Christmas Lantern Earrings

Thursday, December 6, 2012 - Leave a Comment

Today, I've picked out a couple of cane glass beads from my bead collection to turn into Christmas Lanterns. This is a super easy design to put together and doesn't need much explaining. But if you haven't tried making wrapped loops before, then click over to this post which shows you how to do it.

Furnace Cane Glass Dangly Lantern Earrings

To make a pair of these earrings, you'll need the following supplies:

Bead and finding layout for construction of Christmas Lantern earrings

2 Furnace Cane Glass Beads
4 Beadalon silver plated bead caps
4 x 6mm silver crystal rondelles
4 x 3mm silver ball beads
2 crystal teardrops
2 silver seed beads
2 x 4mm jump rings
2 silver head pins
2 silver eye pins
2 silver earring wires
tools: round nose pliers, flat nose pliers, flush cutters

Begin by threading on all the beads onto the eye pin in the order shown in the photo above, except for the seed bead and teardrop crystal. Turn a loop at the top.

Thread the seed bead and teardrop on the headpin. Leave a 2-3mm gap above the bead and bend the head pin at a 45° angle .

Teardrop crystal strung on a ball head pin

Form a loop with the round nose pliers.

Create a loop above the teardrop crystal

Hook it onto the bottom of the lantern component and create a wrapped loop. Trim the excess.

Attach the teardrop crystal to the bottom of the lantern component

Connect the earring wire to the lantern with the jump ring.

Hook the lantern component and the earring wire onto a jump ring.

Use the remaining beads and findings to create a matching lantern earring.

Tutorials related to this post:
How to make wrapped loops
How to make a simple loop (on Cut Out & Keep)

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