Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you
how to make these earrings
which are from the Annabelle earring kit
so you can see here I have one completed
and I have
one set of the materials that will be required to make the second earring
I have
the larger
lucite flower
this smaller lucite flower
two head pins and an eye pin
a bead cap
two bicone beads and an earring hook
you need a pair of
chain nose pliers
round nose pliers and a pair of flush cutters
the first thing we're going to do is create the little dangles that come out of the
center of the flower
that's what you'll use your two head pins
go ahead and place
a crystal bicone bead onto the head pin
about an half inch up you're going to use
your
chain nose pliers
make a bend
in the head pin
take the round nose pliers and grab right above that bend
then you're going to pull the wire
above
rotate
and complete that loop
and then you're going to take your flush cutters
and trim
so that's one
we're going to do the same thing
again but on this one we're going to make this a little bit longer. So I'm
gonna make this one about three quarters of an inch instead of half an inch
go up a little bit further, bend
grab the wire again
wrap around
rotate
finish the loop
trim
I'm going to go in with my chain nose pliers
make sure that the loop is closed
all the way
I'm going to take the eye pin
and open the eye
hang both of the other loops from that eye pin
and close that back up
and place your smaller lucite flower onto the eye pin
followed by the larger one
and then place the bead cap on
when you place the bead cap on you'll see that it doesn't fit quite snug against the
flower
use your fingers to push the
sides of the bead cap down until they fit more snugly
now we're going to create a wrapped wire loop
right above the bead cap
take your
chain nose pliers
make sure that it's pulled up so that you're making sure that
your dangles here aren't
hanging lower than they should be
push the top of the eye pin of
about an forty five degree angle
use your round nose plier to grasp
just above
pull the top of the eye pin over
rotate your pliers
and pull the eye pin to complete that loop
grab the loop
and pull around
it's sometimes easier to grab with
pliers. You can just use the round nose
wrap from the top to the bottom
until your wire
hits the top of your bead cap
you want to try to trim this
right up against
where you have your rods
use the chain nose pliers to to tuck the little tail in so that's not scratchy
you can actually straighten out your loop with
those pliers
you want the tail part to be at the back so you can rotate
the eye pin if you need to
use the chain nose to open up
the bent on earring hook
you want to hang
your loop from
the earring hook and
then close it again
that how you make the Annabella earring
you would just repeat those steps with the rest of your materials to make your
second earring.
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