Kit : Fabulous Four Earrings

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Kit : Fabulous Four Earrings


This delightful set of earrings are totally made from antiqued metal beads and findings, showing just how effective they can be. The absence of coloured beads or crystals produces distinctively ethnic pieces for a casual look.

The kit includes the following four pairs of earrings...

Price: £15.80 (Inc. VAT)



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Kit : Fabulous Four Earrings

Bollywood Burnished Earrings


Antique gold burnished discs and intricately patterned dakhla disc connectors give these earrings a truly ethnic warm and wearable feel. Simple connecting techniques are all that is needed.

Kit includes:-

1 pr x fishhook ear wires: antique gold

6 x eyepins: 1": antique gold

2 x metal connectors: dakhla disc:antique gold

8 x metal dangles: burnished discs: small: antique gold

6 x round beads: 4mm: antique gold

2 x jump rings: 7mm: antique gold

Tools:- flat or chain nosed, round nosed and side cutter pliers

To make:-

1. Slightly open the loop on one of the eyepins, slip on a burnished disc and reclose the loop. Thread a 4mm spacer onto the eyepin. Bend the pin over by 90 degrees using flat/chain nosed pliers, trim it to 7mm using sidecutter pliers and roll it into a loop using round nosed pliers, sliping the loop onto one of the bottom loops on a dakhla disc before fully closing.

2. Repeat step one twice more using the remaining two loops on the dakhla disc. Slightly open a jump ring by gripping it with two pairs of pliers and sliding the edges away from each other (to avoid distorting the shape.) Slip on a burnished disc, then hook the jump onto the top loop of the dakhla disc, making sure that the burnished disc will hang correctly in the centre of the dakhla disc. Close the jump by sliding the edges back together again.

3. Slightly open the loop on a fishhook and slip it through the top loop of the Dakhla disc, ensuring the right side will face forward. Reclose the loop. Make a second earring to match.





Bollywood Burnished Earrings

Fanciful Furnished Earrings


The blackened tones of gun metal antiqued findings and beads produce a unique and striking effect. Dangles and connectors are linked using eyepins for a look which is stunning to wear with bright colours.

Kit includes:-

1 pr x fishhook ear wires: gun metal

8 x eyepins: 1": gun metal

2 x headpins: medium: 1": gun metal

2 xmetal connectors:dakhla disc: gun metal

6 x metal connectors: filigree balloon: gun metal

6 x filigree round beads: 4mm: gun metal

2 x filigree round beads: 6mm: gun metal

2 x round beads: 2mm: antique gold

2 x jump rings: 5mm: gun metal

Tools:- flat or chain nosed, round nosed and side cutter pliers

To make:-

1. Slightly open the loop on one of the eyepins, slip on a balloon and reclose the loop. Thread a 4mm filigree onto the eyepin. Bend the pin over by 90 degrees using flat/chain nosed pliers, trim it to 7mm using sidecutter pliers and roll it into a loop using round nosed pliers, slipping the loop onto one of the bottom loops on a dakhla disc before fully closing.

2. Repeat step one, twice more, using the remaining two loops on the dakhla disc. Thread a 2mm spacer and a 6mm filigree onto a headpin and turn a loop as in step one. Slightly open a jump ring by gripping it with two pairs of pliers and sliding the edges away from each other (to avoid distorting the shape.) Slip the headpin loop onto the jump, then hook the jump onto the top loop of the dakhla disc, making sure that the headpin will hang correctly in the centre of the dakhla disc. Close the jump by sliding the edges back together again.

3. Slightly open the loop on an eyepin and hook it onto the top loop of the dakhla disc. Close. Thread on a 6mm filigree and turn a loop, hanging it onto the loop on a fishhook, ensuring the right side will face forward, before fully closing. Make a second earring to match.





Fanciful Furnished Earrings

Planetary Rings Earrings


These unusual antique silver earrings have a distinctively urban feel, which is right up to date with the current steampunk trend. They are so easy to make, and by simply opening and closing jump rings, they are done in a trice!

1 pr x fishhook ear wires: antique silver

6 x jump rings: 5mm: antique silver

2 x jump rings: 7mm: antique silver

2 x metal connectors: simple circle: antique silver

6 x metal dangles: planetary discs: antique silver

Tools:- flat or chain nosed and round nosed pliers

To make:-

1. Select two of the discs which have holes on the edge roughly opposite each other. Put one aside for the second earrings. Grip the loop on the fishhook with chain nosed pliers and turn it by 90 degrees.

2. Slightly open a 5mm jump ring by gripping with two pairs of pliers and sliding the edges away from each other (to avoid distorting the shape.) Hook it through onto one of the edge holes on the disc and then through one of the holes on a simple circle. Close jump by sliding the edges back together again.

3. Slip an open5mm jump ring onto the hole which is roughly on the opposite edge of the disc and then onto the loop on the fishhook, ensuring the disc is facing the right way. Close.

4. Slip an open 7mm jump ring through an edge hole on another disc and then through the hole on the simple circle which also has the 5mm jump through it. Ensure it is hanging facing forward. Close.

5. Slip an open 5mm jump ring through an edge hole on another disc and then through the empty hole on the simple circle. Ensure it is hanging facing forward. Close.

6. Make a second earring to match.





Planetary Rings Earrings

Matt Flower Power Earrings


These fun earrings show just how well three different colours of antique metals contrast with each other, making them even more versatile to wear with any coloured outfit. They are so simple to make, requiring the opening and closing of just one jump ring for each earring!

You will need:-

1 pr x fishhook ear wires: antique gold

2 x metal dangles: burnished disc: large: antique gold

2 x metal dangles: burnished disc: medium: antique silver

2 x metal connectors: metal petals: gun metal

2 x jump rings: 7mm: antique gold

Tools: flat and round nosed pliers.

To make:-

1. Using the flat nosed pliers, grip the loop on a fishhook and turn it through 90 degrees so it faces forward.

2. Open a jump ring by gripping with two pairs of pliers and sliding the edges away from each other (to avoid distorting the shape)and slip on a large antique gold burnished disc, a medium antique silver burnished disc and a metal petal. Hook it through the loop on the fishhook, making sure the flower faces forward, and close the jump ring.

3. Repeat to form the second earring.





Matt Flower Power Earrings
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