How to Make Your Own Earrings
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.
Gather
all of your materials
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:
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Earring hooks
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Cleaning alcohol
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Glue, or a hot glue-gun
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Toothpicks
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Thin wire
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Small pliers
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Aluminum foil
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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 then 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 2-3" (5-7.5cm) long
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.
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