Happy Valentine's Day!

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a pair of Heart Banner Earrings!  Here's what you'll need:

1 1/2 inch eye pins x 24
1/2 inch head pins x 8
4mm crystal bicone in red x 2
3mm crystal bicone in red x 8
2.3 mm small silver plated chain
ear wires
11/0 seed beads in red and white
round nose pliers
chain nose pliers
wire cutter
bead mat
ruler

Take 9 eye pins and trim them down to 1 1/16 inch from the eye.

We can now start to string on the seed beads onto the shortened eye pins.  After the seed beads are on, loop the end of the pin to create an eye that is similar in size to the other end.  Eyes need to face the same way.  You will need to lay each eye pin onto your bead mat in sequence of completion from left to right.  The eye loop that you make should always be on the top.

1. String on 13 white seed beads, loop the end and place onto your mat.

2. String on 6 white seed beads, then 3 red seed beads, and then 4 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

3. String on 5 white seed beads, then 5 red seed beads, and then 3 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

4.  String on 4 white seed beads, then 5 red seed beads, and then 4 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

5.  String on 2 white seed beads, then 6 red seed beads, and then 5 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

6.  String on 4 white seed beads, then 5 red seed beads, and then 4 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

7.  String on 5 white seed beads, then 5 red seed beads, and then 3 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

8.  String on 6 white seed beads, then 3 red seed beads, and then 4 white seed beads.  Loop the end and place onto your mat.

9.  String on 13 white seed beads and then loop the end and place onto your mat.


Take a 2 inch eye pin and string on a white seed bead.  Now string on each beaded eye pin starting from the left and moving to the right, stringing on a white seed bead between each one.  After the last eye pin is strung on, string on a white seed bead.  Trim the end down so that you can loop the end to create and eye then same size as the one on the other end.  Repeat this process for the bottom eyes.

Take 4 head pins.  On each one, string on a white seed beads, a 3mm red bicone, and another white seed bead.  Loop the end into an eye and trim down.  Attach a beaded head pin to each corner of the scroll.

Take an eye pin and string on a white seed bead, a 4mm bicone and another white seed bead.  Loop the end into an eye and trim down. 

Cut the chain to get 2 sections that are 3/4 of an inch.  Attach one section to the top left eye of your scroll and the other section to the top right eye of your scroll.  Join the two ends of chain to the beaded eye pin and then attach an ear wire.

Repeat all for the other side of the earring.

I'm thinking that this technique could also work for a pattern of different designs but the hard part will be to figure out the seed bead placement.  Please scroll down to read about the tree of life projects at our Pearl City BFC and have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Lynn H. @ Mapunapuna Bead Shop BFC