How Do You Make Complex Bead Earrings?
Beaded earrings can be simple and incorporate only one or two focal beads, or they can be complex and incorporate many beads of varying sizes and colors. The effects are very different but equally appealing. Making more complex earrings doesn’t necessarily mean they are more difficult to make, they just take a little more time to design and construct. Once you have your design planned, enjoy the process of creating your intricate earrings. They will be one-of-a-kind masterpieces when you are finished! Design your earrings. Consider the shape of the chandelier drops you are using. Often these drops will have five or six loops along the bottom and one more loop in the top center. The loops on the bottom should have bead combinations hanging from them. The upper center loop might have a slightly larger bead (or beads) handing from it as a focal bead. Make the bead combinations you will be hanging from the lower chandelier loops. For example, you could place one 4mm crystal bead onto a hea
