How to make DIY dangling earrings - jewellery making tutorial
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How to make DIY dangling earrings - jewellery making tutorial
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How to make DIY dangling earrings - jewellery making tutorial
Designed by: Mada Miotk
Difficulty: Beginner
This spectacular Free tutorial is made with a combination of Czech Firepolish beads and beautiful Surgical Steel Pendants & Chains. Aimed at beginners to jewellery making, it offers a good guide to the basics whilst giving you the inspiration and confidence to choose your own products and make some that are uniquely yours
Just remember that this tutorial is mainly for inspiration, so do not worry if you change some materials or colours - you will certainly create many amazing compositions simply by improvising :)
Materials needed to make earrings;
- Stud earrings with a hole.
- Cable Chain made of surgical steel - size 2.5 x 2mm.
- Stainless steel pendant - circle with moon 12mm.
- Surgical steel pendant - circle with 12mm star.
- 4mm Firepolish crystals in Transparent / Dark Cobalt
- 4mm Firepolish crystals in Transparent / Tanzanite
- 4mm Jump rings made of surgical steel
- Eyepins in size 30mm.
- Headpins in size 30mm.
NOTE: We have used alternative stud earrings as to the illustrated picture in the products used list above. Finished result may not look identical to the image shown.
Step 1
We will start by threading three Firepolish beads on an eyepin - one dark cobalt transparent, one tanzanite transparent and one more dark cobalt transparent.
Step 2
We bend the pin at an angle of 90 degrees and cut at a distance of about 1cm from the bend.
Step 3
We create another eye/loop with the resulting piece of wire.
Step 4
We now prepare the beads for the second earring.
Step 5
Attach one jump ring to the hole on our stud earring, and an eyepin with FP crystals to the ring.
Step 6
Attach a 4cm chain to the pin and use the jump ring to attach the pendant with the moon.
Step 7
Attach the second chain in the same way - this should be about 3 cm long.
Step 8
At the end of the chain we mount a pendant with an star.
Step 9
Thread one cobalt crystal FP onto the headpin and make an eye from the other side.
Step 10
Suspend the crystal on the third chain - it will be about 3.5 cm long.
Step 11
In the same way we make the second earring.
Step 12
This is what your finished earrings should look like! Are you happy with them? We would love to see your version on our Facebook group!
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