Making Blue Shell Earrings with Heart-Shaped Wood Buttons

Bright blue shell beads illuminate the handmade earrings. in particular, the heart shaped wood buttons present the unique charm of the shell earrings and bring some fun to wearers. From here I would like to introduce how to make the shell earrings.

Necessities for blue shell earrings:

0.5mm silvery copper wire
Heart shaped wood button
Rainbow shaped wood button
Blue shell beads
Silver spacers
Jump rings
Earring hooks
Eye pins
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter

How to make shell earrings with wood buttons:

Step 1: Prepare shell bead links

1st, slide a shell bead onto an eye pin;
2nd, bend down the pin and wrap a simple loop with round nose;
3rd, similarly prepare 3 shell bead links;
4th, assemble the links together, so one shell bead chain is done;
5th, repeat 3-5 to make another one and both are for later use.

Step 2: Make button dangle

1st, cut 2 pieces of copper wire and both measure about 20cm;
2nd, make a wire wrapped loop at one end;
3rd, slide bead spacers onto both strands and then a bow shaped button;
4th, add 2 heart buttons;
5th, add another bow button and 2 spacers onto both strands;
6th, make a wire wrapped loop at the other end.

Step 3: Finish the shell earrings

1st, attach shell bead chains onto button dangle;
2nd, use a jump ring to gather the chains;
3rd, attach earring hook onto the whole dangle.

Finally the blue shell earrings look like this:

Great! I have finished the how to make shell earrings” tutorial. it is your turn to try some shell earrings by yourself. Hope you come up with more creative earring ideas.