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STEP 8
STEP 6 STEP 7 STEP 8
Take another piece of fine wire. Again thread To make the leaf, take 0.5 metres of 0.5mm craft Onto the fine wire thread enough beads to
from the back leaving 15cm behind. Wrap around wire. Thread on CRYSTALLISED™ Swarovski stretch the length of your leaf, creating the
to attach like before. Now thread on a top drilled Elements 4mm bicone beads in olivine (we used central spine. Loop the wire around the tip of the
bead. Thread the wire back down the centre. 45) to make the leaf your chosen size. Bend the leaf and then zig zag back to the start, beading
Continue with the same piece of wire back up, wire around into a leaf shape and twist the two and anchoring all the way to fill the leaf. Loop
the centre, threading on a drop and back down ends together. Cut 1 metre of fine craft wire and the wire at the end to secure and again twist the
until all of the top drilled drops are used. At the anchor at the base of the leaf. ends of the leaf together.
back, twist the wire ends together.
STEP 9
STEP 9
Position the leaf behind the flower. Twist all the
wire ends together forming the stem. If lengths
allow, leave 10cm and fold the wire back on itself.
Leave a few centimetres and then cut off excess.
Glue the end of the organza ribbon to the top of
the stalk. When secure, tightly wrap the ribbon
around the wires, moving down the stem and
back up to the start. Glue end down to complete.
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