Make Easy Bead Earrings with Blue Cat Eye Glass Beads and Crystals

Music Credit: Hayao Miyazaki “The Rose”

Materials and tools list:

8mm Blue Cat Eye Glass Beads
6mm Electroplate Glass Crystals
2mm Round Seed Beads
Eyepins
Headpins
Jumprings
Earrings Hooks
0.38mm Tiger Tail Wire
Side Cutting Pliers
Round Nose Pliers
Wire Cutter Pliers

How to start the blue glass and crystal earrings?

1. Measure and cut a length of tiger tail to approximately 40cm. Remove the curved tip by using wire cutter pliers.

2. String four 2mm seed beads to the center. Take the other wire end and pass through the last one to form a loop.

3. On the right wire end, add the following in sequences: one 8mm cat eye glass bead, one 2mm seed bead, one 6mm glass crystal, one 2mm seed bead and one 8mm cat eye glass bead. Then, take the left wire end and thread through the last cat eye glass bead from opposite direction. Tighten both wire ends.

4. Pass the left wire end through the next 2mm seed bead. On the right end, add one 2mm seed bead, one 6mm glass crystal, one 2mm seed bead and one 8mm cat eye glass bead. Finally, take the left wire end and thread through the last cat eye glass bead. Tighten both wire ends.
Repeat the same processes for another time.

5. Take the left wire end and thread through next 2mm seed bead and the 8mm cat eye bead at the same time. Then, pass two wire ends through one 2mm seed bead, one 6mm glass crystal and one 2mm seed bead from the opposite directions.

6. Turn over the beaded part, add one 8mm cat eye glass bead, one 2mm seed bead, and one 8mm cat eye glass bead on the right wire end. Then, pass the left end through the last cat eye bead and tighten the wire.

7. Pass the left ends through the 2mm seed bead, 6mm glass crystal and 2mm seed bead nearby, and then add one 2mm seed bead and one 8mm cat eye glass bead on right wire end. Finally, pass the left wire end through 8mm cat eye bead from the opposite direction.
Keep on making the same processes to complete the back part.
Finally, loop the 4 seed beads.

8. Thread the leftover wire through the beads to get them stuck. Trim off any excess if necessary.

9. String the beaded part on an eyepin, leave 6mm pin and make a simple loop.

10. Make the dangle. Take a headpin, string one 8mm cat eye glass bead and one 6mm glass crystal. Keep 6mm pin and make a simple loop in the same way.

11. Connect the three parts and there you will get your first piece! In the rest, just repeat all the steps above them!

An ingenious mixture of blue cat eye glass beads and electroplate crystal make these earrings strand out. Just take a try, because they are exactly simple and easy!

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