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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm gonna show you a product I'm
really excited about. It's
these gemstone pendants and they are
just gorgeous. I actually wanna hold a couple so you can see their facets in the
light
and we've got a wide variety of stones. Right here I have a sampling. I have some
emerald sapphire, Chalcedony
some ruby and some Labradorite
you can see that they are Labradorite on both sides and there in a bezel setting
now the gold ones are Gold Vermeil and the silver are sterling silver
Really nice quality and I wanted to give you some ideas of what you can do
with these
and then just for fun I put in some of the Druzy gemstones as well
and these are beautiful as well, so they've got a flat back
and on their front they're a great Druzy
I've pulled some different things that are very inspiring or
I that I find inspiring and I wanna share them with you. So a wide variety
at earring hooks. If you're working with a gemstone like this you might want to
consider silver filled
or sterling silver or perhaps gold-filled
or Gold Vermeil as well. Just a nicer quality
finding to go with the really nice beautiful quality
of these gemstones. So you can see there's a wide variety. This is just a
few of the ones that we have at Beadaholique.com
and then I've chosen on this one to just simply take
a simple sleek gold-filled earring hook
and just put it onto the pendant
in this long oval-shaped here and that was a very easy to do
All I did was, I can show you real quick
I opened up that loop at the base
and then I just slid on
the pendant and in literally 10 seconds I had made
an earring. I did two of those and now they look like they belong at a boutique
and then another quick and easy project is you can take
just a finished chain. I have a sterling silver snake chain here
I added an sterling silver jump ring and I just hung this beautiful Labradorite
pendant from it. Those are quick and easy
and then here I have a link where I just put some little
pearls on a head pin, created a simple wire loop
and then attached them to the link. You can see this is what it looked like,
well a little smaller here but this is what it looked like before
and then it comes also in a Ruby and a couple other styles as well
and then the final thing I want to introduce you to before I actually make a
project with you which is going to be a necklace
is I wanna show you gemstone chain and pearl chain
which works so well with these gemstone pendants. So here
I just took a length of gemstone chain in the Chalcedony
and I chose the matching color for the actual
little pendant, cut a couple of inches
hung it from a earring hook. Super simple and now these are a great pair
dangling earrings and I want to show you I did the same
technique but with a non coordinating and a non little dangling chain, just a
straight gemstone chain
to create a different look but using the same stone and then I just chose a
different
earring as well. Again super quick, super easy and you can buy this stuff by the
inch so you only need to buy as much as you need. I just wanna show you a
variety here of the gemstone chain and the pearl chain
because this comes in a silver setting as well. You could of matched it with that
or you could have used a different color. You don't always have to make it all
match but you'll see it is very pretty together
and so we've got a wide variety. This just a few samples
you can see how pretty these do look together. So it's fun to play around with
that
and now I do wanna show you how to really easily put together
a necklace. So I cut myself 16 inches
of pearl chain. When you purchase something like this you might end up with
one loop that's intact
and one loop that's cut. So now you wanna make sure you have
two intact loops on each end. To do that we're simply going to
cut away that little last link
and I'd save that for another project. You could even make your little dangles with the
pearls if you wanted to
so now we're gonna complete our necklace by taking
a gold filled jump ring, opening it up
linking it onto that little loop and I've also got here a larger
closed jump ring
and close up my jump ring
I'm gonna go to the other side
to the same thing
attach the jump ring, my little clasp as well
Just like that you've actually created a finished necklace
and I'm going to add a pendant to it
so I'm going to find the middle point, here we go
take another jump ring, would help if I used my chain nose pliers
instead of my cutters, open up that jump ring
slip it on to my beautiful ruby pendant and slip it
right over the middle point
close it back up
and I have a very
elegant heirloom quality
finished necklace with a beautiful ruby hanging from
some lovely pearls that are already connected together and you can see it didn't
take me long
but it looks like it would of taken forever to make this. So that is just
one more idea of
what you can do with these lovely gemstone pendants.
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