Earrings with Sea Opal and Czech Crackle Beads
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Design Idea QG2E
-- Designer --
Elaine, Jewelry Designer, Exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads®
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- Bead, Czech crackle glass druk, green, 6mm round
- Bead, sea "opal" (glass), translucent to semitranslucent, 6mm round
- Charm, silver-plated "pewter" (zinc-based alloy) and enamel, white and green, 25x23mm single-sided mummy
- Earring, silver-plated brass, 23mm round hoop with 7 closed loops and latch-back closure
- Head pin, silver-plated brass, 1-1/2 inches with 1.5mm ball, 24 gauge
- Jump ring, silver-plated brass, 5mm round, 3.6mm inside diameter, 22 gauge
- Jump ring, silver-plated brass, 8mm round, 6.4mm inside diameter, 20 gauge
- Seed bead, Miyuki, glass, opaque ceylon white pearl, (RR420), #8 rocaille
- Seed bead, Miyuki, glass, opaque matte silver-plated, (RR961F), #8 rocaille
- Seed bead, Miyuki, glass, translucent matte lime, (RR144F), #8 rocaille
Instructions
Step 1
Create four bead drops by inserting a ball tip head pin into a bead and finishing with a double-wrapped loop. You will make two drops using 6mm Green Glass Beads and two drops using 6mm Opal Glass beads. For instructions on making a double-wrapped loop, watch this video.
Step 2
Create two seed bead drops by inserting a ball tip head pin into three seed beads (one silver-plated, one matte lime, and one white pearl). Finish with a double-wrapped loop.
Step 3
Add a 5mm silver-plated jump rings to each of the six drops you created in Steps 1 and 2.
Step 4
Add an 8mm silver-plated jump ring to the mummy charm. Then add two 5mm silver-plated jump rings to the 8mm jump ring, side by side.
Step 5
Attach a green glass bead drop to the first hole of the earring finding. Then attach a seed bead drop to the second hole, and an opal glass bead drop to the third.
Step 6
Attach the mummy charm to the fourth hole of the earring finding (the center hole), opening and using both 5mm jump rings.
Step 7
Add the last three beaded drops to the last three holes on the earring finding in the same order that you added the first three.
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