How Do You Make Earrings From Beads?

Making your own simple beaded earrings is easier than you think! You can get beads made out of various materials like semi-precious stones, glass, clay or wood from bead, craft, or online stores. You can also recycle some beads from old jewelry you don't wear anymore.

With one basic wire wrapping tip, you are armed with the knowledge to make infinite designs! The following steps explain the simplest beaded earring made with a basic wire wrapping technique. Once you learn the wire wrapping loop, you can move on to other variations.

In this instance, you will be creating a closed loop on a headpin (a short segment of wire with a ball or piece of metal on the end to keep the bead from falling off). Choose the bead/s you would like to put on the headpin and string them on. Now, take your round nose pliers and grasp the wire about 1/4 of an inch or less above the last bead.

Keeping pressure on the pliers, rotate your wrist 90 degrees so that that the wire bends and creates a small loop in ... more.

Making jewelry is such a fun activity and once you learn how to make earrings with beads, you'll be hooked. You will also be able to use the same techniques used to make earrings to make charms for bracelets, pendants for necklaces, and dangles of all shapes and sizes for cell phone charms, key rings, stitch markers, you name it! Begin by gathering your jewelry making tools.

To make earrings with beads, you'll need wire cutters, flat nose pliers, and round nose pliers. Decide what design you want to make for your beaded earrings. Play with the beads, stringing different assortments on a headpin to see what you like best.

For these earrings, I used blue millefiori glass beads, sterling silver round beads, headpins, and fish hook ear wires. String the beads on the headpins. Remember, this is your place to get creative!

Next, make a 90-degree bend in the headpin fairly close to the top bead using the needle nose pliers. With the round nose pliers, make a loop (or circle) by bending the ... more.

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