Create Colorful Jewelry with Mirage Beads and Mermaid Scales

Create Colorful Jewelry with Mirage Beads and Mermaid Scales

If you are wanting to make colourful items, below are two products positive to make sure you: “Mirage Beads” and “Mermaid Scales”. Equally arrive in daring vivid colours and the feasible design and style combinations are (just about) countless. I chose to make dangly earrings employing my favorite Mirage bee beads and vivid purple Mermaid scales. Browse on for guidelines and inspiration…what will you make?

Shade-Altering Mirage Beads are encouraged by the mood jewelry of the ’60s and ’70s. The shade-switching, thermo-sensitive polymer beads alter color with small temperature improvements and display a vary of rainbow-like hues. Mirage beads are readily available in several types.

Mirage beads occur with an insightful card to assistance you decipher your hot and chilly emotions!

Weave Got Maille Mermaid Scales are lightweight domed teardrop-formed drops produced from powder-coated 316L metal. They are out there in 3 sizes and a wave of vivid and reflective shades.

You will need to have these materials:

You will require these tools:

OR you can get a jewelry-creating resource set:

EURO Resource Glitter, Five-Piece Established

The EURO TOOL® GlitterLine™ standard jewelry device established features 5 applications. The set has chain-nose pliers, flat-nose pliers, bent chain-nose pliers, round-nose pliers, and semi-flush facet cutters–and they are all stored in a handy roll-up pouch. The at ease 4.5-inch pliers have glittery PVC grips, precision floor ideas, and box-joint construction with double-leaf springs for convenience. This package is a Rings & Things’ “Staff Choice” and a “Best Seller”.

Mermaid scales are domed, the “front” convex aspect getting a powder-coated colour and the “back” concave facet becoming a reflective silvertone. 

Twist open up the eye pin loop, then thread on a mermaid scale allure. Last but not least, twist the eye pin loop closed. I utilized a single mermaid scale for every earring, displaying purple on the front and silver on the bottom. You can also layer two mermaid scales again-to-back on the eye pin so that purple is noticeable from both equally sides.  

String the beads onto the eye pin in this pattern: metallic fluted hogan (bicone) bead, Mirage bead, and steel fluted hogan bead. 

Mirage beads have a huge hole that is somewhere around 2-to-3mm in measurement, which tends to in shape sloppily on a head pin. The metallic fluted hogan beads nestle down into the bead holes and act as bead aligners, centering the Mirage bead snuggly on the head pin.

Finish the eye pin end with a wrapped loop. For the finished earring to hold in the proper way, the wrapped loop ought to be perpendicular to the reduce loop attached to the mermaid scale.

Use semi-flush side cutters to clip off the remaining eye-pin tail. For a clean up straight slash, deal with the flat aspect of the cutter’s jaw following to the wrapped coil. Then use chain-nose pliers to flatten down the reduce wire conclusion.

Thread the top loop of the beaded adornment onto the ear wire with the concluded side struggling with outward. With ball-conclusion ear wires, you do not commonly want to twist open up the loop with just a very little tension, the adornment will slide around the ball conclusion and rest securely in the ear wire loop.

Now that you have created a person earring, repeat the methods to make the second earring. To insert interest, I selected to flip the direction of the bee in my next earring.

“Lavender Honey” Earrings by Rings & Matters Designer Mollie Valente.

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Make items!

Mollie

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