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- Oct 08, 2013
Create Stylish Ladder Earrings - a Tutorial about Making Wire Jewelry
Summary: We bet you will be in love with this simple but beautiful pair of ladder earrings made of copper wire, beads and chains; this short tutorial helps you finish a trip to wire jewelry.
When I say I will make a tutorial for a stylish pair of ladder earrings, I am in real earnest. Now I have created this pretty pair and is planning to share this experience with you; without exception, the ladder earrings also got simple wire jewelry techniques involved in.
Materials and tools for ladder earrings:
0.5mm golden brass wire
Pink wood beads barrel shape
12mm turquoise beads
10mm purple glass pearls
10mm yellow round glass beads
8mm red abacus glass beads
Golden chain
Golden head pins
Ear hooks
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter
Instructions on how to make ladder earrings:
Step 1: Make ladder earring dangle
1st, pick two pieces of gold chain that both are 31-link long;
2nd, pick a 20cm length of copper wire, thread it through left end link, pink wood bead and right end link of chain;
3rd, make wire wrapped loops outside both end chain links;
4th. Leave 3 links distance, thread another piece of copper wire and make similar wire wrapped loops at both sides; the added bead is 12mm turquoise one;
5th, continue to finish the rest two;
6th, attach yellow glass bead to the bottom link of the chain;
7th, the ladder dangle is done.
Step 2: Finish the earrings
1st, pick a 20cm length of copper wire, make a wire wrapped loop with plier, and completely open the two tails;
2nd, with both tails do coiling between wood bead and chain links;
3rd, cut off excess tails and tuck sharp ends;
4th, attach ear hook to the loop above.
The final look is like this:
Now the tutorial of making stylish ladder earrings is done. You must have learnt some practical wire jewelry techniques from this tutorial, and then I believe you will be able to make more stunning piece than the ladder earrings.