To make each earring you'll need a carved rose bead in turquoise. This is 10 millimeters across
You'll need a crystal pave bead.
This is six millimeters and you'll need a raspberry bicone, four millimeters for the raspberry bicone. And
then you'll also need a teardrop crystal and this teardrop crystal is drilled from the top to the bottom
which means the hole for its down here at the bottom and that's important. And
this crystal teardrop is eight millimeters across and 12 millimeters tall. We also have some gold findings.
We've got a gold daisy spacer. That's four millimeters, a gold ring here,
And this is 12 millimeters, a gold earring wire and two gold head pins. For wire, we're going to use 24 gauge wire
that's in gold. And then for tools we have round-nose pliers and we have wire cutters.
Before we get started making the earring I want to show you one that's already made. This will be the match to the earring
we're gonna make and I just wanted to show you this so you could see sort of how it's constructed
and understand it while we're making it, what we're doing. We have a teardrop at the bottom the daisy spacer down here.
It's attached with wire work to the rose bead
here and
then we've got the loop with the raspberry bicone in the center
And then some more wire work up here connecting this pave to the earring wire
So I'm going to show you how to do that right now, and we're going to start with that
Teardrop, here's our teardrop bead and remember it's drilled from the top to the bottom
You don't want one that's drilled this way. That's a different way to connect it. We're going to connect this with a head pin
So we need it drilled from top to bottom and this one is going to have that cute little daisy spacer at the bottom
so we're gonna put that on first there's our daisy spacer and that just adds a little bit of
blingy design there at the bottom and
then we're gonna feed on the teardrop and now we're gonna make a
Loop at the top of this a little wrapped loop and to do that. We're going to use with the round nose pliers
I'm gonna pinch right above
the bead I've got the wire nice and tight in the bead and then I'm gonna bend the wire 90 degrees over the
round nose pliers
I'm going to move my pliers to the top of that bend and then I'm gonna
Push the wire over the top of the pliers to make a round shape
I can't go all the way around because the bottom jaw is in the way so I'm gonna put the bottom jaw in and
Then I'm gonna pull the wire the rest rest of the way around
There's our little loop and
then to secure that I'm going to hold the loop across with the round nose pliers, and then I'm gonna pull the tail of
the head pin around the neck there two times and
Then I can trim that little end off with my wire cutters
And the wire cutters are flat on one side and they're angled on the other
We want to use the flat side towards the work. So it'll make a flat cut in the wire and not a pointy cut
I'm gonna hold on to the tail while I cut that
So it doesn't fly off
and then get rid of that and there's our little dangle that will be at the bottom or teardrop dangle and
You can see that's that part of the earring and the next part will be our turquoise bead
for the turquoise bead what we want to do is make a little loop at the bottom and a loop at the top so it
Will fit into the earring. So we're going to use some wire for that. This is our 24 gauge wire when we bought it
We looked for this on the package where it says 24 gauge
So you'll want to look for that and I'm just going to cut a piece about 3 inches long to use for this
And what we're going to do is we're going to put a loop at each end of the wire and to do that
I'm going to grasp the wire the same way we did on top of the
teardrop, I'm gonna bend it 90 degrees and
Then I'm gonna reposition to the top of the bend just like we did before
I'm gonna go over the top of the pliers
reposition to the bottom pliers and pull that wire around and
Then we'll want to close it just like we did with the other one. But before we do we want to slide on our
Teardrop. This is how we're going to construct the earring. We're gonna connect these things together. And so I just need to slide it past
Where it criss crosses now that's on there now
I'm gonna make the same kind of wrapped loop that we did on top with the teardrop bead
So I'm going to take this tail and I'm going to pull it around
the neck two times and
Then I'm going to trim it the same way with the black side towards the project there
Hold on to the tail so it doesn't fly off and there's our bottom part of the earring
Matches this one and the next thing we want to do is add the turquoise bead
So we're going to feed on the turquoise bead. This is such a pretty carved bead and I love this turquoise color. It's gorgeous
So looking at our guide earring the one we already made I can see the loop is next. So I'm going to make a
