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Transcript:
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hey everybody it's Trish hope everyone's well uh today I'm gonna do a video for
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you and it's going to consist of me showing you three different techniques on how to color your wooden charms that
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you'll use for your earrings after that I'm gonna show you how to
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make one and what kind of beads I use and techniques I'm also going to discuss in this video
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what kind of sealers to use on your wooden pieces so all that being said
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this is going to be a super fun video so let's get started so we're going to start out here with me
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showing you some of these beautiful charms that you can get now at jeweloon.com
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um this one is the daisy you can see how she put um holes at this a hole at the top and
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then three holes at the bottom you certainly could dangle things off there or also utilize the open leaves to do
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some unique things with it I've also got a leaf
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super fun a lotus flower
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a feather of sunshine and that was cool too
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because it has the three holes at the bottom and my favorite the beautiful butterfly and you can see this has a lot
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of detail to it okay and I'm going to show you how to color that detail it makes it nice to really
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give it a lot of depth so we're gonna get started I have three
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techniques here I'm going to show you as far as coloring goes and then I'm going to show you how to put some of the earrings together and just
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simply you know so it's as easy as possible so what we're going to start
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with here is our sunshine okay so we'll get our colored pencils
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out these are the color pencils that I use okay
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and so what I want to do here is I want to pick two colors that are closed in the color family
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so I'm going to pick yellow and orange
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and I'm going to start with the lighter color in the middle okay and it's just a simple
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as starting to color it in I use the side of the pencil and the light touch
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because I don't want it to get too dark just yet I want to see kind of where everything goes and I'm gonna work
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out here just a little bit between these sun the sun rays
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just like so and you know
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um the sky's the limit on this guys you could use as many colors as you want
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um and just really make them sing we're gonna do kind of simple today so
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that way then beginners and advanced can do this
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okay you can see how that's kind of looks like it's working its way out from the center
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all right I'm just going to go between those rays now don't go down inside to the cutout
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spots I don't recommend that I think that um the color doesn't do as nice down in
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those those are much prettier if you just leave them the way they are so now I'm going to pick up my orange
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and I think I'm going to go in here and I'm going to do orange in this ring
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going around the Sun kind of give it a little bit of a pop
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all right and then I'm going to start out from where uh we ended our yellow just
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slightly inside that and I'm going to start slowly working my way out with the orange okay
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so we're just kind of blending I'm going to work out to the edge
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all right and I like how this gives it depth
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you forgot a little yellow in here it gives a depth really guys by using multiple colors
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and it gives it a really cool look in my opinion
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we're just working out to the edge blend blend blend that's the name of the game here
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this is super relaxing to do in therapeutic which is a big part of what jewel loom
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is about okay
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working that out and you can see we're getting a pretty good start there it's coming along pretty cute
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so now I'm going to take my lighter pencil and I'm going to go back in here and I'm just going to kind of blend
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out again with the yellow and just kind of connect those colors
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where they kind of meet in the middle and kind of blend if you know what I mean
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okay
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so once you do that again and you're blending out into that orange just trying to avoid a harsh line
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see how that's coming along for us and I'm going to go in with my orange and I'm just going to go around the edge
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here and I'm trying to apply more pressure just to get like a darker look right around the edge
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so it really gives the piece will pop okay but it just
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really makes the pieces safe and I may even
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just go in here a little bit on this side and just lightly color in a little bit of orange to give that Center a
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little bit of depth okay so it's a simple as that with colored pencils now you can color the
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back don't hesitate to do that as far as sealing colored pencil or any
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of these techniques for that matter you can use a clear coat spray
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you can use resin and with the patina paints that actually have a glaze that
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you can purchase the zip right here that you could use as well okay so let's
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get on to our next technique which is the potato paints
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and for that what we're going to use we're going to use this little feather
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okay and what you need is your patina paints
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a little bit of water some brushes and I use a little paint
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palette it just makes things a little easier now I use the Vintage patina paints their packaging has been updated
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and I believe they change their recipe a little bit but they do the same exact thing so grab yourself some patina
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paints and you're going to want to this is one of my favorite colors Verdigris
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and then this is one of my new found favorite colors blue fluoride so you want to make sure when you get these
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you're shaking and shaking and shaking because that way you're getting all that
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paint distributed mixed through and you hear that little metal ball bouncing in there
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that's what's mixed in for you so we'll just mix this for a second
