Flying Dragonflies Earrings
Project E680
Designer: Julie Bean
Stamped dragonflies fly happily around an antique gold plated flat oval tag in these charming earrings. Amethyst crystal and glass accents add extra drama and elegance to this design.
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What You'll Need
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Specialized Tools
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Instructions:
Remember to double these instructions to make your matched set of earrings.
- Start by taking your dragonfly rubber stamp and stamping dragonflies in a random pattern on a Nunn Design gold plated flat circle toggle tag, Use the StazOn ink in black for this process and make several "test" stampings on a scrap piece of paper first to see how much pressure you need to apply when stamping.
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After you have finished with your dragonfly stamp, add some more stamping details with your mini branch rubber stamp. See photo. Let dry for 5 minutes before going onto the next step.
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Take your Nunn Design gold plated 13mm round bezel cup and bend back one of the edge loops so that you will be able to hook a jump ring to it. You can do this by grabbing the loop with your chain nose pliers and bending back so that it lays flat instead of upright.
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Take a small dab of E6000 and place it on the flat backside of your amethyst 13mm round glass cabochon. Place this into the bezel cup from the above step. Press down and let dry.
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Open a 4mm gold jump ring and link it to the bent back loop on the bezel cup with cabochon and the loop on one side of the Nunn Design oval tag that you stamped earlier. Close the jump ring.
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Place onto a gold head pin 1 Swarovski 4mm bicone in amethyst. Create a simple wire loop after the bead but make sure the loop is facing the opposite direction as the one on the other end (see photo).
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Open one of the simple loops from the segment in the last step and connect this to the loop on the oval flat tag. Close the loop. Open the loop on the other side and attach your earring hook to it. Close the loop back up.
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All done! Enjoy!
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Variations
Make this same earring using various rubber stamps to create unique designs. When substituting in items, pay attention to sizes and styles to make sure all your pieces will fit together.
Keywords: spring earrings, spring, nature, animal
Tip: Check package quantities for each component. You may have extra material to make more than one finished project, or will have leftovers for other projects. In some cases, adding on just one more package of a component may be all you need to make multiple pieces.
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