Making your own earrings is a fun and artistic project that can be completed in minutes. They can be a beautiful handcrafted gift for your girlfriends - or you can just keep them for yourself! This article will show you some easy ways to make dangling pearl earrings, hoop earrings or stud earrings, along with some unique ideas for using homemade materials. Keep reading.
Steps
Method 1 of 4: Beaded Earrings
Step 1. Get the material
To make these earrings you will need: two head pins, rounded pliers, two hanging hooks and some beads, plastic or glass crystals, depending on your taste.
Step 2. Thread a few beads onto the pin
How many to put on each pin depends on the size of the beads and how long you want the earrings to be. Try to put beads of different colors and sizes according to your taste.
Step 3. Cut the pin to the desired length
Cut the end of the pin with pliers. Make sure there is at least an inch between the last bead and the end.
Step 4. Round off the top of the pin
Use the round-tipped pliers to curl it into a ring.
Step 5. Insert the pendant hook
Take one of the bell hooks and use the pliers to open it. Thread the hook into the loop you made at the end of the pin.
Step 6. Tighten the hook
Close the hook using pliers. Make sure it is tightly closed so that the earring does not fall out.
Step 7. Repeat for the second earring
Now wear your new earrings!
Method 2 of 4: Hoop Earrings
Step 1. Get the material
To make the hoop earrings you need a skein of already rounded steel wire, a steel wire cutter (the pliers could damage it), rounded tip pliers, two hanging hooks, various types of beads.
Step 2. Cut a full circle from the skein of yarn
This will be the hoop of your earring. The size depends on your taste, you can also cut the yarn to make them smaller.
Step 3. Curl the end of the circle using the pliers to form a ring with the help of the pliers
Step 4. Thread the beads
Depending on your taste, thread beads of different colors and sizes. If you want to make some simple earrings, just skip to the next step.
Step 5. Curl the other end of the circle in the opposite direction to the previous one
Curl up to form a full ring.
Step 6. Snap one circle into another
If necessary, use pliers to tighten the rims. In this way the earring will be firmly in place.
Step 7. Attach the pendant hook, as with the beaded earrings from the previous method
Step 8. Repeat for the other earring
Remember to measure it with the first to make them the same size.
Method 3 of 4: Stud Earrings
Step 1. Get the material
To make stud earrings, you need two earring holders and two butterfly clasps. You will also need hot glue or another type of very strong glue. The rest depends on the type of earrings you want to make, you can use beads, stones or glitter glue.
Step 2. Clean the media
Use an alcohol solution. This allows you to remove all the dust and sanitize them to be able to wear them without problems. You can also use sandpaper to smooth the surface to make the glue take better.
Step 3. Decorate the stands to your liking
- Colored beads or stones allow you to make simple but cute earrings. Put some glue on the stand and press the stone until the glue sets.
- You can also make flowers with colored thread by intertwining eight circles and placing a colored stone in the center. Then put glue on the earring holder and attach the flower.
- The simplest thing is to use gold, silver or colored glitter glue. Once it dries you will have simple and sparkling earrings!
Method 4 of 4: Earrings with Special Materials
Step 1. Make earrings with a bottle cap
The next time you open a bottle, save the cap so you can use it to make these cute earrings!
Step 2. Make earrings with a SIM card
If you have a passion for technology, these earrings made with a SIM card are for you!
Step 3. Make some feather earrings
Earrings made with feathers are cute and unique; they will give you a free-spirited look.
Step 4. Make some book earrings
Bookworms rejoice! Now books can be worn and not just read!
Step 5. Make earrings out of things to eat
If you are a food enthusiast, these are the perfect earrings for you - they double function as an accessory and snack!
Step 6. Make origami earrings
Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, which can be used to make these earrings.
Step 7. Make earrings with the "Quilling" technique (paper watermark)
Quilling is another paper based project. Wrap long strips of paper and transform those paper objects thus created into unique pieces of costume jewelry.
If origami and quilling aren't your style, there are tons of alternatives to making earrings using paper
Step 8. Make earrings with buttons
We all have buttons abandoned in some drawer of the house, why not turn them into a pair of stones?
