Pretty Petal Earrings with Ornamentea

I have a fun partnership to share today. A few months ago, I connected with Ornamentea, a real brick and mortar ‘fine craft ingredients’ store in Raleigh, North Carolina with a fantastic online shop. They have so many goodies! I have perused their wares for hours. In our partnership, I get to create and craft things using their products and my first tutorial is up!

For the inaugural project, I created earrings featuring petal beads, thus the name. As a person who basically only wears earrings for jewelry, these are perfectly me – simple with a hint of sparkle. Here’s how they are made.

Materials:

2 antique brass head pins, 2”
6 antique brass Pretty Points bead caps
2 light Colorado topaz Swarovski Rhinestone balls, 8mm
6 gold plated (or any color) crimp beads, size 1
6 antique brass crimp covers, 3mm
2 antique brass Simple Ear loops

Tools
Round nose pliers
Ruler
Permanent marker

To ensure equally placed parts, make a mark on each head pin at two points – ½” from the bottom and 1” from the bottom.

Add one Pretty Points bead cap and slide all the way to the bottom of the pin. Using the pliers, compress a crimp bead on the first mark from the bottom

Cover the crimp bead with a crimp cover.

Add another Pretty Points bead cap and slide down above the crimp bead/crimp cover. Repeat the crimp bead and crimp cover on the second mark and add the final Pretty Points bead cap.

Again, repeat with the crimp bead and crimp cover right above the third bead cap. Add the rhinestone ball. Using the round nose pliers, make a loop with the remaining wire.

Connect to the Simple Ear loop.

Repeat everything on the second earring.

So pretty.

Here is the link for the tutorial on Ornamentea and all the materials can be found right there too. They have lots of goodies and I’m excited for the next project to come!

Take care.