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How to use your Free Gift

Follow the simple instructions below to learn how to

make your bracelet and earrings!

Step 1

Take your eyepins and some of your glass bicone beads

Step 2

Place one bicone bead onto an eyepin and trim the pin down to 1cm above the bead. Take your flat nose pliers and bend the pin above the bead to a 90 degree angle.

Step 3

Take your round nose pliers and turn a loop above the bead on your pin. You will now have a loop on either side of your bead that you can use to connect it to other pins.

Step 4

Repeat the previous steps to make as many bicone charms as you need to fit onto your bracelet. Once you have made enough join them together by opening and closing the loops on the pins.

Step 5

Create 2 lengths of beads to fit either side of your snowflake charm. Attach these to your connector charm using a jumpring on either side. Make sure your jumprings are securely closed and that your bracelet fits around your wrist.

Step 6

Add a jumpring onto both ends of the bracelet and a lobster clasp onto one side.

Step 7

To create your earrings, make one of these eyepin charms with a bead on it. Take a headpin and thread on 2 beads of your choosing and loop above the top bead to secure them onto the pin.

Step 8

Connect this headpin to the eyepin and finally attach the top loop on the eyepin to your earwire. Repeat this for your second earring.

Take your designs further by adding dangling charms to your bracelet next to the clasp or making multiple droplets for your earrings!

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