Retired - Candy Cane Earrings

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1. Begin by looking through your seed bead mix and pick out 2 seed beads in red and 2 in green. (Note: There is a light and dark version of green and red in the assorted mix; I used the light red and the dark green, but you can choose your favorite shade of these colors.)
2. Take your eye pin and string on in this order: a red bead, a green bead, a red bead and a green bead.
3. Once your beads are on, create a simple wire loop using your round nose pliers. Snip off any excess wire using your flush cutters.
4. Next, using your chain nose pliers, open up the loop on your earring hook (the same way you would open a jump ring) and slide on the loop from your simple wire loop. Close the earring loop back up.
5. Now open up the jump ring that is already on your charm, and slide it through the loop on your eye pin. Close the jump ring with your chain nose pliers.
6. Your earring is now ready.

• PND-8146 - Silver Plated Enamel Charm Christmas Red White Candy Cane With Bow Facing Right 20mm (1)
  Project uses 1 piece. You will need 1 package.


• PND-8001 - Silver Plated Enamel Charm Christmas Red White Candy Cane With Bow Facing Left 20mm (1)
  Project uses 1 piece. You will need 1 package.


• FEA-3015 - Silver Plated Fishhooks Earring Hooks (50)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• BCS-6940 - Czech Seed Beads 6/0 'Rainbow Opaque' Mix Multi Assorted (1 Ounce)
  Project uses 8 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• FHP-6267 - Silver Plated Open Eye Pins 22 Gauge 2 Inch (x50)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.

• XTL-5600 - Xuron Sharp Flush Cutter Pliers - Wire/Soft Flex
• XTL-5514 - Beadsmith Jewelry Fine Round Nose Micro Pliers
• XTL-5511 - Beadsmith Jeweller's Micro Pliers Chain Nose Flat Nose