Last Updated: November 5, To create this article, 15 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has been viewed , times. Learn more Making your own earrings is a perfect way to add some flair to your jewelry box or to create a thoughtful gift for a close friend.
To make your own earrings, all you need is a few items from a craft store and the desire to express your creative side. If you want to make earrings that will dazzle everyone in sight, just follow these steps. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. Please log in with your username or email to continue. No account yet? Create an account. Edit this Article. We use cookies to make wikiHow great. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy.
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Take a quick trip to the craft store to gather a few basic items for creating your own earrings. There are a few standard tools you'll need to create the earrings themselves, but you can be as creative as you like when it comes to decorating the earrings.
Here are the things you'll need: Earring hooks Cleaning alcohol Glue, or a hot glue-gun Toothpicks Thin wire Small pliers Aluminum foil Anything else you'd like to use to dress up your earrings, such as paint, stickers, small bows, glitter, or jewels. Disinfect the earring hooks. Carefully wipe down the hooks with the disinfectant. You'll need to take this precaution before you begin to wear the earrings.
Make a ball or another shape with aluminum foil. Use the foil to create a small and visually appealing shape for your earrings.
The ball works best and is the easiest to make. Use only a small square of foil about the size of your palm to make these balls. If they're too big, the earrings may be too heavy and can hurt your ears. Decorate the earrings. You can decorate the earrings any way you like. You can roll them in glue and them roll them in glitter.
You can also put tiny stickers or sticky jewels on them. You can use glue to stick other small decorations on them, such as tiny fuzzy balls. You can also cover the earrings with paint and then add decorations, or just leave them painted a nice, appealing color. If you're using glue to decorate the earrings, give them time to dry before moving on to the next step.
Make a hole through the center of the earrings. Use a toothpick or a long pin to make a hole right through the center of each earring. Just position it at the top center of the earring and gently push it down until it goes all the way through. Cut two pieces of wire about " Use pliers or wire cutters to cut two pieces of wire for your earrings.
This wire will hang off the earring hooks and will attach to your earrings, so you can make each piece as long as you want.
For dangly earrings, you can cut the wire even longer. If you want the earrings to hang close to your earlobes, then cut the pieces a bit shorter. Gently curl up one end of each piece of wire until it curves back into itself.
You'll need this shape to hold up the earring. Run one piece of wire through one earring and attach it to the hook. Hold the curled part of the wire and push the straight part through the hole you've created in the earring. Once you've pushed it all the way through, curl it around the small hole at the base of the earring hook so that it attaches to the earring hook while firmly holding the earring in place.
Repeat this step with the other piece of wire. Simply repeat the steps you took to connect the earring, wire, and hook in the previous step until you have two perfect earrings. Store your earrings. If you don't want to wear the earrings right away, you can store them in a box to use them later, or to present them to a friend. All you should buy are some findings. All the other things are there probably already in your house.
Findings for making earrings. Findings form the core of the jewelry — the fasteners, other components that join, etc. Other than getting the best findings you can find, you need things to embellish your earrings — it can be beads, buttons, fabric and other things in your home, as I have done.
A flat nose plier and a round nose plier are handy tools to have when you have to twist wire when making these earrings. You also need a strong quick drying glue.
Related post : Jewelry making supplies. French hook, Kidney wires, Simple hoops, Earring posts, Ear wires — these are the most commonly used findings used to make earrings. You can also buy more expensive Hinged Hoops, leverbacks , etc. If you want an alternative to french hooks that will carry heavier hangings you can buy V wires which is a variation of the hook with a v shape. You will also need some jump rings and eye pins. The french hook also called Shepherd Hook is the most commonly used earring finding.
You can easily open the bottom loop of the french hook and then add your hanging things directly. Sometimes the loop will be permanently closed soldered in which case you will have to use the jump ring to hang things. A kidney wire is a similar hook- the wire hangs from the ear on either side and they fasten on itself almost like a hoop. The earring post is a flat or round-shaped finding on which you can glue your embellishments.
My earring post is a flat-backed one on which you can glue the earring front but there are other types with small rings on the bottom edge for hanging things. Method 1. Make the most simple beaded earring. If you have a nice bead that you want to hang on your hooks, you can use this method. For this, you need two eye pins, 2 earring hooks, 2 jump rings, and the necessary beads.
Open the jump ring with a round nose plier , creating a gap in the ring to insert your hook. Keep aside. Thread the beads on to the eye pin. Use a flat nose plier to bend the extra projecting wire on the top- if you are inserting only one bead you will have enough wire to twist the wire around or you can cut off the extra with a wire cutter.
If you are twisting, hold the wire with the plier and bend it over the plier and then wrap the wire on itself. I added another bead and just bend the top wire into a small loop.
Method 2. Make cute earrings. If you like cute things and love wearing cute charms as jewelry, these earrings are best for you. Find the cutest of all charms, fabric flowers, etc, and attach the earring post to the back with quick-drying glue. An instant earring. Method 3. Make Button earrings. You can attach the earring post to the back of nice looking buttons. You need to find buttons with the hole in the back for that seamless look. These are festive buttons that I found in a small haberdashery store and no one would say it was a button and not an earring.
Method 4. Make Novelty Button earrings. If you love fun things you can make any type of earrings combining various found items with novelty buttons. I have a bunny novelty button which I combined with a felt ball.
Check out this post on making felt beads here. Attach a jump ring to the button with glue or thread. Method 5. Make beaded fabric earrings. To make these, you need a base fabric, a surface fabric, some beads, some shiny cord, earring hook and whatever else you need to add to them. The surface fabric needs to be bigger than the base fabric for that puffy look. The base fabric should be slighlty stiff. I am using a stiffened jute fabric. Gather the surface fabric to the base with a hand sewing needle and thread.
This is how it will look. I mean, it can be neater than mine, ofcourse, but generally this is how it will look. Sew the cord to the edge of your design.
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