Dazzle your friends with Corinne Bradd’s bold and beautiful purple and cherry accessories

What you need...

• BEADS Rings, velvet soft touch, cherry red, 3.2cm x 3, Lozenge, flat sided, velvet soft touch, cherry red, 3cm x 3, Pebble, velvet soft touch, cherry red, 1.8cm x 4, Glass, spray painted, round, purple, 1cm x 9, Crystals, domed, flat-backed, royal blue AB x 67, Fire-polished, red, AB: 6mm x 8; 8mm x 5
  
  FINDINGS Chain, belcher, mini, sterling silver, 1.7mm links x 50cm, Jump rings, lightweight, sterling silver, 4mm x 12, Earwires, sterling silver with bead, wire and loop x 2, Eye pins, sterling silver, 40mm x 2, Wire, silver, round, soft, 1mm x 80cm, Clasp, sterling silver, 5mm x 1
  
  TOOLS Pliers, round-nosed, Glue, strong, PVA
  

instructions

1. Necklace - 1. Cut a 9cm length of silver wire and curl one end into a small tight spiral. Thread a flat-sided lozenge, a purple glass bead and an 8mm fire-polished bead onto the wire. Create a large ring in the end of the wire using round-nosed pliers and hook this onto a red ring as you do so. Trim any excess wire.
   
   2. Take two more 9cm sections of wire and bend a large ring in the end of each to fit onto the red ring. Thread the wires with an 8mm firepolished bead, a purple glass bead and a flat sided lozenge before forming a loop in the end of each wire. Cut a 7cm piece of chain and using jump rings, hook each end to the two loops that you have just made.
   
   3. Thread a purple glass bead, a red pebble and a 6mm firepolished bead each onto two eye pins. Create a loop in the ends and trim any excess. Attach the loops nearest the purple glass beads to the jump rings holding the 7cm piece of chain in place.
   
   4. Cut the remaining chain in half and hook each piece to the ends of the beaded eye pins with jump rings. Add a jump ring and clasp to connect the loose ends of the chain together.
   
   5. Lay the necklace out on a flat surface. Place nine dots of glue around the circumference of the red ring and down the top facing side of each lozenge. Apply a domed crystal to each glue dot. Carefully turn each lozenge and add crystals to the other faces. Allow to dry.