Kaleidoscope Earrings
We are celebrating the arrival of spring
with these dainty chandelier earrings. With the lovely colors of the season
in each of the crystals, these earrings can be worn with almost any spring
outfit and will take you into the summer months, as well. Feel free
to use different colors of Czech crystals
if you don't like these.
Materials:
1 pkg. Kaleidoscope Crystals, 4mm (#16165)
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1 pkg. Kaleidoscope Crystals, 6mm (#16166)
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1 pkg. Kaleidoscope Crystals, 8mm (#16167)
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1 pkg. Silver Plated French Ear Wires (#50002)
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1 pkg. Silver Plated Jump Rings, 4mm (#50040)
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1 pkg. Silver Plated Thick Head Pins (#50584)
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1 pkg. 6 Silver Plated Thin Eye Pins (#50590)
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1 pkg. Silver Plated Chandelier Earrings (#50510)
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Directions:
Step 1: Onto
a head pin place an 8mm Crystal. Set aside.
Step 2: Onto
two head pins place a 6mm Crystal. Set aside.
Step 3: Onto
3 eye pins place a 4 mm Crystal.
Step 4: Using
a wire cutter, for each head pin and each eye pin, cut off the excess pin
leaving approximately 3/16" on each. Using flat nose pliers, bend the 3/16"
piece of wire 90°. Using a round nose pliers, bend the 3/16"
piece of wire into a loop, but do not close the loops tightly.
Step 5: Hook
the open loop of each head pin onto the closed loop of each eye pin.
Set aside.
Step 6: Attach
the ring of the chandelier earring finding to the ear wire by twisting
the loop of the ear wire slightly and hooking it through the ring of the
chandelier earring. Twist loop closed.
Step 7: Twist
open 3 jump rings. Loop one jump ring onto the ring of another chandelier
earring finding and then hook it onto the lower left hand loop of the chandelier
earring finding.
Step 8: Do
the same for another chandelier earring finding and attach to the lower
right hand loop of the chandelier earring finding.
Step 9: You
should now overlap the two dangling chandelier earring findings and hook
the remaining jump ring through the lower right hand loop and the lower
left hand loop.
Step 10: Attach
the dangle that you set aside with the 8mm Crystal onto the center jump
ring and twist the loop of the dangle closed.
Step 11: Attach
each of the other dangles with the 6mm Crystals. One hooks onto the
lower left hand loop of the left chandelier earring and one hooks onto
the lower right hand loop of the right chandelier earring and close each
of these tightly.
Repeat the above steps for the second earring
and enjoy this beautiful design.
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