{"id":5092,"date":"2009-08-06T03:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2009-08-06T13:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:33:39","slug":"apple-pear-polymer-clay-beads-leaf-shaped-copper-bails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/apple-pear-polymer-clay-beads-leaf-shaped-copper-bails\/5092\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Pear Polymer Clay Beads with Leaf Shaped Copper Bails"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Apple<\/p>\n

Creative Ideas For Dangling Your Beads:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A fun idea for adding custom jewelry findings to your apple beads or Anjou pear fruit beads<\/a>, is to bend some copper wire headpins into leaf or stem shapes. This adds character to your<\/span> pieces that your customers will absolutely love.<\/span><\/p>\n

The little leaf bails in the photo above were very quick to make. I used a small flame torch to make some headpins out of copper wire, with a little ball on the end so the bead doesn’t slip off the end. After the fruit bead was slipped onto the head pin, the top of the pin was bent with a chain nosed pliers to make the leaf shape.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t actually see the balled heads of the pins in the photo, because they are hidden underneath the apple and pear beads. But they do a nice job of helping to define the area where you would normally see the blossom formation in a piece of real fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, you could also use any style of commercially made headpins as an alternative to making them yourself, as I did with my torch.<\/span><\/p>\n

These beads can now dangle nicely on a jump ring, a small chain or a pair of ear wires. The apple and pear combo even look cute paired together as a mismatched set of summer or fall earrings.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past I have added some wire working<\/a> and hammered copper<\/a> tutorial content to the members library. I’d be happy to add more if you are interested. If so, let me know specifically what you would like to see. Topics… frequency… that sort of thing. This site is all about what works best for you guys. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cindy\"Polymer<\/p>\n

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