Jewelry Making Ideas - Dangling Bead and Wire Jewelry Earrings

Generally, to make earrings with wire and beads can be a distinctive accessory for any occasion. It’s simple to make bead and wire jewelry if you get a set of pliers and a sheet of wig jig tool. So, how to do if you do not get all these necessaries? Here, we’ll show you a beginner’s jewelry making idea for making your bead and wire earring using some household supplies. Here we go!

Supplies needed for the bead and wire earrings:

1.5mm Aluminum Wire

6mm Bicone Bead

4mm Round Spacer Bead

Snowflake Spacer Bead

Jumpring

Earring Hook

Headpin (not shown)

Reamer

Side Cutting Plier

Round Nose Plier

How to start the jewelry making idea?

Step1: Create the figure “8” chandelier component

1st, take the aluminum wire coils and loop the starting end around reamer;

2nd, get another larger cylindrical object and bent the aluminum wire along it;

3rd, stop at 2mm near the center of circle, and then create another five loops as picture shows;

4th, complete the entire circle. Keep 1cm at the end and trim off the excess wire. Bend the remaining 1cm around the gap between two lager loops.

Step2: Design the dangles

1st, for one earring you may need 3 types of dangles, they are: 

Type # 1: one head pin, one 6mm bicone bead and one round spacer bead;

Type # 2: one headpin, two 6mm bicone bead, one round spacer bead and one snowflake spacer bead;

Type # 3: one headpin, three 6mm bicone bead, one round spacer bead and two snowflake spacer bead.

Step3: Attach the prepared dangles

Hook the dangles onto the 5 small loops at the bottom of wire wrapped chandelier component.

Step4: Attach the earring hook

Add on the earring hook, you may simply open the loop on earring hook or using a jumpring!

Step5: Create the other earring

Repeat the steps 1~4 for the other earring!

<span "="">That’s so funny activity, aha? Besides the cylindrical things, you can even try something in square shape, hexagon or polygon. Along with the varying of beads and wire used in jewelry making idea, your bead and wire earring may look completely different at meanwhile.