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These fun earrings are all about bead caps and we're going to show you how to
design this playful earring using three different kinds of bead caps. The
bead caps we're using are a very large bead cap, a medium-sized, daisy shaped
bead cap, and then a teeny tiny flower bead cap. All three of them have a
similar finish, but they have different patterns stamped on them, in sort of
different shapes a little bit. And we like the three of them together. We think
they're fun. For this earring, what we're going to do is take the headpin and
feed on a faceted crystal rondell. This one has a pretty AB finish that's that
sort of oil slick, rainbow look. And it's seven millimeters this way by ten
millimeters across. We're going to use our largest bead cap, feed it onto the
headpin. And we tested this bead cap to make sure that it fit our bead perfectly
because for the first part of our design we wanted this to sit on the bead just
like a little hat. And you can see it's already looking very different. Next
we're going to take our daisy bead cap and we're gonna slide it on the headpin
upside down so it's facing up. And it's going to cup our next bead. Our next bead is
a faceted round crystal. It also has that pretty AB finish on it. It's five
millimeters in size. And this bead cap is actually larger than a five millimeter
bead cap, but we like that we like that it doesn't match up perfectly. It ends up
looking like a little bit of a collar, like an Elizabethan collar or something.
It's just fun and playful. Last thing we're going to do is place our tiniest
bead cap on top so that it rests directly on top of our five millimeter
bead, like a little hat again, like this one. And that's our fun little design
with our bead caps and our crystals. And now we're going to turn this into an
earring to match our other earring. To do that we're going to make a wrapped loop.
So to make a wrapped loop I've got round-nose pliers. I'm gonna grasp the headpin
wire right above that top bead cap. And I'm
pressing up against the beads and the headpin to make sure that there's not a
lot of wiggle room there. I'm going to make a bend that's 90 degrees in my wire,
reposition my pliers to the top of that bend, pull the wire around the top jaw to
make a partial loop. I'm gonna take my pliers and put the bottom jaw in that
loop now and pull the wire around to finish the loop. So there's my loop now.
I'm going to take my round-nose pliers and grasp the loop across just to hold
it tightly and then I'm going to pull the tail around the neck of that headpin
two times. And this head pin wire is a little bit hard, so it's got, I've got to give it
a little elbow grease to make it happen, but there you go. Looks good. Now I'm
going to use my wire cutters and I'm going to use the flat side of
my wire cutters against my work and hold on to the tail here with my fingers. And
I'm going to cut the tail of that wire, without cutting my work. And then I've
got a little bit of a pointy end sticking out there, so I'm going to use
my pliers just to press that down a little bit, like that. And now to turn
this into an earring, I'm going to use an earring wire. And this one is already
open so I don't have to open it. But if this loop is closed you could just use
your pliers to open it. I'm going to slide it on the head pin or the earring
wire just like that, so that it rests in the little nook of the earring wire. And
then I'm going to use my round-nose pliers to close the loop. And now I have
a match to my beautiful and fun little crystal and bead cap earrings.