Tutorial: Statement Necklace from earring findings

This beautiful statment necklace was made by Aki. You can find a detailed tutorial on her blog Minted Strawberry. I like her choice using bronze and pink colours, they really work well together.

Earrings Baby Blue and Baby Pink

The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and these pastel drop earrings have a lovely spring feeling!
The starting point of these earrings are these new ear pins; they have a glue pad with a small eyelet attached at the bottom. The drop beads in baby blue and baby pink are a nice variation to the long earrings that are very fashionable at the moment.
And the best part is that you can make them yourself in fifteen minutes!

What do you need for one pair of earrings?

• 1 pair of ear studs with an eyelet.
• 1 pair of caps for the ear pins (not in the picture).
• 1 pair of 10 mm rose cabochons.
• 1 pair of drop beads.
• Headpins with a size of at least 40 mm. I have used 50 mm pins in a silver colour.
• Jewellery glue.

How do you proceed?

Place one drop bead onto a head pin and cut off the head pin at the top to make it the right size. Begin to shape the eyelet by folding the head pin, but do not close up the eyelet yet.

Attach the drop pendant to the eyelet of the ear pin. Now you can close up the eyelet of the drop.

Add a bit of glue to both the ear pin and the back of the rose; this will make the two parts stick together better. Attach the rose to the ear pin. Allow the glue to dry for a couple of hours before wearing the earrings.

Combinaties

Headpin silver 50 mm NS-Z001

Cabochon resin rose soft pink 10 mm CABR045

Cabochon resin rose turquoise 10 mm CABR050

Faux turquoise drop bead resin 30x10 mm KSK-DR002A

Earnut for Earstud Silver 6x5 mm DOP003

Earstuds platinum silver with eyelet and glue pad of 8 mm OS016