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Craft Tutorial#7- Sprial Earrings

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Craft Tutorial #7 Simple Spiral Earrings 

What You Need-All Items available at Fern Gully Stamps

 A ball point Pen that you can take ink out of (approx 5-10mm thick)

20 gauge wire

2 Ear hooks

2 head pins

2 beads

Colour Marker

Round nose pliers

Flat nose pliers

Wire Cutters

Step 1-Measure 2 lengths of 20cm of straight 20 gauge wire

Mark    6cm on each wire

Bend both wires at  the 6cm mark at the same time 90 degree angle

Step 2-Place the short end inside the hole in the pen

Hold with you thumb and press the long side of the wire against the outside of the pen

Step 3-Keep holding firmly with your thumb as you pull the wire out to the side 

Step 4-Still holding the wire firmly with your thumb wrap the remaining wire around the pen    

Step 5-Make sure the  spiral is even

Remove the wires from the pen

  Step 6-Very gently separate the wires  

Hold them together they should be even, if not adjust them

Put a loop in the end of the straight wire

Place a bead onto a head pin, trim the wire 8mm from the  bead and form a loop with round nose pliers- Click here to go to the Basic Loop Tutorial

Attach this bead to  the loop on the straight wire  

Finally attach an ear wire to the top where the wire bends

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