
Aqua Star Chandelier Loop Earrings You will love these earrings!
They are dainty and playful and almost as long as a duster earring.
In candlelight or in sunshine, you will be a star.
Materials:
1 pkg. Aqua round druks, 6mm (#22035)
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2 pkg. Aquamarine fire polished crystals
(#16150) Qty:
1 pkg. Aqua stars, 8mm (#22272)
Qty:
1 pkg. Sterling Silver jump rings, 5mm
(#50075) Qty:
1 pkg. Sterling Silver French Ear Wires
(#50008) Qty:
1 pkg. Sterling Silver Thin Head Pin (#50110)
Qty:
1 pkg. Sterling Silver Eye Medium Eye Pin
(#50122) Qty:
1 pkg. Acculon Tigertail (#49013)
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1 pkg. Sterling Silver Crimp Beads (#50051)
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Directions:
Step 1: Cut
a 5 inch long string of tigertail and string eight 4mm crystals.
Bring the ends together and string both ends through a crimp bead
and then double back through the crimp bead. Leave a little loop
to attach the ear wire and crush the crimp bead and cut remaining wire.
What you have now is a figure 8, with one small loop and one large loop.
Attach the ear wire by twisting open the ear wire
loop and placing it through the small loop of the tigertail and then twisting
the earring loop closed.
Step 2: Twist
open a jump ring and place through the tiny loop and through the big loop
of the tigertail. Twist the jump ring closed. Make sure the
crimp bead is in the middle.
Step 3: Make
the single star dangle by threading a star bead on a head pin. Using
a flat nose pliers, bend the 3/16" piece of wire 90°. Carefully bend
the 3/16" piece of wire into a loop, but do not close. Attach it
to the tigertail in between the eight crystals and twist it closed.
There should be 4 crystals on each side.
Step 4: For
the long star dangle, thread a 4mm crystal onto an eye pin. Using
a flat nose pliers, bend the 3/16" piece of wire 90°. Carefully bend
the 3/16" piece of wire into a loop and leave it open. Do the
same with the 6mm round bead. Thread
a star bead onto a head pin. Make a loop and close. Attach
the eye pin with the 6mm bead to the star dangle by inserting one
eye pin loop into the loop of the head pin and twisting closed. Attach
the eye pin with the 4mm crystal to the eye pin with the 6mm round bead
in the same manner using the remaining loop. Finally, attach the
dangle to the jump ring. Repeat for the second earring and enjoy!
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