Chandelier Earrings

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These chandelier earrings from The Bead Studio are perfect for a night out on the town. Use your favorite crystals to create chandelier earrings with this easy technique that anyone can master.  These colorful accessories will complement any outfit and are perfect for girls of any age.  While these earrings are simply stunning in purple crystals, you can easily use black, silver, or any other color you'd like ot create a pair of earrings that you're sure to love.

Find this homemade earrings project and 45 other beading craft projects in our free downloadable eBook, Beautiful Beads.

Chandelier Earrings Finished Product

Materials:

  • 1 foot fine sterling chain w/open links
  • 10 24g sterling silver headpins
  • 9″ 24g sterling wire (half hard)
  • 1 pair sterling earwires
  • 20 sterling spacers
  • 22 4mm crystals
  • 12 6mm crystals

 

Instructions:

  1. Cut wire: 2 pieces 1½″, 2 pieces 3″.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 1
     
  2. Cut chain: 8 pieces ½″, 4 pieces ¾″, 2 pieces 1¼″.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 2
     
  3. With one 3″ piece of wire create a wire wrap loop & attach to earwire.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 3
     
  4. Add one 6mm bead. Place the tip of the chin-nose plier against the bead and bend wire to a 90 degree angle.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 4
     
  5. Make loop bringing the wire tail back to a right angle.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 5
     
  6. Slip two ½″ pieces of chain into the loop.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 6
     
  7. Wrap wire until it meets the base of the bead. Trim wire & tuck end down.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 7
     
  8. Make a simple loop on the end of the 1½″ piece of wire, link onto one of the pieces of chain dangling from the earwire.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 8
     
  9. String 4mm beads & chain on wire alternating in this pattern.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 9
     
  10. Trim wire to ¼″. Make loop after the last bead and link to the other piece of chain attached to earwire, bend gently to shape.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 10
     
  11. String a 4mm bead, a spacer, a 6mm bead and another spacer onto each of the headpins.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 11
     
  12. Make a loop & attach to the ends of the chain.

    Chandelier Earrings Step 12

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This tutorial is very well explained and good pictures to go with each step. These chandelier earrings can ban worn with a lot of different necklaces that you make or even a store bought one. Change the bead colors or he length of the chain hanging down to give it your own look. There is so much you can do. Make some for gifts and see what you can come up with.

Just a note to say that we tried to make the photos bigger, as requested, however the images from The Bead Studio weren't big enough to enlarge...if you continue to have questions about particular steps in this project, please feel free to contact the designer (The Bead Studio) with your questions! Thanks for all your comments, and keep em' comin!

I'm a beginner beader and found the instructions easy to follow. The photo of the item could be bigger but otherwise a very pretty design.

I am very empressed with this sight I am looking forward to making some of theese things

Very easy to make thanks for the idea

Definitely not a beginner project....THANK goodness!! Very pretty earrings and my only wish was that the photos were larger.

To many elements and too much time. If one was to sell these earrings they would not get what they would really worth. A lot of time would go into these earrings to create

These are very nice earrings, the illustrations are a bit confusing for a beginner, but I'm an experienced jewelry maker, so I could follow along, but for someone who is not, this would present some peoblems. I like them, I hope in the future, the instructions will be a lot more user friendly, because not everyone is an experienced jewelry maker.

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