Craft jewelry ideas-pair of dainty wire wrapped earrings

Via making your own wire wrapped earrings, you can create items that actually accord to your personal preference and add sparkles to any outfit as much as you’d rather to. Once you master the skills for major craft jewelry ideas, you can make them easily at home. What’s more, you can also wear them, give to friends as special gifts or even sell them.

Supplies needed in the craft jewelry ideas:

10mm Acrylic Bead

1.5mm Aluminum Wire

Jumpring

Headpin

Earring Hook

Flat Nose Plier

Side Cutting Plier

Round Nose Plier

Instructions on the wire wrapped earrings:

Step1: make the chandelier component

1. Snip a certain long aluminum wire, usually 20cm for a medium-size finding;

2. Find and mark the central location;

3. Clamp the center with round nose plier. And wrap a radian to form a drop shape;

4. At the location 1.5cm away from the first loop, work the second one;

5. String the acrylic bead on end tip;

6. Roll up the leftover wire around the bead;

7. Repeat the process 4~6 on the other side.

Step2: work a matching dangler

Slide one acrylic bead onto the headpin. Add a seed bead at bottom to stop it from slipping. Next, loop the top part.

Step3: assemble the separate components

1. Add on 3 connective jumpring as picture shows;

2. Hang on the dangler at the loop between beads;

3. Attach the earring hook at top jumpring.

Step4: make a complete pair

Do repeat the above procedures for a pair of wire wrapped earrings.

There, you have finished the craft jewelry ideas now. Just use your imagination once you’ve mastered most of the basic wire wrap techniques. The results may be totally shacking in spite of the size of beads or the gauges of wire. Nice day!