Retro spike earrings

Date: 02-12-2013 by Elaine Zant

Aren't these earrings a cheerful bunch? These retro spike earrings are a combination of 10 mm cabochons and faux turquoise spike beads. As you can see, many different colour-combinations are possible, and I think a display of these earrings would be a great success at - for example - a Christmas market.

I started by matching different colours. The cabochons come in 10 different colours, and a strand of spike beads contains approximately 7 different colours. Each strand has a different colour-consistency, but since a strand contains over 80 beads, which means you'll have more than enough beads to make matching sets.

What do you need for 1 pair of earrings?

1 pair of ear hooks, I have chosen to use gold-coloured materials, but bronze is a good option as well.
2 retro cabochons, size 10 mm
2 lace edge settings for the cabochons
2 open rings, size 10 mm
2 faux turquoise spike beads
Glue, I have used Hasulith glue
Prongs to assemble the earrings

Fold down two of the eyelets of the lace edge setting to turn it into a connector. Apply a bit of glue and glue and fit the cabochon into the setting.

Use a 10 mm ring to make the pendant with the spike bead. It might be a bit of a struggle to fit the ring through the hole of the bead, but I found that you can usually solve this problem by turning the ring around.
Attach the ring to the setting. When I made the earrings I made sure the opening of the rings was located at the back.