How To Make Crystal Cube Earrings

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To make these earrings we have a selection of Swarovski crystal beads here. We have two faceted
cube beads that are turquoise and they're 8 millimeters. We have two
faceted round beads that are crystal, and they're 6 millimeters.
We have two round spacer beads and spacer beads are
exactly that, a little spacer. These have rhinestones on them. The color is called
"transparent." These are 3 millimeters by 6 millimeters.
We have two decorative headpins.
These are Thai silver. We have two earring wires, also silver. And for tools, we have chain-nose pliers,
round-nose pliers, and wire cutters.
When we designed these earrings, we picked out some special
materials to make the design a little more interesting since the technique is super simple.
For example, we picked out this decorative head pin because it just adds a lot more pizzazz than a plain head pin.
We also picked out these beautiful
round spacer beads. And these are called
spacer beads because they sit between beads usually. These have rhinestones on them in clear or
transparent color, but these come in all different sizes shapes and metals and finishes,
which we think is really fun. So you can have a lot of fun when you're designing your earrings. These are like an antique
brass or antique copper with a crystal AB color.
You can get them in square. This is silver square with rhinestones around the sides. Super pretty.
This is also silver, but round. And the ones that we chose are clear suggest that rhinestone shows up
but sometimes you want a little bit of metal to show, so you might pick something like that. And
then these two are eenie beenie tiny ones in
gold and in copper. That can be really nice in a super delicate project, areally simple pair of earrings that are tiny
or a tiny bracelet.
Now to make the earrings. It's super easy. You start with the head pin.
Slide on
the cube bead.
And you can see it already has added so much pizzazz just by having that decorative tie silver
detail at the bottom.
Now we're going to add our spacer bead on top of our cube bead,
followed by our faceted round crystal. And
one of the nice things about these spacer beads is that they kind of cup this round bead,
so the beads are nestled right in that spacer, so it makes it look very cohesive. It's really nice.
Now all we have to do is make a wrapped loop to turn this into an earring.
To do that I'm going to use my round-nose pliers.
And I'm going to grasp with the wire of the head pin right above that round bead,
and I'm going to press the end of the head pin up
against, so the beads pressing up against, the round-nose pliers.
And that's so
there's not a lot of wiggle room between my beads and my spacer. And now I'm going to bend the wire 90 degrees toward me.
Then I'm going to reposition the pliers so they're at the top of that 90-degree bend that I just made.
I'm going to take the headpin wire and I'm going to pull it up and over away from me
over that top jaw of the pliers.
But you can see I can't get that wire all the way around because the pliers are in the way,
so what I'm going to do is reposition the pliers so that the bottom jaw of my pliers is now in that loop. And
that way I can finish the loop by pulling the wire all the way around. And
now you can see we've got a nice little loop there.
I'm going to grasp the wire across the loop with my round-nose pliers.
I'm just going to wrap the tail of that head pin wire around
the neck
two times. Like that. And that's what makes this a wrapped loop. That loop is now wrapped and secure
and won't come undone or fall off your earring.
Now I'm going to take my wire cutters, and I'm going to trim the wire.
I'm going to try to trim as close as I possibly can to my work without cutting right through it.
Like that.
And I've got a little bit of a tail sticking out there. That happens a lot. So I'm just going to use my
chain-nose pliers, which are these flat pliers, and I'm going to just press that end down so that it's not sticking out and
it should tuck right down in there.
Now to make this into a proper earring.
We're going to take one of our earring wires. And our earring wire came already open.
If yours isn't open you can go ahead and open it.
It's kind of better to open it like you'd open the door by just sliding the
loop sort of open that way rather than pulling it out.
But you know you can just do it whichever way works for you. I'm going to slide my earring onto my earring wire.
So it's nestled down in that loop.
And then I'm just going to close the loop *oops* on the earring wire by pressing it closed with my chain-nose pliers. And
there's our first earring beautiful!
So now I make the second earring. I'll do it real quick so you can have a little recap.
I've got my decorative head pin here.
Add my
faceted, cube bead.
Then my spacer bead like that.
Followed by my round faceted bead.
Then I'm going to make a wrapped loop
with my round-nose pliers.
Grasping the headpin wire, pushing it so that there's not a lot of wiggle room between my beads and my spacer.
I'm going to pull the wire, bend it toward me 90 degrees,
reposition the pliers to the top of that bend,
pull the wire around the top jaw,
reposition the pliers to the bottom jaw,
finish making my loop by pulling the wire around.
Then I'm going to grasp that loop across with my round-nose pliers
and I'm going to wrap the tail around the neck two times. Like that.
Then I'm going to trim.
Now I'm going to take my earring wire,
slide on my little earring that I just made and then close the loop on
the earring wire, like that with my chain-nose pliers. And
there is my gorgeous pair of crystal, cube earrings!
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