Meditteranean earrings

It appears to be a particularly hot summer this year! As we have not planned any exotic vacations this year, I decided to create a Mediterranean ambience here with these earrings.

Cloisonne drop earrings

Sometimes it can be so easy to make a pretty piece of jewelry .. I'm ever so content with these new cloisonne drop pendants!

Tutorial - A rainbow of earrings

For me, jewelry design at its best is when I can duplicate it in different colours. Especially if you are selling your own handmade creations, you may recognise that the design process takes a lot of time and effort. It's nice to appeal to a wider range of customers, because you can offer a piece of jewelry in their personal favourite colour.

Tutorial Faux malachite earrings

One of my personal top three gemstones (along with Lapis Lazuli and Turquoise) is definitely Malachite!

Drop earrings with golden bowties

I've wanted to work with these goldstone drops for quite a while. The combination of the goldstone with the different colours of the beads really is a beautiful sight. The crystal rhinestones bring out the colours of the drops, and the cute little bowtie is the cherry on top!

What do you need for one pair of earrings?

• Novelty faux gemstone beads, two pieces. These beads can be purchased in four different colours: ruby red, malachite green, lapis blue, and a mix of these colours.
• Octagon rhinestones, 14x10 mm, two pieces.
• Prong settings with two eyelets for 14x10 mm octagons, two pieces.
• Beadcaps for the drop beads.
• Headpins gold tone, 50 mm.
• Bowties in gold tone.
• Earhooks.

How do you proceed?
The earrings consist of three parts: the pendant with the drop, the connector with the rhinestone, and the earhook.

Use a pair of nose pliers to place the octagon rhinestone into the prong setting. Put your thumb on the rhinestone to keep it in place, and fold the prongs down to secure the stone in the setting. To prevent the stone from slipping, it might help to begin by folding down the clasps that are situated opposite one another.

You won't need any glue to keep the stone in its place once you have folded down all the prongs.

Place the drop onto the headpin and add a beadcap on top. You can bend the cap to make it fit more neatly if necessary. Cut off the headpin, but make sure you leave enough material to fashion an eyelet. Do not completely close up the eyelet.

Attach the eyelet of the drop to the prong setting and close up the eyelet.

Fold down the eyelet of the earhook. Make sure you attach the prong setting before adding the bowtie; the bowtie needs to be in front of the rhinestone. Now close up the eyelet of the earhook.
Your earrings are finished!

Combinaties

Brass setting with 2 eyes for octagon rhinestone 14x10 mm KLZ-OC005B

Metal pendants bowties gold 15x10 mm MH-ST002P

Headpin gold 50 mm NS-G003

Earring hooks brass OH009

Novelty faux gemstone drop goldstone lapis blue 30x10 mm FES-DR003D

Novelty faux gemstone drop goldstone malachite green 30x10 mm FES-DR003C

Novelty faux gemstone drop goldstone ruby pink 30x10 mm FES-DR003B

Beadcaps raw brass 6x5 mm KK035

Drop earstuds with rhinestones

This tutorial will show you how to make your very own earrings in trendy colours with faux turquoise drop beads and luxurious rhinestones.
Last year I made a set of faux turquoise drop bead earrings, and these earrings are a sequel to that series.
The base for each pair is the same, namely a faux turquoise drop, an oval rhinestone connector and an earstud to which you can attach a rhinestone. I will show you 6 different colours, but you can easily adapt the design to your own liking. For example, use a different earhook, a different beadcap, or use contrasting colours for a fresh and completely different effect.

What do you need

• Gold coloured earstuds with room for a 5 mm rhinestone.
• Neon acrylic rhinestones, size 5 mm. One portion of this mix contains over 100 different stones, which means you have more than enough options to pick from.
• Connector setting for a 14x10 mm oval rhinestone.
• Oval rhinestones size 14x10 mm, such as this turquoise stone.
• Small beadcaps. I have opted for a filigree cap, but I think these would be very cute as well.
• Faux turquoise drop beads. One strand contains enough beads to make 8 sets of earrings in different colours.
• Headpins, size 30 mm.
• Open rings, size 4 mm.
• Glue. I have used rhinestone glue, particularly because of the applicationtip. If you use Hasulith or E6000 you might want to use a headpin to neatly apply the glue onto the earstud.
• Earnuts. To secure the back of the earstuds.

