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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to make a pair
of earrings. I'm going to show you the technique involved and this is what the final
finished pair will look like
I have two here
and you can see that they are very fun and festive sparkly and are actually very
easy to make
and what you're going to need
is some of this chain. This is circle chain. It already has these wonderful uniformed
circles already attached
you need some earring hooks
some chatons, any color will do and actually you could do whatever size you want
as long as it will fit in within the little five millimeter circle
I'm using crystal clay again it could be whatever color you like. You could do one
color or in the case of these earrings I've got two
so those are the supplies you need. Now the tools you need are a pair of wire
cutters
a pair of
chain nose pliers
and some applicator to pick up your chatons, you can use the toothpick
which is has a wax tip that comes with the
crystal clay kits
or I have a magic pick here as well
so actually I did this project with some leftover chain. I love this chain and I
have some scraps
I cut myself a length, you can do it as long or as short as you want
so I'm just going to cut one of the actual
soldered jump ring so I don't want to cut
the actual circles, the five-millimeter uniform circles you see that they have
like a harder edge
I want to cut one of the jump rings that's linking the chain together
separate that out
you will lose a couple of those circles, it's totally fine
to show you this I'm going to use this shorter piece of chain
and I'm going use some fuschia crystal clay
it's recommended that you use gloves for this process
I'm going to do it without gloves here
just so it's easier to see. Wash your hands right away with soap and water
It's not going to take much crystal clay to all for this project, pinch off a little bit
of part A which is the color
part B which is the hardener
make sure I have equal amounts
and doing that buy just rolling each one in a ball
looks like I need just a tad bit more of B
looks perfectly even to me
squish them together
and I'm going to just mix them
the goal is to mix them so that all the striations are gone. So you can see that we've
got quite of bit of modeling here
you want to wait until we have a uniform color before we stop
the mixing of them
and that looks pretty good to me
so now we want to get little bits of clay into the circles
pinch off just a little bit
roll it into a ball
look at our chain
this is why I like having a chain nose pliers
so when I actually
am finished here
this part here is going to connect to the earring hook
so this is how my chain will hang. I'm going to look and see where I wanna put
a crystal, so I like this circle right here
grab it
I find it easiest
to
separate it out like so
take my
circle of crystal clay
put it inside
of the circle
It's sticky so it does
take a little bit of work
and just squish it down
so that it's touching the interior edges and that's going to be what it adheres to
so once I filled that I'm
going to take my magic pick
and pick up a chaton
it can be a little bit harder with some of these heavier chatons
If it gets to be where you need a little bit more stickiness
and it has some tape on one side
you just roll your pick over the tape
that get some more stickiness on the end
place
a chaton
into the crystal clay
press it from this side too because I wanna make sure
that it's in there
so there is one
I'm going to find another one I want to do
I'm not going to do all of these. I'm going to make sure I kept
track of what was going to be the front of my earrings so I don't do any in
the back
so maybe I'll do this one over here
pinch off
a little bit of clay
filled my circle
pick up another chaton
try to center it
press down
give it a press from the back side as well
and then you go onto the next one
keep double-checking where your at in terms of the orientation of
your earring
what's going to be the front side
I've got one
that's the straight on front so I've got one in the front one to side
maybe I want to do one over here
you'll get a feel for how much clay you need each time
stick that
sometimes you need an extra hand
press that down
do a little clean up if you need to do it
you see that there's a little gap right there that's going to be fine
as long as you have the crystal clay touching most of the sides
it's going to stay in there
go back
see how my earrings are looking
so there's three
I would probly keep it with this length. I would just keep the three in the
fuchsia color and then I would do a darker purple maybe three or four
so you get the idea of how to do that and when they're all done
go ahead and keep them in an upright position so somehow anchor it
what I actually ended up doing was I just took
my pliers like so and I rested it over an
edge of the table, such as hanging
so it cures overnight and they will cure in the right direction because
the crystal clay is going to harden
if it's touching anything it's probably gonna stick to that as well and cure
attached to that
so you don't want to have this laying flat and have them
stiff and sticking out in all different directions. You want them to hang
in a vertical direction
and then when they are all cured all you need to do to
finish your earring
is take your earring hook
open it
it's a bit tough because these are still wet
I want to show you how to attach an earring hook
and don't attach the earring hook until
these are cured because you could
smudge them or cause them to
loose their shape
and that is the technique involved in making this fun pair
of earrings using
a nice circle charm chain, crystal clay and crystal chatons. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!