Elegant Easy Earrings

Elegant Easy Earrings

With the right components and a few beads you can easily make these elegant earrings. Look for the Earring Wires and Pins, as well as the tools required for this project, at your favorite craft store, or buy them on line. For this project I used gold plated components with two hand made lampworked beads and glass Czech beads in complimentary colors.

What you need

2 Large Beads
2 Medium Beads
2 Small Beads
2 Earring Wires
2 Eye Pins or Head Pins

Tools: Round Nose Pliers Wire Cutters

Instructions

1. Start each earring by sliding the beads onto the eye pin in the order desired. I placed them in this order: Medium Bead, Large Bead, Small Bead.

Once the beads are on the wire use the round nose pliers to form a loop close to the top of the small bead. Leave the loop open, so that you can attach the pin to the earring wire.

2. Attach the pin to the earring wire by slipping the open loop that you have formed over the loop at the end of the earring wire.

Use the wire cutters to cut the extra wire off to finish your earring.

To attach the pin to the wire more securely you can optionally wrap the extra wire around the pin. This is best done with two sets of flat nose pliers. Hold the loop on the pin in one set of pliers and use the other set to wrap the extra wire around the pin.

3. Repeat these steps for the second earring to finish this project.

This Jewelry Making Project was contributed by Patrice.

Comments

  1. They are ok, but I’d prefer them to be longer and different colours

  2. E-bay is a great place to look or a local craft store

  3. Where can I buy earring wires? I’d love to make these, but I can’t find the wire.

  4. Cool <3

  5. Those are so cute and easy! Thanks!

  6. Simple…yet nice!

  7. it is very fun and occupying for kids 9 and up

  8. its alright

  9. Thanks for great instructions!

  10. Cute!

  11. Cute!

  12. very cute! the ones in the pic above look sort of christmas-y, too!

  13. great

  14. great diagram…taking this to Africa!

  15. IzzieListening says

    Full marks for being simple and stylish! i like the beads!

  16. i like these. i learned to make these by myself before today visiting this site. very easy to make and u can do it with assortments of lampwork or poly clay.

  17. great for us beginners

  18. ilove these! there so cool, and easy!

  19. will have a try at these easy to follow instructions
    for a newbie like me

  20. I like it! Very easy and usefull!!

  21. CraftBits (Shellie Wilson) says

    What about the people who don’t already know how to make jewelry? This project is perfect for them, please remember this is a learning site, not everyone knows everything.

  22. Pretty, but couldn’t anyone that makes jewelry figure out how to do that by themselves????

  23. i wud say average but theyre sort of easy to make, try using hoop earrings instead of hooks., with multible loops, just as easy, but more fun.

    nice choice of beads lose the coral.

  24. To simple, way easy.

  25. there really pretty

  26. There are so many possibilities for this craft!

  27. very neat and looks easy

  28. excellent love these earrings.

  29. eassyyy peaasssyyy! good for 10 year olds but not for 12. lol i just finished making a chandelir necklace! i shud put it on the site!

  30. Thanks, so that’s how you do it, mystery solved. Now the fun begins!

  31. I LIKE THESE EARRINGS, VERY NICE

  32. Yeah but can you write a tutorial and place it on this cool site ? No probally not!!

  33. I’m going to make those

  34. it looks so like it was bought from a shop.

  35. it’s real easy 4 a 11 year old: aka me!

  36. mm.. these ones are okay.. i make lots of my own eearings, and once you get a taste of what you like – there are endless possibilities!

  37. i think they are ugly

  38. So cool!!!!!!!!

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