How to Make Homemade Earrings

finished earrings with supplies for homemade earrings

Making Homemade Earring is an inexpensive way to keep trendy styles and have a lot of variety of color and types of beads.

Things You'll Need

• Ear wires of either silver or gold
• Posts and backs
• Beads, spacers
• Eye pins
• Head pins
• Round nose pliers
• Wire cutter
• Chain nosed pliers, often have a wire cutter as part of the tool.

Instructions

1. Determine the amount of beads and colors that you will want to make. Buy the eye pins or head pins in a length long enough for longer styles and shorter style. A post usually has a loop on the bottom to attach the dangle, unless you are using round flat discs for gluing on a flat item. Such as a button or flower.

2. Lay several designs out and decided which you like the most. Always count the amount of beads for each one, and make sure you have the same amount and style for the other earring. Nothing like having to crawl around on the floor looking through the carpet for ONE BEAD, just ONE more BEAD! It happens.

3. Many beads have large holes so the head pins might let the beads fall off easily. This usually happens during construction, but you will want to check this out before purchasing too many beads that might not work out. An eye pin will always hold, but leaves a loop on the bottom of the earring. Which is fine, Or your can add another bead on a jump ring to that loop with an aditional dangle of a larger bead. Make the earring by laying out the bead choices until the look that you want is acheived. Next add a small bead to the wire first, then a flat spacer bead or slightly larger bead to the wire. The focal point bead can be put on next. Repeat in reverse the pattern below the focal point bead, and finish off the earring with either a wired loop or a basic loop. Make the other earring the same way.

Tips & Warnings

• If you don't like what you are trying to do, lay out a lot of designs first.

• Keep the beads sorted for ease of working.

• Color separated and types make it easy to find the size and color you need.

• Read a bead making book for additional info

• Be sure not to cut any of your wires till you know for sure it is enough left to finish off the earring.

• Practice the loop making process for perfect results. Although the loops are small and not to noticable.