pink zebra bead textured earrings

Tape two drop blanks onto your steel block.

Insert the ball peen hammer attachment into the hammer and strike your blanks until you have the desired hammered look.
TIP: Move your block around to hammer at different angles to get an even design.

Remove the tape.

Punch three holes around the bottom of each hammered drop with a screw down punch tool. Set the drops aside.
TIP: Use a marker to add dots on the back to use as a guide to punch the holes.

• Slide three Pink Zebra beads and one metal bead onto a headpin.
• Bend the wire of the headpin in a 90° angle just above the metal bead.
• Grasp the headpin wire, about 3/8"-½" [0.3 cm-1.3 cm] from the bend, between the jaws of your round nose pliers.
• Rotate the pliers toward you, keeping a firm grip on the wire, until a small loop is formed, and the looping wire is perpendicular above the metal bead.
• Wrap perpendicular wire around the vertical wire about two times then trim excess wire.

Attach the bead drops to the punched holes around the bottom of your hammered drops with jump rings.

Add fishhook earrings to the pre-punched holes at the top of each hammered drop.

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