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Like a simple black dress, round, matte black onyx beads are the most modest of fashions, but they can be the perfect companion for the richness of gold. These ornamented vermeil bead caps provide plenty of glitter, but they need the restraint of the sober black onyx to be elegant.
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Simply Gemstones: Designs for Creating Beaded Gemstone Jewelry by Nancy Alden
Published by Potter Craft
Celebrities and fashion runways are glittering with gemstones more than ever these days, and chances are that if you’re a lover of jewelry and accessories you’ve lusted after a gem at some point in your life — be it turquoise, emerald, ruby, sapphire, tourmaline, or, of course, a diamond. Now Nancy Alden returns with her popular Beadworks series, this time introducing readers to what can seem like a daunting project, creating jewelry from gemstones. But in her typical fashion, she takes the anxiety out of the process, showing anyone how to create stunning gemstone earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Today, precious and semi-precious stones are available in many bead stores and online at a range of price points, making what had once been exclusive, expensive projects completely d...
© 2013 Nancy Alden / Potter Craft · Reproduced with permission.Instructions
You Will Need
- 14 Bead(s)
- 14 6mm vermeil Bead Caps
- 2 1 1/8" pieces of gold--filled “long and short†Chain each with 3 long bars and 3 rings
- 14 2mm hollow gold--filled Round Beads
- 6 3.5mm gold--filled Jump Rings
- 2 3mm gold--filled Jump Rings
- 14 1/2" vermeil Headpin s with ball tip
- 1 pair gold--filled Earwires
- Round Nose Pliers
- Flat Nose Pliers
- Project Cost
- Reasonably Priced
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Start the earring by making the dangles. Add to each 1â„2" headpin an onyx bead, a bead cap so that it fits over the onyx bead, and a round gold bead. Make a simple loop.
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Open the jump rings. Add 1 dangle to a 3mm jump ring and attach it to the ring at one end of the chain. Close the jump ring. Use a 3.5mm jump ring to add 2 dangles to the next ring of the chain. Repeat this to add another 2 dangles to the next ring of the chain.
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Attach the end of the chain to the earwire (either by opening the loop of the earwire or slipping it over the hook, depending on the style). Add two dangles to a jump ring and attach it to the loop of the earwire. Close the jump ring.
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