How to Make Earrings with Wire and Beads – Easy Wire Wrap Earrings Idea

In this wire wrapped earring idea, you will utilize the familiar wire wrapping techniques that you must have learnt before. As the technique is basic and simple, it won’t take that long time to finish off these fun earrings. The following will display you how to make earrings with wire and beads.

Materials and tools for spiral wire wrapped earrings:

8mm light-orange glass pearls
8mm blue cat eye beads
0.8mm brown brass wire
1.5mm brown aluminum wire
Earring hook
Marker
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter

Instructions on spiral wire wrapped earrings:

Step 1: Prepare bead dangles

1st, pick a 15cm piece of copper wire, loop one end with round nose plier;
2nd, string 3 blue cat eyes and 2 light-orange pearls alternately;
3rd, make a wire wrapped loop at other end;
4th, cut off excess wire.

Step 2: Make spiral wire cage

1st, pick a 20cm length of aluminum wire and make a wrapped loop at one end;
2nd, coil the wire around marker three times and half;
3rd, cut off excess wire, remove coiling from marker and loop the cutting end.
4th, stretch the coiling outwardly to fit the bead dangles.

Step 3: Finish the earrings

1st, prepare 4 jump rings with copper wire;
2nd, use two to combine dangles with spiral coiling.

The final look of the wire wrapped spiral earrings is like this:

Tada! Easy wire wrapped earrings is done. You have got the idea about how to make earrings with wire and beads, and now you can create an awesome pair of wire wrapped earrings with glass pearls and cat eyes.