How to Make Homemade Earrings

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Hand made earrings

Making hand made jewelry is not hard and with just a few materials and tools and a little bit of time you can make a pair of earrings in just a few minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

1 Pair of ear wires
2 head pins
an assortment of beads
pair of flat nosed pliers
pair of round nosed pliers
pair of wire cutters (flush cutters work best)

Step 1

tools and supplies

Lay out your supplies and tools. I've used gold earwires and gold 1 1/4 inch gold head pins, but you can use the metal color you prefer and the length of headpin that will accommodate your beads.
Step 2

beads on headpin

Pass one headpin through the beads you’ll be using for one earring. I’m using a 4mm crystal bicone, 6mm faceted round, and another 4mm crystal bicone on a 1 1/4 inch head pin.
Step 3

bend headpin 45 degrees outward

With the flat nosed pliers bend the headpin out at a 45 degree angle
Step 4

form a loop

With the round nosed pliers, grasp the headpin close to the bend and form a loop with the head pin.
Step 5

trim excess wire and finish forming loop

Using the wire cutters, trim off any excess wire.

Finish forming the loop, slip the loop of the earwire into the loop of the head pin and finish closing it.
Step 6

hand made earrings

Repeat for the next earring.

Comments

jonandshan said

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on 12/30/2008 Well written instructions. Thanks!

on 12/25/2008 Last year I got a gift bag that had several beads hanging around the top edges. I made several pairs of earrings that looked very much like the ones you have pictured only with pink and light green beads. I gave them as presents and everyone loved them. Thanks for the help on making them without the gift bag begginings!

sneedc said

on 12/25/2008 I would save beaucoup bucks by making my OWN jewelry; I might have to keep you around for more pointers. 5* article, thanks for sharing.