How to Make Fabulous Fall Leaf Earrings from the book Bead Jewelry 101

Are you in the mood to whip up a new pair of earrings to celebrate the changing colors of the leaves? Well, I am! One of my wacky baby trees has just one little section that is changing. 

Here is a great design that uses little brown leaf beads:

 

 

 

Click on the images to enlarge and read how to make Teardrop Leaf Earrings out of beading cable and a hand full of leaf beads. This project and tutorial is from the book:

Bead Jewelry 101

By:

Karen Mitchell and Ann Mitchell

In the style of Sewing 101, Quilting 101, and Home Décor Sewing 101, this workshop-style book teaches all the popular craft techniques used to make jewelry. Techniques are learned by doing projects, and the projects are organized to build skills cumulatively, beginning with the easier techniques and progressing to more difficult.

Karen and Ann Mitchell(Altadena, CA) are a dynamic sister team with a costume jewelry company called AnKara Designs. They make and sell jewelry, teach classes nationwide, and have appeared regularly on the Carol Duvall Show. They publish articles in Jewelry Crafts and other magazines and participate in 18 large arts and crafts shows annually.

Comments

[Eileen]

The earrings are lovely and so simple to make. TFS!

[Vintage Rings]

THank you for sharing information. your informtaion is quite useful for me as i am very new in making jewelry pieces. I would like to try this piece also.

[Findings]

I showed my daughter these blogs and postings and she said she makes bead jewelry so much quicker than she used to.