Hi there.
Sandy here.
Welcome to another jewelry making video at my YouTube channel and my blog, KeepsakeCrafts.net.
Today I'm going to show you how to make these really pretty springtime earrings using pearls
and Swarovski crystals.
So for a complete list of all the materials you'll need and links to some of the products,
just check out the description box below for a link to the blog post or you can click on
the link up here.
So you can see I've gone ahead and made one of the earrings already.
It's really pretty and dangly.
We've got a bunch of Swarovskis and some pearls and today I'm going to use nylon monofilament
to make my little loop for the pearls, but you could use a light weight bead stringing
wire.
So to get started we're just going to string 13 of these little pearls onto our monofilament.
So once you've strung your pearls onto your stringing medium, go ahead and trim it off,
leaving maybe 2" tails on each end.
You want to give yourself plenty to hold onto and then you're going to slide both of those
tails into a crimp.
Now once both tails are through a crimp you're going to add a bit of chain.
You only need a couple links.
These links are 5mmx3mm.
It's a good idea to have soldered chain here.
Just leave the whole length on and cut off the extra later.
It's a whole lot easier than trying to handle just two little links of chain.
So you're going to put both of your wires through an end link of chain and then those
are going to go back through the crimp.
Once you have them through, just pull it up not too snug and then this is a case where
actually using crimping pliers doesn't work so well so just use a pair of chain nose pliers.
Give that a good squeeze and always test, make sure that's nice and strong before you
trim off those tails.
So there's our little loop of beads.
And next you're going to make some bead dangles with your crystals.
Now you can use either little head pins with balls on the ends or you can use a plain head
pin and then add a small bead.
So I'm going to use a combination.
I have six 6mm Swarovski crystal bicones and six 4mm Swarovski crystal bicones and I'm
going to make them all into bead dangles and the way you do that is you trim your wire
to about 3/8" beyond the bead and then grab that wire with round nose pliers and just
roll it down and then if you need to, grab the other side, bend it back so that the loop
is centered over the bead and repeat so you'll have six 6mm beads as bead dangles and six
4mm.
So now that you have your dangles made you can go ahead and start attaching them to the
chain.
I'm going to put three dangles on each side of each link of chain because these are long
5mm chain links I can fit that many, but if you need to, if you have like round chain
that's smaller then perhaps you'll need to adjust your spacing.
So you just have the open loop of your dangle and then you hook it over the chain and then
use chain nose pliers to close it up.
So there I just wanted you to see a little bit more clearly.
So there's three crystals on each side of the link, six in total on the one link and
then you're going to repeat to add your six smaller crystals to the remaining link and
you can see how helpful it is to have this longer length of chain to hold onto while
you're working.
So there I've added all of my crystals and now I just need to add the ear wire.
So open the loop for your ear wire and attach it to that loop that you added all of the
4mm crystals to and notice I haven't cut off my extra chain here.
It's just so much easier to manage it this way.
Close that loop securely and now you can use your pliers to cut the link of chain that's
after the one that you just used.
And there you have it.
Here's another look at the project we made today.
It's a really pretty spring time pair of earrings although it's easily customizable to any colors
and style you like.
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