Dashing Diamond Earrings

By: The Designers of Prima Bead

Give your accessories a glamorous makeover with these Dashing Diamond Earrings from Prima Bead. By following this simple beaded pattern, you can have beautiful earrings that would look great with any outfit. These would look beautiful if you used an ombre technique when selecting beads. Pick beads of like colors and gradually get darker or lighter as you move through the pattern to create a neat effect that will make your earrings shine.

Materials:

30pc Silver Plate 4mm Closed Jump Ring (#2950208)
2 18pc Silver Plate 35mm Eye Pins (#2950272)
10pc Silver Plate Ball Hook Wire (#2950227)
18pc Silver Plate 25mm Ball Head Pin (#2950223)
33pc 4mm Crystazzi Bicone- Tanzanite (#7722026)
33pc 4mm Crystazzi Bicone- Rosaline (#7722003)
33pc 4mm Crystazzi Bicone- Purple (#7722027)
Pattern

Instructions:

First create the beaded links that will form the net of the earrings. Thread the chosen bead(s) onto an eye pin and form a loop.
Make the following bead links: (6) Dark Sapphire, (8) Purple, (2) 6pc Tanzanite, (8) Tanzanite, (6) Rosaline
Thread a rosaline bicone onto a head pin and form a wrapped loop to complete the bottom drop. *Note the drop must be threaded onto a 4mm closed jump ring and then the loop can be wrapped. Make 2 wrapped drops.
Use pliers to carefully open and close loops to connect the ear wires, jump rings, links & the drops as shown in the diagram.