Monday, September 24, 2007

Creative Jewelry Ideas- Simple Earrings






You can create simple, beautiful earrings at one tenth the price you would pay for the same thing at a store.

What you need:

Tools

Wire Cutters
Needle nose pliers (or Wire curling pliers)
Supplies
Chain
Earring Hooks
Headpins
Your choice of beads

Start by deciding how long you want your earrings and cut off a length of chain. Take one headpin and string one bead onto it. Cut the headpin about 1/2" longer than the bead and curl the end of the wire to make a loop. Now connect the loop onto the end of the chain and close the loop. On the opposite end of the chain, open the end chain and attach it to the earring hook and close the chain. You're done! A beautiful set of earrings in no time at all! You can change the look by adding one, two or three chains of different lengths on the same earring or by adding another bead to the end. The top left photo has shells on the ends instead of beads and has 5 chains on each earring. Play around with this and see what you can come up with.

TIP: Don't throw away the ends of the headpins that you cut off. Use them by curling one end and stringing on a bead and then curling the other end. When you get enough of them you can hook them end to end and make earrings, a bracelet or a necklace, and all you are using is scraps of your wire and a few beads!

3 comments:

Pam from Over the Big Moon said...

Soo soo cute! I definately want to learn how to make my own jewelery!

Claudia said...

I love the second light pink color one...
Is so refined!! Really beautiful!

Catherine said...

I have a jewelry making website to it is www.freewebs.com/jewelryforever check it out. By the way your earrings are really cute.