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[Music] okay so that probably wasn't long enough but
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it'll keep us going now you see how I'm squeezing that and it's not coming out usually what I'll do then is just take a
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little piece of wire and I don't have a spare piece here but I'm just going to trim a piece off of
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my wire roll here and a little trick is just take a little
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piece of wire in there this size should work and just kind of move it back and forth
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and up and down to clear that out and then you can put some of it on your
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paint palette it's still kind of slow but that'll work you don't need very much that's way way
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way more than what we actually need but that's okay
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so I'm going to put a little bit of fluoride color in there and I can see that's not quite mixed the way I want it
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so I'll just take a popsicle stick and just kind of blend what I have in my palette here a little
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bit that off I'm gonna do the same over here it's a little cheap you can do
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all right so I'm just going to take a simple paint brush I have a variety here I can choose from but and we're gonna do
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the same concept you're gonna start in the middle and what I'd like to do with this is I kind of will wipe my paint off
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a little bit just kind of wipe it off on my my sheet here and just kind of work out from the
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center the same way that we did with light Strokes because I just want to kind of see
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how things are going to move along here all right so you're just going to take a
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paper towel if you want to stay lighter in the middle and when you put it on just kind
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of rub it and you can see how it pushes it down into the wood
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as well as lightening it a little bit so again I'm just going to take a little
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bit off of here because I don't want a lot okay I'm just kind of playing with it
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here and seeing again I'm wiping that off
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working it down a little bit just lightly Feathering it to those edges okay so we're going to
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get a color blend
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a little bit more in this morning because I do want that just just darker
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okay and if you make a boo-boo no big deal you can always paint over it or just take your little paper towel and
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kind of blend it out look at that guys that's cool already right
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so then what you want to do is you want to make sure and clean your brushes off don't let them dry with this because
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that that will ruin your brush quickly but you also want to make sure that you're cleaning it off in between and
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it's just simply with water okay
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clean that off and I'm just drying it with my paper towel and now I'm going to take the fluorite
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color and I'm going to work with it around the edge a little bit here a little bit up in this Loop
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and just kind of feather the edges with that and you can see that's already
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given us depth by having those two colors there
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okay you could add a third color if that appeals to you
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another shade you could do a really light blue in the very center that would
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be pretty I just keep working this I'm like okay well I want a little bit more turquoise in the middle
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and that's a pop out just a little bit more and you can just keep layering until you get the exact look
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that you want okay and I'll even take the other colors and kind of mash them
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together a little bit both of them just to kind of get that middle color
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to blend better see how that goes and same thing for this you can also
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paint the back of this really make it look finished but that's the basic concept for that guys see how
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you have the depth and I'm going to take a little bit more of these blue on the edge
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and that's what I do I just keep layering it until I'm happy
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with the way it looked and again you can seal it like we said it's always that you can sell these wood
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pieces so there that is our feather all right so I'm gonna put this in water
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my brush and we're going to move on to the alcohol inks
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all of these are very simple techniques and anyone can do it's just a fun way to
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play around with these gorgeous little pieces so I'm going to move this off and
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on the way put it with our sun okay and I'm just going to wipe this up
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because I don't want to get it on my arms as I'm using my alcohol inks just to make sure that
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there because this is just a piece of paper I'm working on a spare piece of paper just to make a mess on because I
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don't want my top of my desk okay you can certainly do that a piece of paper some paper towels some newspaper works
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as well okay so here we go our butterfly
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beautiful beautiful now this one's a little bit more intricate if you want to get intricate okay that's your choice
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but I use alcohol ink so I'm gonna intricate pieces and these are ones that I just got off Amazon okay
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and I'm just gonna pick a couple pink colors here what's nice about this is
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you can you get this little paper here and you can write show the colors
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besides the number so you can actually see what they look like on paper okay so
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I'm looking at this and I'm pretty sure I want to do Maybe
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pastel pink and Vivid Pink So that would be 6 and 17. okay so we'll play with
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those there's six and seventeen that's two colors you could do three if
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you wanted to add in the rose pink that's number eight we'll grab that too just for fun okay let's put these over
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here I'm gonna want my black too for the body so I'm gonna grab my black
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okay so we'll just start out by doing
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some of the colors around the edges all right so let's start
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with our darker color and I just want to use the fine tip with this okay if you had a bigger piece your coloring say for
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instance the sun you could use the Chisel tab all right so I'm just going to start
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around this Edge and I'm just going to kind of go a little bit with that one
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[Music] 17.
