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3 WAYS CHALLENGE
BEADED LINKS NECKLACE beginner
TO CREATE
LOOPY EARRINGS beginner
TO CREATE Connect three bronze glass donuts together using alternating pairs of brass and turquoise jump rings, starting with the brass and finishing with the turquoise coloured rings. Add a single silver jump ring through this final turquoise pair.
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MATERIALS • Bead Challenge mix • silver fish-hook ear wires • silver headpins
TOOLS • round-nosed, chain-nosed and flat-nosed pliers
Open a silver jump ring and loop it through the jump rings each side of the glass donuts so that the silver ring sits snugly against the glass ring as shown. Repeat for both sides of each donut. Hang this chain from an ear wire, then add three varying lengths of medium silver chain to the ring at the bottom. Thread three headpins with pearls and create a wrapped loop in each. Hang these from the chains before repeating the process to make your second matching earring.
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Add two small rings to the bottom of this last beaded ring, followed by a single jump ring and three varying lengths of medium chain. Create three beaded headpins with wrapped loops using two crystal beads and a pearl, and hang from the chain ends. Cut two lengths of heavy chain to finish the necklace to the required length and connect them to the beaded rings using pairs of small silver jump rings. Finish with a lobster clasp.
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Thread five seed beads onto each of 14 large turquoise jump rings, closing all the rings securely. Connect eight of these rings together into a chain using pairs of small silver rings. Now connect five together in the same way and secure these to the central two beaded rings on your first chain to form the flower shape. Connect four small silver jump rings together using two further rings and open them out into a 2-in-2 chain. Repeat to make a second chain and connect both to the bottom petal in the flower. Hang the final beaded ring from these two chains.
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WHERE TO BUY The additional materials used here are available online from www.jillybeads.co.uk
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MATERIALS • Bead Challenge mix • silver lobster clasp • silver headpins
TOOLS • round-nosed, chain-nosed and flat-nosed pliers
www.creativebeadsandjewellery.com
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