Flower earstuds with rhinestones

Aren't these cute? These flower earstuds just need a few 3 mm rhinestones to fill the petals. Because the rhinestones are really tiny, we used a headpin to apply the glue in the settings.

Items

Earnut for Earstud Bronze 5x4 mm DOP004

Rhinestone red 3 mm PNS-R003D

Rhinestone crystal AB 3 mm PNS-R003C

Rhinestone aqua blue 3 mm PNS-R003B

Rhinestone cobalt blue 3 mm PNS-R003A

Bronze earstuds flower with room for rhinestones 3 mm OS007A

Hasulith Glue 31 ml L001

Earrings with faux turquoise droplets

I really enjoyed playing about with these faux turquoise drop beads. Each strand in this lot has an identical mix of colours, enough for 8 matching pairs of beads – perfect for making earrings!
The conical filligree bead caps give the drops extra length, while keeping the design light-weight.
The technique is very simple and suitable for beginners: you take a long head pin (around 50mm), and place the droplet onto it. Then you gently place the bead cap over the bead, but don't push it down, because this can cause the bead cap to unfold. You finish it off with one simple eyelet and any earhook you prefer.
Here I chose metal parts in an antique copper colour. But parts are available for making the exact same design in antique bronze, if you prefer. And then you've got a whole new set of earrings to go with any outfit!

Combinaties

Bead cap Filligree antique copper 23x8,5 mm KK011A

Headpin antique copper 50 mm NS-K001

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

Earring hooks copper OH010B

Emerald earrings

Emerald, together with sapphire and ruby, is one of the most exclusive gemstones. Pantone has declared Emerald colour of the year 2013, and indeed it is a lovely colour to design your jewelry with. Emerald green is a warm shade, and it fits well into many colourpalettes. Emerald is reminiscant of exotic India, clean Art Deco and it also goes together well with natural materials like jade or perhaps coral. Gothic Victorian and Medieval designers too favour emerald green in their creations. To get you started, here are a few earring designs with emerald green as their main inspiration. For more jewelry design materials, please refer to our special online Emerald selection.

Colorful hairpins

Other

Round acrylic cabochon grass green 12 mm CB-R001B

Round acrylic cabochon burgundy red 12 mm CB-R001FA

Round acrylic cabochon cobalt blue 12 mm CB-R001AB

Hairpin bronze with round setting for cabochon 12 mm HS014

Faux Druzy jewelry set

Faux druzy jewelry set - parts

These acrylic cabochons are made to simulate crystal gemstone druzy. They are black with a baroque surface, and the colour changes from peacock blue to green.
We offer a wide range of earhooks, rings, settings and hairpin to mount these stones - making your own jewelry line can be as easy as that!

Combinaties

Ring antique bronze with ornament setting for cabochon 12 mm RNG027

Earstud bronze with round setting for cabochon 12 mm OS001

Earring hooks bronze with round setting for cabochon of 12 mm OH016

Earrings bronze with round setting for 18 mm cabochon OH017A

Hairpin bronze with round setting for cabochon 12 mm HS014

Faux druzy resin cabochon round 18 mm CABM086B

Ring bronze with round setting for 18 mm cabochon RNG028

Faux druzy resin cabochon round 12 mm CABM086A

Making earrings with vintage rhinestones

Recently we introduced a new line of materials for jewelry making: vintage rhinestones and brass prong settings. These rhinestones differ from cameos and cabochons in that they don't have a flat back for gluing, but they can be set in the matching prong settings. These settings have four metal points that can be folded over the rhinestones with a pair of flat nose pliers. Many of these rhinestones were made a long time ago in former Czechoslovakia. If you are familiar with Czech glass beads, you will know how radiant the colours are and that it is high quality glass. You can find rhinestones with and without foil on the back. The foil is used in the transparent stones to reflect light through the stone, making them sparkle even more. To give you some inspiration, here is a tutorial for some earrings made with vintage rhinestone

Materials for making vintage rhinestone earrings.

What do you need?

• Rhinestones
• Prong settings
• Earrings
• Jump rings for connecting the pieces
• A pair of flat nose pliers

Put the rhinestone in the prong setting and fold the metal points over the stone.

Tips on assembling the earrings

• The first time you try to close a prong setting might feel a bit clumsy.
• The easiest way is to put the stone in the open setting and hold them between the thumb and index finger of your left hand (if you are right handed). Holding a pair of flat nose pliers in your right hand, push/squeeze the metal prongs over the stones one by one.
• The earrings that were used here have an opening in their eyelet. You can fold this open so you don't need an extra ring to hang the setting from.

Attach the prong setting to the eyelet on the earring.

Combinaties

Gold earwire with fuchsia pink rhinestone OH013B

Jump ring gold 4 mm OR-G001

Vintage rhinestone ruby emerald green pear 10x6 mm PNS-P008

Vintage rhinestone navette opaque turquoise 15x7 mm PNS-NV008

Prong setting with 2 loops for pear rhinestone brass 8x5 mm KLZ-P001B

Prong setting with 1 loop for navette rhinestone brass 15x4 mm KLZ-NV002A

Prong setting with 2 loops for navette rhinestone brass 15x7 mm KLZ-NV001B

Gold earwire with cobalt blue rhinestone OH013C