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I'm gonna take that off there and we're gonna work our way down some
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and then we'll take our third one it's the rose pink move that out of the
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way and grab that and continue it around now look as I'm coloring that that's not even going to show up so this is pretty
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much not going to work on this piece so we will just stick with the two colors
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we originally picked so we'll do this just around the corner grab some more dark pink and we're just
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trying to give it a little bit of depth a little bit of interest you can do this if you want if not keep it simple do one
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color totally your baby here
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right I'm just gonna color around these little antenna
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and I'm just going to take that light pink down in here between those antennas so it looks kind of finished
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and then again grab my darker pink
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and just start pulling that through bringing it around
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and then finish it off with our lighter color this is just kind of a variegated
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way to do it and what's nice guys with these alcohol inks I can grab into where I just colored that darker color and
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kind of pull it into my light color if I want just to kind of make sure everything Blends and there's not a
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sudden stop of color the other thing you can do is use the blender pen that comes with it
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and it makes it nice that it's just like a white clear pen it's usually number zero in
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the package okay so it's the same concept we're just gonna grab this we're gonna blend this
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down kind of make this look like you know it was all connected it's not
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going to have any sudden stops or starts and that just works perfectly and just
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really gives you a pretty look okay so that's another concept I always write
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after I'm done with it because I don't want that color Stained on there I just kind of rub it off
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so here we go we're gonna go in with our pinks
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maybe I'll grab a little bit of purple to put in the middle too so here I picked up this color and I'm just gonna
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start coloring in areas okay I'm gonna do a little purple there I
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think I'm gonna do a little purple up here maybe some on this
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and just play with it and have fun okay there's our purple
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there he is to him out here do some toward the center here
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and you can see how these are kind of divided in little pieces that makes it really cool looking and gives you an
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opportunity to really add depth to the pieces you know
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and then we're gonna put some purple in the center here and again you can go in you can
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blend you can you know just the sky's the limit and where's my
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light one there we go put a little bit of light here
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kind of spread it out a little bit so you get a little bit of purple there you get a little pink here you know
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just to kind of give it that depth
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and I'm sorry if I'm moving my piece around a lot that's just how I kind of color and go here
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but that gives you the idea you can obviously use different colors a
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teal would be gorgeous on here I think I'm going to take this little bit of pink that I put down here I think
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I'm going to take my purple and just color over that one you can do
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that with the darker colors and it means a little bit lighter over purple but still looks super super cute so I just
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grabbed some fire polish a couple pieces out of the Czech glass
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bags that Jewel sells here's one I've used a lot of these but
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she has a variety of colors there are awesome pieces of Czech glass in here that you could use
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to make earrings for days and then this is uh one of my favorites right here that one
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in the turquoise so and I just have a little bit of fire polish guys too so
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I'm gonna take wire okay and we'll start with our sunshine how about that this is for our our
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feather and I'm going to grab some gold tone
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uh beadalon German style wire and I'm just going to cut off maybe I don't know
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eight inches that's way more than we're gonna need but hey what it's better to have more than less and I keep missing
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that here we go so once you do that you're just going to
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warm up the wire with your fingers that's strange
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okay and we're going to make the little
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um charms from the bottom here you don't have to use head pins I'm going to show
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you how to not use head pins so if you just have some spare wire hanging around you can certainly do that
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I'm just grabbing my tools here I need my wire working tools now
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so I'm going to start out Simply by making a loop on the end of The Wire
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actually let me flush cut that a little bit first okay and then
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take that in the very tip of my round nose pliers move this out so you can see and I'm just gonna roll it
