Making your own earrings is a great way to add some flair to your jewelry box or make a thoughtful gift for a close friend.A few items from a craft store and the desire to express your creative side are all you need to make your own earrings.Follow these steps to make earrings that will impress everyone.
Step 1: All of your materials should be gathered.
If you want to make your own earrings, take a quick trip to the craft store.When it comes to decorating the earrings, there are a few standard tools you'll need, but you can be as creative as you like.Earring cleaning hooks alcohol Glue, or a hot glue-gun Toothpicks Thin wire Small pliers aluminum foil Anything else you'd like to use to dress up your earrings
Step 2: Disinfect the hooks.
The hooks should be wiped down with the disinfectant.Before you wear the earrings, you need to take precautions.
Step 3: Use aluminum foil to make a ball.
The foil can be used to make a small shape for your earrings.The ball is the easiest to make.These balls can be made with a small square of foil.The earrings can hurt your ears if they're too heavy.
Step 4: The earrings should be decorated.
The earrings can be decorated in a variety of ways.They roll them in glitter with glue.You can put something on them.Glue can be used to stick other small decorations on them.You can either cover the earrings with paint or add decorations and leave them painted a nice color.Give the earrings time to dry before moving on to the next step if you're using glue to decorate them.
Step 5: A hole can be made in the center of the earrings.
To make a hole in the center of an earring, use a toothpick or pin.Push it down until it goes all the way through the earring.
Step 6: Two pieces of wire are cut.
You can cut two pieces of wire with pliers or wire cutter.You can make each piece as long as you want with this wire hanging off the earring hooks.You can cut the wire even longer for dangly earrings.If you want the earrings to hang close to your ears, cut the pieces a bit shorter.Curl up one end of the wire.This shape is needed to hold up the earring.
Step 7: Attach the piece of wire to the hook with one earring.
Push the straight part of the wire through the hole you made in the earring.Curl it around the small hole at the base of the earring hook so that it sticks to the hook.
Step 8: This step is repeated with the other piece of wire.
Simply repeat the steps you took to connect the earring, wire, and hook in the previous step until you have two perfect earrings.
Step 9: Put your earrings in a safe place.
You can keep the earrings in a box or present them to a friend if you don't want to wear them right away.The home-made theme can be continued by making your own box.