Angels Earrings - Twelve Days of Christmas

December is a fun and joyous month especially as we gear towards Christmas Day. We might spend our time shopping for the perfect gift, enjoying celebrations with family and friends or even spend an evening singing Christmas carols and melodies. But it's important that we remember the real reason for the season: the birth of Jesus, our Saviour. To celebrate that joyous and holy occasion, I've put together a tutorial for a pair of Angel-inspired earrings.

Here's what you'll need to make your own pair of Heavenly Host earrings:

• Gold aluminium mesh fabric
• 2 23x26mm Silver Angel Charm
• 2 smokey black star crystals with top drilled hole
• Beadalon 22 Gauge Hematite Artistic Wire
• 26 Gauge Gold Wire
• fine silver chain
• 2 silver earring wire
• 6 x 4mm silver jump rings
• tools: round nose pliers, chain nose pliers, flush cutters

Cut a piece of mesh 11 links x 11 links and then cut a length of gold wire approximately 25cm (10") long. Turn the mesh over to the back and thread the wire through the claws along the first side. Thread it along the second edge, pushing it through from the corner rather than pulling it from the end. This will help eliminate a nasty kink at the corner.

Repeat on all sides so that the wire exits from the top.

Twist the wires together neathly.

Form a loop and then thread on the earring wire making sure it is facing the right way. Finish the loop by wrapping it around the neck. Trim away the excess.

Cut a piece of chain 15mm (5/8") long and use jump rings to connect one end to the angel charm and the other end to the earring wire.

Create a triangle jump ring from the Hematite Wire for the star crystal. See this tutorial for instructions if you're not sure how to do that.

Connect the triangle jump ring to the earring wire with the remaining silver jump ring and you're done! Make another earring to match and you're ready to wear your angel earrings.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you'r looking for even more Christmas inspiration for your holiday jewellery-making, purchase one of my Twelve Days of Christmas Earrings ebooks. There are fun and whimsical earrings, religious-inspired designs, winter earrings and even Aussie Bush earrings included in the wide variety of designs you can choose from. You can download the books immediately and get started straight away.

My Christmas crafting is moving out of the studio and into the kitchen for the next few days as we create a Gingerbread House. I'll have a pic to share as soon as it's finished so please join me again soon.

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'Til next time.....

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