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Make A Tribal Necklace and Earring Set
To make the earrings for this jewelry design, slide a Coral Bead onto a eye pin and make a loop at the other end of the eye pin, securing the coral bead on the eye pin. Place a silver spangle on an oval jump ring and attach the jump ring to one of the eye pin loops. Attach another spangle and jump ring to the jump ring that you've just attached. Do this step once more so that you have 3 spangles dangling from the loop. At the other end of the eye pin attach a lever back earring with a jump ring. Repeat these steps to make the other earring.
To make the necklace, you'll use eye pins to secure the coral beads in the same way as you did for the earrings, with the exception that before making the loop; slide an "S" shaped cut tube on the eye pin. Create the loop (a little larger so that it can accommodate the leather cord) that secures the cut tube and coral bead. You will also want to make two cut tube components that don't include the coral bead.
Attach the spangles with jump rings, to each of these components, in the same fashion that you did for the earrings. |
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Cut a long piece of leather cord for stringing (we started with a 20" piece). Slide the three coral bead components onto the center of the cord, followed by a bone bead and the silver cut tube components on each side. Slide three more bone beads on each side and create a knot, on each side of the cord, that will hold these components in place.
Before attaching the End Caps to the cord, you might want to look at this against you in the mirror to see how long you want the necklace to be. Once you've decided on the length, trim away excess cord and using an adhesive (we used super glue) attach the end caps . Once these are secure, attach a lobster clasp at one end using and oval jump ring and a 5 or 6mm jump ring at the other end so that the clasp has something to hook into.
To create the design above you will need the following items
To see more beading projects and jewelry design ideas click here
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