wrapped loop that it grabs on to that ring and
To do that. This is the same technique do the same thing over and over I
Pinched the wire where it comes out of the bead and make a 90-degree Bend
repositioned at the top of the bend
Push the wire up and over the top jaw it suppliers
reposition to the bottom jaw and pull that around to make that loop
There's our loop and then before we close that loop we need to put the ring in there and
This ring is just cut from a chain. We bought a nice chain with big
gold links in it and
We've used it for a lot of projects and some of them we just cut the links off and use them as a ring
So there's our ring and now we need to wrap the bottom of that
To secure it the same way we did before
and a pinch across the loop that we made and then I'm going to pull that tail around two times and
Then trim with the wire cutters and be careful when you're reaching in there to trim that you don't cut through
The earring so there's our ring. This is actually very pretty and would make a nice earring just like that
you could just put the earring wire here and
That'd be real cute. But we're gonna add this little pave and bike home
So to add the bicone we're going to use the other head pin for that
I'm going to feed the head pin right through the bottom of the bicone and
I'm gonna make a little dangle out of this
This is just the same stuff. We've been doing I'm going to pinch it above the bead then 90 degrees
reposition to the top
Push the wire over the top with the chopped
round nose pliers
reposition
So I can pull the wire around
the bottom jaw to get that complete loop and
This one we can actually close
now
So it's just a dangle we will catch it and include it in the next piece of wire work
So it's just going to dangle from inside or ring
so there's the little dangle that's going to go inside that and this is our last speed that we're gonna add to the earring and
It goes here at the top and this is where there's a little piece of magic
we're going to
make a
Connector just like we did before and in that bottom loop when we finish that bottom loop
We're going to include the ring and the dangle in that bottom loop
So I'm going to show you how to do that right now. They cut a piece of wire
Again, about three or four inches the wires inexpensive, so don't worry about using more than you need. It's nice to have extra wire and
I'm going to make a loop in one end
So I grab it
Kind of a third of the way down, I'm gonna make a 90-degree Bend I'm gonna reposition so I'm at the top of that Bend
And I would push the wire over the top
so I'm just letting the round shape of the round nose pliers make the round shape of the loop and
I reposition to the bottom and finish
making that loop
So this is when we're going to add
The bicone and the ring to the earrings, so I'm going to slide the bicone
Into that loop and then I'm going to slide the ring
Into the loop and
you have to kind of feed it in where the wires crisscross a
Little bit. So I'm just gonna there it goes now. It's in there so you can see those hang together
By putting them in the same loop so now we're going to finish that
With a wrapped loop like we did before that's the loop. This is the wrap
I hold it across the loop and I pull that tail around two times
one and two and
Then cut the end
You'll get very good at making wrapped loops from making a pair of these earrings
Because you do it so many times
I'm gonna press this little end down
with my pliers
You have just a little end sticking up. I could also trim it a little closer than that
That's pretty good and
then next we're gonna feed on our
pave bead the pave bead is
Has rhinestones embedded in it. So that's why it's so glittery
Its rhinestones all the way around and it just adds a lot of bling to this. It's very pretty
So that's our last bead and we're gonna make a wrapped loop at the top of this bead
Just like all the others then pinch the wire above the bead
Make a 90-degree Bend
Reposition to the top of that bend push the wire up over the top jaw
Reposition to the bottom jaw and pull the wire around and then this one I can close off I
Can pull that tail around the neck two times reach under there?
one in two and
Then reach in there and trim the wire
So we're almost done here the last thing to do is
to
Put the earring onto the earring wire if your ring won't fit over the ball of your earring wire
you can always feed it on the back of your earring wire just a little tip and
Bring that on to the front
Now we just close that opening of the earring wire with the round nose pliers. I'm just pressing that closed and
That's the match to our other earring. Remember when you go to make these you'll want to
Buy two of everything so that you can have this pair of pretty
turquoise flower bead drop earrings.
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