Video: Crimping Beaded Earrings

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Keep your earring beads on by crimping the wire. Learn how to crimp earring wires in this free video clip about making jewelry with beads.

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Now that we've crimped the wires, and if you notice I had cut off the excess, and here's some excess silver. This is sterling silver. You can save all your little scraps and you'll be able to sell them at a jewel or repair shop and every little bit of silver counts. I would save those and set them aside and when you have a whole bunch, go ahead and sell it back to your jewel supplier or to your local jeweler repairer. Now we're going to go ahead and put the wire on there. You open up the little bit of French hook wire, you get your end, loop it on like so, and you close it up, make sure it meets the little bead there. There's one earring right there. Let me go ahead and do the other one. Get your wire, open it up a little bit, put your little earring you just made on there, close it up, make sure it meets really well like so, and you have matching earrings with your necklace. We just finished making the earrings and the best way to display them I've found, is to go ahead and get your business card, and you laminate them so that you don't have to worry about any kind of damage or getting dirty, you can wipe them off. Get a nice little push pin, push a hole through your business card on the backside, put your earrings through it, and this is a great way to display your earrings with your necklace on a table top. You just put that there in the center, Viola!

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Crimping Beaded Earrings

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