Create Colorful Jewelry with Mirage Beads and Mermaid Scales
If you are wanting to make colorful points, right here are two merchandise positive to remember to: “Mirage Beads” and “Mermaid Scales”. The two occur in daring bright shades and the achievable design and style combos are (virtually) infinite. I selected to make dangly earrings working with my beloved Mirage bee beads and vibrant purple Mermaid scales. Browse on for guidelines and inspiration…what will you make?
Coloration-Changing Mirage Beads are impressed by the temper jewelry of the ’60s and ’70s. The colour-changing, thermo-delicate polymer beads change colour with tiny temperature changes and exhibit a selection of rainbow-like hues. Mirage beads are accessible in numerous variations.
Mirage beads come with an educational card to help you decipher your incredibly hot and chilly thoughts!
Weave Bought Maille Mermaid Scales are lightweight domed teardrop-shaped drops created from powder-coated 316L steel. They are available in a few sizes and a wave of vivid and reflective shades.
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Mermaid scales are domed, the “front” convex side becoming a powder-coated colour and the “back” concave side staying a reflective silvertone.
Twist open up the eye pin loop, then thread on a mermaid scale charm. Eventually, twist the eye pin loop shut. I applied a single mermaid scale per earring, displaying purple on the front and silver on the backside. You can also layer two mermaid scales again-to-again on the eye pin so that purple is seen from the two sides.
String the beads on to the eye pin in this sample: metal fluted hogan (bicone) bead, Mirage bead, and metallic fluted hogan bead.
Mirage beads have a big gap that is around 2-to-3mm in size, which tends to in good shape sloppily on a head pin. The metallic fluted hogan beads nestle down into the bead holes and act as bead aligners, centering the Mirage bead snuggly on the head pin.
Finish the eye pin end with a wrapped loop. For the finished earring to cling in the appropriate way, the wrapped loop really should be perpendicular to the reduce loop hooked up to the mermaid scale.
Use semi-flush facet cutters to clip off the remaining eye-pin tail. For a thoroughly clean straight lower, encounter the flat facet of the cutter’s jaw future to the wrapped coil. Then use chain-nose pliers to flatten down the cut wire end.
Thread the leading loop of the beaded adornment onto the ear wire with the concluded facet facing outward. With ball-stop ear wires, you don’t generally have to have to twist open the loop with just a minor tension, the adornment will slide above the ball conclude and rest securely in the ear wire loop.
Now that you have built just one earring, repeat the methods to make the second earring. To incorporate curiosity, I chose to flip the direction of the bee in my 2nd earring.
“Lavender Honey” Earrings by Rings & Points Designer Mollie Valente.
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Make points!
Mollie
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