Adapted from a design from our friends at TierraCast, Bells of Christmas is a simple and lovely design for the entire holiday season! Make them in gold as shown or make them in silver, it's your choice!
Here's the supply list:
Item
Quantity
Hoop Earwire with Loop and 2mm Bead
1 pair
5mm Round Jump Rings
4
2" 24 gauge headpins
12
2mm Round Bead
2
3mm Round Bead
4
5x8mm Small Bell Flower Cone
2
6x9mm Medium Bell Flower Cone
2
8x12mm Large Bell Flower Cone
2
4mm Swarovski Crystal Faceted Round Beads ~ Crystal AB
6
How to make the earrings
(a slight variation from the TierraCast project)
Make the Bell Dangles ~
Insert a headpin into a 4mm faceted round crystal bead and form a small wrapped loop at the top, small enough to tuck up inside the bells.
Using another headpin, form a small simple loop at one end, cutting off the head of the headpin, and attached to the loop of the crystal bead. (The TierraCast project says that you can use the part you trim off the first wrapped loop to make the 2nd one. This can be difficult and frustrating. We used another headpin.)
Insert the straight end of the headpin up through the inside of the small bell flower cone and add a 2mm round bead at the top, then form a small wrapped loop.
Repeat with 2nd small bell flower cone.
Repeat the process with the 2 medium and 2 large bell flower cones, using the 3mm round beads at the top of the cone. You should have a total of 6 bell dangles, 2 of each size.
Assemble the earrings ~
Attach one jump ring to the large bell.
Open another jump jump ring and use it to join together a small bell, a medium bell, the jump ring of the large bell and the loop of the earwire.