How do you proceed?
1. Make the drop pendant by placing the bead onto the headpin, finishing with a beadcap. I have cut off half a millimetre of the pin, because for me that is the ideal length to make an eyelet.

2. Place the rhinestone into the setting. It might feel a bit uncomfortable if you have not yet worked with rhinestones, so make sure you take your time. I prefer to hold down the stone at the sides while gently, one by one, pressing the little prongs down over the stone by using a set of pliers. Bear in mind, practice makes perfect!

3. Glue the rhinestone into the earstud. A small drop really is enough to do the trick – the rhinestone glue is quite liquid, which means you easily end up using too much of it!

4. Connect the separate parts with the rings.

5. Your earstuds are finished!

Here are some examples of earrings in different colours:

Items

Earnut for earstud gold 5x4 mm DOP006

Rhinestone glass oval topaz 14x10 mm PNS-OV010S

Rhinestone glass oval virtrail 14x10 mm PNS-OV010R

Rhinestone glass oval turquiose 14x10 mm PNS-OV010L

Rhinestone glass oval emerald green 14x10 mm PNS-OV010N

Rhinestone glass oval ruby red 14x10 mm PNS-OV010G

Jump ring gold 4 mm OR-G001

Headpin gold 30 mm NS-G001

Prong setting 2 loops oval brass 14x10 mm KLZ-OV002B

Faux turquoise drop beads in mixed colours 20x8 mm FTQ-DR001

Filligree beadcaps brass old gold 8,5x6 mm KK026

Acrylic simili rhinestones neon mix 5 mm PNS-R006

Earstuds gold with loop and room for rhinestone 5 mm OS009C

Pastel drop earrings

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a pair of pastel drop earrings. The drop beads are made of resin, and I love the intense coulor of these beads. I have kept the colour palette fairly soft by combining them with cabochons made of natural materials. The filigree of the bead caps gives the earrings a lovely vintage look, and you'll see that they are quite light, even though they are quite long. It's a great design and the possibilities to vary the look and colours are endless!
What do you need for 1 pair of pastel drop earrings?

• 1 pair of resin drop beads. These beads are designed to imitate the colours of turquoise and coral.
• 2 head pins, bronze, 70 mm.
• 2 long bronze filigree bead caps.
• 2 ear studs with a lace edge setting, 12 mm.
• 2 cabochons, 12 mm. I opted for cabochons made of natural materials. The soft colours of the rose quartz, aventurine, and howlite cabochons really bring out the colours of the resin beads.
• A drop of glue to attach the cabochons.
• Pliers.

How do you proceed?

• The setting of the ear stud has a lace edge, a sculpted edge. Fold down 1 of the eyes of the edge so a pendant can be attached to the setting.

• Make the pendants with the drop beads.
• First, have a look at the bead caps. It might be that they need to be bent into shape. Be careful when you slide them over the bead; you don't want to damage the resin.
• Also, you might want to have a look at the head pins to make sure they are straight. If they aren't, just bend them into shape.
• The photograph shows a blue bead on the head pin. I have used this bead to make sure I always have an extra bit of pin left to make an eyelet for the pendant. This bead is 8 mm in size, so if I cut off the material above the bead, I will have exactly 8 mm to make the eyelet. You will see it's a great little trick to make sure the pandants' eyelets are of equal size.

• Don't fold the eyelet of the pendant all the way through; you need to attach it to the eyelet of the ear stud before you can close it up!

• Glue the cabochon into the ear stud.

• Now, the eyelet of the ear stud can be gently folded back into their original position. However, if you prefer to keep the eyelet as it is, you can of course choose to keep it folded down.

Items

Turquoise howlite cabochon round 12 mm ECB-00A2

Rose quartz cab round 12 mm ECB-00A1

Green aventurine cabochon round 12 mm ECB-AV001

Hasulith Glue 31 ml L001

Earnut clasp for earstud bronze 6x5 mm DOP005

Earstuds bronze with round lace edge setting 12 mm OS013A

Headpin with ball bronze 70 mm NS-B005

Long filligree bead cap antique bronze 41x8 mm KK020A

Faux turquoise drop bead resin 30x10 mm KSK-DR002A