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around on top of itself twice until I come back to the part that I
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started okay right here and then I'm going to take
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my chain nose or my tweezinger pliers and I'm going to bend this
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just like so almost looks like a golf club at this point and then I'm just going to take this
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wire I'm going to cut this end off here because that's not going to work
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that off and I'm just going to take that wire and I'm going to take it down and I'm going to gently bend it
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and put the end back through the loops on the bottom okay
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and then I'm just going to take my chain nose pliers
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and my wire straighteners just so everything stays really nice
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and just give that a pull and I'm giving it a good tug because I'm going to move in closer give it just a
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little bit more oops I want to go too crazy on it but you want that to kind of knot up at the
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bottom just like so and then I usually will come in and I'll just kind of straighten it out a little
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bit get it level with the wire and there is your own head pin you just created
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this wire straightener just go over this again so we're going to make we're going to
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want to make three of these but I can tell you my technique that I I just make them as I go it's just that simple so
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I'm just gonna pick out some of I don't know why that is in there that needs to
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go in the other Bowl um the fire polish and I'm just going to
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Simply add a piece of fire polish onto the bottom look how cool that looks and then just a little spacer round bead
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okay you can add as much as you want as long as angles as
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you like so I'm just gonna do let's see I didn't orange so let's grab a yellow
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all right so there's two and then we'll put one more ball on top
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how about that that'll give us really pretty dangle there okay so
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simply for me I'll show you um what I do to make my life easier I
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use this little tool here it's a one step Looper and you just put the end of the wire
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through that feed it through up to where your beads are and I always back
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off just even a fingernail length so I don't crack my crystals and then just squeeze
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and that is your first angle right there okay so we're going to continue with
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that we're going to make two more head pins two more dangles again we're gonna
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grab the end we're gonna wrap around twice
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and we're going to end into a golf club shape
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and then take the end of the wire and put that through those circles of wire at the bottom
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just like so and then we're going to grab the wire
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and
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there we go there's one more so we're going to do for the one in the middle we're going to make it slightly longer
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we're going to start with the yellow and the bottom okay
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I'm going to need to trim that end off it has a little bit of a indent and the beads don't want to go over it
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so there we go just take your fire polish you can even put some
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Daisy spacers on if you like
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oh so we're going to take that and then a piece of our Orange
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we're gonna do three layers here with Daisy spacers okay because we did two beads with the rounds
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on the other one this is the center so and then grab another yellow
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and let's put one of those ball spacers on top
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just that simple guys what a little bit of fire polish will do for you right so again
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I'm gonna take this one step Looper in here and I'm going to put my wire through the
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one side of it back off just like a fingernail length and squeeze
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all right so I'm going to make one more of these guys and I'll be right back so we're back I have all three of my
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dangles made they are super cute ready to go now
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we're gonna make the top part I like to make it you can just go ahead and put a jump ring and an earring hook in here if
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you want to but I like to um make it put a bead up here as well
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so I'm just going to show you how to do a simple Loop since we were using the uh one step Looper for the other just to
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kind of give you a bit of info so I just cut that in flush I'm going to move this stuff out of the way
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and we're just going to grab the end of our wire with the tip of our pliers and
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it depends on the size of loop that you want so I'm going to move mine down just a hair and I'm going to make sure I'm right at that end and I'm just going to
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give that I'm going to do a twist of the wrist and I'm going to bring that around just
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like so okay and then I'm going to go in the center of that with my pliers and
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then push my wire back and you can see how you get a little lollipop look there
