Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to make the
Evening Waltz Earring and this comes as a completely kit from
Beadaholique.com
So here is an example, I already used half the kits to make this finished
earring
and what you'll need
to complete this earring in terms of tools is a pair of wire cutters
a round nose pliers
and a chain nose plier
and in the kit you'll have all the ingredients to make your complete
earring. Like I said I've already done one so I used half of the ingredients but you will
get
two stairway beads
you'll get four of these little bead caps from TierraCast
and two of these little beads which I have a great detail to them
and then you'll also get four Swarovski rondelles
for the findings there are earring hooks,
two eye pins and two head pins
so how do you go about making these earrings. It's actually quite simple, they go
together really quick
take your head pin
and placed onto it
this lovely detailed bead
and you're going to bend your wire
at about an forty five degree angle
take your round nose plier, grip them right at the bend
bend the wire over the top of the plier
then you're gonna rotate your pliers up to the top
grip it
and complete your bend
you just made a simple wire loop
and all you need to do now is trim your loop
take your cutters
and just cut
where the wire overlaps
take chain nose plier and straighten up your loop
if there's any gap
close the gap
take your eye pin
and place onto it
one rondelle
one bead cap facing up
your stairway bead
which fits in that bead cap really nicely
another bead cap
in the down direction
and another rondelle
pay attention to the orientation of the loop at the bottom, you want your loops to
always face the same way at least in this earring
again create a simple wire loop. Just kind of bend
that wire
at an angle
grip it with round nose pliers
bend the wire over the top
rotate your pliers, continue your bend
and use your cutters to snip it
now we're going to use our
chain nose to straighten up that loop
and see if they're both facing the same direction, if they're not what you can do
is you can take your round nose pliers
and twist
wire is very forgiving. If you do need to orient them properly don't worry
about it just
use your pliers to do so
so now we need to attach these two parts together and place our earring on the
top of this lovely column
we're just going to open our
simple loop
the same way we would open a jump ring so we're not going to pull it apart
we're going to want to push
open it
attach it to the loop at the base
now we just close it back up
for the earring do the same thing, open it
attach the earring hook
close it back up
and now you have a lovely new pair of earrings that you made yourself.
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