Cats Eye

 

These are my favorite earrings! They're so fun to wear on the weekends or sleek enough to wear to the office. Definitely a must have!!

Length

a little less than 2-1/4" (55 mm)

Materials

4 mm round Pearls

10 mm glass beads - Light Purple or Green 
Silver/Gold/Antique Gold colored wire

Geometric Square with Decorative Crystal

Supplies: 

2 - 13 x 11 mm square glass beads 

2 - 4 mm crystals  

2 - 1" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 2"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

Take about a 1" length wire and with chain nose pliers, bend over about 1/16" wire over itself to create a headpin. Thread the glass bead through and close with a wire loop. Create loop on both ends of the crystals with the 1" gold wire. Attach wired crystal to hook and attach the end of the crystal to the wired glass bead. Create matching earring.

Siam Ornament

Length

a little over 1.5" (44 mm)

Materials

10 mm red crystal beads

Gold colored wire

2 gold spacer beads

Scarlet Rain

Length

2.75" or 42 mm

Materials

Gold colored wire

18 x 11 mm Red Multi-colored glass bead

Violaceous

Length

2.25" or 55 mm

Materials

Gold colored wire

7 mm Purple Velvet Crystals

3 mm Violet Crystals

Cobblestone

Length: 2"

Supplies: 

2 - 8 mm round gold beads

4 - gold jump rings

2 - 4 mm gold spacer beads 

2 - 10 mm gold decorative wire links

2 - 2.5" 20 guage gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 3" 22 guage gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
20 minutes

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

With a gold wire, create simple loop and continue rolling over the wire. Use flat nose pliers to hold wire parallel while rolling wire. Make 2-3 loops, insert spacer bead, gold bead and close with a wire wrapped loop. Center wire hoop on either side of the bead. Attach jump ring to wired bead and decorative wire link. Attach another jump ring to the link and earring hook. Create matching earring.