St Patrick’s Day Earrings

Instructions

Tools Needed
Shamrock Pattern Template (attached)
Green Thread
Scissors
Pencil
Wire Cutters
Needle Nose Pliers
Round Nose Pliers

Techniques to Know
Form a Loop
Jump Rings
Basic Gluing

Instructions:
1. Print and cut out shamrock pattern template.

2. Trace and cut out two shamrock patterns on the back side of a sheet of green glitter foam. Flip the pattern piece over and repeat. (You now have two sets of two pieces that line up back-to-back.) Use E-6000 adhesive to join the pieces together back-to-back. Allow adhesive to dry.

3. Just below the middle at the top, use a bead reamer (or sharp pointed end tool) to punch a hole through a set of joined shamrocks.

4. Load a long-doubled length of green thread onto a beading needle. String on 5½” of green e-beads. Tie a knot in one end of the thread to hold the beads onto the thread.

5. Apply E-6000 adhesive around the outside edge of the petals on one set of the joined shamrocks. Use tweezes to help press the strung beads, from the previous step, onto the E-6000 adhesive to frame the petals of your shamrock with green e-beads. Allow adhesive to dry thoroughly. (At this point, the thread can be pulled out of the beads.)

6. Carefully attach a 6mm jump ring through the hole in the middle of the top of the joined shamrocks.

7. Slide a bronze e-bead, green e-bead, and bronze e-bead onto an eye pin. Trim the stem and form a loop to make a beaded link. Attach the loop on one end of the beaded link to the 6mm jump ring from the previous step.

8. Connect the loop on the other end of the beaded link to an ear wire.

9. Repeat steps 3-8 for the matching earring.