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Pat DeSantis shares multiple ways to design your own jewelry.
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Matching Button EarringsMatching Button Earrings
Materials and Tools:
6" Wrights green beaded piping #40685 L60
1 pair wide flat earring pad posts
craft glue
scissors
needle-nose pliers
Steps:
1. Carefully remove stitching from the beads and fabric skirt.
2. Cut into two pieces.
3. Dip both ends of each piece into glue and allow to dry.
4. Take one piece and coil up making a circle beyond the back of earring, gluing as you go. Hint: When starting, begin at the center of the back, place beaded end down and coil over it, covering it; do the same at the finishing end, tucking it under the coil so it is not exposed.
5. Allow glue to dry well before wearing.
Matching Dangle Earrings
(in photo on first page)
Materials and Tools:
scrap of Wrights green beaded ball fringe (2 balls) #40685 L60
2 rhinestone-tipped head pins
beads to lengthen dangle (optional)
1 pair loop French hook ear wires
scissors
needle-nose pliers
Steps:
1. Carefully cut beading from fabric skirt.
2. Turn ball over, and insert head pin through center of ball from the bottom up.
3. Feed three or four loose beads onto head pin.
4. Cut head pin to desired length and make a small loop. Be careful not to leave any sharp edges.
5. Attach to earring wire.
6. Optional: Add more beads to lengthen the "dangle" and then attach to earring wire.
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