Handmade Beaded Earrings With Polymer Clay Bead
Want to make earrings with polymer clay (plastic) bead ?
You can buy (the example below shows a vintage one) or make them.(see project ideas)
Designing with polymer clay beads is interesting: they are lightweight, come in various shapes, nice patterns, and colors.
These one are so trendy with flowers motifs, and a touch of pink and blue!
For this design, I mixed them with leather cord swarovski crystal bicones and of course earrings findings .
These handcrafted earrings require:
Supplies
- Earwires
- Cord tips
- Crimp beads
- Tigertail
- leather cord
- Swarovski crystal bicones
- Your tools
Click here for more informations on supplies, tools and findings
How-To
For one earring: - Decide the length of your earring design.
- Cut 2 pieces of thin cord ( leather, cotton...), attach them together with 1 crimp tip.a href="http://www.charming-jewelry-making.com/Jewelry-making-instructions.html">(see finishing with a crimp bead)
- Join together the earwire and the crimp tip, make one knot.
- String on the polymer clay bead and make one knot.
- Knot each cord ends.
- a href="http://www.charming-jewelry-making.com/Jewelry-making-instructions.html">Make few bead dangles.
Quick tips
Concerning the cord:
See how it can be simple to mix and match beads together; the swarovski crystal bead is matching perfectly with the polymer clay bead, they have the same blue and beige that you can see in the flower bead!
Your tools need to be always close by during your jewelry making project: a round nose plier, a flat nose plier, glue, scissors, cutter.
Have a good working light and a comfortable chair.
Need some inspiration? Be helped by fashion ,decorating...magazines, especially for color trends ideas.
Enjoy!
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