The beauty of natural stones has fascinated humanity for thousands of years. After all, each stone is a unique creation of nature with its own unique pattern. It is difficult to think of a more suitable item to demonstrate the taste and status of its owner! Today, in order to find your unique stone, it is not necessary to go to distant countries; it is enough to make an expedition to the nearest gem fair.
You can open a box with your favorite beads scattered and turn them, for example, into spectacular original earrings.
Required materials and tools
For unique pieces, in addition to stone beads, you will need pins, earrings (earring loops with or without a lock), thin pliers, enthusiasm and a little patience.
For bead options - a special bead needle, strong nylon thread or thin fishing line.
Creative DIY earrings made from natural stones
Let's dwell on interesting options (in DACs, etc.) on how to create creative earrings with different stones with your own hands. You can start with easy models, then move on to exotic and more complex ones.
Mysterious ethnicity
Natural stone always looks great in jewelry ethnic style. If you have beads of different sizes, they can be combined with silver or bronze fittings that reference the ethnic images of traditional cultures.
Important! The accessories should match the color of your earring earrings - it is better to select them as a set.
Beads made of stone and metal are strung on a jewelry pin of sufficient length or several if the earrings need to be flexible. The free end of the pin at the required height is bent into a ring with pliers and secured to the earring ring. Excess wire can be cut off with wire cutters.
Marine motifs
For a beach look simply attach a smooth stone bead to a separate pin, and decorate the bottom with a metal pendant with a nautical theme: in the form of an anchor, steering wheel or starfish. A bright image is guaranteed.
Advice! On a real vacation, shiny fittings may become darkened by sea water. We recommend choosing fittings with a discreet shine, the design of which looks interesting and darkened.
beauty of nature
Untreated stone has its own primitive charm, and often when processing it you want to preserve it. Today, large beads of “wild” shapes with uneven edges and edges are at the height of fashion. They goes well with fittings in copper and bronze shades and the same distinctly raw textures.
Can decorate earrings with large tassels made of thick threads, as if spun by hand in the Bronze Age, at the dawn of jewelry crafts.This style will look great and asymmetrical earrings, the main thing is that they are combined with each other. And if you wear them with a simple black dress or T-shirt, the hoary antiquity will magically turn into ultra-modern avant-garde.
Advice! You can take earrings of both original shapes and the simplest and most neutral ones. But thin and elaborate ones, with rhinestones and butterflies, most likely will not fit into the natural image. Or the butterflies should be more powerful and more textured.
Elegant beads with stones
Small identical beads of natural stone, clearly factory processed, both smooth and faceted, are difficult to pass off as antiquity. They will look spectacular in jewelry, created using beading technique. Mysteriously shimmering beads will give the earrings the charm of a hand-made item and demonstrate the patience and skill of the craftswoman’s hands.
It is better to weave earrings on a thin fishing line or double nylon thread - Natural stone beads are quite heavy, and a thin thread will quickly fray.
Advice! In this option, the impression of naturalness is not so important, so both natural stones and those tinted with aniline dyes will look good. For these beads, we recommend choosing the beaded option.
Socket
Place four sets of three beads and one seed bead on the thread and close them into a ring. Pass the thread around the ring one more time, skipping each middle bead of the set. Pull it well. The socket is ready, you can fasten the thread.
The earring ring is made in exactly the same way, only without beads. The number of beads between the corners depends on the desired ring size, feel free to experiment!
Advice! Most often, one or two beads are made per side of the rhombus, but if the rhombus has long sides, an additional small bead can be sewn into its center.
Drops
Collect six beads, a drop-shaped bead with a horizontal hole and five seed beads. Pass the needle through the first bead of the set, closing the loop. Make a ring for the earrings, as in the previous version. Fasten the thread.
The earrings are ready!
Advice! If the drop has a vertical hole, collect three beads at its bottom and return the needle up the bead.
Renaissance
Rosette and drop earrings can be combined, making an additional diamond ring between the elements, similar to the ring for the earrings. Exquisite earrings in the Renaissance style are suitable for evening looks. With a little imagination, you can effectively complement any look.
Once you try, it will be impossible to break away from the creative process. You can involve children and let their ideas become reality.
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