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Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com
Today I wanna show you how to make the Lucite Lily
earrings which is an exclusive kit from beadaholique.com
and I've got four different color variations here. I want to show you them
against white paper
because it might be a little easier to see their true colors. I've got this
purple one,
pink, white,
and blue and these are really easy to make
and when you buy the kit you get all the ingredients to make a pair of these
Lucite Lily earrings. So speaking of the kit
this here is what you're going to receive
you're going to receive your head pins which have a little pretty ball at the
end
earring hooks, two large beads
and two small beads, these beautiful green
lucite stems and these pretty lucite
calla lily flowers and I have pink ones here. I'm doing the pink kit but
if you have a different color you'll have a different color of the flower
and you'll have a different color of the large bead. In terms of the tools that you're
going to need
is a pair of round nose pliers, chain nose pliers
and a pair of cutters. I'm going to show you how to make an
earring here. We're gonna start by taking
your head pin and placing on the large beads
onto it and sliding it down to the base. Then we're going to take a smaller bead
put it on top of the large bead and then
add a lily and see what happens by putting that extra bead in there
it makes it so that the larger bead hangs down a little bit further and you
can see it
come out from that pretty tapered shape of the lily. Now we're gonna add our green
stem
and you don't want this to go like that, I mean you could
but I think it looks nice if you have both of the arched openings
facing in the same directions so it fits right on top of it
and now we're going to create a simple wire loop
I want you to be cautious when you do this because
you are working with lucite which is a little bit fragile
so just be a little aware of that. We're going to create a
wrapped wire loop. I'm going to take my chain nose and I could of just bent it down with my
fingers
or you can bend it down the chain nose pliers. I just gripped it up at the top,
bent the wire over to a 90 degree angle
I'll take my round nose pliers
grip in that crease, wrap the wire
up and around, rotate my pliers
bring it full circle
we've got a loop
now I want to go ahead and grab that loop with your chain nose pliers
make sure your lucite didn't slide
it might slide a little bit in this process and then take
that wire and loop it around several times depending on how big of an arch
you made when you first started with that ninety degree arc with the chain nose pliers
It's going to determine how many loops you can make
so I'm almost there. I'll do one more but I can see that my
lucite is slipping a little. Before I go any further
position that how I want it and make
my last loop like so
dairy cow
point that little piece of wire away from you
point that's little kiss a wire away from you
anytime that you do use wire and you're cutting it
and I'm just taking my chain nose plier and I'm pressing that end
into my wrappings, there we go
so we've got that wrapped wire loop and now we're going to go ahead and attach our
earring hook
to do that we're going to open the earring hook
the same way we would open a jump ring, slip on
our wrapped wire loop, close it backup
we have a lovely earring
and it was just that easy. You just then repeat the same steps
with your other pieces in your kit and you would have a matched pair
of lucite earrings again. This is an exclusive kit from beadaholique.com
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