a decent amount of glue across the whole bottom right there
don't go over the edge of that
in a piece of cup chain but you can go up to about where the metal setting ends
carefully place the chaton right into the center
and you're going to want to really carefully
try to center it and make it flat and look at it from the edge
and see if it's tilted one way or another and keep rotating to make sure
that it's laying flat, it looks like
I got really lucky that time and it laid flat right away
set it
on the edge of the notepad or if you have
a couple of
seed bead tubes or something laying around that you can
sit in between
anything to kinda keep it flat and
what I did too is
I let it sit for a few minutes when I did these and then I went back and
checked before it was fully set up
to make sure that it hadn't shifted
keep your eye on it
until it's
firmly set up so that it doesn't move around
so it's actually a really quick and easy project
with a really high impact
these are beautiful with a vintage look
I want to make them in twenty colors and wear them all so
it's a really fun easy way to make
really pretty jewelry. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!