How to Make Earrings With Beads
Making jewelry is such a fun activity and once you learn how to make earrings with beads, you'll be hooked.
You will also be able to use the same techniques used to make earrings to make charms for bracelets, pendants for necklaces, and dangles of all shapes and sizes for cell phone charms, key rings, stitch markers, you name it!
- Difficulty:
- Moderate
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- beads
- two headpins
- two ear wires
- jewelry tools: wire cutters, round nose pliers, flat nose pliers
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Begin by gathering your jewelry making tools. To make earrings with beads, you'll need wire cutters, flat nose pliers, and round nose pliers.
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Decide what design you want to make for your beaded earrings. Play with the beads, stringing different assortments on a headpin to see what you like best. For these earrings, I used blue millefiori glass beads, sterling silver round beads, headpins, and fish hook ear wires.
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String the beads on the headpins. Remember, this is your place to get creative!
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Next, make a 90-degree bend in the headpin fairly close to the top bead using the needle nose pliers.
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With the round nose pliers, make a loop (or circle) by bending the long straight end of the headpin around the pliers.
Snip the excess wire where the loop crosses to create a simple loop (not wire wrapped). Repeat to make the other earring dangle. Set these dangles aside.
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Open the loop on the bottom of the fish hook ear wires, moving the loop wire back using the flat nose pliers (do not open the loop out so the opening is wide).
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Earring with beads.
Attach this loop to the ear wire by slipping the dangle's loop to the ear wire loop. Close the ear wire loop using the flat nose pliers. Repeat for the second earring.
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Tips & Warnings
If your two earrings don't exactly match, don't sweat it. No one is going to get that close to your ears to examine them!
Make charms for all sorts of things using this technique.
Beading is addictive!
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- Photo Credit Peggy Hazelwood
Comments
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writer7
Jan 16, 2009
Great details and nice sharp pictures to illustrate instructions. Recently took up beading. And sure can use this info.
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hoolihan0519
Jan 16, 2009
Very good, informative article. I love all the step-by-step pics also. Thanks. RCR.
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deepthinkin
Jan 15, 2009
Excellent instructions. One tip about opening the loop on the wire hooks... move the wire side to side instead of pulling back on the wire. Pulling back will distort the circle of wire, where as side to side will not.
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rewrite810
Jan 15, 2009
Great tips and photos outlining the steps. Very helpful, thanks! 5*
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RachelB
Jan 15, 2009
Super tips on how to make earrings with beads. I will try this. Thanks!
