Fringe Earring Samples - Pink, Black & Silver

FRINGE EARRINGS

• 8/0 seed beads Miyuki "Duracoat Light Pewter" (4221)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Duracoat Galvanized Matte Light Cranberry" (DB1841F)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Duracoat Galvanized Light Pewter" (DB1851)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Black" (DB10)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Limestone Luster" (DB211)

Although this looks like a pair of earrings, they are actually two samples that are slightly different. This design is based on some earrings by Ana Belous that you can see on THIS page of her site. Hers are made with red, blue and yellow beads. I made the earring on the left first but there were some things that I don't like about it. I don't like the black beads that I had added at the top of the fringe on both sides. There is also not enough contrast between the white and silver beads all over the earring.

So, I gave it one more shot and while I do like it better than the first one, I'm not sure yet if I will keep trying, take them both apart or make the mate to it. I did fix the contrast issue by switching some of the colors around but I don't know if I like it well enough that I want a pair of these.

 

Mystery SuperDuo Bracelet Set - Rembrandt Matte Green

MYSTERY SUPERDUO BRACELET

• 11/0 seed beads Miyuki "Duracoat Pewter" (4222)
• 8/0 seed beads Miyuki "Duracoat Pewter" (4222)
• 8/0 seed beads "Green" (no info available)
• SuperDuo beads "Rembrandt Matte Turquoise Green"

I used another Rembrandt SuperDuo color to make this set. This color is called "Matte Turquoise Green" but it's not even remotely turquoise. I would call it "pea green". I'm not a big fan of green but I like this color because of the mottled finish on it.

I just happened to have some 8/0 green seed beads that compliment the SuperDuos very nicely. I also used some of them to make the earrings. Unfortunately there is no brand marked on the tube that I bought in a local shop years ago. I suspect that they are made by Matsuno because they are very poorly shaped. The stock number on the tube is 8-411L but I wasn't able to find that color with a Google search. However, it did bring up some shades of green in Matsuno beads but not the green with "L" at the end of the number.

The free tutorial for Pascale G-Mikovic's "Mystery SuperDuo Bracelet" is HERE on my blog. You can either watch Kelly Dale's free YouTube tutorial for the "Corundum Earrings" HERE or buy the pattern HERE in her Etsy shop. You'll find these Rembrandt SuperDuo beads HERE at Supply Emporium.

CORUNDUM EARRINGS

• 11/0 seed beads Miyuki "Duracoat Pewter" (4222)
• 8/0 seed beads Miyuki "Duracoat Pewter" (4222)
• 8/0 seed beads "Green" (no info available)
• SuperDuo beads "Rembrandt Matte Turquoise Green"
• SuperDuo beads "Jet Old Silver"

Fringe Earrings - Aloe & Copper

FRINGE EARRINGS #101

• 8/0 seed beads Miyuki/Czech "Black Bronze" (CZ55030)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Aloe Luster" (DB263)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Galvanized Cinnamon Brown" (DB460)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Matte Bone Glazed Luster" (DB388)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Matte Copper Plated" (DB340)

I used the same Anna Belous design to make these as the purple earrings that I blogged about HERE last Saturday. I think that these will be some of my favorite fringe earrings because I love the subtle colors. I made these to go with one of my tops that has these colors on it.


You can buy Delica beads at Red Panda, Aura Crystals, Supply Emporium and Jill Wiseman Designs.

 

Fringe Earrings - Folk Art Style

FRINGE EARRINGS #93

• 8/0 seed beads "Matte Black" (unknown brand)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Matte Black" (DB310)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Matte Glazed Honey Drop" (DB2285)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Dyed Red" (DB791)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Avocado" (DB1135)

I'm not sure if I have anything to wear these earrings with but I really wanted to come up with a scaled down version of some beautiful earrings by Anna Belous that I saw HERE on her blog. Her earrings are very large and would probably touch my shoulders so it was quite a challenge to make them much smaller yet still retain the folk art look of her original design. It took me a couple of tries to get the design on the top section to my liking.

I see in Anna's post that she had trouble getting the red beads to look the right color in her photos. She said that she actually used burgundy beads. Mine are red but not quite as orange red as you see in my photos. Computers always have trouble displaying red correctly.

You can buy Delica beads at Red Panda, Aura Crystals, Supply Emporium and Jill Wiseman Designs.

 

Fringe Earrings #98 - Moody Blue, Red & Silver

FRINGE EARRINGS #98

• 8/0 seed beads Miyuki "Duracoat Light Pewter" (4221)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Limestone Luster" (DB211)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Dyed Maroon" (DB654)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Moody Blue" (DB2129)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Duracoat Galvanized Light Pewter" (DB2110)

I made these earrings to go with a top that is mostly pale blue and white but also has splashes of red on it here and there. You can buy Delica beads at Red Panda, Aura Crystals, Supply Emporium and Jill Wiseman Designs.
 

 

Fringe Earrings #99 - Leaf Green & Nutmeg

FRINGE EARRINGS #99

• 8/0 seed beads Toho "Nickel Plated" (711)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Nickel Plated" (DB21)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Matte Leaf Green" (DB373)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Black" (DB10)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Duracoat Opaque Dyed Nutmeg" (DB2110)

I don't recall where I got the inspiration for these earrings. I enjoy creating new designs by adapting design elements that I've seen online. In most cases, I shrink the designs down to a size that I like to wear so they end up not looking so much like the originals by the time I'm finished. The green Delicas in these earrings are a sort of sage green and it looks about right in my photos. However, the "Nutmeg" Delicas look very orange in my photos. They are actually a little more yellowish kind of like acorn squash.


You can buy Delica beads at Red Panda, Aura Crystals, Supply Emporium and Jill Wiseman Designs.

Fringe Earrings - Eggplant, Limestone and Black

FRINGE EARRINGS

• 8/0 seed beads Toho "Nickel Plated" (711)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Duracoat Galvanized Pewter" (DB1852)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Limestone Luster" (DB211)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Opaque Black" (DB10)
• 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads "Galvanized Matte Eggplant" (DB1174)

I blogged HERE a couple years ago about the same earring design made with mauve Delicas. I had originally seen earrings like these on the blog of Anna Belous. I haven't been able to find the original photo on her blog again but I recently came across it on the site where she is selling her beadwork. You can see her earrings HERE. Anna has some wonderful fringe earrings but most of them are much wider and longer than I like to wear. These are the exception. I like them exactly the way that she designed them.

In case you're wondering why I used Toho nickel 8/0 beads at the top of these earrings instead of pewter ones, it's because I wasn't thinking clearly and forgot that I was using pewter beads. Oops!

You can buy Delica beads at Red Panda, Aura Crystals, Supply Emporium and Jill Wiseman Designs.
 

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