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and that gives you that centered Circle okay so it's the centered Loop
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so what I'm going to end up doing here is I'm going to attach this into
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my piece I'm going to put a jump ring and then hook this in so it's going to go this direction side to side so
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looking at this I want to build a top for this and I don't want it to be too high only because it'll already be a bit
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of a long earring but it's up to you for the sizes you desire of course so
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I'm just going to put a fire polish can't go wrong with fire polish a daisy spacer and these are just things
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you have in your stash and like I said for the Czech glass those mixes are golden stuff right there
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so there you go and and then another I'm gonna put a big piece of iron polish on
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the top another Daisy spacer and another orange okay
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just as simple as that
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okay there we go so what you can do at the top of this you can make a wrap Loop if you like the
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look of that I'm going to go ahead and do that I'm just going to take my pliers bend it over to the side bend the wire
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over to the side grab my round nose pliers put those in and this is how I do it
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everyone does them different of course but this is a good way that I found you go up and over
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rotate your pliers I don't take mine out I just rotate them it's one less step for me
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and hold on to that and then I'm going to cross it and I'm just going to adjust that so
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that's sitting in the center there now I'm going to take my pliers out and I'm going to grab it with my tweezer or my
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chain nose plier and I'm going to firmly hold that Loop while I do a wire wrap
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okay and that's a wrap Loop right there if we'd stop right there that's a wrap Loop
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you would just trim that and go but if I have all this wire left sometimes I like to play so I will bring the wire across
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the front and just kind of go in between the beads and you can see I'm just kind of wrapping that
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bring it around the back like so and then I'm going to go down the front of this bead
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just like so and I'm going to take my pliers out I like to hold it at this point wrap it around that piece of fire polish
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back through and that on to the bottom
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get that adjusted because I want there to be some wire across the front of that as we go okay so you can see how I'm
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adjusting that I'm going to hold that there with my fingers and just go around the bottom a couple times
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and there you go we're just gonna travel that we have that top piece done this is
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actually going to be the top the lemon throw up Loop and we're just going to connect that now with jump Rings it's
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just that simple we're going to connect all these pieces and we're going to get our wire up as well and I have some five
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millimeter jump Rings here just use whatever you have in your stash
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and I'm going to connect to the bottom of the top that we made there
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and I'm going to put this through the hole on my sun
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with my pliers grab the other side with my chain nose and we're going to go front and back and
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close that jump ring up right there and you want to make sure that you're doing this front to back always guys
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don't go side to side or you'll have a mess on your hands so there's our top
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piece we can go ahead at this point then and add on our ear wire
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as you saw that flip that's playing on the back color it to your heart's desired if you like
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so I'm just going to open up my ear hook in there
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close that up front to back and now we're going to add on our dangles and I know I want the longer one
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in the middle this is quite the earring so if you don't like long earrings scale back you know you know that you can just
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make it your own but I like long earrings so I'm just gonna open my jump ring and
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start by attaching our charms simple as that
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okay let's work it back and forth until we get right where we want it
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again through the center because that's our longest one
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I know you guys will come up with some gorgeous designs and gorgeous ideas you always do
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okay and our last one
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I'm sure I have a hold of that there before I go to close it and again I'm working this back to four
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back and forth back and forth there's a little bit of pressure toward the middle but not much
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there we go so there is our finished earring I love
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it oh my gosh that is certainly a statement piece so I'm going to show you here a few other ones that I've made
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this is a leaf or a feather excuse me that I did prior to the video here and
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here's our butterfly and our leaf
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more Lotus and of course our beautiful Daisy
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beautiful so guys that is it for me today I hope
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you enjoyed this video and I hope you have a wonderful day and I'll see you in the next one guys
